Soundblaster has been confirmed as March release.

Action HQ has posted that Soundblaster is delayed until sometime in March. We received this notification through email.

Email is as follows:

Dear Valued Action-HQ Customer,

This is an important notification with regards to your order of Transformers Collection 17 & 18 (Blitzwing & Sound Blaster) using the $12 Rebate Offer.

Collection 17 - Blitzwing is already in stock as of Jan 14th

However,due to the fact that Takara/Hasbro has delayed the release of Collection 18 - Sound Blaster to sometime in Mar 2005.

Therefore, we are not able to send out your order of both items at this present time.

Nonetheless, in our continued service to you,
Here are the following 2 options we wish to offer you

1) Delayed shipment of your order :- We will ship out your full order once Collection 18 is released sometime in Mar 2005.

2) Partial/Separate shipment of your order :- we will ship out Collection 17 1st, and subsequently ship out Collection 18 when it is released sometime in Mar 2005.

Should you choose option 1, there is no need for you to take anymore action and in addition, your $12 rebate is preserved.

Should you choose option 2, there will be a deduction of $2 and $4 for US regular airmail orders and other orders respectively from your rebate of $12. This is to due to the fact that seperate shipping is being exercised in this option.

Also, please keep into account that all rebate coupon will only be
generated after the completion of your entire order, i.e. when both Collection 17 & 18 is delivered to you.

Please let us know if you choose option 2 latest by next week.

Feel free to contact us if you have any other questions.

AHQ Team

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