Amazon Shipping

[Dal Thrax]

If anyone who has ordered from Amazon has gotten their book shipped, can you post here. Today is the day they estimated for a ship date and if I'm hosed I'd like to know so that I can try to track down a copy locally.

 

[Princesskeyblade]

I wrote this in another Amazon thread, but I am going to repeat myself...

I have had disaster after disaster with pre-ordering gamebooks from Amazon. I did that for Qualidar two years ago, and they kept putting off and putting off the shipment date. Other stores had had their copy weeks when I found out that Amazon couldn't get the copies, and refunded my preorder money. I will never do it again.

Have they pushed back the shipping yet? If so... get to a FLGS and get a copy before they are gone.

 

[Dal Thrax]

If my FLGS carried pathfinder I would have had it last week. My only real hope is to catch it in a chain store if Amazon doesn't ship.

 

[Princesskeyblade]

I hope you get your copy or find one locally... Good luck!

 

[Shazman]

As far as I know, mine hasn't shipped yet. Amazon still list a Aug 19 release date, but it still says not yet released. They are either about to push back the ship date, or they haven't gotten around to updating the listing.

 

[Dal Thrax]

I'm going to remain hopeful for a bit. Amazon is on the west coast, and I'm hoping that their shippers pick up late in the day.

 

[Festivus]

My friend emailed me Monday to say that as a thank you for running Age of Worms for the group, and that he picked up the PFRPG Corebook for me at GenCon. So I promptly cancelled my order with Amazon. I was planning to cancel anyhow, they were estimating ship date of 9/8 for my copy and the FLGS had two copies left.

 

[Sammael]

Still nothing from Amazon.

 

[Jeff Wilder]

I used to routinely get gamebooks from Amazon on or before street release.

Then something changed, and Amazon started waiting for two weeks after street date for a lot of game books. I suspect that brick-and-mortar stores complained loudly to the publishers, but I dunno.

Anyway, it's usually not a big deal for me to wait, especially given the savings Amazon provides. In this case, though, I would rather pay a higher price and give my money direct to Paizo. (And that's saying something. I'm not cheap, but I am frugal.)

 

[Sammael]

I already gave my money directly to Paizo for the PDF... but Amazon's international shipping rates are so much better than Paizo's that it was a no-brainer: less than $10 for the shipping, as opposed to $42 (!!!).