Damaged SteelBook™ (From Retailers/Accidents) Sympathy & Venting!

[digitalbabe]

Hi All,

It looks like our former thread has become unavailable, so I am posting a new one. Feel free to post pics and share your worst experiences with damaged Steelbooks as received from retailers. I've stickied this one for now.

Thanks,
DB

 

[dv8mad]

Sorry, the search function is letting me down. Either that or my search skills. Who knows!

In any case, I have two steelbooks that made it here to Japan in what I thought was perfect condition, but upon opening them, I found that they both have cracked inner plastic at the spine. (I should clarify, these were not from a single order, but received independently over the past several months.)

In any case, I have succeeded in easily taking them apart, but I need new inner plastic in order to properly repair them.
Is there a specific resource I should be looking for?
I have been keeping an eye out for super cheap G2 steelbooks over the past few weeks thinking that would be the easiest solution, but even a $5 steelbook end up around $20 after shipping to Japan.

I would rather just buy 5 inner plastic if possible to fix these and have "backups".

 

[Pud1804]

I'm still in shock!!!

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first time ever getting this condition

I think I want this damaged steel the repair challenge is epic on this I wonder what Buffalo done with it ?

 

[Dino Last]

Please go to their Facebook and let them know about the problems we are having about slashed spines and other problems that seem to be happening before retailers get them.

 

[Blu-devil]

My Star Trek arrived from Zavvi with chipped paint on the front corner.
My War Of The Worlds from Play (already a replacement) arrived with dents and chipped paint.
Not a happy bunny.

 

[Scarface]

Iv'e already discussed this on the star trek thread but mine has lots and lots of marks on the back which looks like scratches and a few on the front, I also have a big scratch on back of blue banner which I can feel, my other one has a black line which goes across the front and a paint chip, really gutted as Iv'e been looking forward to this, this sort of stuff really makes me wonder if its worth continuing on with this as it just seems every other steelbook I get something is damaged about it.

 

[Blu-devil]

I feel for you man. I'm wondering if these were merely rejects from the original FS/Play run. Why would a reprint still have a blue banner?

 

[Scarface]

I feel for you man. I'm wondering if these were merely rejects from the original FS/Play run. Why would a reprint still have a blue banner?

I don't mate, there was a lot of mystery surrounding these steels lol, I'm just dreading having to return these to zavvi as I heard some people have had to wait up to a month to get their refund sorted out, I have avatar on the way too so I'm not exactly getting my hopes up for that considering its probably been lying around some place for god only knows how long, its a stressful game this

 

[Maccadinho25]

Ive heard the same too so trying to sell my two at cost if possible. One has the small chips front and back and the other has numerous scratches of varying depths. Ive had enough

 

[Thisisnotsparta]

I don't mate, there was a lot of mystery surrounding these steels lol, I'm just dreading having to return these to zavvi as I heard some people have had to wait up to a month to get their refund sorted out, I have avatar on the way too so I'm not exactly getting my hopes up for that considering its probably been lying around some place for god only knows how long, its a stressful game this

Well at least if you have a problem with Avatar you can pop down to HMV and pick one up for a tenner. I know my local store has a load of them on shelves.

 

[Scarface]

Well at least if you have a problem with Avatar you can pop down to HMV and pick one up for a tenner. I know my local store has a load of them on shelves.

that's the thing mate I don't have one anywhere near me now lol, the closest hmv shut down and that wasn't exactly close

 

[Steeljunkie]

I recently got a copy of Battle Royale, which the plastic insert is split nearly in 2... Does anyone know of any 3 disc steels that are easily/cheaply available to replace the inside with?

 

[Heche1981]

I do not own a single dented or damaged SteelBook, but have received some in terrible condition in the past - Notably, two or three that looked as if a truck had driven over them, and one that was practically a right-angle!

It is more common to receive one from a retailer in a Jiffy, where the two halves of the SteelBook have come away from the spine. If I receive such a thing, I ship it straight back to the retailer for a replacement! I would never keep a damaged SteelBook, as it defeats the object of paying for a premium case

 

[wjasoncul]

Damaged RE: Afterlife from Amazon China. It's banana-shaped and separated from the spine

Outer box looks good and was wrapped in bubble wrap and inside bubble envelope. I can only assume that someone pressed down on the face or put something heavy on it before they boxed it up.

Spoiler

 

[pokjak290]

Damaged RE: Afterlife from Amazon China. It's banana-shaped and separated from the spine

Outer box looks good and was wrapped in bubble wrap and inside bubble envelope. I can only assume that someone pressed down on the face or put something heavy on it before they boxed it up.

Spoiler

Outer box look OK. IMO, maybe item already banana shaped before shipping. Damned you amazon.cn

 

[Sigill]

I do not own a single dented or damaged SteelBook, but have received some in terrible condition in the past - Notably, two or three that looked as if a truck had driven over them, and one that was practically a right-angle!

It is more common to receive one from a retailer in a Jiffy, where the two halves of the SteelBook have come away from the spine. If I receive such a thing, I ship it straight back to the retailer for a replacement! I would never keep a damaged SteelBook, as it defeats the object of paying for a premium case

I'm sure you must have a dented or damaged one somewhere! What about those dents that are hidden by backing papers, they are the worst as you can't see them.

 

[wjasoncul]

New delivery from Amazon.uk via Deutsche Post DHL




You don't say!!!


This is how Edward's box was in the bigger box. Needless to say, that one was pretty dented.

 

[spiderman]

Bought x-men first class from a private person on the dutch marketplace.
this is what i recieved. was packed in a bubble enveloppe

 

[Nick Nameless]

New delivery from Amazon.uk via Deutsche Post DHL

Spoiler

You don't say!!!

Spoiler

This is how Edward's box was in the bigger box. Needless to say, that one was pretty dented.

Sorry, but the clear tape... they have been so anxious.

 

[Afterdeep]

That's really sad to see.. Hope you can get the undamaged ones...

 

[BluRoo98]

I received a copy of (at the time) play.com Transformers steel. It had dents in the top and I "thought" I would be able to fix it myself....so I watched the "changing out custom artwork" you tube clip and basically destroyed the top do the steels even more. I really wish I had kept it the original way or re-purchased when Zavvi resold them at $15. I'll post pics when I can.