I have personally made certain that all PPP orders * TO DATE * have been sent out. The vast majority of these are U.S. orders and should be received over the weekend. That includes orders that were received up to 3 days ago. Rob's Internet connection is down and being worked on by the AI Help Desk starting at that time. (Rob uses an old school modem, as DCAS may attest to! However, I have  finally convinced him to switch over to broadband.... Although he's holding off until May, which will be related to his future announcements on PPP's Web site, coming up soon.)

REFUNDS:

We ran out of CAS 1, so PPP is now out of both CAS 1 and CAS 2. That's a success!

We did send out as many as were left, but about half way through was when we ran out. We processed them by the dates on which the orders were made by the customers.

Rather than hold you all up on back order until it is reprinted, which is scheduled for sometime in May, some of you will receive your orders without CAS 1. Instead, you will find we enclosed a refund for the cover price + shipping charge. We apologize for the shortage, but it was a hot module.

Those looking for CAS 1 or CAS 2, in the meantime, are encouraged to look to Noble Knight Games, which may yet still have some copies. Or, naturally,  you could begin looking to the after market for those early collectible numbers! !! !! It is important, of course, to note that all future printings of CAS 1 and CAS 2 will remain entirely unserialized.

I believe, although not certain, that CAS 1's total number of serialized copies was 473. I do not know the number on CAS 2, Tower of Blood. I suspect that may have already been noted elsewhere.

I would like to thank everyone for their patience!

Eric,

Thanks for clearing up the LE/SE issues and most of all for being instrumental in finally getting this thing shipped. Way to step up to the plate!

Bombadil,

I'm glad to hear that the 2-piece maps line up! That's nothing short of a miracle. Hopefully it carried through to the entire stack of 500 maps.  

JoeDavis wrote:Well, I got mine today too.  But, since it was shipped in a soft envelope the postal delivery person STUFFED it in my mail box.  Now, my nice big map is nice and wrinkled.  I can't believe they didn't use a non-bendable shipping container! Or at least reinforce the stuff so it would not get bent.  Really, after all of this time this is really the last straw.

I saved mine before the mailman tried to stuff it into the box but it was still folded over and obviously bent in various ways during transit.  The module itself has about 8 or so spine creases now (some bigger than others) and the $100 map is pretty crinkled.  The map wasn't bagged and there was no cardboard in the envelope.

I don't even ship $10 items like this, let alone $150.  A lot more care would have been greatly appreciated.

I can appreciate that they finally got shipped out but really I would have waited an extra month for someone to cut out cardboard squares out of boxes to place inside the envelope.

bombadil wrote:In lieu of the module itself?

If it meant a mint map, I would probably take the cardboard in lieu of the module itself  - that I picked up for $17 from NK.  Try finding an uncreased one piece map for under $150.

Mars wrote:
If it meant a mint map, I would probably take the cardboard in lieu of the module itself  - that I picked up for $17 from NK.  Try finding an uncreased one piece map for under $150.

I getcha, dude.  Was just kidding.  

I suspect that there were VERY FEW of the LE Modules that have no spine creases and that few if any of the maps were received with no bends/creases.

I am sure that PPP's main interest was in getting the product into the customers hands as fast as possible.
And of course carefully packing them into secure packages would have taken FAR too long..................  

Not to mention blowing the profit margin............

Busman wrote:
1)If you have a real grievance, then be a man and start contacting the people who can do something about it.2) They all are reading this thread. You know who mailed these out. Step up and do something about it.

3)Should we continue to bitch for as long as it took for the modules to ship? Would that makes us any better than PPP?

To flog the proverbial deceased equine.

1) Well documented that many tried that for a long time - result..............hmmmm!

2) See 1) above

3) Maybe not, but we're unlikely to get to that - even I'll probably be bored by the moaning in a month, but I think it's not unreasonable for people to voice their concerns, and continued irritation for a while longer yet

Aneoth wrote:I suspect that there were VERY FEW of the LE Modules that have no spine creases and that few if any of the maps were received with no bends/creases.

Once I saw it was in a padded envelope, I expected the worst. But somehow the module survived the trip without any bends/creasing.  The map had a few tiny wrinkles though.  That is a rare occurrence for me!  Heck the USPS even manages to do it with boxed items sometimes!