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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tmanbeaubien" data-source="post: 7721382" data-attributes="member: 61868">I'm an owner of an GeekChic Emissary table. Ordered in January 2015 and delivered in Feb 2016. I love it, it's awesome. I saved up for four years to purchase it and got it for my 50th birthday. I tell everybody it's my mid life crisis motorcycle except it has legs. And I plan to play a hell of a lot of games on it! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />I don't think I'm a dumb consumer. I looked at products available in the marketplace and I decided I was willing to spend more to get a really superior product. One that will easily last the rest of my life if I take care of it. Yes, custom products do cost more and you usually have to pay in advance. I do have a dedicated game room - it's a converted garage. But the delivery guys for the table said that only one out of about ten people actually had a space like mine. They said most tables were the dining room style table and they went in the dining room. With the mention of price and volume, I feel like it is worth noting that not every business wants to make several bajillion copies of their product. The whole point that Robert Gifford made again and again in interviews is that he wanted to make a product that you could leave to your heirs in your will. It's great wood, it's made very well, and there are no shortcuts. Carolina Gaming Tables makes some great stuff too. But they are a somewhat different product, just like a Ford is somewhat different than a Mercedes. Will a Ford meet your needs? Great - you're set. Does anybody need a Mercedes? No, of course not. But that does not invalidate the value of Mercedes' products. Just to be clear, I'm not trying to hate on Fords or CGT. I have owned three Ford vehicles in my life and I liked them all. In this discussion, anybody who is buying a custom made gaming table of any kind is already buying a luxury product.GeekChic did offer a simpler Emissary style table without all the drawers and such for a lot less. But I bet they didn't sell many of those just because once you are in the showroom, you'll be drawn towards the higher end products they were known for. That's why you came to their website in the first place. So their brand may have actually worked against them selling very many simpler tables.At the end, none of us know why GeekChic seems to be in bankruptcy and there could be many possible reasons. I wish the best possible outcome for the employees and their customers who had paid towards their tables.</blockquote>

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