New spielbox expansion?

[Scott]

I highly doubt that the other tiles will be Jay's. He developed them on his own, just like GQ11. Most likely they will be brand new tiles and Spielbox exclusive so Jay won't be able to distribute in North America. I don't know anything for sure, but this smells like Cathars all over again. I wasn't around for Cathars and the feeling of not having it in my collection bothers me regularly. Although people are ordering extra copies, not all of them will necessarily be reselling at reasonable prices.

When I sent her the money via Paypal, I got an email confirmation from Paypal that the money had been sent, and then I received an email from Barbara several hours later which I pasted above. The reason for the delay is of course that I am 9 hours behind her. She e-mailed me towards the beginning of her work day, when I was sleeping.

[Alricthemad]

Although people are ordering extra copies, not all of them will necessarily be reselling at reasonable prices.

I did say would offer 5 copies to anyone on the boards and in the states that want them at cost plus shipping.

I doubt I'll be able to get too good a price for a couple of years on the remaining copies.

[Scott]

I was thinking more of the type of people that are selling Cathars on eBay these days for exorbitant amounts of money. I'm glad to hear that five of your copies will be available to forum members at a reasonable price.

[Novelty]

I'm ordering extra copies as gifts to the people I play Carc with   That way, even when we aren't using my set, at least I'll know there's some of these tiles around (if they are any good).

[Wishmaster]

Quick question... I have a paypal account. I shop on eBay and they send me a paypal form that I complete and hit the button or such like. On the Spielbox order there's a radio button tht says I'll pay be paypal but that's it. I've never known the answer to this - How exactly do I send the money via paypal.... and please tell me very slowly!! 

[Joff]

It is quite easy. For the Almanac: Fill out the form at: http://www.spielbox-magazin.de/sbalmhige.php. To pay via PayPal check the radio button on the form. This does not pay for the goods via PayPal, but rather tells Barbara that she can expect to recieve a payment from you, so to look out for your payment.

Now you need the sellers paypal e-mail address. In this case it is barbara@nostheide.de (from the form you just filled out).

Go to the PayPal homepage: www.paypal.com. Sign in to your account. This is your personal e-mail address and password.

Once logged in, click on Send Money tab. In the To box type the e-mail address of the person you want to send money to (in this case barbara@nostheide.de). And then type the amount you want to send. For my copy I entered the total of 9.00 EUR. (7.00 EUR for the Almanac as i'm not a subscriber and a further 2.00 EUR for shipping within Europe (i'm in UK)). Remember to select the correct Currency from the drop-down box (in this case EUR - Euros).

Check the Goods radio button. Then click Send Money.

On the next page, check your address and price, etc. Enter a message in the box explaining what you are sending money for (in this case, for instance: " payment for Spielbox® Hans im Glück Almanac. Thank you".

When happy about amount, etc, click Send Money to confirm. It's as easy as that

Hope this helps.

[mjharper]

Joff beat me to it 
I ordered my copy today, and I think that's all I did…

[Wishmaster]

Joff, that is a perfect explanation! Exactly how it wanted it explained!! Cheers mate - I'm off t do a bot of ordering now!

[Gantry]

Barbara should get her web admin to put a paypal button on their site, it's ridiculously easy

[crasher]

Ok, so not to beat a dead horse but reading that email from Barbara a few times it is unclear if the word tiles is used correctly. For instance she could mean that one ADDON is Kultstatten but there are addons for other HiG games. Perhaps MJ or another German speaker could ask about what the exact tiles are using the correct German words.

1) How many CC tiles are included?

2) Are any of the included tiles available anywhere else?

etc..

If this is like Cathars where the tiles are unique and unavailable elsewhere I want to get my hands on a few copies. However I also don't want to waste money on something I could easily get from Jay in the States.

-crasher

[Novelty]

Help needed from someone who also reads German - could you translate the info on http://www.spielbox.de/php/aktuell.php4?anz_id=1640 to English?  Thanks!

[Wishmaster]

You may have already tried this but here goes... I stuck it through Babal-Fish and got this back:

"06.03.08: In July this yearly appears a new play box yearbook. Topic of the booklet is the Hans in the luck publishing house and its "sow-good" plays. As extra among other things an extension for Carcassonne is attached to the yearbook: "the cult places". Which further extra is attached, yet one does not betray. The yearbook costs 7 EUR, play box subscribers pays only half. For the order we prepared a form."

Not perfect by a long shot but you get the drift!! So if I'm reading that right, you end up with Cult Places and something else that they are keeping a secret at the moment...

[Gantry]

online translators always crack me up.  Matt needs to get on the ball and recruit some Carcassonne-playing German student English-majors.

[suomenko]

It would be great if HiG has issued some bunch of cards that are completely empty on the front so that we can make our own custom card-variants, and not 3 but say a page of them (12 at least)!

 : 

[raberjr]

this just in from board game news...

The Spielbox Hans im Glück Almanach, due out in mid-July, will contain five new Kultstätten, or cult site tiles – tiles that will be included in the Rio Grande release of Carcassonne: Cult, War and Creativity – along with six new hut tiles for the Spiel des Jahres-nominated Stone Age. The HiG Almanach costs €7 if you’re not a Spielbox subscriber and half that if you are; postage is extra, and ordering details are on the Spielbox website.

raberjr