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Those who Pre-ordered the R5 only. Back ordered or Shipping?

Started Jul 29, 2020 | Polls thread
bodeswell Senior Member • Posts: 1,378
Re: Best Buy Pre-Order
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Firefly20 wrote:

Has anybody that ordered through Best Buy received their R5 pre-order (either kit or body only)?

I am hoping they didn’t ship any today because they are going to tomorrow! 🙏

I suspect that phone customer service reps are trained to say just about anything to calm irate callers, but the person I spoke to today claimed they would know Friday or Saturday where things stood stock wise. Who knows, maybe there is a shipment on the way.

I also told her I didn't want my order cancelled and I wanted to get my 10% discount. She assured me that they would give me the 10% discount even if they did cancel my order, so long as I reinstated it. But will I have to keep reinstating it every couple of weeks until November? Too soon to say.

Anyone have any idea what the rationale for the unilateral cancelling might be? Are they worried they might get stuck with excess inventory? I mean, wouldn't Canon just take them back? Or is it just an artifact of some hyper-optimized accounting system where leaving the orders in place would somehow drag down the quarterly results or something?

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