Quoted from DylanFan71:Hard to understand how Stern works. Waiting on a Spider-Man since early January but I called another distributor and they have three available. Of course a lot of people have had money on The Hobbit for years but certain distributors are shipping immediately for new orders. Very irritating.
It's all about buying power. If a distributor orders and pays for 2 pins and another orders and pays for 20, who do you think is gonna get theirs first. My local distributor picked up 14 Ghostbusters as well as other pins the first shipment. Myself and others have had GB pro april 22 and my distributor has received a second order of more already.
Also they pick them up at Stern. Rather than waiting for Stern to ship them.