Deadlord39 wrote:My Grenadier Brass Dragon was only $6 to ship media mail. Yes, media mail, wrapped in brown paper. But that's why I only bid $7 on it, and $13 for one with the gem and altar, unpainted, is a steal. You can't get phuqed on shipping if you bid accordingly.

Was that an offical TSR release?  Or one of their later "Dragon Lords"?

With as much as they ship, Titan and Tanya are sure to have some items garbled in shipment.

  The question is whether they will change business policies on refunds or store credit when things go bad.

   I'm betting they will learn and change.

Mark  

Okay, the recent Titan discussion over at "shady dealers" got me remembering this thread. So, setting aside all sarcasm and snarky comments, I'm wondering: did anything ever get resolved with the situation described above? Arrests? Suspects, at least?

There seems to be an upsurge in game companies getting ripped-off ... either that, or it has always happened and the difference is that now the news just spreads quickly on messageboards, blogs, etc.

Titan Games Owner wrote: ... Last evening our store was broken into, and we lost about $10,000 worth of merchandise.  

... we are desperately in need of money at the moment, so gimme a call: 877-542-6377 or 269-963-3773 or email me at [email protected]
...

and on the website ....

Titan Games Website wrote:
We buy collections from $10 to over $100,000.00 - and we pay fast, and reliably by Money Order or PayPal - or even CASH if you bring your collection to us!!

Contact Marcus King for further details: 877-542-6377 toll free in the US [email protected]

So you have $100,000 cash to buy a collection but not $10,000 to ride out the loss?

improvstone wrote:

Titan Games Owner wrote: ... Last evening our store was broken into, and we lost about $10,000 worth of merchandise.  

... we are desperately in need of money at the moment, so gimme a call: 877-542-6377 or 269-963-3773 or email me at [email protected]
...

and on the website ....

Titan Games Website wrote:
We buy collections from $10 to over $100,000.00 - and we pay fast, and reliably by Money Order or PayPal - or even CASH if you bring your collection to us!!

Contact Marcus King for further details: 877-542-6377 toll free in the US [email protected]

So you have $100,000 cash to buy a collection but not $10,000 to ride out the loss?

    I would take their cries of poverty with a grain of salt. I think this falls under the heading of "marketing magic" rather than any genuine crisis. Kind of like the furniture stores that are "going out of business" every couple of months or so.  Titan has played up this sort of marketing before. A few years back, I got an email (sent with their weekly updates) that a tragedy had occured, their van containing all their convention stock had caught fire and burned up.  Not only did they lose their transportation, but supposedly all their convention stock was now gone and they needed lots of stuff to sell as Origins and Gencon were coming up in a few weeks.  They were buying NOW and paying whatever it took to stock up, the email made them sound desperate to get their hands on any gaming so they wouldn't have empty booths at the conventions.  
  Well, as my stuff at the time was uniformly half or less than the prices they offered (for example, a T1-4 I sold for $40 in my store was $90 on their website), I figured I could make some money and help them out at the same time.  I sent whoever was in charge of buying items a link to my website (at the time I maintained a large amount of stock there instead of in my store) and also a link to my Ebay store.  I told them my stuff was priced at half of what they were selling the same stuff for, so even paying my prices they could make a large profit, and I had no problem cutting them a huge deal for bulk.
   I got back a very curt, short note that said basically "Sorry, but there is nothing on your list we an use, and besides your prices are much too expensive for us to make any sort of profit on"  Included was something along the lines of they only pay a couple of dollars a module (I am going by memory I don't remember the exact price).  Apparantly, despite the email they weren't in that dire a need for stock after all, at least not unless it was at a steal (not that desperate I assumed).
   Odd that a couple of years later, in the wake of a break in and theft, they issue pretty much the same plea, and I'm sure they also turned down any buys that weren't a steal.  A very cynical man might wonder at a fire and robbery where lots of stock was gone and presumably covered by insurance, and it would be interesting to know what exactly was in the stock that caught fire and the stock that got stolen (cases of 3.0 crap for instance that wouldn't sell?).  Luckily I'm not that cynical and suspicious a guy.....

Mike B.

I recallled the "flaming van" incident when the latest ripoff was announced. I was pretty sure there was no break-in.
Perhaps capital is needed for Bupu's implants?

MShipley88 wrote:However, the markups are necessary to make it worthwhile to even stay in business.

Indeed ... but then this isn't the problem with Titan is it?

MShipley88 wrote:As far as I can tell, it's the shipping.

Maybe in your case but clearly not for others on this forum.

MShipley88 wrote:I just think that some of the criticism of these two businesses is unfair.

Which criticism inparticular?  Because from where I sit they clearly deserve the criticism.

I was talking about some of the personal attacks aired here in an earlier thread.  

I still don't think they qualify as shady.

But then....I know how I felt when I got ripped off by an entirely different seller.     So, I guess I can retire as official defender of the Titan-Tonya  axis.  

Mark