There are few things more frustrating than finding a new piece of kit you want and then having to wait months for it to make its way across the water to here in the UK. There are countless examples of products that I've waited months for.

That delay is shrinking - often the reason was lack of a suitable PSU, but today most PSUs are auto-ranging/switching anyway. Today people also find out about products a lot earlier than the one to two months delay there used to be when magazines were the main way of disseminating this information. There's nothing like missing the initial hype period to lower sales.