They may accept orders, doesn’t mean you’ll get it
I’m sorry you don’t like their ordering setup, but you clearly don’t understand and are showing an unwillingness to learn.
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Exactly. That’s what I said earlier. If Diamond accepts the order you will but if PRH does you can’t be sure. If Lunar says “backorder” it’s almost guaranteed you will not get them.
This thing about prh losing 12k copies is totally misinformation. Don’t believe it
I am selling them for $16 a pop and sell (and have sold) several a week. Garbage, yes, but selling, yes. These have been nice little bonus sales to send out with my other orders.
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Which is why I made multiple phone calls yesterday and sent multiple e-mails. Bleeding Cool is the one posting articles specifically saying 12,000. Something’s going on with the issue which is why it’s taking some time for the sales person to get back to me. I don’t buy lost. Shipping delay or crooks would make more sense.
I got my copies the same week as the A Cover so if it went to reprint it got back before release day and the phone reps telling me at the time they still had 3,000 copies left Wednesday didn’t mention it. I was able to communicate with people here at Chu and place an order that arrived Friday release week. Hopefully a few Chu members also got to reorder.
How is that “what makes most sense?”
This is what makes sense. FOC orders were low. USM1 popped off and shops raided the tiny overprint volume EARLY for UBP after FOC. Slow shops placed reorders well after the overprint supply was exhausted. Book released with high-demand and now these shops who don’t know how ordering works via PRH are scratching their heads.
Check your emails. Maybe you have PRH emails flagged as spam or you don’t read their notices.
The only reason people would claim prh lost 12k copies is cause it’s a hot book and they want to hold some back. Or they oversold after foc
what are you guys squabbling about?
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Bleeding Cool made an article and specifically say 12,000 copies are lost. I don’t believe lost is a real possibility but shipping delay or thievery could be. That and the difference between PRH accepting orders and checking the e-mail responses to see if they say “backordered” or not when they send the confirmation.
We did a test order last week when UB1 showed as orderable but the e-mail showed them as “back ordered”. I don’t expect to get them like I said last Friday when we talked about it.
I placed an order just now for Avengers Twilight #1 2nd print. Lets see what the e-mail shows on that when it arrives for comparison.
Do you see that net amt of 0.00? It means its not being filled. The order was placed within 1-2 weeks before the book’s release. If you see 0.00, there’s no copies.
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As you can see, the advance reorder of the 2nd print of Avengers Twilight does look like it’ll fill. So it simply comes down to checking your e-mail confirmations.
If retailers are placing orders with PRH but not double checking the 2nd e-mail confirmation they send, they could be disappointed.
That order was placed Friday and as I said then, I didn’t expect it to fill since it went to “backorder” on the e-mail confirmation. It’s pretty simple. I don’t expect more UB1’s but I do expect AT12nds to arrive.
So why are you so adamant copies of UBP had to have been stolen? Shops didn’t get reorders filled because there was no overprint left.
I’m NOT, I’m questioning the Bleeding Cool article claiming they were “LOST”. As I’ve said multiple times now, I don’t know one way or the other but lost seems to be the least likely option. With a book heating up that much prior to release I don’t find it impossible that an issue with thieves cannot occur. I’ve know of multiple examples over the last several decades of delivery drivers and opportunists helping themselves to business inventory. There’s also someone in the BC article saying there’s a UPS issue right now as well. I have no idea about that but common sense says, if 12,000 are lost, they may be found. If they’re lost in shipping temporarily, they may show up. If they are stolen, then even if they catch the crooks, they could end up in police evidence for the next year like some sweat shirts I had shoplifted and have to go to court over again next week.
My conversations on the phone yesterday, the rep would not deny anything and is working to get some answers he can say publicly. If there was no issue at all, I suspect he would have been free to just say that and get on with his day. sometimes BC is right, sometimes they are wrong. I just want to know which.
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Imagine you’re a low-tier sales rep. You have this out-of-left-field claim presented to you that 12,000 copies of a book are stolen/lost/whatever-semantic-word-you-want-to-use. First you are hearing of it. You reply saying, I’ll look into this claim. What else is he supposed to do?
My actual sales rep hasn’t replied yet either and I spoke to multiple people on the phone yesterday. The easy play here is to just be patient and wait to see what happens. Better yet, go to Bleeding Cool and argue with Rich. It’s his article. Maybe he’ll spill his source to you. I’m content to wait for whatever response I get. I’ve only got 2 copies in limbo and way more valuable items in transit to worry with.
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