American Crafts Out Of Stock

I don't know, but my goodness it is frustrating! There are several pieces from the baby lines I am looking for as well as Shimelle's Starshine and no one has them. I was going to pay the crazy acot shipping, but they don't even have them as a notify me item. Scraptastic had several pieces in their kits, so I may have ordered an obscene amount of stuff from them just to be sure I got some of the pieces I really wanted.
Our local craft chain doesn't seem to even carry AC products anymore which is really annoying. I heard it is because they are so unreliable.
It worries me that no one even lists it as coming soon. I don't think Blue Moon or SG even got any of it, but I may have just missed it even though I was checking just about every day!

Yes - I have noticed this as well. I have kind of just given up on getting any of it...

First, you would think that AC would pick a quieter time of year to move warehouses!


Next, Paper Issues just got a small restock of Starshine for those interested. It came in today, but it is limited and I would be quick! I made a huge order of it when she first got it in, thank goodness...the owner has said AC's warehouse move will be taking another few weeks?! I have noticed some items have NEVER been available for Starshine anywhere including what I am stalking...the 6x6 pad.

I ask AC on their FB page why some companies Bluemoon were still waiting on lines like Shimelles Starshine while other places like Scrapbook.com already had the product and sold out waiting on re-order.. They explained that some place had a pre-order before CHA on the new Shimelle line.. So the moral to the store is the early bird gets the sales..lol~

I made an order for it at my LSS (she wasn't carrying the lines) and she expects it mid March.
I was going to order from Paper Issues...but I dallied and then some of my favourite items were out of stock

I can wait. It will be the same paper in March that it is in February I just picked up the new Simple Stories lines at my LSS and haven't even touched them yet...
funny how we can need supplies NOW when really we have so much stuff we can't even play with them all

As far as I can tell Skellinton from the store owners I have talked to, it will be more widely available in March.  They aren't moving totally on to other lines.  Bluemoon will be gtting in the full line, Paper Issues is getting ANOTHER (so like a 4th restocking) restock including backordered items (which includes the 6x6 pad), scrapbook.com is getting in more as well.  I really wouldn't worry.

kitbop hehe  I have so much stuff, it's true!!  I have, however, already made 3 layouts with Starshine, I pushed everything else aside to play with it.  It is  nice you can order it because it is REALLY lovely.

I think it would be ok to see it 3 months early if you knew it wasn't going to ship. I get more frustrated when I expect to see it and it's only in bits and pieces. If I knew not to even look until March/April and then I could get the whole collection at once, I'd be happier. I have place 4 orders so far to get pieces of starshine (2 with scrapbook.com & 2 with paper issues) and am still missing 2 pieces that I want (6x6 pad and the ephemera pack).

**Typically I am not a "I have to have it the moment it comes out" person. I just got Shimelle's first line and True Stories together in Oct/Nov. I loved them so much I knew that I'd be getting her next line.

I was surprised at how quickly it was out at some stores...and paper issues even got a 2nd shipment in!...but others can't get it in at all. As a manufacturer I would worry about this delay. When the 2nd wave hits, people will be like, "oh, that's an old line, I don't need it".
I am a major FOMO person.

Example: the crate paper Valentines line paper is at Michaels in a "hot value" pad. I scooped it up for $7.99. Now, I'm thinking that Starshine and these other new AC lines might appear at Michaels too in a couple of months. Can I wait? Can I bear the fear that it might NOT come to Michaels? Nope...I've ordered them all from my LSS!

I put in a special order at my LSS for some of the new sold-out stuff...and she was told it would ship this week or next. FWIW!

All of it starts shipping on the 25th.. just fyi..{at least thats what my rep told me}
michelle

It used to be even worse when all the magazines were around. The manufacturers would have all these ads come out in the mags and it would still be six months or more out for shipping. Drove people insane seeing things they couldn't get, and then they would come in asking for it. I had a store and would have the stuff on order from the show with no clue at all when it would be coming. And what made *that* even worse was that I never knew when any of it would hit my credit card, so sometimes I would end up with three month's worth of inventory all showing up at once, and other times the orders I would get would only have part of the order (paper but no embellishments, embellishments but no paper, etc., it was a nightmare). 

It it got so bad that I finally had to stop ordering items at the show that weren't immediately available, and eventually I just stopped going to the shows all together.