I've given up waiting with enthusiasm for my store to get it and spent my money elsewhere. When it comes, it comes, and I'll consider getting it then. The excitement has turned sour for our group as we keep hearing we have to wait while others boast about buying up every copy they can find. A guy on another forum was laughing about buying all 6 copies his store got while 2 other people came in looking for it...
CGL is doing no one any favors with this trickle-release scheme...
Sorry to sound salty, but I AM...
Again . . . that is your DISTRIBUTOR . . . NOT CGL. CGL sells a couple thousand boxes to the distributor who then decides how to divide up the order among the stores that are requesting copies. And as someone who worked in a store that took special orders & pre-orders . . . pssss, not everyone picks up what they 'want' due to various reasons. As was mentioned further up in the thread, CGL themselves still has some stock they are selling direct from the CGL Store . . . the pros & cons of that have and can be discussed but its not like CGL held back from the distributors.
If you had it pre-ordered and your store put boxes on the shelf rather than meeting your pre-order, that is between you and the store- CGL had nothing to do with their decision to ignore your pre-order request.
We also know that for whatever reason the GoAC box did not trip the triggers the Intro box did to get more re-ordered earlier. CGL & TPTB went to a different order model/cycle for the two new boxes in a effort to maintain the box to meet demands rather than how they did it before. Put together the box, print a run, and move on to another project . . . come back 2 years (or more) later and redo the whole project.
I did not put in a pre-order with my store. I also did not buy one of the boxes when it was on the shelf b/c it did not fit the budget . . . now that it does, I have to wait. Might be a bit impatiently, but that is not the stores fault or CGL.