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If there has ever been hard evidence for the demand on a Tact-Tile like product, this is it.
Edit: For the love of Moradin, won't someone please hear all the nerds calling for a product like this?!
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Hmmm...I never use all of mine. Might be time to share. For the sake of the community, of course.
We have 24 total in our group, and I tend to use the majority of them quite often. And yes, I would absolutely buy another 12 if given the chance, but not quite for what that auction is up to now.
Wow. I think I've used more than 6 at once one time in the...huh, must be about 4-5 years I've had them. Not sure exactly what I'd do with 24...though I'm also not sure what I'd do without any....
I would SO love to own a second set.
Maybe if I sold my D20 Dune book I could get it
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Maybe I should put mine on the market. I got some of the last ones, after they changed the grid lines to a light gray and made the 5' square indicators dashed lines.
I wonder if that makes them more desirable?
I don't use mine anymore, since I have to travel to play I switched to Flip Mats.
I'll let you folks know if I end up putting them up for sale.
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That's my auction -- and here I was, wondering how I was going to do a post with it with the old Marketplace forum gone...
I have to say, I expected them to reach the $100 mark, but like, 1 day before the auction ended, not 1 day after it began.
(Oh, and for those wondering: I adore Tact-Tiles, but since I live in a bike town and bike to my weekly game, a backpack full of books, minis AND a segmented whiteboard was just too much. My Flip-Mat gets the job done, if less spectacularly.)
How much do the freakin' things cost to manufacture?!?!!?
I've been looking to buy a set for a while now, but I still refuse to get caught in the insane demand-mania for the things.
If ever there was proof that there is still a market for them...
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I'm not sure how I feel about the fact they're cardboard, though...
I would imagine the same way I feel about the tiles I have been buying from WOTC. Just fine.
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I wouldn't. Does every inn look exactly the same? Its a cool idea, but defeats the whole purpose of a whiteboard.
You may want to read their future plans. There sounds like there will, eventually, be plenty of variation.
I wonder what kind of foam they are talking about for their backing? Foam board? Sounds pretty sturdy so far, though.
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Thanks, that might help. He does list his title as MArketing Manager so I'm not sure that's the guy.
Tact-Tiles are not produced anymore, because the company had worked with a local manufacturer that subsequently noticed that their cost assumption for what they could produce the tiles was much too low (the quality tolerance was very low, because the tiles have to intersect).
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