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.

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.

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.