5DIII pre-order thread

[stuartblance]

I get my body only this week, 22nd I believe, just wish everyone got them at same time rather than have embargo on body only but not on kits.
still love my 5DII, keeping it as second body.
stuart
www.stuartblancephotography.com

 

[V8Beast]

I just got an email from B&H that said they have no idea when the 5DIII (body only) is going to ship.

 

[frisk]

So, plenty of posts from people ordering from B&H or Amazon, with some info on their orders, but what about Adorama - has anybody heard anything from them?

 

[picture-this]

So, plenty of posts from people ordering from B&H or Amazon, with some info on their orders, but what about Adorama - has anybody heard anything from them?

Nothing yet for me from Adorama.

My order on March 2nd still says "order pending" for the 5D mark III body-only as well as the 24-70mm 2.8L II lens.

 

[fugu82]

I got the boilerplate backorder notice from Adorama on the 15th - nothing since. Preordered on the 2nd; they wouldn't tell me where I am in the long, long line when I asked. Still "Pending".

 

[jalbfb]

Sigh. This really is kinda silly actually, and clearly not necessary. Canon and Amazon and Adorama and B&H and (add yours here) all have accurate inventory control that is, or could be, or should be, up to date. They should be able to tell each and every customer EXACTLY when their equipment will ship.

So why do they put us all thru this crap? Maybe there is a good reason but other companies manage just fine with this sort of thing. Why not them?

I and many others feel your pain. It's frustrating that in other parts of the world they are getting access to getting the camera (I say, great for them!) while we wait by some arbitrary release date that some obviously feel bound by. Why they can't give us something more than evasion is hard to understand.

 

[Arkarch]

In one way I congratulate Canon for getting this camera out only a few short weeks after announcement. There are those who have been waiting for D800's and 1DX's much longer.

However it is quite frustrating not to have good test/review data and not to have plannable ship dates. Maybe mine ships this week or maybe not. I am in the Adorama group at 12:41 so who knows.

Is this partly due to this litiguous nature - dont promise anything - especially with so many here earning a business off these cameras?

edit - ebrakus's comment below is a great point.

 

[Rukes]

Sigh. This really is kinda silly actually, and clearly not necessary. Canon and Amazon and Adorama and B&H and (add yours here) all have accurate inventory control that is, or could be, or should be, up to date. They should be able to tell each and every customer EXACTLY when their equipment will ship.

So why do they put us all thru this crap? Maybe there is a good reason but other companies manage just fine with this sort of thing. Why not them?

That's the problem right there, if there are thousands of people pre-ordering, and they tell ONE person how much they are getting and what # they will be, then that person posts online that they got the info, imagine how many emails and calls they will be getting of people trying to change their position or asking about where they are.

 

[ebrakus]

I'm waiting for mine like the rest of you. But I've been on the other side of this.

I had a small sideline business selling specialty electronics, some had long lead times. The customer base was a mess to deal with. One guy pestered me daily and requested constant status reports.

Finally after 20 status request updates I lost my cool and told him "Its just a garage door opener, not a kidney transplant. Be patient".

I should have saved the email response, it was a highly creative string of four letter expletives.

So be cool everyone. A week after GA on the 22nd, if you dont have a ship date, then it might be time to look at optons.

cheers
-E

 

[SomeGuyInNewJersey]

I was in B&H late last week... I tried asking several different people about the size of preorder lists and my place in them. I was told my one two that the company doesnt want them to be able to give any of the information away so they dont let them have access to it.

I was also told by one of the assistants that one of the reasons they dont tell customers anything is because that gives too much information to competitors, a persons asking about preorders even if they have actually made a preorder themselves could be working for the competition... I do wonder what use the information would be to the competitor? Perhaps Canon doesnt like each vendor knowing how many and when it is supplying the goods to other vendors?

One reason I can think of is that people knowing where in lines may make them jumpy and cancel their order and go with another vendor... say you are told by Vendor A you are 473rd in their line you may go Vendor B who then tells you you will be 23rd in their line... you may cancel and switch... aside from lost business for vendor A it may not do you any good either if Vendor B only gets 20 units from Canon in their 1st shipment but Vendor A gets 500...

