I have bought half a dozen of chess sets from Chessbazaar, actually everytime there was something wrong with their chess set they encouraged me to buy another one so that they could send the replacements with them, this way I ended up with double the number of chess sets I meant to buy from them.
Well, I certainly would feel like, "Stop! Let me off this train!"
Well, it seems to be established on this forum that it is a gamble when you buy a set from Chess Bazaar.
Is it really EVERY chess set you bought from there that has problems? Aren't there any that came to be just fine?
How many Chess sets have you bought from CB?
If you have had that many problems from there, I would certainly not buy anymore no matter how nice the pictures look.
Personally, I have not bought at least 3 sets from them, even recently, because I did not want to gamble my money at the risk of receiving problem Chess pieces.
And their prices have gone up quite a bit since I started coming here in the last 3 years. At first they were downright cheaply priced, now they are more expensive and the problems still keep happening.
I know of at least 3 people on this forum that will never buy from them again because of the problems.