Amazon is shipping tonight March 21 5D3 bodies ordered March 2

[publiux]

Pictures of your order status page or this post is meaningless

 

[Makaveli6103]

I ordered mine at 2:30AM CST on the 2nd and I still have nothing. I don't understand how some people are getting shipment notifications when they are still saying it has not been released.

 

[kidnaper]

Shipping soon!
Oh, and I received the order confirmation email at 2:33:02 AM CST.

 

[Waiting on Godot]

Your progress gives me hope. I went with Amazon anticipating that most would go to B&H or Adorama. My confirmation came at 6:57 AM. (First thing I did when I woke up that morning... )

 

[Abraxx]

I'm wondering why Amazon Germany is still not even offering the 5D Mark III?

 

[cowanrg]

I ordered a body only on the 2nd, in the morning, and still nothing.

I thought everyone would go to B&H or Adorama as well. Guess I was wrong. Fortunately, it's just a camera and I can do without it, since I've already been waiting a year or so for it to come out anyways...

 

[Waiting on Godot]

+1 to you, cowanrg. I also feel the NEW GADGET itch that most others are feeling, but this upgrade has been 8 years in the waiting for me. I almost can't believe it, but I'm upgrading from a 20D. This is going to be huge for me, so what's the rush?

 

[irena]

I'm still waiting on my confirmation, ordered March 4 though. No word yet. I'd love to get it by tomorrow or Saturday so I can use it to photograph my son's 2nd birthday, but we'll see.

I, however, have a ton of faith in Amazon. I ordered something 2 day last night at 10pm and it arrived by 10am this morning. Insanity. So I'll give them the rest of the day to try to get it to me in time. I really don't want to have to buy a kit locally (with tax, ugh) and deal with selling the lens.

 

[kidnaper]

I'm still waiting on my confirmation, ordered March 4 though. No word yet. I'd love to get it by tomorrow or Saturday so I can use it to photograph my son's 2nd birthday, but we'll see.

I, however, have a ton of faith in Amazon. I ordered something 2 day last night at 10pm and it arrived by 10am this morning. Insanity. So I'll give them the rest of the day to try to get it to me in time. I really don't want to have to buy a kit locally (with tax, ugh) and deal with selling the lens.

I've not yet received a shipping confirmation, only the order confirmation.

 

[MeHoo]

I received the typical "the item has not been released yet" blah blah email.

They have no clue what's going on over there.

I want to see when people have ordered (confirmation email times), where they live (to see it local shipping centers matter), body only or kit, and something more than "shipping soon"...

I hear a lot of wishy washy info. Where are all the people who said their order page showed a delivery date? Those are the screengrabs I need to send to amazon with my whine-fest emails

 

[Nick888]

Now the B&H is already notify they have both the body and kit in stock. Amazon seems to be the last one. Now just hope it's not toooooo behind.

 

[cowanrg]

I'll give it to next week and then I might look for other options. In the meantime, my 60D still takes perfectly fine images. It hasn't degraded in quality since I got it...

 

[WilliamG]

Shipping soon!
Oh, and I received the order confirmation email at 2:33:02 AM CST.

You often see the shipping soon message on Amazon if something has changed in regards to the shipping speed, payment method etc. I don't know about this case, but I'm guessing it's not really shipping soon. It's a glitch on Amazon's end. I had that with my MK III kit when I changed my payment method last week. It went to shipping soon status, and then 2 days later went back to not yet shipped.

 

[MeHoo]

Exactly.. I'd love to see the delivery dates before I believe any of this. I changed the payment options and saw that then it was gone.

On another note, they did say if you update shipping addresses, credit cards, etc before it's charged and shipped, you're fine and don't lose your place in line.

just FYI

 

[aloper]

If you login to your Amazon account, directly on the webiste, goto "my orders" under account. Check the status there..if it does say "Shipping Soon"...it basically means they have the camera and it's either waiting to be packed for shipping or it's already been boxed up and waiting for UPS/Fed-Ex, etc. pickup.

As an FYI, once an order status changes to "Shipping Soon", you can't cancel it. If you can't wait and decide to run out to a local shop or somewhere else online to buy the camera, you can refuse delivery or do a return if it does get delivered while your not home or at the location where they attempt delivery...

Sadly, my order is still showing "Not Shipped"...I'll give it through next week and if there are other places that have it, I'll maybe cancel my order and try somewhere else...

 

[MeHoo]

Shipping soon!
Oh, and I received the order confirmation email at 2:33:02 AM CST.

You ordered 15 minutes after me. :/

 

[thatguy]

I just got done chatting with Amazon. I ordered the body only and got my confirmation email on March 2nd at 6:11am EST. If the information below is true than those of us that haven't received shipping info or at least "shipping soon" status may be waiting a while. I do find it hard to believe that Amazon.com wouldn't receive additional shipments until May 7th but that's what they told me. I just ordered with Crutchfield, they seem confident they can ship the body tomorrow...we shall see.

Me:do you have any idea when this item will be in stock?
There are dozens of other smaller stores that have this item in stock, I'm shocked amazon is lagging so badly

Mariel:Sure, the estimate arrival date for the next shipment from Canon is on May 07th 2012

Me:So you already received the first shipment from Canon and my order was not part of that allotment?

Mariel:No, we sold the ones that we had on stock on our fulfillment center, but due to a high demand the supplier hasn't been able to send us more items.

 

[MARKOE PHOTOE]

Just rec'd a text message from Amazon stating my order for 5D3, body only, will arrive March 23rd by 8PM. So, they do have some stock to ship. Calling customer service is a waste of time and just adds to the frustration. They just read the prompts that we read on line.
Yeah baby, come to papa.

 

[aloper]

Wow! I posted just a half hour ago that my order was still showing as "not shipped"...A few minutes ago, I was checking my credit card account doing bills and I see the charge on my card from Amazon for the camera, listed as being applied 15 minutes ago...Jumped back over to Amazon and now my order is showing "Shipping Soon"!!!

For all of you that have orders with Amazon...hold out hope!

 

[MARKOE PHOTOE]

'The Eagle has landed' or in other words, AMAZON IS SHIPPING and SO IS B&H. I had orders at both and just got emails from both, today, at 10:30am PST. I ordered bodies only via UPS overnight. I will obviously sell one after I have both orders in hand.