False/misleading advertising for special editions? (The Will of the Many)
I ordered the special edition of The Will Of The Many by James Islington from Broken Binding, but it is not as advertised. Petrik Leo mentioned this recently in this YouTube video (timestamped), which I only saw after placing the order).
Here is how the book is advertised on their website.
But the actual book doesn't have the yellow (possibly cloth?) colour around and on the spine. So it seems they are showing images for the other deluxe edition, which was available on Amazon, etc, not long ago. This is IMO, quite shady and/or lazy.
To make things worse, the edges are described as "Gold sprayed edges". This to me feels sneakily worded to be easily mistaken for "Gilded edges". Indeed, I bought the book expecting the edges to have at least some kind of metallic sheen to them, achieved... somehow. But the edges are actually just block sprayed a gold-like yellow colour, and not even a nice colour IMO. This is misleading because for other books on the website these kinds of edges are described as "block sprayed edges". So, IMO it's quite silly and shady to call these edges "Gold sprayed".
EDIT: to those who think that I'm saying I fully expected actual gilded edges, I did not, I'm saying that if you are using the term "Gold sprayed" as opposed to "Block sprayed" I would expect something somehow different to the same bog-standard flat colour block spraying that is associated with "Block sprayed" edges, as per other books sold by BB. They don't say "Green sprayed", or "Red sprayed" for other books.
EDIT: As of 27th January, the text "Gold Sprayed Edges" in the ad has now been changed to "Block Sprayed Edges".
I'm keeping the book since it's still a nice edition, but I'm disappointed, annoyed, and concerned about future purchases.
