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Tins Or Board Packaging?

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boardgamegeezer
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Games come in the usual board packaging but also they come in tins packaging too.

Now I looked at some tins packaging companies for biscuits movie tins etc and they are flippin expensive and have 5000 min runs too so I wondered how the full games sold in tins can be sold really cheap?
Some go for $US17 with other parts included too.
So anyone give some light on whether to use tins or card and who prints the tins so cheap?

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boardgamegeezer
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Embossed tins

Tins I think can be quite attractive to look at.
Especially if you emboss them with custom wording etc.

It can work out quite cheap for custom tins largish runs of course.
A tin for game packaging.

Am I right?

Here is a link to view an example click pictures for others

I know its confectionary but you see what I mean?

http://www.thetinboxcompany.co.uk/image2.html

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FastLearner
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Tins Or Board Packaging?

I agree that tins look great. I thought I had a couple of links to reasonable tin manufacturers amongs my bookmarks & favorites, but can't seem to find them anywhere.

Tins are clearly more expensive that cardboard, or you'd see them a lot more, I'm sure. If it adds 5% to the final retail price and a tin fits well thematically, it would seem worthwhile. If it adds more than that, it seems likely -- though this is just me guessing -- that the price vs. quality balance would be tipped negatively and poorer sales would result.

Another consideration is shape: it's important that your game fit well on a shelf with other games if you want good retail exposure (as many won't buy things that don't fit well), and the game must be easy to pack and ship (a "treasure chest" shape would be bad, for instance) so that you don't pay for a ton of extra packaging.

My feeling: unless the game has all super-high quality components and is being heavily sold on that merit, I doubt tin would pay off unless it was extremely cheap.

boardgamegeezer
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Agree

I agree the usual shape of a game is rectangular or square however heart shape I think would look fantastic in tin and I am going to try and do this as it fits my game concept perfectly and my idea also is people can carry the game in their pockets safely in a tin. Do this with cardboard and you will get a crumpled box quickly.

China would probably be cheap for tins as a few games made in tin are made in China as I know as I emailed the publishers about this and guess what they replied :))))))

Look at all the heart shaped stuff about jewellery etc.

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Tins Or Board Packaging?

You might want to go to [urlwww.myrook.com[/url], the people that make all those fancy steel CCG cases.

They are expanding into other areas, I talk to them at GenCON last year about pricing for a couple of items. I never had them officially quote me a price so I cant tell you the real story, but they are one of the top tin box companies around.

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Thanks for that link
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Tins Or Board Packaging?

Don't neglect the TUBE. I'll be using that container for my launch. Not for every game but for some... just perfect, and doubles as the shipping container.

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