My understanding is that the Expansion is going to ship end of February such that it will hit retail store front end of March.  Not a big delay,

CPTMcMurphy said:

Cool.  I must have missed where they announced that.  I only saw the change to the March eta.

They changed it to On The Boat on the upcoming page on January 21st. I work for a company that gets shipments from China all the time and 6-8 weeks is a pretty normal amount of time. The sad thing is, sometimes half of that is just waiting for customs once it's in port.

   We need to wait until FFG give us the official Date, to avoid expeculations, greettings.

herozeromes said:

Yes, but customs are important. As a forest entomologist I just have to say that I'm grateful for some of the customs slow-downs because it means preventing the next big insect pest from invading our lands. Last thing we need is another emerald ash borer from all the wooden packing material on transcontinental shipments. I'm sure the rest of the customs paperwork is important, too, but I think the search for exotic fauna is essential.

dbmeboy said:

Yeah I noticed when expected dispatch dates from UK suppliers jumped to 29th March.

Not impressed.

If I dumped unexplained delays after previous delays on my customers (and tried to blame the manufacturer) I would soon be out of a job for poor planning and poor demand forcasting, and my clients would find alternative suppliers.

I guess retail has different rules, …

wikkid_devil said:

Too bad you're not the exclusive producer of your customer's particular product, huh? :)

I asked the owner of my FLGS if he'd heard anything and he said (I'm in the States now, so take this for what it's worth if you're not) supposed to be shipping end of February, should be in stores at the beginning of March.

Yeah,
This is incredibly disappointing. I also think the FFG need to accept responsibility for these delays. Wave 1 was late and the UK has had horrible stock issues. I placed a preorder for about $100 of wave 2 ships back in October thinking I’d receive them by X-mas.

Kessel run in the UK was a mess with stores keeping the prizes or not running the event at all!
So wave two has been fully spoiled online for three months, I know pretty much everything about wave two. So the fun in opening the package is gone, my pre-order will hold no surprises.

At this point it would be nice if FFG put something out for X-wing.
Online missions? ‘we are sorry we f***** up have some missions’

If it was anything other than StarWars I’d have sold my copy by now so  can invest my time and money in a game that is respected by it’s creators.

Incredibly disappointed.

Panic…

Panic said:

To be fair, can't blame FFG for dishonesty at stores, frustrating as this is.

Parakitor said:

I'm not disagreeing with the merits of customs. They are definitely important. I'm just speaking to the fact that identical shipments sent from and to the same places at the same time can sometimes vary in arrival time by a month or more.

Panic said:

Isn't that what the Kessel Runs were? A we're sorry wave 2 is delayed, but in the meantime we'll send out the small amount we do have to be used as prizes in this event.

I don't blame FFG for this delay specifically, but they do have a problem with chronic late releases.  I remember months ago asking my local store when we would get the wave 2 ships.  At this point the website said fourth quarter of 2012. (Let's just remind everyone that that means any time betyween October and December.)  The man at the store said it would be out in February.  I aksed him if he had heard anything from FFG that I hadn't.  He hadn't.

He told me that if I  wanted to know when a FFG release was going to be that all I needed to do was take the latest possible time (December) and add two months.  That put the relase for Wave 2 in February.  It wasn't for another month or so that FFG anounced the delay.

It is troubling that adding two months to the latest possible predicted release date was the rule that my Local store was using.  It is evenmore troubling that the rule works.

I love FFG games.  I love X-wing especially, but either their scheduling department is WAY too optomisitc or they have some serious productin problems that they need to deal with.

wikkid_devil said:

Which UK retailers? Could you provide link to their pages?

Panic said:

I sincerely hope that you reported the guilty stores to FFG. I know of one incident here in Denmark where a store simply put the Wave 2 ship prizes up for sale to selected customers. Such a stupid thing to do since the potential/certain reaction and negative impression this gives in these times with FB etc. and in a small community. I will certainly not be buying any stuff from them.

yeah,
I emailed FFG with my problems… they did not help.

Panic…