Stingray Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 Received the much awaited Strrl Box today. Unfortunately, it was damaged in transit. The Steel (plastic really) Box is cracked, dented and warped as received. I know that it is sold out...but I hope I can get a replacement. Order# 00235217 Date ordered:10-Mar-2011 Should I send back the damaged Steel Box? The contents (disk & manual) seem fine. Help...Help ...Help Thanks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 You should contact sales@battlefront.com for any issues with your product. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bergerbitz Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Wait...the steel is plastic? BFC! Fix or do somefink! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UsF Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Plastic? :eek: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 O, my god the world is going to end because it is plastic instead of steel 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 The front and back are steel. The sides and spine are plastic. It beats the box that CMBO came in! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stitch Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Guess it sounds better than, "Pre-order now and get your fabulous plastic box which comes with game CD, manual, and more plastic (empty) CD holders to hold future expansions!". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boche Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 lol the secret has been revealed!!! nah m8 hope you can get a replacement! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bergerbitz Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Please God...let the DVD be steel.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 I like the package. We know the whole thing couldn't be steal because that would probably damage the physical media of the discs at risk. It seems a pretty good compromise to me and for one have no complaints. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Stingray, I'm sorry to see the new padded envelopes didn't stop one of the gorillas from breaking your box. I had a UPS forklift drive a PC tower into a loading dock (or something like that) many years ago and the damage was "impressive". So I sympathize! I've forwarded this thread to Moon. However, if you sent an email to sales that will get to him too. Quick note... the spine also has a little strip of steel on it. As someone who has some knowledge of where steel prices have gone over the past few years (for example, my steel roof on my house!) I shudder to think what a 100% steel box would cost! Thank God copper has at least come down in price some. Don't get me started on Gold and Silver prices. Thankfully I don't do home renovations with those metals Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonm Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 O, my god the world is going to end because it is plastic instead of steel Well according to some it was supposed to end yesterday (or the day before?), I guess the relevant parties didn’t get the memo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisND Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Well according to some it was supposed to end yesterday, I guess the relevant parties didn’t get the memo. Obviously what happened is the UPS man carrying the box got Raptured and it was dropped, thus being damaged. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stingray Posted May 24, 2011 Author Share Posted May 24, 2011 Stingray, I'm sorry to see the new padded envelopes didn't stop one of the gorillas from breaking your box. I had a UPS forklift drive a PC tower into a loading dock (or something like that) many years ago and the damage was "impressive". So I sympathize! I've forwarded this thread to Moon. However, if you sent an email to sales that will get to him too. Quick note... the spine also has a little strip of steel on it. As someone who has some knowledge of where steel prices have gone over the past few years (for example, my steel roof on my house!) I shudder to think what a 100% steel box would cost! Thank God copper has at least come down in price some. Don't get me started on Gold and Silver prices. Thankfully I don't do home renovations with those metals Steve Thanks for your quick response. Your customer support is tops in my book. Love the game...love the Steel Boxes too. Hope there is a spare one available. If not no biggee... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantom67 Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 To be honest, I thought the Steel Book was going to be something like what the Band of Brothers Collector's Edition came in 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 I thought the SteelBox™ was going to look like this 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantom67 Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 I thought the SteelBox™ was going to look like this lol. WW2 Ammo boxes would've been sweet 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finalcut Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Obviously what happened is the UPS man carrying the box got Raptured and it was dropped, thus being damaged. LOL.Maybe the Rapture happened,but God only found like 20 worthy People.When they got Raptured it was such a small number that No one noticed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragotin Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 As someone who has some knowledge of where steel prices have gone over the past few years (for example, my steel roof on my house!) I shudder to think what a 100% steel box would cost! Thank God copper has at least come down in price some. Don't get me started on Gold and Silver prices. Thankfully I don't do home renovations with those metals Steve You are probably paying the same for the plastic as you would for actual metal, unless you are using really cheap plastic. Hell, shouldn't you KNOW what they would have cost you? Whatever, I'm a sucker, but I thought steel box meant steel box. I ought to know by now that XXX does not mean XXX or anything like XXX. If it were tin I could live with it. Plastic? I wouldn't have bothered. I was going to use it for something other than storing the game disks, but I'll go get a used cigar box now. Very disappointing, if true. Also very believable. Great game, horrible advertising. I'm such a schmuck. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herr_oberst Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 As someone who has some knowledge of where steel prices have gone over the past few years (for example, my steel roof on my house!) Steve Ah-ha! The truth is come out! CMBN costs so much to let Steve recoup the cost of his designer steel roof! Had he picked asphalt shingles, CMBN would have only been $59 USD... Of course, if he runs into serious trouble with repairs, he can always pry loose a few shingles to patch up the Weasel. Always thinking ahead, that man... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisl Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Had he picked asphalt shingles, CMBN would have only been $59 USD... And you would be getting the game in the asphalt box... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wodin Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 You are probably paying the same for the plastic as you would for actual metal, unless you are using really cheap plastic. Hell, shouldn't you KNOW what they would have cost you? Whatever, I'm a sucker, but I thought steel box meant steel box. I ought to know by now that XXX does not mean XXX or anything like XXX. If it were tin I could live with it. Plastic? I wouldn't have bothered. I was going to use it for something other than storing the game disks, but I'll go get a used cigar box now. Very disappointing, if true. Also very believable. Great game, horrible advertising. I'm such a schmuck. If you read the thread you'd find out the front and back are steel.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volodnikov Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Whatever, I'm a sucker, but I thought steel box meant steel box. I ought to know by now that XXX does not mean XXX or anything like XXX. If it were tin I could live with it. Plastic? I wouldn't have bothered. I was going to use it for something other than storing the game disks, but I'll go get a used cigar box now. Very disappointing, if true. Also very believable. Great game, horrible advertising. I'm such a schmuck. Is this sarcasm? It was plainly advertised as a Steelbook. Granted I had never heard of a Steelbook before, and upon first hearing "Steelbook" I thought it would be similar to the tin box of Band of Brothers. But I looked it up before pre-ordering and apparently it's a nicer case for movies, and a number of people are collecting them. However, I never expected Battlefront to treat me like some incompetent fool who is incapable of looking up on my own what a Steelbook is, so I don't see how this is their fault. It's kind of obvious here that the whole box is not a metallic material. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stikkypixie Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 A lot of confusion would have been avoided if someone had posted a video of the steelbox before it was released . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vein Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Lol, true. And how many posts read: 'WTF, why have you wasted time making a video of a steel box!' Now we know. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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