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Slow to respond fair enough, a month, yeah thats pretty bad.
Right now industry is facing unprecedented levels of demand, and with it unprecedented levels of crazy from suppliers who are basically melting down with the level of demand from shops/stockists, the patchy deliveries from manufacturers, and their staff aren't in the building but spread around.
Still, quite a few of the 'cheapie' online retailers do exactly as you expect them to, their website feeds info from the distributor's site re: stock status, the retailer doesn't have it, they rely on the distributor shipping it in a certain time, which isn't happening right now (some are taking 10 working days to get stuff out the door that normally happens in about 1-4 hours!). But thats why they are cheap, they aren't sitting with large fractions of a million quids worth of product on their shelves/bank balance.