Tom wrote:AlexandreFachin wrote:I just spoke with the folks at B & H on the phone and so far they have received only 20 cameras.
20 CAMERAS ! ( against 800 orders in line )
At that speed frankly (I ordered on 5 November) I'll just get my camera in December 2014.
I have counted more than that from forum members, and I think someone was told the same thing a few weeks ago - clearly whoever said this is mistaken.
Tom, I share your frustration with the pace and perhaps even the appearance of a lack of a coherent allocation strategy. However, I just don't think it is as clear as you are stating. What seems clearer to me is that cameras have not been shipping in a quantity that I think many of us expected or considered a mass distribution when we ordered.
When I went through the "It shipped" (35 page) thread about a week ago, I counted only 12 from people who said they received one from B&H. I could be in error, but as someone who has a keen interest in the queue at B&H (as I'm a late pre-order there), I haven't seen any evidence to refute the 20 number that B&H is apparently claiming. Even if they received 20 units per week, it is still a VERY long wait for someone near the end of the list.
Until I saw a post yesterday that claimed one vendor (in Toronto?) just received 20 units from BMD this week, there just wasn't much evidence to suggest that BMD is shipping cameras in any quantity that would lead to optimism. I'm now cautiously optimistic - but much more cautious than optimistic.