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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 9462396" data-attributes="member: 59816">We don't know.According to the rumor-mill.Look, all I'm trying to tell you is this - I've been in this business for 31 years, and a lot of people across the board say a lot of things. Sometimes they're right, sometimes they're wrong, sometimes they were sincere and mistaken, sometimes they were lying. We have no way of knowing what's true YET.The thing we DO know is that they books were delayed to that region. They're not meant to get there for another 3 weeks. Will they be allocated then? Maybe!10% EVER or 10% NOW? We don't know.I mean, if that happens, then yeah, it's a bit of a problem. Sure. But I doubt that you'd enjoy someone who has no idea what the job is judging you for doing it 'wrong'.Still sounds to me like WotC is expecting them to fill - on the date that WotC said they would fill. They "recieved" 10% - EARLY from the DELAY DATE.Distributors say a lot of things - in particular distributors who ALSO HAVE AN ONLINE STORE. For example, when I went to pick up my reorder on Tuesday (having sold out of the cover at my store), I was informed that they were OUT - totally out! And I said, "BUT... we called last week and were told that copies were put aside for us!"And they said, "Nope, no record of that!" (So I called my employee, who had placed the order, and he said "I spoke directly with Mike!" (Or whatever) and Mike said, "Yeah, they were supposed to be aside!"So the guy who told me that there was "No way" and that they had "No stock" went and opened a box - IN A STACK OF BOXES - and pulled out my order. I estimate that their "No Stock" was actually a few hundred copies.Were they going to sell them themselves? Are they allotted to other orders and just not picked yet? I just don't know.At any rate, I expect to be out of them by the end of today, and they aren't getting Regular Covers for two weeks (and we're out of that too). So, yeah, these books are outselling expectations.</blockquote>

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