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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 9461531" data-attributes="member: 4348">Do people even KNOW it's WotC that's cancelled orders.  All WotC did (and this was before the OTHER Distributors started to make and say things that caused either them, or those they distributed to, to cancel orders) was announce a change in availability dates.  This announcement (referred by me earlier in this thread and ignored by practically everyone) was made shortly before people started getting cancellations on their orders.Until those dates actually occur, or WotC says something more specific, there is no way to know whether there will actually be a shortage or not.  It would still be seen.  I'd speculate to say that someone panicked over something, and that's where all the cancellations suddenly started (for those who got them) down the line.  It's still 3 weeks out for the Books to hit the stall over there officially at this point.  Speculation:(If they are coming from the US, and not China, it takes no more than a cargo container or two accidentally falling overboard to cause difficulties.  At that point, it probably would be seen as to how to plug that gap, and that would affect the availability dates).Another possibility, the ones who were one of the groups distributing the books were also online sellers...and these covers were NOT for online sales.  AS this group was online selling, their numbers were decreased accordingly.  Shops that were going to get the special covers from that distributor are being affected.  That sucks, but break the rules and you lose the numbers estimated that were going to be sold online.  What sucks even more, is that I expect that distributor will STILL sell the books online and take those books that they sell online from the numbers that COULD have been sent/allocated to the hobby shops.  Is that really WotC's fault in that case?To put this in better perspective, there was a D&D book I ordered half a year before it's release date.  That order was cancelled.  Ironically, I have no idea why it was cancelled as there was actually no shortage.  I expect that they just didn't want to honor to pre-order price as the actual price turned out to be higher.  Cancellations can happen for all sorts of reasons. I have not heard anything OFFICIAL (not even in this thread) from WotC or Hasbro addressing this yet EXCEPT for the announcements of changes of the dates of when the books should be expected and the changes to the official release dates.  Beyond that, thus far, I think everything is speculation EXCEPT for the official statements from certain distributors, and those are saying they are getting less than they expected for allocation.  The problem, though, as I stated in my speculation, is that they have also been contrubuting to online sales from what I gather, which is expressely NOT what the alternative covers were supposed to be benefiting.  If anyone has OFFICIAL statements from WotC concerning this, I'd be interested in reading them.  Of course, it's a bad PR move to just stay silent in the wake of the rumors, but sometimes nothing doesn't necessarily mean the rumors are true either.</blockquote>

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