Jonathan Boyd |
Has Tempest Rising been shipped to any retailers in the UK? None of the ones who carry previous PACG stock seem to have it, including thre retailer I bought all my previous stuff from. Is this a temporary problem or are there likely to be ongoing problems getting ahold of future PACG releases in the UK?
Hawkmoon269 |
"Street date" is today, so none of them should have had it on the shelves before today. That doesn't really answer whether or not retailers in the UK actually have it, but it does mean that they couldn't have had it for sale before today.
Vic Wertz Chief Technical Officer |
"Street date" is today, so none of them should have had it on the shelves before today. That doesn't really answer whether or not retailers in the UK actually have it, but it does mean that they couldn't have had it for sale before today.
Unfortunately, we have little visibility into international distribution timelines. Most of the overseas distributors use consolidators within the US—that is, a US location that takes all the stuff they order from a bunch of manufacturers and bundles it together into a single shipment. This saves them money, but introduces a big time variable, as stuff may wait around at the consolidator until they have enough to ship overseas. And once it gets there, it also has to clear customs, which sometimes happens quickly, and sometimes slowly.
All I can tell you is that we ship to international distributors (or their consolidators) at the same time we ship to other distributors.
Michael Klaus |
Well since UK availability should be about the same as European availability I will put my two cents here:
I do wonder why amazon.com and therefore amazon.de are certain that Tempest Rising will be released in July 2015.
For the German fellows I wouldn't be surprised if they would end up with having the decks stored away for months. They had three of the S&S decks simply named "Pathfinder Adventure Card Game" when I tried to preorder them.
(and no, I do not have a local store that I can order from; and yes, I did check smaller online stores)