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"Wave four"? [S1]
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pineapplejelly
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"Wave four"? [S1]

I got an order from Jaffa today (it was "posted" eleven days ago and only just showed up, but that's another story) of twelve packs of wave 4 cards (from season one).

However, upon opening the first I found that contained 014 (wave 1), 038 (wave 3), 091 (wave 1), 117 (wave 1), 133 (wave 3) and 209 (wave 2). None of which are wave four and all of which I have already!

I know that you can get two different types of packs - the ones which are exclusively the wave (e.g. wave 3) and the ones which are wave 1 to current wave (e.g. waves 1-3). However, I thought that if the packs were specifically listed as wave 4, they would only contain cards from wave four.

I mean, otherwise I wouldn't have bought them - I have too many duplicates for it to be worth me buying new packs and was only going to buy/trade for specific cards, until I got hold of some wave lists and realised that whilst I have almost everything from waves 1-3, I have very few wave 4 cards.

Was this a mistaken assumption on my part, or bad advertising on theirs? I am very disappointed, as I was so excited to get my new cards. Sad I haven't opened any packs save the first, in case they won't give me my money back.

PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:28 pm
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I would say that if the packs were listed as wave four only then you should get wave four only (I know that these packs were released, but I don't know that there are many of them left now). Take it up with Jaffa's world and see what they can do for you - I've bought things from them before and they were generally friendly and helpful.

Edit - PS, you are currently my favourite PXC player. Not even the end of the game is going to stop you is it? Go pineapplejelly! Very Happy

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Bad advertising. Return them! There were definitely wave 4-only packs and also wave 1-4 packs. Same approach when wave 3 came out. You clearly got blended wave 1-3 packs.
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pineapplejelly
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Mikeyj wrote:
Edit - PS, you are currently my favourite PXC player. Not even the end of the game is going to stop you is it? Go pineapplejelly! Very Happy


Very Happy I still have hope!

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pineapplejelly
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Ung, just gone back to the product description. Although the title (in big letters) is Wave Four, it says below "Wave 4 will contain a mix of cards from the previous 3 waves, but will contain a % of wave 4 cards". I guess that's my fault for not reading carefully then. Sad

Still, it's annoying to get no wave four cards...

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I think that is still wrong - mixed wave 1-4 means you should not have gotten zero wave 4 cards. Are you sure you didn't get some old mixed wave 1-3 only packs?
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pineapplejelly
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I think I may have done. I have now opened six of the twelve packs and got zero wave four cards.

Should I complain?
It could just be chance, and after all I've opened half of them now, I'm not sure if they'll refund me. But I'm still annoyed.

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I'd complain. They sound like the wrong packs.
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I remember there was some discussion about the colours of the packets, which might help you work out what packs you actually got. You may well have already seen the thread, but it's here if you need it.

If it turns out from the colour of the packets that you got sent the wrong ones, then I think you certainly should complain.
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pineapplejelly
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Thanks myf. I thought I'd get Mind Candy to back this up before I said anything to Jaffa, and they told me that there are different bar codes for each wave, and confirmed that Jaffa had wrongly sold me wave three packets.

I'm fairly sure that this is in breach of some act or other but the Jaffa man who's talking to me seems very angry that I'm daring to suggest a refund (although this could be because he thinks I want to keep the cards - I would email him back and correct him, but he said he is going to ignore all my emails until he can talk to me on the phone next week sometime).

I'm certainly not going to buy from Jaffa again.

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