I'm not sure I got this straight....Yes, it appears so... I live in Australia and most of our Amazon orders come from Amazon in Hong Kong... They have not received stock yet from the US fulfillment centers... It looks like they are not going to receive until the official release date and thus here in Australia, we wont receive the DVD's until 7 days or so after the release. It looks like Amazon in Europe is having the same problem and have not as yet received the Collectors edition stock from the US.
You mean you, in Australia, got your Amazon.com orders shipped from Hong Kong ?! Didn't know that, thougt all the orders departured from the US. Don't undersand for Europe as well.... I mean I live in france and all my Amazon.com orders were always shipped from the US, not from anywhere else...
And I'm sure all the other orders ship from the US to anywere of the world. That's why the have their intenrational shipping prices. If the amazon.com orders from Europe where shipped from let's say London, there's no way it's so expensive to go to let's say Paris. And another thing : as DVDs are encoded they're not supposed to go overseas, so that'd be weird.... Plus amazon has international websites for intertional orders. I mean, all that doesn't make any sense.
So basicaly, I don't believe in what you said.