Hobby gamers judge a new game by two things before they read a single rule: is the shrink intact, and are the corners clean. ProShip3PL checks factory wrap on every copy at intake, packs game boxes so edges never take the hit, spot-checks returned copies against the component list, and receives entire Kickstarter fulfillment waves at our Miami dock. Your game did the hard part getting made — we get it to the table looking new.
Ask any hobby game buyer what "new" means and they'll tell you: factory sealed, square corners. The rulebook could be pristine and the punch-boards untouched — if the wrap is torn, the copy reads as used, gets returned, and the return note blames the seller. Generic prep floors miss this because for most products, outer film is just packaging. For games, it's the product's proof of condition.
Corners are the second front. A game box is a rigid slab with eight hard corners, and one carton dropped on its edge dents every copy inside along the same corner. Our packing counters the physics: games ride flat and immobilized, heavy titles sit low, voids get filled so no corner ever takes a point load, and premium editions get bubble as standard.
Then there's the flow no other category has: the Kickstarter wave. A funded campaign's entire print run arrives at once — backer copies, retail stock and stretch goals mixed across a container. We receive the wave against your manifest and split it into streams: FBA inbound, direct-to-backer parcels, distributor freight. Returned copies later come back through a component spot check, because a game missing three tokens is a one-star review wearing intact shrink.
| Where game copies die | The prep counter-move |
|---|---|
| Torn factory shrink | Wrap verified per copy at intake; damaged-wrap copies flagged and routed on your call |
| Dented corners & edges | Flat, immobilized packing; void fill; heavy titles low; bubble on premium editions |
| Missing components on returns | Removal copies spot-checked against the parts manifest before any restock |
| Kickstarter wave chaos | Wave received against manifest, sorted into FBA / backer / distributor streams |
| Crushed in oversized cartons | Carton sizes matched to box dimensions — no rattle room, no wasted dimensional weight |
Factory wrap verified on every copy at receiving; intact copies flow to FBA, damaged-wrap copies get photographed and held for your routing call.
Fresh shrink applied on our machine to transit-damaged film — protection restored, with condition-tier routing always decided by you.
Games packed flat and tight, corners cushioned from point loads, heavy miniatures titles weighted low — dent-free through Amazon's network.
Full campaign print runs received against your manifest and split into FBA, direct-to-backer and distributor streams from one dock.
Expansions banded or wrapped with base games under a bundle FNSKU, with void fill matched to the combined weight.
Removal-order copies opened per your instruction and spot-checked against the parts list — complete, incomplete or still sealed, reported per copy. Full flow on our returns processing page.
The run lands at our dock, gets counted against your manifest, and every copy's factory shrink is verified.
FBA stock, backer or webstore stock, and distributor cartons split into separate staged lanes.
FNSKUs applied with scan verification, games cartoned flat and immobilized, heavy titles packed by weight math.
FBA shipments hand to the carrier in 24–48 hours; reserve feeds replenishment and returns come back through component checks.
The damage is happening in cartons packed without corner discipline. We re-engineer the pack-out — immobilized copies, filled voids, weight kept low — and the damage pattern usually disappears with it.
You have one now: our dock becomes the campaign's US landing point, the wave gets sorted into backer, FBA and retail streams, and fulfillment starts days after clearance — not months.
Route removals here instead. Every returned copy gets a component spot check before any restock decision — incomplete copies are pulled, reported, and never quietly resold as complete.
We document it at intake with photos while a freight claim is live, over-wrap the copies whose contents are untouched, and route stock by condition on your call — the run is triaged, not written off.
Because hobby buyers read shrink as the seal of a new game. A copy that arrives with torn or missing wrap gets returned as "used" no matter what's inside, and enough of those returns damage the listing itself. So our board game intake starts with a wrap check on every copy: factory shrink intact, loose, or absent — and only intact copies flow into new-condition FBA stock without a flag to you.
We separate the question of the wrap from the question of the game. Copies whose contents are untouched but whose outer film tore in transit can be over-wrapped in fresh shrink on our machine for protection; whether a given copy still qualifies for a given Amazon condition tier is a call you make under Amazon's condition guidelines, and we route stock per your instruction — new-condition FBA, a lower condition tier, or FBM. What we never do is dress up an opened game as sealed.
Game boxes are rigid cardboard with proud corners — exactly the geometry that dents when a carton drops on its edge. We pack games flat and tight so they cannot shift, keep heavy titles low in the carton, fill voids so corners never take point loads, and add bubble around premium and collector editions. Crushed corners are the single most common complaint in board game reviews; carton discipline is most of the cure.
Yes — this is where board games differ from almost every other category. A returned game can look perfect and be missing half its punch-outs. On removal orders we open per your standing instruction, spot-check the component manifest you provide (or the publisher's parts list), and report copy-by-copy: complete, incomplete, or unopened. See our returns processing page for the general flow; the component check is the game-specific layer on top.
We do, and they're distinctive shipments: one huge production run, often a container or more, arriving in a single wave with the campaign's retail stock, backer stock and stretch-goal components mixed across cartons. We receive the wave against your manifest, sort by destination — FBA, direct-to-backer, retail distribution — and stage each stream separately so your campaign's US fulfillment starts from an organized floor, not a pile.
Yes. Base-plus-expansion bundles are a natural board game play: we band or over-wrap the components together, label the bundle under its own FNSKU, and protect the combined weight properly — an expansion strapped to a heavy base box needs different void fill than either alone. Bundles get built to your spec and quantity, then ship into FBA or wait on our racks as bundle-ready stock.
They need different carton math. A miniatures-heavy title can weigh several times a card game, so cartons hit weight limits before they hit volume, stacking rules change, and a dropped carton does far more corner damage. We pack heavy titles in smaller counts, reinforce where the weight concentrates, and keep them at the bottom of mixed pallets. The game inside its box is the publisher's engineering; getting that box through the network intact is ours.
Yes — single-SKU case packs suit game sellers restocking evergreen titles: uniform cartons, one FNSKU per case, box content information submitted with the shipment. Case-packed games also move through Amazon receiving with less individual handling, which for a category that hates handling is its own form of protection. Our case packing page covers the general mechanics.
That's the setup most game publishers land on. One master stock sits on our racks; FBA gets replenished on triggers, webstore and direct-to-backer orders ship parcel from the same shelves, and distributor cartons go out as wholesale freight. One inventory, three channels — instead of guessing the split months in advance and living with the guess.
Tell us your titles and formats — box sizes and weights, monthly volume, whether a Kickstarter wave or container is inbound, and whether you need bundling or returns checks. Per-unit pricing comes back within one business day, with no setup fee and no monthly minimum.
Tell us your titles, box sizes and volumes — and whether a print run, container or campaign wave is on the way. You'll have per-unit pricing and receiving instructions within one business day.
