Official pre-order / ship time thread

If Tiger Direct gets 400 on Thursday I'm gonna be pretty pissed. LoL. But I'm gonna keep an eye out anyway.

As far as I can tell, though, if you weren't on any of the major pre-order lists you aren't getting one for a long time. =T

Maybe hang around Best Buys in your city and eat the taxes.
 
Kholi said:
If Tiger Direct gets 400 on Thursday I'm gonna be pretty pissed. LoL. But I'm gonna keep an eye out anyway.

As far as I can tell, though, if you weren't on any of the major pre-order lists you aren't getting one for a long time. =T

Maybe hang around Best Buys in your city and eat the taxes.
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I rolled the dice on this one. Will run around and see what I can get w/o being on a pre-order list. Hope they come in in large numbers...
 
I did a live chat last night with a CSR from TD that said they will get them by the end of the week and orders should ship out Monday...
 
that still sounds too early. canon stated in the press releases "early october" and its still early september. i'm not doubting what that CSR said, i'd love nothing more, but i don't believe it.
 
Trust me, I'm VEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYY skeptical about the TD shipment coming to fruition today or tomorrow.
 
He's probably just doing a good job of keeping people watching TD stock so that they move their cameras earlier than the rest. I do find it hard to believe that TD would get cameras before Amazon, but the possibility of course is not far fetched.

Either way, it worked, I'm keeping an eye out on TD as well. Whoever's first gets my wallet.
 
manglerBMX said:
that still sounds too early. canon stated in the press releases "early october" and its still early september. i'm not doubting what that CSR said, i'd love nothing more, but i don't believe it.
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I was given an early next week time frame by a local dealer as well. Seems too early but hoping the rep was right.
 
Anyone remember who was the first US vendor to ship the GH1? That might provide a clue as to may get the first 7D orders.
 
For those in the UK, creative video says they have stock on 25th September...for £1599 at that. Although it appears they don't include a CF card and extra battery like many of the other UK distributors.
 
When it comes to GH1 preorder. Panasonic just told all of these retailers they would give them cameras, only gave a couple and sold straight from their site for the first month.

Amazon got a couple. I know that because I believe the number was 5 and I was 6 on the preorder list. Second shipment came a month later - I got one then.

In general I think the best bets are Amazon and B&H. Amazon always ships faster than B&H in my experience though.

Also - got in contact with Canon yesterday, and even if these things are scarce like the GH1, I'm happy to say that I have been guaranteed one by the first of October (at least a loner until mine comes in). My company is shooting a low budget but very high profile feature that will be all 7d and 5d Mark II. That is assuming that the announcement on the 29th doesn't change the world.

My Canon contact also said the camera is going to be incredibly hard to find, which, of course, is something we already know. He also stated that he personally doesn't think the sensor on the 7d comes anywhere near the capability of the 5d. Time will tell.
 
ryansheffer said:
When it comes to GH1 preorder. Panasonic just told all of these retailers they would give them cameras, only gave a couple and sold straight from their site for the first month.
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The shortage they created doing this preventing me from buying one, now buying the 7d instead. If Canon does the same thing I could move back to the GH1
 
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For those still looking for a place to get an actual pre-order in, I noticed NewEgg is taking pre-orders and they show a 10/1 release date.
 
Spoke to several sales ppl in different stores about what they heard from their canon rep.
Canon has said to each of the ones I asked the same thing ... 'September' with no fixed date.

One encouraging thing I heard during my phone around research is that Canon and Nikon are generally better than others
at their distribution. Namely Pana.
 
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