No more MK-II's in the UK until late fall.

Com’on guys, I am looking for sympathy here

N

Same old, Same old!
Everyone I talk to who has made the leap to DSLR here in the UK and remained Canon faithful are being constantly let down by low or zero stock levels. I had issues last year, luckily not with the 10D, but with the 28-135IS. A friend had to shop all around the country three months after I got my camera for his copy of the 10D. Only yesterday I went to place an order for my first L glass and decided to go for the 17-40 f4L and the 70-200f4L (I thought rather than go for the 70-200 f2.8IS I'd get 2 lenses for the price of one). I placed my order only to be told that they had no 70-200 f4's in stock, had a back order of circa 15-20 customers already on the list and were not expecting their shipment to arrive for several weeks. Today I succumbed to changing my order and cancelled the 2 lenses for the 70-200 f2.8IS Apparently they have these lenses comming out of their ears, no bloody wonder at £1400 (I can't believe I've paid this for a piece of metal and some blobs of glass, it's almost a good family holiday - wife better not find out) LOL

However, I have concluded that this stock shortage is either Tony Blair's fault as he's an easy target and everyone is blaming him at the moment, lets be honest before he did his bit we lived in Great Britain and not as now just plain vanilla Britain and back then I never had problem getting Canon stuff - OR it's this bloody forum's fault as everything that we all rave about makes everyone go out and buy it up, most probably like me on buy now pay never.......it's no wonder the UK 's debt is almost a Trillion quid I bet half that is owed to Canon distributors

Let me get this right - you've got tons of L lenses a MKII on order & you want my sympathy? No chance

Only joking I'm nearly as keen as you are - just so I can have a play with it!

Cheers

Canon UK have a reputation of being simply useless (ask any Canon pro shooter in the UK). The UK management sit on their rear ends getting huge salaries, living off the profits selling printers through PC World and Dabs. The DSLR turnover (read profit) is so small and the market for it far too complicated for their tiny unused brains to understand, that it just gets kicked into touch.

Knowing a few Japanese companies as I do, the one thing that shakes them a bit is complaints sent to the top man about his underlings. They probably already know that the UK is staffed by w****rs but they don't like it being repeated to them by their buying public. Time to stir the saki.

three and half thousand for MK II? no way i'm paying that much, getting it from the states, it'll save me nearly one thousand GBP straight. USA ones have one year international warranty, and E&L is happy to insure items that's not purchased in the UK market, so i don't see why i should pay more n get shafted.

Ken.... Man I feel for you! I would go bonkers if I had to wait that long!
Hope they are wrong and you get yours sooner. I can't wait to see the pics you'll be taking with the mkII!

I'll be inEngland in August with my son's college soccer team. I'll have to disguise my mkII so no one will hit he over the head for it!

PLEASE DON'T HATE ME!!!!

I went into LCE in Reading to order and they said 3-4 months - I was number 6 on the list and they had only received 4 all year - this was 4 weeks back.

I then went into Jessops (yeah, I know!) in Reading and I was told maybe 6 weeks..... yippee!!

IMAGINE my amazement when I was phoned just 6 days later to be told it was ready for collection. Got it for £3199 which seemed a good price too.

I have had it for 2 weeks now and it is gggggggreat (but you probably new that!)

KennyG - invite me trackside to an event or two and I will let you use it!!
8)

Check this UK site out. Buy it now price of $3200 USD. Scam? They have three MkII's listed on ebay right now in 3 day auctions.

http://www.el3ctronics​sale.com/camera3.html

Jim

jgbeam wrote:
Check this UK site out. Buy it now price of $3200 USD. Scam? They have three MkII's listed on ebay right now in 3 day auctions.

http://www.el3ctronics​sale.com/camera3.html

Jim

There is no way you can get a MKII for $3200.

If it's too good to be true. . . . .

I called Canon and even checked with CPS. I can assure you Canon UK will NOT honour the warranty on a USA camera, even if it claims to have an international warranty. They will honour international warranty lenses and that's it. If you want to check yourself it is a simple phone call.

Mk11 stock in southern Ontario is trickling in. The store that I deal with has been getting them slowly and there is a waiting list of two or three people. The store has sold five units. Expect delivery in about 4-5 weeks.

sgregory

We may not have any MKII's in Canada, but we've been overflowing with Canon 50MM F1.8 II's for the past year.

Perhaps we should trade some 50MM's for some MKII's!

Kenny, have you considered trying to source a camera from another EU country? I think that Canon would be obliged to honour the warranty on that under the Single European Market regulations...

(you'd best check that one to be sure though )

Kenny,

I am now trying here

http://www.nomatica.co​m …ise=FRF&langue=​FR&pays=FR

N

Having been pretty horrified by this thread I spoke to Jessops today to see when they were expecting my one in. They spoke to their head office and they are still expecting a delivery of 300 bodies between 10th and 15th June.

So, I guess we'll see...