Thanks to antiquated real estate laws, my wife and I lost our dream house earlier this year and our deposit was refunded. So flush with cash and emotional scarring, what better way to recover than to buy a board game table?
After doing our research we settled on the Nagoya from The Table Flippers. For a couple of reasons. The first was that despite being an Australian brand, they had a Japanese and minimalistic style that spoke to us.
We weren't about to spend a boatload of money on a board game table that looked exactly like every other table on the market. We wanted it to be a statement piece of furniture and the style of the Nagoya stood out to us as something a bit different without being wildly unique.
The other reason we chose this board game table was for the width. The Nagoya came in at 1.2 meters wide which was bigger than other board game tables we researched. This was of particular concern because some bigger board games, like Argent the Consortium and Claustrophobia 1643, couldn't be contained by our previous table.
So with our decision made, we deposited half the price of the table and then waited. More nerve-wracking than it should have been because The Table Flippers only had a few online reviews and communication dried up once they had their money.
Each week my friends and I joked about how it was a big scam and that I'd thrown my money away. But thankfully, that wasn't the case. Six weeks later, almost to the date, the table arrived. And let me tell you, it looks glorious.
To The Table Flippers' credit, their post-build support has been fantastic. We had a couple of issues with the table, such as bubbles in the varnish, and they went above and beyond to make sure it got sorted to our satisfaction.
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