I feel like everything I've ordered from Amazon by FFG mysteriously updates its release date days or hours before shipping time to 2012 (amazon's secret code for "we have no idea").

Is there some kind of problem?

Yes, relatively well known that you don't order (or at least pre-order) any FFG stuff through Amazon.

I still get FFG stuff through Amazon but i accept that you have to wait a couple of months after the normal release date (Daemon Hunter just arrived this morning).

If you do a search you will see a few of us who have been around a while discussing this subject back in 2009. It is something to do with Amazon's supplier who are Edevium (spelling) and they favour dedicated gaming shops first.

Yeah, I'd done a search but got lots of hits for people talking about how they already got their copy ...from amazon. Or something.

Anyway, any online retailers that match amazon's price or shipping standards?

For reasons that have to do with their supplier if you want to get the nice Amazon discounts on FFG books you have to put up with the absurdly long delay between the "street" release date and the "Amazon" release date. If you want the book NOW, go to your FLGS and pick it up as it arrives, along with about 5 other things you didn't know you needed but somehow need to get. If you want it 2-3 months after the rest of us (or it has been in print for a while) then go for it.

My personal buying habit has been Black Library stuff (novels) from Amazon and FFG stuff (game books) from my local game store. The cool thing is if you are a regular customer they will order a few extra copies and reserve one for you.