Missing Mantic Zombies

[matakishi]

A video report on the Mantic Zombie Horde box set. I'm not impressed at the moment...
(I am not a professional presenter, no matter what you may think, don't be fooled )



I'm currently awaiting replies from both the manufacturer and the vendor.

[revford]

I picked up the Zombie horde too, the whole 60 were split between two boxes, both marked 60.  I guess Malestrom games didn't know the horde was supposed to be two boxes.

[phreedh]

That's a bit shit, isn't it?

[Thantsants]

Was that the buy 1 set get 1/2 for the same price deal?

Hope you manage to work something out...

[Argonor]

That's a major blunder on behalf of Mantic, more than any retailer's fault.

You cannot expect 3rd party dealers to know that there's not in the box what it says on the cover (if that sentence makes sense... I'm tired and off to bed in a minute...)

[revford]

You cannot expect 3rd party dealers to know that there's not in the box what it says on the cover (if that sentence makes sense... I'm tired and off to bed in a minute...)

I did wonder why they sent me two boxes when I got mine, I worried I'd messed up the order and bought two lots of 60.

On a positive note, they are nice models.

[Mrdee]

mate that sucks, I was going to buy them for the base of my great unclean one, watching that sort of put me off a tad

[Centaur_Seducer]

Am I the only one that like the video?

Its shitty done by Mantic to do a miss that great. But I assume that they've discovered the mistake and will take care of the misprint.
I want to know how suitable the miniatures are to convert to modern zombies?

[Dr.Falkenhayn]

Am I the only one that like the video?

it made me laugh too:Curse of the 60 Zombies!

[Dewbakuk]

I bought the 30 box at Derby at the weekend and I was a little confused then as to them fitting 60 figures in the other box as it's the same size. Makes sense that it's split over two boxes but yeah, I expect there are a lot of confused retailers and their customers. It's not shoddy or bad practice but it's definately a fuck up. To be honest it's something I've seen many times, the problem is the people designing the boxs etc know what they mean so it doesn't matter how many times they look at the box, they see what they expect to see. I'm sure they'll get it sorted. If I'd bought the 60 at Derby I expect I'd have only gotten 30 and be really annoyed.

On the plus side, these were the first Mantic figures I've bought and they're brilliant. I managed to make 31 out of my box of 30. You can in fact make 4 out of the sprue but then you'd have lots of upper torso's crawling across the floor and legs walking around with their spine sticking out. Personally I only wanted one of each of those. I'll probably buy more at some point, not sure you can have too many zombies.

[Argonor]

It's not shoddy or bad practice but it's definately a fuck up. To be honest it's something I've seen many times,

I'm pretty sure it would be illegal, and prone to prosecution for 'marketing malpractice' to sell those boxes in Denmark. Here the label has to match the contents. As a consumer I'd expect to get 120 zeds if I bought 2 boxes each saying 60 on the label.

not sure you can have too many zombies.

You're dead right about that - only problem is to get them painted...

[Dewbakuk]

You're dead right about that - only problem is to get them painted...

Which is why I decided on 30 in the end

I'm pretty sure it would be illegal, and prone to prosecution for 'marketing malpractice' to sell those boxes in Denmark

I suspect that unless it says something about two boxes then it's technically illegal over here as well. My point however was that it won't in any way be intentional. Mantic won't be trying to rip people off with this, it'll just be a fuck up and as such I doubt it'll be long before they sort it out.

[Argonor]

Mantic won't be trying to rip people off with this, it'll just be a fuck up and as such I doubt it'll be long before they sort it out.

Ah, yes, I did not mean to imply they were deliberately cheating (which would be a so obviously stupid thing to do that way), but that the fault is entirely theirs, as retailers cannot be expected to know that the labels and contents do not match.

[matakishi]

So far I haven't had a reply from either Mantic or Maelstrom Games.
I am going to wait until Monday PM and then start launching the Ebay and Paypal complaint procedures. I find this often gets a response where polite personal mails get ignorred.

I have another Maelstrom order on its way and another from a different games shop. I expect I'll be writing a lot of letters

[Silent Invader]

I too would be annoyed.  With the retailer as well as Mantic, as they should know what they're selling.  Both should be grateful for you bringing this to their attention. Best of luck.