Also, I'd like to point how fucking stupid this is. How the hell can people plan a release event without knowing when the product is going to be released.
The teaser is bogus. Sometimes they list the preorder date, sometimes the list the actual date. No one knows which is which... So frustrating.
You don't have a rep that gives you this info? At the Bunker they have a "GW Guy" they talk to once a week and he keeps them abreast of these kinds of things (which is good because they don't pay attention to the internet rumblings at all).
I talk to GW at least once a week and have for the past lots of years. It works exactly the same as it does at the Hobby Bunker with a minor difference being that I do see a lot of what's spoiled or rumored on the internet and have dead end conversations with the reps about it.
These days the reps know so little, especially because a bunch of them were just promoted or let go and they've got a crop of new people in there.
I get weekly emails on Monday morning that tell me all of the products that go on sale two Saturday's from then, that's all. The reps often know literally nothing about those product at that point and tell me to "refer to the White Dwarf that ships this week." Other times they'll have seen / built the kit, but never know the rules.
And yeah, the reps can bend the rules for special order stuff for good accounts. It's happened for us quite a bit. They've recently changed the way we order "non-trade" items, and I expect those rules to be bent a lot less. (They've taken away the reps ability to place "special orders" entirely and are forcing us to use a slightly modified version of their webstore for all of that stuff. This change took place about 3 weeks ago.)
