DarthPika said:My main isue with pop, is that they refuse to give the US masters more invites to worlds, even though it it has more good players than any dev. in any other country in the world. And still Juinors, who don't even have half the amount of good players, get the same amount of invetes.
Juniors, taken overall, are the biggest purchasers of the cards... We need to tap that market and bring them into organized play.
18 packs is all that really matters, and that didn't change.
Complaining is free.
let me get this straight: so because my supplier, for whatever reason, can't get the material we contracted for by my deadline, it's MY fault i don't break the budget by attempting to acquire it at ANY cost (i.e. airfreight, overnight delivery to dozens of individual venues), in order to make it available at a FREE event which is one of a series through the next year?
and by considering the entire fiscal year's budget instead of just one event...in other words, the big picture instead of an early, not-as 'important' event such as worlds/nationals...my management is 'incompetent'?
*facepalms*
'mom
"several occasions"? really? care to elaborate on this long list of fiascos?If your supplier is incompetent and it's obvious that they are incompetent, then you need to work around it. Otherwise, your customers will only trust you as much as you can trust your supplier.
There have been several occasions where items for event haven't arrived on time because these manufacturers are obviously unreliable. If the people with the power can't figure out how to make up for this, then they're just as bad as their manufacturers.
And the last time I checked, this has happened not only for free events like cities, but also for expensive events like prereleases. This problem should have vanished after the DF deck box fiasco.
"several occasions"? really? care to elaborate on this long list of fiascos?
other than the DF deckbox, what other prerelease had advertised material not supplied because of supplier problems? and other than the CC bag, what other event had problems systemwide, not just a shipping problem with individual venue(s)?
'mom
"several occasions"? really? care to elaborate on this long list of fiascos?
i'm pretty sure the same 'supplier' isn't manufacturing both deckboxes and POP packs...
'mom
and you know this, how?I meant that they haven't made any changes to who they hire to do these things... it doesn't necessarily have to mean just one supplier
We continue to fund free events, a free rewards program and three age divisions that are equally prized.
Unfortunately, there were some delivery issues with some items this year, which means that the City prize kits are not what we had planned.
Other prizing changes have been made to add balance to the worldwide prizing structure. In some cases, this means prizing was reduced, in others, raised.
Thank you,
Dave
Pokemon TCG Customer Service
[email protected]
and you know this, how?
just off the top of my head, i can think of a lot of 'links' in the supply chain, and every single one of them has the possibility of some kind of delay: deckbox manufacturer, card printer, shipping company which gets things from the manufacturer to the warehouse, shipping/fulfillment company which assembles the individual orders for each specific league or tourney and then ships, international customs inspection/regulations when shipping overseas or across national borders, acts of god such as weather or other delays...
so which of these is going to be perfect 100% of the time? the fact is that s..tuff happens. how many hundreds, if not thousands of individual events and leagues HAVE gotten their materials correctly and on time? as opposed to a small handful of problems, when compared to the 'big picture'?
'mom
The POP budget has remained unchanged, while we continue to grow events worldwide.
We continue to fund free events, a free rewards program and three age divisions that are equally prized.
Unfortunately, there were some delivery issues with some items this year, which means that the City prize kits are not what we had planned.
Other prizing changes have been made to add balance to the worldwide prizing structure. In some cases, this means prizing was reduced, in others, raised.
Thank you,
Dave
Pokemon TCG Customer Service
[email protected]
Complaining is free.
i'm curious as to what the player you're referring to above was spending their 'thousands' on: is it ALL on cards? or on travel/lodging to out-of-area events?
and regarding spending on cards: are they buying sealed boosters/boxes, or inflated singles prices from a third-party vendor?
the fact is: spending $ to travel to an event does not affect PUI income, nor does buying singles from ebay or other vendors.
it's like my decision to buy as many music cds as i can used, in order to avoid personally putting money in the RIAA's pockets: their percentage came out of the first time the cd was purchased, not my purchase from a downstream vendor.
PUI got their $...which is the same for any card, EX or 'crap common'...when the box/pack was first sold, not when 'you' paid $XX for [hot card in format] from a reseller.
the 'i spend $XXX to go to 'this' event, so POP should up the prizes' argument is irrelevant, as that expense is not going to PUI. sure it's nice that people travel, but none of what one spends doing so is going to affect PUI's bottom line and therefore OP's budget.
jmo.
'mom
I meant that they haven't made any changes to who they hire to do these things... it doesn't necessarily have to mean just one supplier
You're assuming that no changes have been made.
POP is not going to publicize any changes they have made or not made. They would just make them.
Well the new sleeves suck pretty badly. Mine are peeling after one tournament. To get back on topic pokepop is right, they wouldn't have necessarily announced that they have a new supplier.BINGO!!! Major companies don't publicize every decision that they make, quite simply because there no reason to. The only time they would probably publicly announce minor changes was if they were reassuring people, such as changing lamination when holo cards were pealing, or changing paper brands when cards were falling apart. Judging from the way they switched to sleeves, obviously they have made some changes. They reduced the number of free stuff they are giving us from OGMBBQAWESOME to SWEET, meaning we are still getting free stuff out of it, Seriously dude, let it go.