D&D 5E MM sold out on amazon

[Zulithe]

Nice job 5e team! I'm sure amazon will restock in short order but it's nice to see D&D manuals actually cleaning out stock especially a monster manual, wow!

Not saying this is unheard of, but it's still a nice sign of the interest the new edition is garnering.

Wonder if the recent Kotaku article contributed to this?

 

[darius0]

I noticed it was sold out yesterday before that kotaku article was up.

 

[Morrus]

Kotaku? Am I missing a reference? That's iO9, isn't it?

But yeah, it sold out prior to the article.

 

[Boarstorm]

They also may have pulled some stock until the page smudge issue was resolved.

 

[Nivenus]

Kotaku? Am I missing a reference? That's iO9, isn't it?

But yeah, it sold out prior to the article.

I think the article got shared to Kotaku, which is probably where Zulithe saw it. io9 and Kotaku repost one another's articles every so often.

 

[Thank Dog]

"Sold out" means very little. For all we know there could've been only three copies ordered in the first place.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

"Sold out" means very little. For all we know there could've been only three copies ordered in the first place.

If we were talking about a FLGS I would agree with you. However, this is Amazon.

So there are either distribution problems (WotC can't get stock to Amazon quick enough), Amazon underestimated demand (unlikely since their pre-orders would have given them an idea of how many copies they should order), there were a large amount of copies with page smudges that were recalled or the print run sold out and Amazon are waiting for more copies.

 

[rjfTrebor]

glad i got mine when i did. i ordered it saturday and just got it today.

 

[Scorpio616]

Each smudged book shipped out probably cost them another unsmudged book they had to ship out to satisfy buyers. That could have eat up a lot of stock.

 

[Nemio]

I ordered it from the German Amazon site on 29/09 and it had an expected delivery date of Friday 10/10

Still hasn't shipped yet though

When you check the item out now then it says it has an expected delivery date of 2 to 4 weeks.

I wonder what caused this.
Does Wotc only start their shipping to Amazon on the official release date?