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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brown Jenkin" data-source="post: 4250210" data-attributes="member: 2572">I don't think there was conspiracy or marketing or anything else. I suspect that there was a low level employee who either didn't check a toggle or didn't fill in one field in the warehouse distribution program. Their distribution program probably has something that says ship immediately when in stock or wait on shipping until a certain date. If that field is wrong the warehouse employees don't care, they just fill the orders that the computer spits out. As for the reaction. WotC could cut Buy.com off in the future, but WotC is so small that Buy.com may not care. If Hasbro cut them off they would care, but at the same time I doubt that Hasbro cares enough about one bad ship date from a small subsidiary that they would cut off a big distributer over it. Buy.com will probably just pay a very small fine (for them), write up or fire a low level employee (depending if they are unionized or not), then continue on as if nothing happened. WotC will collect that fine (also small to them), decide that it is enough compensation, then continue selling stuff in the future through Buy.com as if nothing happened. The only people likely left upset are customers who didn't get in on the early shipments, LGS's who feel that they are losing customers (which they might be but more likely due to to price point than a broken street date), and Scott Rouse and the marketing department who will likely be told that because Buy.com paid their fines they will have to live with it and adjust their strategy accordingly.</blockquote>

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