Breaking the slot code again

While I think I agree with the overall spirit of your post I don't know if I agree that emails would necessarily be very time consuming. If they are using a competent internet sales platform then it should be as easy as a few clicks. However I admit that might be a big if. Haha. 

  Exactly. There must be a list formulated of every person who prepays for an item in order for the Advisor to know who to send the item to when the item is available to ship. 

Well, Miller tries to dominate the Sink (and fails), so maybe now he's attempting to dominate LVA and tell them what to do?

Anthony has already responded to this issue, and if Miller disapproves, well...LVA membership isn't compulsory.

How about those of us who prepaid last year get an AC Signed edition? and throw in a stratagy card as a bookmark!   Just Say'n

Why bother with all that, when we have direct and personal access to the operations at LVA via this Forum, via phone numbers which are answered by a human, via email addresses, and via a CEO (whatever Anthony Curtis' title is) who values customers and our input as much as he does?  I trust that anyone who ordered the book has already been so advised about the delay via one of those pathways, and all there is to know about it.  This isn't McGraw-Hill, or Simon & Schuster, or Random House, after all.  It is a home grown company probably running on a shoestring compared to those big publishing houses.  Geez, I've ordered a few books from LVA along the way, and I'm always surprised how quickly they show up in my mailbox, like a couple days!  This is certainly a one-off, the delay, and AC has explained it ad nauseum, IMHO.  Rant over.

Candy

  Being a "one - off" delay is exactly why -- You ask "why bother with all that" when sending an e-mail to the list of buyers would inform them of the delay and the probable new delivery date. Apparently MiniM and Captain had not been advised about the delay - hence the original question. 

Originally the delivery date was supposed to be "early 2025". If I had been told in January or February that it would be delayed until late 2025, I might have asked for a refund. But that did not happed. At some point, the delivery date changed to "mid 2025". I'm not sure if that was before or after my post in May asking for an update to the delivery date. Anthony's reply included the following: "Some of you paid for it quite a while ago and I apologize for the time it's taken. But you also got a deal that won't be repeated. We'll also be more careful in the future with pre-pub offers." But he did not give a new deliverly date. Someone posted that in a June Beer Friday he said August. At some point later it changed to "late 2025". I still want the book, but I think my frustration is justified. I had been an LVA subscriber for at least 17 years. 

I think if buying for a gift.Send a card describing gift and when it will arrive.

Yeah, I did that on the card last Christmas, what do I write on the card this year?  "Remember that gift I got you last year that you never got... Suprise! Youre probably not going to get it again This year"  Merry Christmas! :-)

I bought this on the pre-buy as well, at that time, my wife and I would casually vulture slots on our weekly trip to our local casino. In the time since then, it is no longer very productive, way too many vultures now. I may seek a refund, or I may still take it if it makes it to print, more for the entertainment value than anything else.