WotC Anyone Else Tired of the Wizards Bashing?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

that does not mean that 1) this action was horrible, 2) the action was not justified in this instance

What was the justification? They didn't like it happening?

I dislike a bunch of stuff that happens on ENWorld. Should I be asking for everyone's personal addresses, so I can send the Pinkertons to your house to claim that you're breaking the law?

 

[eyeheartawk]

He was doing some freelance marketing that WotC wasn't firmly in control of. That's it.

Right, distributor paid for the cards, retailer paid for them from the distributor and the end-customer paid for them from the retailer. Literally the only damage to them is the opportunity cost of some manufactured hype for their manufactured hype machine not being controlled by them.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Guys, I just ordered off the secret menu at McDonalds and there's black van outside now. What do I do?

 

[eyeheartawk]

Guys, I just ordered off the secret menu at McDonalds and there's black van outside now. What do I do?

They're gonna send men to your house to seize the fraudulently acquired McGangbang.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The story, as far as I can tell based on this article, is that WOTC tried to contact the person multiple times by phone and they never picked up. Agents knocked on the door and asked to talk to them by name (for some reason asking for the person by their full name was upsetting).

In my job, when I call people on their phone numbers that they incorrectly think are secret and ask for them by name, they do routinely freak out a little bit. (You have no privacy, folks. Please don't believe people who sell you a service and tell you otherwise.)

The agents told the person that the cards they had were not legal and that the cards needed to be returned or they could face legal penalties.

"Not legal" is complete nonsense, unless they mean "not legal in tournament play at this time," in which case, spot on.

It is not a crime to benefit from inventory control issues. If that was the case, a whole lot of us would have Amazon sending people to our doors. (Other than the usual delivery people.)

 

[Aldarc]

Is that easier than the people who respond to an announcement about a charity product for sick children with "Are the Pinkerton's going to assault me if I buy this?"

Why do you ask? Are you suggesting that it's challenging for WotC to not send the Pinkertons to someone's house?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

They're gonna send men to your house to seize the fraudulently acquired McGangbang.

I think we can agree that name is a crime against good taste.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Are you suggesting that it's challenging for WotC to not send the Pinkertons to someone's house?

The year is still young. Let's see how many times they can resist the temptation.

 

[Vaalingrade]

I think we can agree that name is a crime against good taste.

Especially since it's technically only two sandwiches.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Is that easier than the people who respond to an announcement about a charity product for sick children with "Are the Pinkerton's going to assault me if I buy this?"

It didn't used to be a valid concern, and then they made it one.

You buy from someone breaking street date (and did any of us who were kids/teens/twenty-somethings in the 90's NOT do this for a video or card game at some point? Nintendo would have had Blackwater fragging me monthly during the N64 era thanks to Walmart not caring) and now a visit from private security is at least in the brain space.

Which, let us not doubt, was the point of the entire exercise.