BattleTech: Mercenaries – CGL does a shipping booboo? Internet rages!

[jamescutts 6924xp 0]

I’ve see that too @dawfydd the prices can be all over the place, I got the proliferation cycle box for £20 which was a steal.

I think its a symptom of CLG not having any UK/EU distribution hubs to keep a constant supply going along with on demand production. Retailers get things in bits and bobs and sales can be sporadic, sometimes things sell out quickly others they hang around but the retailers order in as its hard to tell when it will next be around, so things inevitably get reduced to sell.

[sundancer 42973xp 1]

yarp, CGL hasn’t had prober distribution like forever in the EU. And it makes zero sense.

[tankkommanderParticipant 6421xp 1]

Nice to see the stuff appearing on Amazon before it gets to backers.

[dawfyddParticipant 11926xp 0]

Nothing showing that I an see on Amazon UK….

 

[limburger 21704xp 0]

probably Amazon.com …
I wouldn’t be surprised if USA backers are selling their stuff, as there’s always folk who back kickstarters and then sell it.

[jamescutts 6924xp 0]

Yes its always worth remembering Amazon is a market place, unless it says sold by Amazon, anyone can setup and sell on there. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a US backed who received their stuff to just then put it up on Amazon.

[sundancer 42973xp 1]

The amazon link in the KS comments is just a pre order with delivery date December 2024. So people just going bonkers about nothing.

[tankkommanderParticipant 6421xp 0]

It has been changed. It originally showed as ‘in stock’ from Amazon (not a reseller).

[tankkommanderParticipant 6421xp 0]

It has been changed. It originally showed ‘in stock’ from Amazon.

[limburger 21704xp 0]

at this point it would not surprise me though if it were official …

lifestream apparently mentioned that they’re waiting on an update from QML regarding shipping.

I really really don’t understand why they can do a lifestream, but can’t post a summary in the kickstarter as an update.
Heck, uploading the video to youboob and linking it in the kickstarter would have been sufficient.

[frankeleeParticipant 1364xp 2]

Sometimes… It’s like people need to pay more attention in general. People make this same weird conspiracy claim just about every Kickstarter too. If you use Amazon, if you use Kickstarter, if you buy tabletop gaming products… none of this should need explained. I was discussing this with a friend, who admittedly only really does Battletech for gaming, and he was wondering if they would start selling product before backers got theirs delivered, I told him street dates are pretty common, they won’t be selling them early. I get a little side-project dice game meant for B&N got sold by a distributor early to B&N because Catalyst slipped up on paying attention and updating the little side-project dice game’s distributor info, but come on. It’s mostly based on a conspiracy theory conjectured on by a former Catalyst author as sour grapes.

[grantinvanman 2180xp 0]

@frankelee ELVIS IS THE REASON … with Hinckley, Reagan, and someone else as co-conspirators. Clearly…

 

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[sundancer 42973xp 1]

Bubba Ho-Tep!

[tankkommanderParticipant 6421xp 0]

Bob Dobbs knows the truth.

[sundancer 42973xp 1]

Update on the KS as of today:

International Shipping

• VAT has been secured for the UK and EU. We are waiting on one more document to clear for the UK.
• Hubs are counting inventory and providing understock/shortage reports (due Monday)
• Then, final shipments for any stock shortages will be sent to each hub. Shipments will take 2-4 weeks depending on location and size of shipment
• Once that is complete, regional fulfillment begins

So I’m not holding my breath that RoW will get anything delivered before the end of October 2024. At the same time most US backers will have their pledges delivered. Sad.

And in addition to that:

Cookbook
It was recently reported that a majority of the recipes in the soon-to-release BattleTech Cookbook were compiled from internet sources. This is correct. The contractor assembling the cookbook relied on relaxed copyright protection concerning internet-published recipes. Our own investigation into this turned up a lot of confusion and uncertain procedure, but at the very least our preference would have been to publish a credits/source listing as part of the copyright page.

While this has been corrected in our ebook version of the BattleTech Cookbook, it was missed on the print version. Still, we are frustrated by this oversight. As such, Catalyst Game Labs will donate all profits from this product among several charitable organizations.

We are grateful to the community for its understanding and ongoing support.

So basically CGL paid someone to “make us a cookbook” and that person just grabbed what ever they could find on the internet. Grand! Could they have fumbled any more?

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