Quoted from sirocket:The gameroom guys example of a july purchase and august delivery, coming before others earlier in line, shows what's wrong with this industry
It seems it comes down to how much each distributor sold and how much is alloted by stern to each. Say each dist is alloted 5 games/round, but dist A sold 15 games at announcement and dist B sells 4 at announcement. They each get 5 and guess what, dist B has 1 in stock to sell right now while those early buyers from dist A who are 14 or 15 in line are waiting!
Just hypothesis. I placed an order with Maine Home Rec a month ago and two weeks ago he calls and says it’s ready to ship. I wasn’t expecting it that fast but sounded good to me!