Phoenixwi: That's too easy and I don't believe that CDPR has no any possibilities to control this way.
It is like that publisher decides that they produce 50 or 100 pieces of collector edition or I can't get a clue why it is sold so fast. We have 2 "local" stores like amazon and gamestop, they don't sell it any longer.

Fly_the_Twister: If you want to see where the collectors edition from your country's store ended up look at the american ebay (ebay. com).
No wonder all stores sold out within hours.

Judging that cdprojekt red did nothing to make sure everyone had a decent chance to get a CE, it seems like CDPR is going down the lane of EA and co, losing fokus on the gamers which have been the biggest supporters.
Though I hope this is only my imagination caused by the desperation of getting a CE for the store price and not paying 350+ €.

xgribbelfix: CDP are not responsible for the publishing and selling of physical versions of the game. In Europe it's Bandai Namco, in NA it's Warner Bros.

In Germany it is handled by Bandai Namco. CDPR probably only told them a date, after which the CE are allowed to be sold. The stores selling them at different times is unfortunate, but not in the hands of CDP.

VideoGameCarnage: Here is a link to a Belgian store that still has all 3 CE's available to pre-order. I couldn't find anything to say if they ship to Germany, so it might be worth contacting them.

https://www.smartoys.be/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=5902367641108

They're also available at Game UK, but they won't ship anything over 2kg abroad, so you'll need a friend in the UK to receive it and send it to you.

https://www.game.co.uk/en/cyberpunk-2077-collectors-edition-game-exclusive-2388728

Fly_the_Twister: I know, but Bandai Namco should have known that the request for CE would go through the roof when WB decided not to release the CE. And as the developers CDProjekt Red should have been aware of WBs decision and paid attention that Bandai Namco would release more CE. I find it hard to believe that the developer of a very successful brand does not have any influence on the decisions from their publishers or does not care about their decisions.
This is why I blame CD Project Red as well as Bandai Namco for not properly calculating the amount of CEs required to last atleast a couple of days. (One Day would have been enough for me since I was checking regularly!!!)
No matter how you put it, someone certainly made a bad calculation/ screwed up.Fly_the_Twister: Thx dude,
sadly the belgish store has the french version (afaik) and when ordering it i would prefer the english or german one. I know the game is not affected but the books.
And for the english one: I don't know anyone in england :$

A_B_raxis: We(because we are both german) have 4 not 2 stores: Amazon , GameStop, MediaMarkt and Saturn selling the CE. They all started selling the CE at differant times(maybe except MediaMarkt and Saturn because they belong to the same company). Even if they would have the opportunity to set a fixed time in the sale contracts, CDPR is not the publisher for the retail version of Cyberpunk. In case of europe it's Bandai. There are differant publishers for the retail version, depending on where you live. Each of this publisher would have to agree to set a fixed time in every contract they negotiate. If not every publisher accepts this term, it would be useless, because some areas would be in the wrong, because others started the sale earlier. If you live in an area where the sale started later you would barely have a chance to get a CE because everyone who didn't get a CE at his area would try to preorder a CE in your area.
If it would be only one publisher, he maybe would accept this term, but with different publishers around the world this is not an option.