Books Imperial Handbook - A Commander's Guide

Huh, Amazon has it listed as "Out of Print--Limited Availability" which is different from the usual warnings when their stock is running low. I don't see how it's possible the entire print run has sold through already, although maybe being Legends they just didn't print that many?

 

Got the same delay notice from Amazon this morning as well. Certainly worth the wait till Monday.

 

I've seen that 'out of print' message on Amazon UK before for new SW books. It's usually when the US book is out but the UK one isn't yet. Once the UK version is out the message goes away.

 

Well, I didn't wait for the delay. I saw the book listed as out of print-limited availability and realized that because of the legends status that not many were we going to be made. So, I cancelled my pre-order (funny, I didn't get anything in the mail) yet I ordered this back in April, but, when on ebay and there was this guy selling it for the full price $149.00. He had sold one of them and had about 56 people looking at it with three within the last 24 hours. So I disappointed those that are financial stricken and made the purchase automatically. Yeah, I didn't get my $53 price, but on the bright side this is not something that is going to be widely available, so regardless I have it. Too bad for the other guys as the individual is longer selling the item and the item ain't on ebay any more.

 

Yeah if it came to that I'd buy full price from Barnes and Noble instead of giving a 200% profit to some guy who almost certainly only paid the $53 preorder price.

It literally only came out today so it's too early for this kind of run-on-the-banks panic.

 

Seconded. I used to be pretty heavy into SW action figure collecting (mainly POTF2 til 30AC, if that means anything to anyone), which definitely formulated my outlook on scalpers as the scum of the earth. Nothing wrong with charging more for rarities after the fact, but cleaning out a store's entire stock of a current item so you can gouge is just low. Not saying this particular seller did that, since he only charged cover price and for all I know he got it straight from the publisher, but it's absolutely a thing that happens. See also: any con freebie ever.

Slightly tangential but I work in a used bookstore and any time we put out a collectable item below the internet price, some yahoo just buys it to flip on eBay. I don't really care what you do with the merch after you leave the store, just don't talk to me about the profit you're going to make off some graphic novel you don't know the first thing about. I'd much rather it go into the hands of a kid with his ziploc of quarters who is actually going to read it. If you know a given product and you manage to catch something we missed, good for you and I mean that, but now any twerp with a smartphone can price-compare with the entire internet in five seconds and think they're putting one over on the world.

Sorry for the rant but I watched this video earlier today and reading some of the comments (mostly incredulous that anyone would pay that much for a card: even if you don't know anything about MTG, are you so unfamiliar with the concept of collectability?) got me thinking along these lines.

 

I preordered it last week. But I became concerned yesterday when Amazon listened it as 'Out of Print--Limited Availability', so I contacted the customer service and made an inquiry about whether if it affects the status of my order or not. I got a response from the Amazon, and it looks like I have to wait a bit longer until they receive new inventories. But hey, they upgraded my shipping preference to one-day shipping for free, and I could wait a few more days or so.

The response I got from them.
"Hello,

I'm sorry for the inconvenience you've experienced with this order. That's definitely not what we want our customers to experience.

I checked the availability of the "Star Wars: Imperial Handbook Deluxe Edition" and see that we're currently waiting to receive more inventories. At this time, we're unable to provide an estimated date when we can obtain more stock. Rest assured though that we're working closely with our suppliers so we can get the stocks as quickly as possible.

Please try to understand we have automated order processing system for items. We ship the items according to the quantity we received from our suppliers. I apologize for the frustration this may cause by this issue.

Considering this situation as a valuable feedback, I've forwarded this issue to our appropriate department so this will be accounted for and will not happen again--I know they'll want to hear about your experience. However, we won't be able to release the outcome of the investigation. We're aware that our choice of delivery services reflects on our business as a whole.

I want to make sure your order gets to you faster once we have stock. To help make up for the delay, I've upgraded the shipping method to One-Day Shipping at no extra charge.

Again, I'm truly sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. We hope to see you again soon.

Best regards,
<Name of Amazon rep redacted>"

 

Man, I knew that I kind of jumped the gun on this one, and unfortunately made that dude a big profit. But, I've collected most if not everything in print since 1991, and would hate to see this go out and have someone charge over $300 for the book. I remember back then I paid $500 for the West end Games Special Forces book and I got message from the guy that I was competing against....asking me why would I pay such an big price for the book and I replied, to him that this stuff would be hard to get and guess what from that day forward I haven't seen it again sold. I can't take that chance and now that we got this new canon baloney, I don't want lose something that is good. I'd chuck this one off as a loss, but a minor gain. I'm telling you guys if you want to get the Legends stuff don't wait cause Disney aint going to be printing all that stuff so that it can out gain there own. It doesn't make fianacial sense.

 

Ah, but v333, they are going to be printing the Legends stuff:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Wars-L...22&sr=8-1&keywords=star+wars+legends+empire+1

You really think this is a one-off?

 

Damn, I wish I had heard about this sooner.

Evil.

 

Bear in mind that the version being talked off is the deluxe edition in all likelihood, a cheaper, mass-market one will follow.

 

I've seen the fancy edition of Jedi Path on bookdepository so no doubt this will be easy to find as well.

 

Any cool art that has Rebel stuff I like? Any mentions of Mon Calamarian stuff?

--Adm. Nick

 

The extended reference to the Battle of Turkana was a nice surprise - any more from the early Lucasarts games?

 

So jealous. I certainly could use some good reading material right now.

So if the patterns of the jedi, sith and BH books can be noted, can anyone take a guess as to when this will come out solo?

 

Mothma's distain for the Executor class is consistent with the EU. I love it. I'd bet the smaller Super-class was pushed because Mothma would have raised an even louder fuss in the Senate about the real Executor being too large and wasteful.

Star Destroyer as it's own line and the 400 ships to support a Systems force sounds a lot like the old WEG numbers, actually.

 

Did they keep the fleet-organisation of ship - line - squadron - force - fleet - sectorgroup from the Imperial Sourcebook and did they go into the organisation of the Navy above the sectorgroup-level (formations like DeathSquadron or BlackSwordCommand)?
How does the book deal with the concept of "augmentation"?
Are there details on supply and logistics of the Imperial Armed Forces? How much crew does an Executor-class have?