Originally posted by jatrax A post late yesterday said Adorama had 'limited stock'. But this morning it is back ordered again. I would not put much confidence in B&H saying July, basically they have no idea when they are going to get enough to cover their pre-orders so they pick a date out far enough to not make people mad. They could get stock in tomorrow. I suspect Ricoh is allocating production worldwide to keep something in the pipeline all over.
i think it is likely RIAC and B&H are in regular conversation about Ricoh's global production and allocation schedule to USA, and RIAC's planned allocation to B&H. I suspect B&H says July because they expect to fill new orders in July.
I also suspect that B&H received far more preorders than expected, and their planned allocation was heavily oversubscribed. To respond to the unbalanced preorder flow RIAC would have needed to dishonor commitments to a large number of other Dealers and send their allocated units to B&H.
Tough situation to manage.
[Edit:] on a later
post B&H says they will have stock to fill all backorders 1st week of July.
Last edited by monochrome; 05-26-2016 at 11:59 AM.