9th of may I was allocated
Awesome Congrats!
Sure hope so, I've been kicking myself since September, for taking the weekend to think about a pre-order. :frown5:
Haha sure did. Never again.
I mean they can't even tell you exactly how long it'll be once you're allocated. It's a pretty manual process and they have to rely on other supplies to come in. If something goes into a shortage (flash memory for the mini-mags or something) that'll affect package orders and throw things off.
Well, I was responding to someone asking about a January order. Since Brent said a November order would be sometime around June, a January order definitely won't make it in May. It doesn't really matter how many orders they have because we don't know how many they can make in a given period of time anyway. What does that secrecy matter? They can give a ballpark of allocation without giving away unit numbers.
As far as day 1/2 goes, I'm not even sure (and someone asked about it elsewhere) which day is day 1 and which is day 2. Is day 1 9/24 up to midnight and day 2 is 9/25? or is Day 1 the night of 9/24 through 9/25, and day 2 is 9/26? And no I can't say for certain that they'll get through day 2 because even Brent can't tell you. I would imagine that they got a huge amount of orders during that time period, so it makes sense that he can't say for sure. I don't think they can estimate it to that granularity.
There was one guy on our queue before me who got allocated three days ago. So just between our timestamps there were three days worth of cameras built. It took me a couple of hours to order mine because the website kept locking up. And as Jarred has said, a "shit ton" of Ravens were ordered.
Anyway I don't think his post was that vague. As he said, you can infer somewhat of a timetable given those numbers and others he's put through. The first couple of days will be May, and it sounds like they'll get through to mid-November in June. If you're just after that it's probably August. If you ordered when the site changed to "shipping Fall 2016" it's fall (where I live I don't even really have seasons, so I have no idea when that really is). I believe that's when the "just before NAB" orders are supposed to ship, but you'd have to look that up. And depending upon what happens, it might take longer still. A lot can change from now to then.
How accurate do you want it to be? It's not like they can say "you'll get your camera June 12th, 17:04:03:12 ." (Had to throw frames in there :smile
tldr;
He's thrown out enough estimates that you should be able to get a ballpark idea of when you'll get your camera. If you've just ordered recently there are a TON of people ahead of you, so it's decidedly more difficult to estimate.
Well, I was responding to someone asking about a January order. Since Brent said a November order would be sometime around June, a January order definitely won't make it in May. It doesn't really matter how many orders they have because we don't know how many they can make in a given period of time anyway. What does that secrecy matter? They can give a ballpark of allocation without giving away unit numbers.
As far as day 1/2 goes, I'm not even sure (and someone asked about it elsewhere) which day is day 1 and which is day 2. Is day 1 9/24 up to midnight and day 2 is 9/25? or is Day 1 the night of 9/24 through 9/25, and day 2 is 9/26? And no I can't say for certain that they'll get through day 2 because even Brent can't tell you. I would imagine that they got a huge amount of orders during that time period, so it makes sense that he can't say for sure. I don't think they can estimate it to that granularity.
There was one guy on our queue before me who got allocated three days ago. So just between our timestamps there were three days worth of cameras built. It took me a couple of hours to order mine because the website kept locking up. And as Jarred has said, a "shit ton" of Ravens were ordered.
Anyway I don't think his post was that vague. As he said, you can infer somewhat of a timetable given those numbers and others he's put through. The first couple of days will be May, and it sounds like they'll get through to mid-November in June. If you're just after that it's probably August. If you ordered when the site changed to "shipping Fall 2016" it's fall (where I live I don't even really have seasons, so I have no idea when that really is). I believe that's when the "just before NAB" orders are supposed to ship, but you'd have to look that up. And depending upon what happens, it might take longer still. A lot can change from now to then.
How accurate do you want it to be? It's not like they can say "you'll get your camera June 12th, 17:04:03:12 ." (Had to throw frames in there :smile
tldr;
He's thrown out enough estimates that you should be able to get a ballpark idea of when you'll get your camera. If you've just ordered recently there are a TON of people ahead of you, so it's decidedly more difficult to estimate.
