Like many others, my box of foil hero cards came in the mail today. I read FedEx's e-mail at work telling me that a delivery from Greater Than Games had arrived, and lo and behold a small box was waiting for me when when I got home. Using the utmost care I opened the box by way of a small pocket knife, slicing the tape to the top of the box open(The same technique I use to open all of the things I order online, never gave me a problem). Inside is another box, but this one is the display box, shrinkwrapped and upside-down. Using the same pocket knife I cut at the seal corners of the plastic, those little tabs of the wrap that happen when you shrinkwrap something, again being careful not to touch the inside contents in any way with said knife. The box is quite nice, but then I noticed something.
On the south-side of the box-lid(the side's whose top touches the bottom of the 'Sentinels Comics' logo) I spotted several scratches in the corner, one deep enough that I can see the white of the paper coming through. I check the inside of the delivery box, and there doesn't seem to be anything that could have caused such scratches. It was sealed quite well with its packing tape, so nothing from outside the box could have caused them, and the delivery box has seemed to have suffered no damage inside or out. Double-checking the now removed shrinkwrap, I did not notice any snaggs or tears in it other than the result of me opening it, and like I said before my knife did not touch the box. The scratches had to have happened before the display box was wrapped. Looking inside the display box, on account of wanting to be thourough, I notice that there is an(unrelated, I think) small orange/brown patch on one of the inner sides of the bottom half of it.
I put the display box to the side(Thinking I'll just keep the box on its side, logo facing out, as long as the cards are fine) and went to open the also-shrinkwraped stack of cards that came in it. again I used my pocket knife, this time being absolutely certain that it never touched the cards. I start looking through the cards to admire the artwork and look at the new powers/promos, But felt my heart sink as I spotted several hair-with black lines(I thought that they were more scratches at first, but they are not) along several of the cards. A noticable offender is Prime Wardens Argent Adept. Still trying to go through the cards, I had to pause several time as I discovered smudges of some white substance on quite a few of the cards, a tiny dried clump of whatever it is still on the back of(Again) Prime Warden Argent Adept. I tried very gingerly to remove some of the smudges,praying that they would easily be removable, but alas I could not.
Now I'm very thankful for >Games releasing this special foil hero pack(I got mine from donating to the OblivAeon Kickstarter), but I can't help but be disappointed at the state my product was delivered to me in. Which is very surprising since I've had nothing but stellar service with them in the past. Has anyone else come across problems like this?