We received a call yesterday from the owner of the designated restoration company. The previous plan they gave us for removal and cleanup has been withdrawn. The former head of the restoration project is, “no longer with the company”. This may very possibly be due to his work with us and the bid he put together. The state group that oversees asbestos removal was angry with the company for letting anyone in the building. Apparently neither the company nor it’s project lead was certified to work with asbestos. We are now promised news next week as to what can be done about the building contents.
We have pushed to get news and a plan for access to the inventory and now find that this may be creating disputes between agencies. We will have to await news as it is given to us. None of the storage in the building could be realistically insured. Quotes for insurance started at $1300 a month (Allstate). One of the criteria we looked for in storage space was an absence of automatically activated sprinklers. Our products are all paper based. Sprinklers could have damaged our inventory more completely than most fires and accidental activation of sprinklers occur more often than fires. All of our new game components, older games and magazines are in the building as well as our company files.
As most of our customers may have guessed, we must operate on a very small budget margin after the four year law suit removed our promised operating capital and most later financing options. We elected to press on with the development of the games with the help of secured loans. We have not had the option to pay for accelerated printing options, guarantees, salaries or even occasionally, living arrangements. This is something of a tradition with GRD and Europa. In spite of this, we believe we have produced a game worthy of the line. As soon as we know how many copes of the game are intact and can be mailed, we will order the number of rules, OBs and charts need to complete those games. We are using this enforced break to review the rules, OBs and chart files yet again and to continue work on A Winter War II and Turning Point.
As previously stated in a comment why don’t you guys put the rules and ob including the SU 1939 ob in pdf form. You guys must have this on a computer it would only take a very short time to set up a link so we can all download it, I for one would have no problem in printing off my own to save your company money so maybe we can get the counters and maps in the future. One thing it would do for your company is restore some credibility with your customers and save your co. money so future prodjects could then be completed.
Thanks Chet
Your having a very bad run of luck. I wish future days for you two to get better.