Once you have already made your preorder a vendor telling you where you are in line can result in them losing a sale that they have already made if you switch to another vendor... of course a million and one scenarios exist including telling customers high up the list where they are to keep the sale and not telling those lower down so you dont uase the sale but then they talk on forums so those not told would then know... blah... blah blah...

So I guess its just EASIER for the vendors not to say anything... they possibly dont know how many units Canon is giving them and the other vendors and how quickly so its best for the larger vendors to say its their policy not to tell and avoid the headache trying to work out tactics! Its probably simply better business sense for them not to get involved with it...

 

[Kingw]

Its okay. Eventually B&H will ship. Now the hype of FIRST review/unboxing/hands-on/blah blah is over, let's just wait patiently. Japan is closer to China, HK, Singapore so it is quiet normal that they have the shipment first.

 

[jalbfb]

Its okay. Eventually B&H will ship. Now the hype of FIRST review/unboxing/hands-on/blah blah is over, let's just wait patiently. Japan is closer to China, HK, Singapore so it is quiet normal that they have the shipment first.

I'm not sure closeness to Japan has anything to do with it. My guess is that there's been several if not more shipments made to various companies across the world a;ready. It's just frustrating that some are being released before others for no apparent rhyme or reason. having said that, I could order one now at digital rev but it would cost me $500 US more than my pre-order with B&H. So I'll try to be patient, but that's getting harder by the day!

 

[Kingw]

It's just frustrating that some are being released before others for no apparent rhyme or reason.

I think that "hits the nail on the head". It is one thing to ship differently for every country but another to not be told WHY this happens. It is one thing to not be kept informed, it is another to not even be told WHY you are not being kept informed. Perhaps it is not arbitrary, but if not, it is a great imitation of arbitrary!

In fact, we saw just last week once again how these things can be done with the release of the iPad 3. Pretty much everyone who ordered got theirs at the same time if they were in the first batch (I was). If you were not in the first batch, you KNEW RIGHT AWAY. Of course Apple did not deal with shipping from third parties but they did deal with in-store sales by third parties. They seem to manage product releases as well (arguably better) as anyone and it sure has not hurt their bottom line! They could buy several small countries with their cash.

For sure Canon has totally different global strategies and operations compared to Apple. Only 37% of the employees are Japanese in Canon. In the regional offices they like to hire locals and can run on quiet independent strategies compared to other regional offices in other parts of the world. Most obvious example is the price difference between different countries, also different names of the same camera (i.e Kiss X5 vs 600D). You don't expect Ipad to be named differently whether selling in Japan or USA, nor the price will change. So it is obvious that the headquarter Canon Japan is more open in giving powers to it's regional offices on how to price, market, distribute a new product than the headquarter of Apple USA.

 

[Dylan777]

Its okay. Eventually B&H will ship. Now the hype of FIRST review/unboxing/hands-on/blah blah is over, let's just wait patiently. Japan is closer to China, HK, Singapore so it is quiet normal that they have the shipment first.

I'm not sure closeness to Japan has anything to do with it. My guess is that there's been several if not more shipments made to various companies across the world a;ready. It's just frustrating that some are being released before others for no apparent rhyme or reason. having said that, I could order one now at digital rev but it would cost me $500 US more than my pre-order with B&H. So I'll try to be patient, but that's getting harder by the day!

Tell me about it...I think about it before sleep and still think about it after got out from bed :-[

 

[tasteofjace]

Somewhere my 5D3 is out there, in transit....

Wherever it is, it will be arriving at the location I pre-ordered it from tomorrow and will be in my hands in less than 24 hours.

I'm thinking about just going back to bed and sleeping to make the day go by faster 8)

 

[HeWhoShoots]

Just got a call from my local store (Murphy's Camera). They're in!

 

[Macadameane]

Adorama needs to get their butts in gear. I'm still waiting for any info at all.

 

[unkbob]

Any news on DigitalRev orders?

 

[Macadameane]

Adorama needs to get their butts in gear. I'm still waiting for any info at all.

Ditto B&H, still mushroom city. There is very little chance they have not gotten their first shipments by now when several other smaller companies have.

I did get an email from Adorama a week and a half ago saying that they would have shipment by the 3rd week of March. That was last week, I believe. It is possible that they just haven't updated their info yet, even though they have the cameras.

 

[Drama79]

I hope CR guy has invested in stronger servers and extra bandwidth for when B&H get their stock in....