Re: Trouble gettin' stuff?

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Donald Hosford wrote:

> Do these distributors have spys everywhere?  If not, how would they
know?

The pattern I had was I ordered some items from one of my local stores. 
 (Sword of the Pheonix) They have always been good about getting things 
in. (I once ordered 14 Von Lukners, 14 Screcks and 14, Patton/Rommel 
tanks, so I'm a nice kind of customer for them...)

They checked through several distributers and each was slow about 
filling the order. The noise they made was about not being able to get 
the stuff in. So, I sent an e-mail to the folks at GZG and got a reply 
from the owner, KR. I checked with SotP and they were taking the same 
route. The stuff was in later that week after going direct to GZG. 

The War Room has been having similar issues. 

Either, GZG is trying to do an end run around the distributors (which I 
don't mind) or the distributors are being pricks (I've heard of chessix 
doing things like this...).

> Or is it that the US distributors don't get enough orders for GZG
stuff, and
> don't bother to order?

I suspect the latter considering the service that GZG has seemed to
show. 
The aforementioned "we'll pour a pack for you this week" story is great.

I'd not expect GW to do anything close to this...

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