Traveller in the UK

> > Great so TNE is finally out in the states.....anyone have any idea how long
> > it will take to cross the atlantic to the UK?
>
> Bloody ages. Still no sign of Survival Margin at my local stores. Challenge
> comes in spits and starts and generally in the wrong order. GDW ought
> to talk to DGP - Journal 4 came out here at about the same time as in the
> US.
> Mark

I don't know what part of the UK you're in, Mark, but I was in Virgin
Games Centre (Oxford Street, London) on Saturday.  Survival Margin was
on the shelves, and there was no sign of MTJ 4.

Alan
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SM is in Virgin and in my local games shop and its very good and i
don't even live on mainland UK i live in northern ireland.

It arrived two weeks ago when it was being discussed on the list.

On a sidenote....has anybody theorised what is behind the black
curtain of lucans doom.

I decided to dig out my dark conspiracy books heh heh


Matt

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A spaceman came travelling on a ship from afar
twas light years of time since his mission did start
and over the earth he halted his craft
and it shone in the sky like a star

because he was using black war tactics
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> From: Mark Watson [email removed]
> Subject: Traveller in the UK
>
> > Great so TNE is finally out in the states.....anyone have any idea how long
> > it will take to cross the atlantic to the UK?
>
> Bloody ages. Still no sign of Survival Margin at my local stores. Challenge
> comes in spits and starts and generally in the wrong order. GDW ought
> to talk to DGP - Journal 4 came out here at about the same time as in the
> US.

  I don't think the error is on GDW's side. Here in Gothenburg (Sweden) we
usually get whatever comes out from any company within a month of it's US
release. I'd be surprised if the packages haven't gone over Heathrow or
Shiphol (its airfreight) on their way here, so the delay can't be in the
transfer times, nor at GDW.

  [Well, there's been trouble with Challenge here, but that seems to lie with
the distributor in the US, the resaler who buy them from GDW and resell them
overseas]

  A probable explanation is that the UK stores (and Austrialia?) don't order
as often as the stores here in Sweden, and when they order it might be surface
mail too?
  The place where I usually buy rpg stuff generally gets one shipment every two
weeks and they get it directly from a distributor in the US.
  The reason why they have do it that way here is that people are used to get
it quickly, and the store that got new stuff once every four months or so would
quickly go out of business. If there isn't any time competition, they can get
away with being slow and sporadic.

  So I suspect that the problem lies that the stores order too seldom, that
they buy from a distributor in the UK that order too seldom or that they have
made a bad choise of US distributor to buy from.

> Mark

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 strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an
 exercise for your kill-file."

Our local games shop MUST order through the Australian supplier for ALL his
games because of the monopoly here.  Don't say this too loud too often but
the previous owner of the shop ordered direct and the OZ supplier found out
and a lot of orders started getting accidentally lost, really slow delivery,
and other unexplained random accidents.

I think the problem in the UK is that you're getting surface delivery rather
than AIR.  We get surface and it takes about 2 months.


Bruce...              [email removed]