Author Topic: ebay trader sells CornCircles II as a punched sheet (Read 15030 times)

kettlefish · « **on:** February 20, 2013, 11:04:02 AM »

A German ebay trader sells CornCircles II as a 6-tile punched sheet.

I called and wrote some emails with HiG - Georg Wild, today.
He said that HiG had never published the CornCircles II as a 6-tile punched sheet. So the ebay tader is doing illegal things.

Please members report this to ebay.

And again - you all have to be careful with all the ebay traders who sells such suspect things.

If you are not sure, then ask before you buy it.

At the moment the HiG-Shop CundCo don't sell the CornCircles I. But wait, perhaps in some month we have it there again.

Only the CornCircles I were published as a 6-tile punched sheet by HiG.

Greetings
kettlefish

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Purity · « **Reply #1 on:** February 20, 2013, 01:51:15 PM »

as it is no photo but a graphic from the internet, i dont think he does do anything illegal but just used the wrong image to sell his crop circles I expansion - he probably dont even know that there are two different ones, hence the error

Whaleyland · « **Reply #2 on:** February 20, 2013, 02:02:28 PM »

It's still illegal to sell the tiles, even if they're out of print.

wamboyil · « **Reply #3 on:** February 20, 2013, 02:33:54 PM »

Purity -

Just to clarify: I was expecting to get the CC1 set, based on the fact that the seller called his item "Die Kornkreise", not "Die Kornkreise II". Also, he showed a picture of 6 tiles on a punch sheet shrinkwrapped behind a rule sheet for CC1. If I would have received an AUTHENTIC set of CC2 tiles (i.e., separate cards, NOT on a punch sheet), I would accepted the fact that I made an error in purchasing. However, I received a NON-AUTHENTIC set of CC2 cards on a punch sheet, which kettlefish confirmed through HiG that they were never released to the public this way. It's confusing, I know....overall, I probably should have contacted the seller before buying to ask him more details about the item.

kettlefish · « **Reply #4 on:** February 20, 2013, 03:30:14 PM »

You can find more about this at BGG.

Carcatronn · « **Reply #5 on:** February 20, 2013, 07:15:46 PM »

I am not sure of the authenticity of the eBay seller, but we sell the Corn Circles II as a sheet in our Shoppe as they came that way in BB4.

it is attached to a much larger sheet of tiles, but we cut it down to 6.

Fritz_Spinne · « **Reply #6 on:** February 20, 2013, 08:31:57 PM »

Quote from: Carcatronn on February 20, 2013, 07:15:46 PM

we sell the Corn Circles II as a sheet in our Shoppe as they came that way in BB4. it is attached to a much larger sheet of tiles, but we cut it down to 6.

I think you could you make a photo of this sheet of tiles with highlighted cut, so wamboyil can compare with his bought punch sheet.

What do you do with the other Minis coming in BB4?

Carcatronn · « **Reply #7 on:** February 20, 2013, 10:14:30 PM »

Quote from: Fritz_Spinne on February 20, 2013, 08:31:57 PM

Quote from: Carcatronn on February 20, 2013, 07:15:46 PM
we sell the Corn Circles II as a sheet in our Shoppe as they came that way in BB4. it is attached to a much larger sheet of tiles, but we cut it down to 6.

I think you could you make a photo of this sheet of tiles with highlighted cut, so wamboyil can compare with his bought punch sheet.

What do you do with the other Minis coming in BB4?

Just sitting here for now

.... I will be eventually posting them, without pieces just the tiles.

Carcatronn · « **Reply #8 on:** February 20, 2013, 10:51:36 PM »

Whaleyland · « **Reply #9 on:** February 20, 2013, 11:17:32 PM »

Hmm. Good job on their part. At least their illegal goods seem to be decently made.

Fritz_Spinne · « **Reply #10 on:** February 20, 2013, 11:24:35 PM »

Left and bottom edge are cut, is that right?

Carcatronn · « **Reply #11 on:** February 20, 2013, 11:47:59 PM »

wamboyil · « **Reply #12 on:** February 21, 2013, 06:42:08 AM »

Ah, I did not even think about the Big Box 4. I see the image above that Carcatronn posted, plus I found this image at BGG:

I can see now why two of the edges of my 6-tile were jaggedly cut, and where they came from. The thing that still frustrates me is that the seller never told me where the tiles came from. I asked him three times for more details about the source of the tiles, and all he kept saying was "these are official from hans im Gluck". He never gave any more details than that. If he would have simply said "these were cut from the 7 x 5 tile sheets in the new Big Box 4 set", the matter would have been resolved easily. Once again, in HIS defense, I should have asked about all of this before I paid for the tiles, but in MY defense, he did show an image of the rules sheet from CC1, and he didn't explain the source of these tiles. Well, I'm going to still try and get a refund, and it's been a lesson learned for me.

Sekim · « **Reply #13 on:** February 21, 2013, 08:33:18 AM »

So the tiles are original after all. Then I wouldn't make a fuzz about it anymore. Or are there any other issues with it ? I don't know who you bought it from, but maybe the sellers first language isn't English and he just tried to keep the answers as short as possible ?

Whaleyland · « **Reply #14 on:** February 21, 2013, 09:12:06 AM »

Woah! Weird. Wasn't expecting that to come out of left field. Okay, so they are legit? I thought the texture of the tiles was off a bit. Anyway, you still deserve a refund because you ordered Corn Circles I and he gave you Corn Circles II. He delivered the wrong product to you. But it's good to know the tiles are legit. Now the seller just has to reword their item for future use to reflect that the tiles are coming from Big Box 4.