> 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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