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 DrunkenBoxer wrote:
If anyone's curious, at Miniature Market O:I is still listed as a preorder, but they are currently sold out. So take that for what you will.

A right merry path to hell is paved with speculations, but I'll posit it just means they haven't bothered to amend the listing. If CB is still churning out preorders, I imagine there is no real rush to update an out of stock item from 'preorder' to plain 'regular'.

I have also noticed an occasional +1 to their stock total in recent days only for it to drop back to out of stock. Canceled orders, I suppose. If I feel, in a week's time, that they have been spoonfeeding me a load of bunk, that listing will again get a +1. (Barring improved communications on their end).

 d-usa wrote:
Did you both have the pre-order with the limited model?

Maybe one is the shipment with the model and the other is the shipment without (if they placed two separate orders as they ran out)? Just a thought.

I've gone through my box and a) it's the pre-order version, with yellow stick (and more important, the model!), and b) Daaaaaayum, what a starter!

It may not have as many models as, for example, the GW two player starters I remember, but it's so complete. Seriously, two balanced forces, terrain, a game field that is designed to make setting up the terrain easy, a step-by-step into book... amazing!

Seriously, the only thing missing to actually start playing is... glue? It may not be a fair comparison, but in my head I keep flashing back to the Warhammer fantasy High Elves/Skaven starter that... didn't include rules to actually play the models in the box.

Oh My (insert deity of choice)!!!
Just received confirmation from MM that my order has shipped!!!!! WOOOOOHOOOOO!

Got mine yesterday. Was waiting for me when I got home from class.

Aaaaand got my shipping confirmation today. Watch as I get my package tomorrow and have to sort out mispacks :V

The third edition book is on pre order in the uk.

 Warsmith262 wrote:
Oh My (insert deity of choice)!!!
Just received confirmation from MM that my order has shipped!!!!! WOOOOOHOOOOO!

That makes for one of us.

If customs released the remaining shipment, what's with the pokeyness?
If customs released only a fraction of that shipment, yet again, what the hell?

Gah. It's not like my order is complex...it contains only one item...Icestorm. Something about this just feels....lazy.

Rusty trombone... I'd stand with you in solidarity and refuse to open mine until you got yours.... But I'm way to excited!!!

I have never dealt with customs much, except when I used to get packages of german goodies from my brother over there. I can't see why they would only let a few items
From an order get
Through

It's a dilly of a pickle. I imagine MM has some weird shipping priorities. The fact that the internet allows their customers to compare notes means they'll get called on their hijinks sooner. Maybe my call to them to communicate clearly with us will make headway going forward in the future. A little customer service here would have been grand.

I can't be totally upset with them.. But this whole ordeal hasn't helped me want to do much business with them in the future.. Well that and I live about 45 minutes from Texas toy soldier who gives a comparable discount online.

 Warsmith262 wrote:
I can't be totally upset with them.. But this whole ordeal hasn't helped me want to do much business with them in the future.. Well that and I live about 45 minutes from Texas toy soldier who gives a comparable discount online.

Oh, yeah...no need to get upset. It's like my wife tells the boys, "I'm not mad, just disappointed".

Congrats on the shipping notice, BTW. Heck, with luck it probably bodes well for my order too!

I sure hope so!!! I'm eager to learn the game and I have some potential converts who are eagerly awaiting my ice storm as well!

OK WTF where's my parcel. This was delayed so many times it ceased to be funny :|

Pierzak... I feel your pain.. I'm a little irritated since miniature market didn't send me a tracking number.. But if my last order with them is any indication, my order should be here today or tomorrow... St. Louis isn't that far from me, it's far but not that far..

For folks that have received their Miniature Market shipping notice, would you mind saying when you placed your order? I didn't put mine in until 8/23, and I'm still in the "processing" stage. It would be nice to get some idea of when I might actually expect to get my stuff.

I've not had any issues with MM orders in the past, but the only other pre-order I've made is for Descent 2.0, which did not have any production issues to delay things. MM has responded to my two inquiries into I: OS delivery, but their responses haven't been very informative. I'm not sure what good it does to have dedicated CSR people if they aren't really going to tell you anything.

8/19 is when I placed mine.. I received an email informing me my order shipped Monday..


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Well ladies and gents my order has arrived!!! One teeny tiny little issue though... It didn't have my operation ice storm in it!!!! WTF!!! I'm glad my malifaux freikorps has finally arrived (ordered at same time as O:I) glad they finally got that to me.. It wasn't exactly a priority to get them... So back to the drawing board of waiting for O:I

 Warsmith262 wrote:
8/19 is when I placed mine.. I received an email informing me my order shipped Monday..


