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Friday, January 24, 2020

A game of scam

We've been waiting since October for a game of Empire Monopoly for one of our granddaughters.
We own a game of it. We play it regularly with the kids and it has a lot of pluses.
It's fairly short. There are no hotels to buy and thus fairly little heartbreak.
The players can see what they have as they build up their properties in a stack.
When the stack reaches the top, the owner of the stack wins.
It's tangible.
We play it often and we introduced it to grandkids in Tremonton.
We wanted one for the family there, one granddaughter in particular.
The first sign of trouble was when the mom pulled it up on her phone to discover it was selling for $85. (We'd paid $15 for ours at Target.)
I was sure we could find it again for about that same amount so we started looking.
Nobody had it.
We started looking online.
No luck.
Then Marc found it. It was about $25 but by then we were ready to pay a bit more.
He ordered it and we started waiting.
It didn't come.
We complained.
The company said, "Oh, it has to clear customs. Be patient."
We waited some more.
We got the same message again and again.
The child's birthday came and went. Christmas came and went.
We swapped out a smaller, different game for the one she wanted.
We started getting ticked.
Now it's the end of January and apparently our game is still held up in customs because you know that foreign paper pretend money can be a problem.
I'm suspecting a scam, verified by the many other customer complaints Marc found on the website.
Nobody's order has cleared customs. Nobody is getting satisfaction.
Our granddaughter is losing confidence in us.
We suspect foul play. We believe we may have been hornswaggled!
I'm thinking we have all been playing a different game than we planned.
P.S. The name of the company is South Adventure, not accredited by the Better Business Bureau

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