Why or Why Are the Era books

[flyingcircus 7]

Why are these new era source books taking forever to get off the boat, the Rise of the Separatists has been sitting on the boat now for over 5 months at least, whats the dang hold up on unloading and shipping them out?  I mean it's been there on the boat since 9/6/2018.   Now they announce  they started a new book on 1/10/19 called Allies & Adversaries, who knows when that will be ready, probably by the end of 2020.

Edited January 21 by flyingcircus

[AbsatSolo 37]

And... what do you expect us say ? Are you trying to start another salty thread about boats, and the time they take to arrive ? Because this forum doesn't need it, really

It's not that complaining here has ever changed anything...

If that helps you feel better, have a thought for those who are still waiting **** Nexus of Power, because the translation take years to be validated, because FFG doesn't give the slightest **** about its foreign customers

[flyingcircus 7]

Well I feel for ya dude.  I feel the same way when Modiphious takes forever in distributing to the USA.  I just feel they can get stuff printed and give jobs to those who need them here in the USA, not to a Hostile nation like China.

[Dafydd 197]

18 hours ago, flyingcircus said:

Well I feel for ya dude.  I feel the same way when Modiphious takes forever in distributing to the USA.  I just feel they can get stuff printed and give jobs to those who need them here in the USA, not to a Hostile nation like China.

Why would a British company print in the US?

[Vondy 837]

18 hours ago, Dafydd said:

Why would a British company print in the US?

For the same reason a Japanese company would manufacture cars in the US. Avoiding import-export taxes, shipping costs, corporate sales tax rates, avoiding supply chain risks, and the like in a major or primary market. If you sell globally you might find printing separate print runs in separate markets cheaper (or safer). For instance, a print run in the EU for European countries and one in the US, Canada, or Mexico for NAFTA countries might prove cheaper. I suspect that when they do the math, however, printing + shipping from China has proven less expensive (thus far) than printing smaller runs in their primary sales market. This could in part be volume and the fact that china is (roughly) equidistant from Europe and North America. If a British company had as many or more consumers in the Eurozone than in the US and Canada printing at home would make sense. If they have more customers in the North America? Not so much. I don't think any of us have access to their sales numbers, so all we can do is assume they've crunched the numbers and come up with what they think the best number for them is.

Edited January 25 by Vondy

[Dafydd 197]

5 hours ago, Vondy said:

For the same reason a Japanese company would manufacture cars in the US. Avoiding import-export taxes, shipping costs, corporate sales tax rates, avoiding supply chain risks, and the like in a major or primary market. If you sell globally you might find printing separate print runs in separate markets cheaper (or safer). For instance, a print run in the EU for European countries and one in the US, Canada, or Mexico for NAFTA countries might prove cheaper. I suspect that when they do the math, however, printing + shipping from China has proven less expensive (thus far) than printing smaller runs in their primary sales market. This could in part be volume and the fact that china is (roughly) equidistant from Europe and North America. If a British company had as many or more consumers in the Eurozone than in the US and Canada printing at home would make sense. If they have more customers in the North America? Not so much. I don't think any of us have access to their sales numbers, so all we can do is assume they've crunched the numbers and come up with what they think the best number for them is.

Fair points, though my issue was more the suggestion that Modiphius should print in the US (as opposed to a "hostile country") as a patriotic act, and the implicit assumption that they must be a US company.

 

Not everything is about Uncle Sam, you know.

[Vondy 837]

20 hours ago, Dafydd said:

Not everything is about Uncle Sam, you know.

Tell him, not me. 

[Decorus 632]

Oh its pretty easy to Explain I hired a group of Somali Pirates to raid boats for all the new Star Wars Books and then hide them in an undisclosed location off the coast of France.

 

[AnomalousAuthor 498]

5 hours ago, Decorus said:

Oh its pretty easy to Explain I hired a group of Somali Pirates to raid boats for all the new Star Wars Books and then hide them in an undisclosed location off the coast of France.

 

Darn those Somalis stealing our jobs. You know how hard it is to be a pirate in America these days... Yeesh. 😁

[evo454 296]

On 1/22/2019 at 4:13 AM, AbsatSolo said:

And... what do you expect us say ? Are you trying to start another salty thread about boats, and the time they take to arrive ?

At least the Edge of the Empire forum has memes in it!