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Originally Posted by Vile
Don't know what the amazon.com is like, but the amazon.co.uk is infamous for promising to deliver stuff before it's printed. IIRC the Chaosium site says something about them expecting to take delivery of the books on the 23rd of June. They may be faster at sending them out, but surely Amazon isn't going to get their copies before Chaosium?
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Amazon.com does the same thing. The most charitable interpretation is that they get an initial estimate and never revise it (at least for games and other specialty books; maybe they watch Steven King's publication dates on a second-to-second basis). A somewhat less charitable interpretation is that they simply let the initial estimate stand to draw in business.
I've also preordered games from Amazon and seen them in stores weeks before Amazon gets around to preparing the order for shipment. In at least one case (a Paizo product, I think) I cancelled my order after a month passed, and bought it online somewhere else.