Alex Flazen wrote:I don't understand how there are still backorders for the EF model. The camera has been in stock and readily available from a number of retailers for two months now...BH, Adorama, etc. There must be other reasons for the MFT delay.
You must remember that by pre-orders BMD mean retailer pre-orders placed with them by the distributors.
The actual customer pre-orders have little to do with this, as their existences stops at the retailer, they may well affect the retailers own orders, but they may well have ordered over and above the amount that they have pre-orders for, or due to the delays have had a rash of cancellations.
It's entirely possible for BMD to be seeing a backlog of pre-orders at their end and everyone to have them available over the counter.
What would be great for the MFT crowd is that all the retailers who have fulfilled their pre-orders from customers, but not received their own pre-orders placed with the distributor, to allow for those that haven't to jump up the deliveries list, this would lead to their own customers getting MFT pre-orders sooner. However this system would only work if every retailer could be trusted not to try and game the system.
If they can BMD needs to do a full audit of orders etc to try and work out what they can do to prevent this happening again.