Evercade EXP Shipment Worth Half A Million Pounds Has Been Stolen

I was devastated when I got the email. Was really looking forward to playing this over the holidays. I mostly just feel for Blaze though as they can't be rolling in cash right now and I'm sure they didn't need to be ordering more of the (out of production) Limited Edition units from their supplier. People can be such scumbags.

I’m one of those that had their unit stolen. Gutted but feel worse for blaze. Look forward to getting it when they can get sorted.

@BionicDodo totally agree. I had to read and re-read my email as it seemed a bizarre situation. Yes, I'm disappointed that it'll be another month (or two) before I get the LE EXP, but my OG Handheld and FE VS still works.

This type of theft could cripple a company, so I'm hoping this doesn't happen to Blaze. They're good guys (and girls!) and have been really supportive of the community, sharing info, participating in the Discord etc.

So it really feels exquisitely unjust to happen to them.

So people have already paid and have to wait longer so they can type up some names for the credits?

@AstraeaV no, we paid and all the units got stolen. They have to be remade and whilst they are doing that they are doing a name thing for the credits.

Any units not stolen will be shipped

Well this may delay mine for a while.

@Hikingguy Sadly this sort of thing is nothing new, I remember hearing about how they had to be careful and ship consoles to retailers at some odd hours in the middle of the night back in the day in Japan to avoid having things stolen by criminals who prey upon the usual shippers.

That said, seeing how distinctive and limited these are, it would probably be hard for the thieves to unload them without getting caught. I mean it's not like this is some mass produced popular platform.

As someone who pre-ordered this, I am pretty sure I've been effected. This really sucks, but so long as I get one before long I should be fine. I'm just glad I didn't need it as a gift.

@AstraeaV Clearly not. New units need to be manufactured to replace the stolen ones. Can't just will them into existence.

Wow. Hope the crooks get caught and the stuff in the lory are reclaimed. I'm guessing these will be on the black market and not ebay.

This story immediately reminded me, because the stories were so prominent, of similar thefts when the PS5 first came out. I wouldn't have expected this issue with Evercade, since I'm sure it's a much smaller operation. I wonder if they know there's a black market for these somewhere. Seems like an odd target otherwise these being a niche product.

@Tasuki A lorry is what a UK English speaker would call a truck.

On a more general note, as @sdelfin said, the Evercade doesn't have as wide a general appeal as the usual names do. The suspected targeting must seem to imply otherwise now.

Good luck Bose in managing through this crisis. Great response from the company for an event that is out of their hands.

@Hikingguy Yeah, I'm pretty bummed out about it myself. Sad state of affairs.

Reminds as my local apple dealer, a small store was raided twice in two weeks wheni ordered my current macbook... nasty practices..

@BionicDodo
They aren't affected like you think.
They have insurance for one and two, this is what ever postal service had the item's fault.

@Tasuki
Postal service vehicle.
I remember from last time when a shipment of Nintendo stuff was stolen.

@michaelf
This company won't be affected.
Insurance claims and sueing the postal carrier.

@Spider-Kev None of those things are fast though. If you're a low cash flow company and you now have to produce a load of extra stock of a discontinued item to meet previous orders, all of that will have to be paid for before any insurance company pays out. If they have enough cash to tide themselves over until it all gets sorted then they should be fine long term, but many businesses go bust because of short time cash issues, or at least struggle to pay staff due to them (never good at Christmas). And all of that is just finances, there is also the issue of working hard to produce a product you genuinely care about only for it to get stolen before it reaches the hands of your most loyal customers... that must be quite distressing.

@BionicDodo this was what I was thinking of when I wrote ‘it could cripple a company’ - well expanded upon!

@BionicDodo That is so true.

I do remember reading back in the day about a shipment of Virtual Boys being stolen. Now there's probably some jokes that could be made about stealing VBs, but at least Nintendo is a huge company who could survive the loss if they had to.
A small company making a niche product, maybe not so much.

Isn’t it time we start removing the hands of thieves again?