It's a start.

Just got an email from Amazon, they've shipped one of the 4 core sets I ordered. The other three are still on hold, so who knows what will happen...

Quote from my order status page....

Items not yet shipped:
We'll notify you via e-mail when we have an estimated delivery date for this item. It will ship separately. You can cancel at any time.
3 of: Call of Cthulhu Card Game Core Set
Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC

Items shipped on February 11, 2009:
Delivery estimate: February 14, 2009
1 package via USPS
1 of: Call of Cthulhu Card Game Core Set
Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC

(happy Valentines Day for me, except I doubt my wife will let me play with the LCG on Valentine's Day)

Uberursine said: "Just got an email from Amazon, they've shipped one of the 4 core sets I ordered. "

Yowee, seems like I may have shafted myself by adding a book not-due-out-yet to my Amazon order !

To the three of you who have shipment confirmation from Amazon or Overstock, could you post the dates on which you ordered, please? Maybe we can get an idea if they are shipping based on date of order.

Also, does anybody know how to edit the misspelling of 'ridiculous' in the topic title? Grates on my editor's eye.

I'm pretty danged excited that SOME of us seem to be getting them at the ridiculous low price !!

Chick

I ordered from Overstock on 01/08/09 and it currently reads that the order will ship on 03/28/09. Previously it said it would ship in late January and then late February. Hope that helps.

All three sets I order Nov 15th from Amazon for $9.95 have shipped and should be here for Valentine's day. awwwwww.

So, is $30 apiece, all three for $75 being too greedy?

I ordered 4 on November 18, 2008, and am getting 1 by V-day

I ordered my core set from Overstock on Jan. 02.

ordered from amazon nov 18, but mines not shipped yet.

Completely unbelieveable ! Just got notification that Amazon shipped me three (of the five ordered) core sets today for under $30 total (free shipping !) I'm SO stoked ! The other two are on backorder.

YEEEEHA !

What am I going to do with all the plastic Cthulhu figures ??

Chick

Forgot to say, I ordered from Amazon November 29th last year.

Chick (still giddy with disbelief)

mine still hasnt shipped. i feel left out.

Here's wishing you a notice in the immediate future, PJaholic !

You deserve this special discount too !

Chick

If I actually get the thing I have to decide if I want to give it to my gaming partner, to hopefully hook him in, or be a greedy bastardo and keep it myself.

A reliable local opponent is a wonderful thing.

Decided what to do with all the plastic Cthulhu statues.

Veeeeery early one morning I'll superglue a Cthulhu statue to the top of each of the 16 waist-high light pedestals in the company parking lot, all facing east.

That should get the attention of the security drones !

weirder still

I ordered 4, one shipped yesterday (as I posted), a second shipped today seperately, and I still have 2 on hold. Maybe more than one per box weakens the seals allowing the Great Cthulhu entrance to our realm. (imaging my face when I open the box expecting little plastic Cthulhus and get the real Cthulhu)

Sounds as if you may be the first to get one at huge discount, uberursine. You should immediately report what you receive.

Here's hoping you will NOT discover they sent you an asylum deck because the product numbers in their system were messed up at the same time as the prices.

Chick

Lucky Friday the 13th... Overstock just sent me a restock notification on the $9.95 core sets and the price is the same. I just ordered one more, hopefully it's not an asylum pack, has anyone checked the ISBN? Anyway here is the link: www.overstock.com/Books-Movies-Music-Games/Call-of-Cthulhu-Card-Game-Core-Set-Cards/3401258/product.html

Good luck, there are only 5 left.

They got me! I received my tiny box from Amazon this morning and it contained......three Spawn of the Sleeper packs.

I'll report back after my swear word laden call to Amazon.

Master of R'lyeh said:

You've got to be kidding. I just canceled my order of two and received a refund via paypal. they didn't even cover the paypal charge.

Looks like they are now shipping. we picked up two through our LGS. Not going to mess with it again, but I would have love multiple copies of the starter set cards.

I checked the ISBN of the Overstock itme id and it appears to be accurate with other sites. Fingers Crossed. Did anyone here get to order today thanks to my warning? I just noticed they are sold out again.

Donald said: "They got me! I received my tiny box from Amazon this morning and it contained......three Spawn of the Sleeper packs.

So my worst fears were well founded. Pfui. After they arrive I'll have to send mine back as well. Do let us know what Amazon intends to do to fix the situation, please, Donald.

Chick

I just received my Overstock order...The Spawn of the Sleeper pack...

Guess I have to pony up for the core set.

I am actually in contact with Overstock customer service right now, will post again after I am done with them.

****Edit****

They offered to return the item I rec'd and put me on a email list for when the base game becomes available. Needless to say, I will be returning the item to them and ordering from somewhere else.

this is almost too funny. amazon has the same product that was 9.95 now at 39.95. are they trying to tell people they are selling that pack for $40 bucks. i think everyone is trying to weasel out of it.

mine still hasnt shipped, but if they send me packs im gonna just laugh at them cause my order history is linked to the 39.95 coreset. id like to hear them explain that one.

how can something that was 10 go to 40 but only be a 10 product? i dont believe a company that is as organized as amazon could make a simple mistake like that on accident. probably the same thing goes for overstock. everything is computerized now, there is no way i believe that something wouldnt red flag the personel in charge that the item listed on the site isnt the item value in inventory. they even have an up-to-date inventory so yeah whatever. not possible. the pre-order was an ill informed guess which they screwed up and appear to be trying not to honor it.

Well, it was a nice pipe-dream while it lasted.

I have a somewhat different opinion about Amazon. I'll bet the original mistake was just that, some minimum-wage Indian drone keying in the price for spawn of the sleeper on the Core set title and product number. I phoned them immediately on November 28th and reported that they were screwed up. The bored Indian gal on the other end apparently had no idea how to put info like mine into her system, so the mistaken price remained up on their website for another couple of weeks. By that time probably hundreds of people had ordered it.

So somebody clever at Amazon took out his secret unwritten manual and looked up the policy for how they handle cases just like this. That person learned or figured out that if they just never stock the core set, they avoid losing thousands of dollars. He or she immediately cancelled Amazon's order from their distributor for core sets. Then the problem became how to get all the orders expunged from Amazon's system without outright breaking their pre-order price 'guarantee'. The decision was to ship a wrong product to those orders, one which matches the mistaken price. If the customers just swallow and keep the asylum packs, Amazon wins big. If customers complain loudly, they are permitted to ship the products back for credit, which expunges the orders. Amazon only loses the cost of shipping both ways.

Seems to me like this approach is going to work. Everyone will eventually get bored of waiting for the core sets to never be stocked, and will cancel the orders. If they don't I'll bet there is a policy at Amazon which automatically cancels orders which haven't been filled inside of one year. Problem solved for them.

If I were the responsible manager at Amazon I might be pretty proud of a Machiavellian solution like this.

Chick

(P.S. I have NO idea what was or is up with Overstock. )