No joke, I have some (painfully) slow plans in motion to acquire an ivory from the UK. I wish I could stock up on every freaking color they offer but costs, even with family living over there, makes even one kettle borderline insane. Ivory is the one and only color I would buck up for... but now I may wait a month or so to see how this all unfolds C'mon kettle gods!
i have fast friends over there, that owe me big time. i've held off on grabbing an ivory until i see what if the MT is offered in that color here.
just spoke with customer service. the UK is the test market and often times what is offered there would be offered here the following year.
they usually release the info about the spring US models and colors around Dec 1st.
yeah the customer service person you talked to was talking out of their ass.
crazy colors have been around in europe for many, many years.
its certainly possible that EU sales data can influence what is offered here, it's not a grand scheme to test the market. The EU and US markets are very, VERY different.