May 10, 2004.....Where Is My Mark II?????????????????????

This is supposed to be the day CDW delivers my MK II. Unfortunately, it is nowhere in sight. Many of you have received your cameras. How many of you are still waiting?

Mills:
I finally cancelled my order at CDW. They stopped answering my emails and never amended their original ship date---May 10, as you mentioned. I then ordered one from B&H even though they wanted me to prepay. At the time, they were saying 2-3 weeks. At least that sounded like something more definite than what CDW was saying, and a number of people who had actually gotten theirs had indeed gotten them from B&H.

About a week after I ordered the camera from B&H, I got a tip on a possible source in the Los Angeles area which turned out to be good. I cancelled the B&H order and they credited the $4500 back to my credit card, no questions asked.

It's going to be another week or two. My rep talked with Canon early last week and the first shipments, as we knew, would go to top Canon outlets, such as B&H. CDW gets part of the next batch which is due in another week or two.

Patience sucks sometimes eh?

To be perfectly honest, there is something fundamentally wrong with the idea that Jim (RFMSports) hasn't gotten his while a hamburger like me has.

Thanks. Patience can be rough in this instance.

I also cancelled my CDW order. Same as Tom, I was frustrated with emails and phone calls not being returned. I've had pretty good luck with Samy's Camera in Los Angeles. I've done a fair bit of business with them, and was able to get them through the folks there. I've had average to poor service at the Santa Ana store, but truely excellent service at the Fairfax store. Guess that comes with the volume of business I've been doing there.

To be honest, although sometimes this doesn't seem fair, try and hook up in your local area with someone that does volume work with a store and see if they can help you out. Or if you and a few friends intend to buy, check if that gets you further up the list.

I know some folks have mentioned that being a large corporate acct holder didn't help them get priority, but if you know the sales staff well enough and do consistent business somewhere, that loyalty tends to get rewarded.

Hope you get yours soon.

Scott

Got an update today. I am now 3rd on the list now (was 13) behind someone who ordered Feb. 16 and someone who ordered an hour before me on the 19th. Rep said it would now be JULY OR AUGUST. Time to go back to work. Thanks for the info. It is disappointing though. While Rep always said May, I believed JUNE.

Hearing about all of the fun those of you that have received yours are having makes me want it even more. The wonder of the Internet is that I am sure that I will find one.

The retailers aren't interested in who you are or what you want to do with the camera, you are a sale to them - unless you are AP, Sports Illustrated, The FBI, or another big customer that represents lots of sales. You searched it out, you get to have one first. Enjoy it.

I deal with Mike and he's been upfront and honest the entire time. July or August is a crock. Canon told him (personally) a week ago that it'd be 2-3 weeks. That means between next week and the end of the month.

And just to set the record straight I did not go with CDW because I'd get one of the first cameras, but because I got a great price. See all these folks with MKII's tries the patience for sure, but I'm confident that they will get them in the next 2 weeks.

That being said I also didn't think they'd be this far down Canon's list and I have the camera (also) on order at two other places and a good friend working on another possibility.

I'd love to have the camera by next weekend for my first Jet Sprint shoot, but I don't know if that is going to happen. At least I still have my 10D.

That's not what he meant. You missed the point entirely.

So clue me in...

Tom just meant that it didn't seem fair (hence the term "fundamentally) that he got his camera before me as I am supposedly a more experienced photographer. It really doesn't mean anything other than that. There wasn't some big thing behind what he said. It was tongue-in-cheek.

That being said, I knew I would not be one of the first to get an MKII and it's not that big of a deal, though it's starting to become an issue with my shooting season just starting up.

OK Jim. I like your ETA better than what I heard from my Rep. I assume you are one of the two ahead of me. Hope you have it for the Jet Boat Race as I will be close behind. Keeping my fingers crossed.

I'm actually #1 on CDW's list. For what it's worth. It'll be interesting to see what dealer gets my (almost) $4500. I bet it's not CDW.

Sorry, Jim, I missed the emoticon that went with that post, and the term fundamentally wrong caught my eye. Thanks for filling me in on what Tom really meant. I'll have to try not to be so thoroughly clueless from now on.

So as I recall, when the rumors were swirling about when the MKII would be shipped, you were pretty adamant about knowing the date - what happened to yours?