Reply To: BattleTech: Mercenaries – CGL does a shipping booboo? Internet rages!

[limburger]

// personal update

Good news : I got Battletech Mercenaries delivery today.

Bad news ?

Two card board boxes, which according to the tracking mail ought to have a total weight of 10 KG, were missing about 4 KG worth of contents.

Amongst the missing contents … is the flockin’ Battletech Mercenaries box itself (as well as the other starter sets I had ordered).

The local delivery service has listed both packages as ‘delivered’
I’ve already contacted QML, GamesQuest and GLS (the local logistics company doing the actual delivery).
GamesQuest is indicating a 6 day wait before I get an answer.

I wasn’t expecting much … but I was hoping that the final leg of this ordeal would complete without issues.

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QML was the first to respond and ask for additional details. I’ve done inventory and got about a dozen items ‘missing’, which are mostly the rules and a mappack.

I’m hoping it simply is a package that had no tracking mail sent to me, but I’ve done all I can so now we wait.

GamesQuest responded and as expected they redirected me to QML.
Mystery heavy package incoming from Qamesquest tomorrow. It could be a different kickstarter, but it could be the final bits of Battletech. We shall see if this is the end of the saga for me.

I’ve never seen a kickstarter so mismanaged as this one.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the issue with packages is in part due to how CGL managed this thing.

I guess I’m getting my money’s worth out of my shipping costs 🙂

So far received :
– one big box containing the salvage boxes and expansions
– one small cardboard box full of air … with the Alpha Strike starter set (hilarious inefficient packaging to be sure)

Expecting a big box tomorrow with practically all the starter sets and rules for the game that looked interesting ages ago.

// — edit —

Incoming package was indeed the box with the ‘missing’ bits.
Hereby the saga has ended for me as well.

It will be interesting to see when/if CGL posts more updates and if they are ever going to do a post mortem of this disaster.

They literally dropped the ball and fumbled for recovery at multiple stages within this project.
You’d think this is their first time running a crowdfunded project …

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