Fleet book

Help please! Where online can I quickly buy the FT Fleet Book? Somewhere
in the US please :-).

Thanks for your help

Firstly, Mark, the format of the message is fine by my Lotus Notes. Other's
mileage may vary.

Secondly, all the talk of the Fleet Book is to whip us into a frenzy of
uncontrolled buying, Sean and Jon's apologies not withstanding. When
KR/GeoHex gets it into the US of A(still mid-June, right?), I shall
probably purchase two or three(sarcasm). I gave my friend info on how to buy
directly from Jon in UK, but I shall wait, even if it's until GenCon and buy
it directly from the GeoHex booth. Course, if KR can make certain
Spellbound in Lincoln, NE, gets a copy directly... ;->=

As an aside, I wish to apologize to my friend and all on the list for giving
the wrong impression of him wanting to 'power game' from the FB. When I said
he wanted to make his FSE fleet work right, I meant proper to Jon's vision of
the fleet. He DOES play plenty of Evil Empire(TM), but he's one of the local
cheeze busters when running tourneys.

That faux paux on my part has been gnawing at my conscience for some time.

The_Beast

Mark Allen <mwa1@ix.netcom.com> on 05/22/98 02:01:00 PM

Please respond to FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk

To:   Full Thrust Maillist <FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk>

> Help please! Where online can I quickly buy the FT Fleet Book?
Somewhere
> in the US please :-).

The consignment of FB copies for US distribution is currently in the middle of
the Big Pond, on a container ship bound for Seattle. They should arrive
with GeoHex mid-June. If you want to be one of the first in the queue, I
would suggest you get your order in to KR now! Of course, if you have access
to a helicopter and a SEAL team you just might be able to get one off the boat
BEFORE it docks...... <grin> Seriously, until they arrive with GH, no dealer
in the US has copies. Most of those US members on the list who have copies
already were part of the playtest groups, and thus got freebies mailed
directly to them.

Just an opinion. If it's going to take that long to get new products out to US
customers then we should be allowed to get them from the UK in the interim.

Los

> Ground Zero Games wrote:

> >Help please! Where online can I quickly buy the FT Fleet Book?
Somewhere
> >in the US please :-).
Most
> of those US members on the list who have copies already were part of

> You wrote:

As someone chewing my nails to bloody nubs (nice metaphor, that!) waiting for
that damned ship to get here (and God help us all if it hits an iceberg!) and
then UPS to take it's own sweet time shipping the
book to the distributor, who takes _their_ sweet time shipping it to
the game shop I ordered it at (I play there often enough I feel an obligation
to support it where possible), I kinda disagree. That defeats the whole point
of having a US liscencee. Which is conventient
when ordering stuff that's normally in stock--when I ordered Stargrunt
rules from Geohex, from the time I sent the check to the time I got the rules
was less than the time it would likely take a normal postage letter to get to
England.

I see your point but there's no reason that it should take us a month or more
to get products in this day an age. It's called customer service.

Los

> John Atkinson wrote:

> You wrote:

> I see your point but there's no reason that it should take us a month

At the risk of sounding condescending, which I don't want to be...

You could receive the book through the appropriate channels in days. However,
it would also be close to twice as expensive. Shipping a large amount of small
items by air is expensive, and that expense gets passed on to us, the
consumer. I don't know about everyone else, but I'm happy to wait longer for
something if it's less expensive (just ask the PC shop
that's ordering my Zip Plus drive for me - damn things are like hen's
teeth in Australia at a good price!)

I don't know if its been investigated (and don't know if it's cost worthy) but
I go back to the thread that ran a while ago: performing print runs separately
at the major market points makes sure that both ends have what they want. As I
said however, it would have to be cost effective.

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