Seraph Chronicles

C’mon, don’t be so CHEAPSKATE and use waterproof packaging!

It was a nice Sunday morning, peaceful and all, nice cool weather and it was raining, ooops did I say raining? Yeah, and though it would have been a good time to sleep in, I did not, and that’s where it all began, with the arrival of my monthly subscribed GameAxis magazine! What could be better, cozy weather and a new issue of GameAxis to read in the comfort of my room, that’s if the magazine survived the rain that is.

Sadly it did not and this is what I ended up with:

Totally soaked - click to view full size.

What happens when you take a magazine for a bath - click to view full size.

You can see the pages falling out even from behind - click to view full size.

Wet and all stained - click to view full size.

And if that wasn’t bad enough, the magazine was not even thrown into my house, but was left lying outside the main gate of my house,what kind of delivery service is that!? Just leaving it outside waiting for someone else to pick it up or maybe some dog to chew and munch on as some doggy toy? And to note I’ve experienced not receiving the magazine before, I think I know why now, it was probably left outside the gate screaming “Somebody pick me up and take me home already!” and sure enough someone answered the call. Now I know GameAxis is one of the cheapest and value for money magazine, but hey, you guys just increased your cover price this year, and yeah surprise surprise, the packaging got downgraded from a nice white GameAxis plastic bag to some low cost transparent plastic wrapper, and considering that the magazines get delivered on Sundays, I doubt it’s the local Postman, so whatever delivery service you guys are using, it simply sucks, big time, even the newspaper delivery man knows how to ‘throw’ their deliverables inside the recipients house properly without breaking something and keeping it out of rain’s way.

Now, I’d better get a replacement copy for this issue as it’s now a totally unusable clump of paper-mâché, I’m sure the understanding folks at GameAxis will be willing to send another copy for me, let’s see what happens when I call them up on Monday.