Frequently Asked Questions

When will my order ship?

As soon as humanly possible. Our packing/shipping times are currently running dramatically behind due to moving and renovating the new storefront while simultaneously reworking the warehouse.

Please understand we will get these items out to you as quickly as possible, but it may sometimes be in excess of a week before we can even pick the item from the warehouse.

Where is the new store located?

Our friends at the most incredible tabletop store, The Feisty Goblin, were kind enough to set us up in one of their vaults.

Retrograde Collectibles
C/O The Vault
890 5th Ave
New Kensington, PA 15068

So why did it take you so long to reopen?

Our initial move was slated to be simple- transferring the store into a new, prepped-for-rent storefront, and then we got hit with cost of moving expenses, rebuilding, etc., and the construction materials became immediately prohibitive due to us moving somewhat under duress.

Progress was slow moving until The Feisty Goblin stepped in to help us out.
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To further complicate things, during less complicated days, Alex co-founded and is one of the primary Convention Organizers on the Pittsburgh Gaming Expo every year. This is an incredibly important undertaking every year, and even though the shop is incredibly important, so is this event and the community around it.

Do you still carry tabletop and board game products?

In store? At this time, no, we do not. We don't want to disrespect our gracious, goblin hosts by selling the same kind of products they stock on the regular.

But like- they do. And their store is way better than ours ever had the chance to be, given the circumstances of our closure and relocation. If you originally came to us for tabletop goodies, you're going to like the Goblin a whole lot more. Their product variety and play-space area is truly awesome and we're kind of geeked to get to enjoy tabletop as a hobby instead of as a job for once.

When will you be doing tech services and repair?

Once we are back in the groove with the shop running smoothly again, we hope to re-introduce this side of the business again. Give us some time.

Information


STORE HOURS

Announcement Coming Soon


CONTACT INFORMATION

Phone: (412) 423-8252
Email: info@retrogradecollectibles.com


CUSTOMER SERVICE POLICY

Contact us at any time, either through the above methods, or via our social media sites. We'll respond as quickly as possible. That said- we value the mental health and the safety of our crew. If you're frustrated about something, we totally understand and will do anything in our power to remedy it. But if that frustration takes a turn towards hostility towards the employee(s), they've been instructed to disconnect the call immediately. 


RETURN POLICY

In the instance of defective products, we will offer an exchange within fourteen (14) days of receiving the product. Aside from defective products, we do not offer returns.

Please test your item immediately upon receipt to ensure its function and condition. Failure to reach out to us within fourteen (14) days of RECEIVING the product will forfeit the exchange policy. These exchanges will be issued as store credit, and only upon the issuing of 1) a return shipping label and 2) receipt of the returned item at the office.

A majority of the products we carry are one-off and/or pre-owned, and we are not able to issue refunds. We will do our best to remedy the situation but are not always able.

Please contact us immediately upon discovering an issue. We're an extremely small company with a fairly limited capacity to solve certain issues, and we have to enforce this policy to ensure our continued operation.


TRADE-IN AND BUYING POLICY

All customers looking to trade in or sell any items will be required to provide a valid ID and phone number. We assess current sale value, and make an offer based on the current sales data. Quotes and offers will not be honored if a customer leaves the store and returns, and the items in question will need to be re-appraised. 

We will not make any offers or give any quotes on products via email, social media, text, or any other method. Products MUST be in the store (or appraisable by us directly, such as in a storage unit or home, or at a convention) before we're willing to make an offer. If you send us an auction-site listing of your product, or a collection list on a game valuation website, we will likely not buy the items from you- as these sites and situations create an expectation of value that isn't always accurate to the current market data.

Payouts will be made via Cash (discretionary, as there is generally less than $100 in cash in the store at a time) or via PayPal if that cash value threshold is exceeded or if the value of the trade exceeds available cash-on-hand.

We reserve the right to offer an alternative payout option at our discretion (such as CashApp, Venmo, etc) but will most often MANDATE Cash or PayPal for Business Record-Keeping Requirements. As a general rule, we do not offer store credit for trade-ins. We may opt to, upon request, and only at our discretion.


SHIPPING POLICY

Our packing/shipping times are currently running dramatically behind due to moving and renovating the storefront. Please understand we will get these items out to you as quickly as possible, but it may sometimes be in excess of a week before we can even pick the item from the warehouse.

 

Free Shipping Promotion:

These items will be shipped Standard or Economy. Here's the reason: we're happy to try and get you the best deal we can, but it still costs us money to send. We may send a TTRPG book or record via media mail if you opt for free shipping. It saves us money, and let's us pay the crew that works here.

The free shipping policy currently applies to all products, excluding board games, shipped throughout the continental United States and on subtotals over $40.00. This is 100% due to the weight of some of these board games. We apologize for the inconvenience.

We're working on expanding the program as we improve our logistical backend.

This policy may be amended in the future, but hopefully only in a situation when we can make it an even better deal. Our product pricing will hopefully make it worth your time to ship from us, regardless of the slightly increased expense.

We generally ship USPS, and of course right as we're in the process of launching our website front-end, they changed some details on us and we're working on improving it before we begin. You're more than welcome to contact us for information/explanation.

 

On packing materials:

We believe in doing as little harm as possible and that a box is a box. And that a box is good to place things in. While we do stock several varieties of brand new boxes in order to maximize the ideal fit for the safety of the product(s) you've ordered, we believe that if we have a recycled box that fits the bill with a small tape-rip or old-label residue on it, it's still going to be perfectly useable.

It may be aesthetically less-than-ideal, but given the number of boxes that major retailers send out- we'd rather not add any more mess to the ballooning waste of the world. And there is no recycling more efficient than a recycled item that needs ZERO processing/reconstruction to make it suit a purpose again.  

On tracking information and order times: 

When we're operating business-as-usual, all items will be shipped from our store/warehouse within 1-2 business days of order placement, except in rare occasions where we'll announce it on a banner at the top of the store) or over holidays where we're unable to hand them off to the shipping service.

Beyond that, we value the work-life balance of our crew, and their mental health- and we will emphasize time-off and not overworking anyone. Major retailers have created an expectation of convenience- and while we love to offer convenience and the best possible customer service, we are not employing hundreds of thousands. It's like 2-3 of us, max, at any time here and we're doing our best. 


Receiving tracking information does not guarantee that the item has been handed off to the shipping service, as their pickups are occasionally sporadic. Please contact us if there is any issue with the status of your shipment not updating within 48 hours of receiving the tracking number.