Gatecrash pre-orders arrived at the Bookstore!

[courtney]

** EDITED instead of making a new thread

I have an impressive stack of Gatecrash Boosters, Fat Packs, and Intro Decks here on my desk! I can't sell them until tomorrow at 8:30, but I thought some of you might be interested to hear that they are here!

**Original post below

Hi again folks,

The bookstore will be carrying Gatecrash, and I need to get my order numbers in this Friday. We ordered 6 booster boxes for Ravnica, and I know we ran out of those too quickly, and some people couldn't get their cards on launch day. I'd love to avoid that happening again, and also if I pre-order more, I can get more Fat Packs for those of you that would like those.

I'm hoping to just take an informal poll here, to get a sense of demand. We will still be at the same price ($99 for a 36-box), so that should hopefully keep us competitive for price.

If you are intending to pick up a booster box, if you could reply here, that would be super-helpful!

Also, thanks for supporting us here at the store - we really appreciate it when you guys buy through us

[Nygil, Nickolie]

If xmas is kind I will be picking up a booster box for sure.

[entropy]

I would most definitely buy a booster box at $99. Will Titles have the buy-a-box promo too?

[courtney]

Unfortunately we're not yet WotC authorized for the buy-a-box promo. (We will be by the next expansion, but we need to run some FNM first and staffing has been a challenge.)

We did just find out that we will have some Dragon Shield card protectors that we'll be giving away with booster boxes on a "first come, first served" basis. You will need to ask for them, and this forum is the only place I'm putting that info, so you should be able to score some of those if you want them.

I'll be able to take pre-orders for Gatecrash on Monday, also, so if you'd like a box reserved, email me at sheppacl(at)mcmaster(dot)ca.

[illios]

Will probably be buying a box! Thank you for providing us with a good price and a convenient location to buy them from : D

[Xenadrael]

Hey, by staffing problems did you mean that you can't find someone to work Friday nights to host FNMs or did you mean that you couldn't find enough people for Friday to be able to run the tournament? If it's the latter, you should only need like one person as a representative of the bookstore who can use the computers and I can run all of the other details.

[courtney]

Xen, it's making sure the bookstore can commit to always having a body available for Friday night.

I mean, my busy social calendar (which, this week, was re-watching about 7 episodes of SG1...) will usually permit, but we are working on a back-up for me in case I can't make it.

I'll keep updates coming here, as I get more info.

[Xenadrael]

Oh and I guess keep me posted about the Vanguard as well. I went around to the Westdale stores today and while Comic Connection's prices aren't nearly as tremendously overprices as Conspiracy, the prices they're selling it at is still way too high.

Will try to ask around to get a general idea about interest for it as well.

[courtney]

I've edited the title of this thread and updated the OP to reflect that I have Gatecrash for you folks! On sale tomorrow at 8:30. See some of you tomorrow :-)

[Nygil, Nickolie]

I will be in some time this week to pick up a box, and maybe a few random packs. Cheers

[entropy]

Did anything ever come of the FNM-running or Buy-a-Box promo efforts? Does Wizards consider Titles promo-worthy yet?