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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TalonComics" data-source="post: 1010228" data-attributes="member: 60">I just got off the phone with my distributor and they informed me that WotC is still forcing them to honor the street date of the 18th. That means I will be receiving the books, as planned, Friday morning and shipping out that same day.Believe me when I say this: Neither myself nor my distributor is happy about this and at this point several things are still being discussed and probably will be continued to be discussed at Gencon as well. Why some retailers have the books for sale:Distributors are under contractual obligation to not release the books to where they could be put on sale before the 18th. There are only three reasons a store would have them on sale now:1. They got them from WotC direct and broke the street date.2. They bought them from the unauthorized distributor who is now under investigation.3. They bought their shipment from Ingram, the distributor that sent books to the massive discounters and mass bookstore chains.Something else I found out: Apparently, Wal-Mart has sold through their stock and is now sending out email that some people's orders are back ordered. I received a pretty credible piece of information from a source that Wal-Mart's numbers *total for all 3 of the books was about 1400. So, the short of this is: I will have the books in stock on Friday. I am in no danger of being shorted *and* if you want a guaranteed set to go out Friday I am still taking orders through tonight. Feel free to give me a call at: 214-287-8661 or just click the sig bar below to go right to my site. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />~Derek</blockquote>

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