A polite way of saying thanks we hear you, but cool your jets.

Willing to name them?

I believe you are still liable for the sales tax, regardless of whether the selling company collects it from you or not.

That feeling when you gear yourself up to spend a lot of money on something, then it falls through but you still feel like you gatta spend it...

Not sure what other distributors have been quoting, but I was quoted $16,500 for a CE, so after tax that is $18,150. I had to decline. Bananas.

No CEs have sold yet. Only the deposits. Payment won't be due until September at the absolute earliest. Plenty of time for flippers to flip without having to pay in full, to back out, or to transfer their deposits to a different game. We have no idea how many of those at dealers have even received deposits yet, and how many of those people intend on playing the game rather than put it in a storage locker and sell it later. To suggest otherwise is incorrect or dishonest.

Your hairs must be the size of 2x4s if what I’m saying counts as splitting them. My quoted price from my dealer was 16.5k plus tax, so $18,150. I declined, but am still open to the CE or LE once I get some time on it. My point is that in a potentially large speculative market all the CEs being spoken for (which we still don’t know is true) may not equate to them all being sold upon launch. Then if they are sold, at what price and to whom.

Splitting hairs would be my opinion that I prefer callouts from a single narrator rather than 3, even though I like all 3 individually in this case.