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Originally Posted by fmitchell
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.
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I've had the same thing happen to me where Amazon was very late in getting a product I wanted for shipment. But in the last couple of years, things I've been ordering through Amazon have been coming to me quite quickly. In fact, they usually get the items out before the posted release date. They can only go by the publisher's best estimate of when a product is released. And with millions of products, they can't keep track of all the changing release dates unless the product is going to be super-popular.
I also like the fact that not only is Chaosium going to get the money that's due them, but I get to save money, as well! So I'm going to defend my decision to go through Amazon, unless weeks go by and everyone else has BRP but me