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Well ladies and gents my order has arrived!!! One teeny tiny little issue though... It didn't have my operation ice storm in it!!!! WTF!!! I'm glad my malifaux freikorps has finally arrived (ordered at same time as O:I) glad they finally got that to me.. It wasn't exactly a priority to get them... So back to the drawing board of waiting for O:I

That right there is some weapons grade BS. Why send a partial order? (I assume you had a 'all items ordered with preorders will wait to ship together' notice)? And, no lie, as I prepared to quote you here, I received shipping confirmation from MM. My order is only O:I, so they aren't doing me raw like you. (My apologies/condolences). I'm supposedly getting a tracking number later from the shipping company, BTW. This is getting strange...

@kingbobb...I ordered early September. Unless you have other outstanding preorders holding you up, I believe you should have had your package sent before me. Let us know. I think MM needs to hear our dissatisfaction with their wonky as hell shipping practices.

Ok so good news is I got another email saying my order shipped.. I called and they said ice storm arrived! They said the current email was in fact ice storm shipping!!!! Jason I believe his name was the. Said they realized my other order stuff had been waiting for over a month to ship and they wanted to get me what they could
From my order in as timely a manner as possible!!!!! Good deal!!! So ice storm should be here by Friday woot!!! Keep my fingers crossed!


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Oh and my order date was 9/19 not 8/19

The trials...the tribulations...

If they would only update the page/email us/Facebook something something...well. We may be the victims of our own doing, if only because we went with the scant information we fed each other? Of course, this could have gone smother if MM gave us the straight dope, I.e. message 1: "O:I will be shipped tommorow!" message 2: "Gah. Customs hit us...we expect a small portion, and will mail those post haste to those who ordered first". message 3: All remaining Icestorm copies are now in. All customers who have yet to receive theirs, watch your emails for shipping notices." Etc. Etc.

I sincerely hope my confirmation means ALL copies are now being sent. Anyone left holding the bag, particularly if they ordered early, I believe have right to raise Cain otherwise.


Edit: Delivery slated for Monday. It's gonna be a loooong weekend.

Warsmith, I ordered exactly a month before you & mine didn't ship til a week ago Mon so that's not much lag time difference for a month apart I suppose. Considering how many orders must have been placed between those two dates. Though I too got annoyed at MM when I asked them when they anticipated having it & their response was "oh or order just left CB yesterday" a week & a half later CB responded to the very same Q more or less stating they were just shipping out to distributors & retailers that day. It really gave me a 'WTF?' moment.

I've got mine! *pets box*
And no mispacks! :3

So I sent another inquiry in today, mentioning that some folks who submitted their order after mine had announced that they had received their OI already. About 30 minutes later, I got a shipping notice.

My order had been flagged as having multiple pre-orders for some reason, even though the only two items in it were I:OI and a Descent 2.0 Lieutenant pack, which according to MM's inventory they've had in stock the entire time my order has been with them.

I'm glad to finally be getting my stuff, but I do think I'll complain a bit about this order. AFTER I have my new shinies in hand, of course.

Glad to hear of the progress for y'all. I find it a tad head scratchy that MM currently lists 20+ O:I boxes available, but I guess they were concurrently shipped (non CSU?) boxes not available to pre purchase?

Oh wonderful...I've developed trust issues I see. I'll be checking to ensure I get the CSU now for sure.

...what a production. :(

Really sorry to hear about the troubles a few of you have been having!

Rusty trombone.. Got mine in at about 10:50 am today.. I don't know how far from st louis you live but I'd imagine you should have yours today or tomorrow!!! Until then it's a beauty and love at first site!

My one and only infinity model until today! Teutonic knight on one of the larger buildings. I emptied one box and inserted it for structural integrity.. I glued and taped it inside as well!


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Pretty sure my wife thinks I'm mentally comparable to a 5 yo in a toy store right now!!!!

 Warsmith262 wrote:
Rusty trombone.. Got mine in at about 10:50 am today.. I don't know how far from st louis you live but I'd imagine you should have yours today or tomorrow!!! Until then it's a beauty and love at first site!

I was slated for a Monday delivery but got a pleasant surprise with my package today. Not gonna argue that! I'm busy licking the figures now, making them mine. (They taste like my crib did, back in the day).

I'm jealous of your paint skills, BTW, because you have some. Good job on the ka-nig-it!

Very, very nice Warsmith262! Think it's very easy to not do grey well and make the miniature look flat, but I think you've pulled it off perfectly.

Awww schucks guys.. Yall are going to make me blush!

I always feel I could do better. I'm very critical of my painting.



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As far as grey goes I try to approach it like I'm doing nmm but stop a few highlight layers short

Picked mine up at miniaturemarket.com today. It even had the limited edition csu model , all assembled and primed.