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 p.4 #11 · Has anyone received D800 from B&H yet? | |
Long rant below....warning 
This is all new to me. I have never used to be in the camera/photography area, so the whole shenanigans of camera companies were out of my knowledge.
I am so very interested in the whole process. I mean, there are sop for things like this for other industries.
Gaming industry - thousands of customers, Diablo 3, Mass Effect 3 Collector's edition....Customer preorders - everyone who preorders gets one launch day or close to it, (even when ordering online), and when the allotment is over, dealers close pre-orders months in advance. Look at your PS3, xbox, whatever...you didnt get it launch day, walmart has it next week.
Thats what pre-orders are for. This whole unprecedented number of orders thing confuses me. What, did they not look at the pre-order numbers? They couldnt make enough in 2 months? Then they should have opened pre-orders 4 months prior.
Worried that the extra 2 months will tip their hands to their competitors? It shouldnt, the rumour mills already worked 5 months in advance to do that anyway...(NIKON D600?). Also, whats worse, extra 2 months in advance, or in this situation, 2 months after release potential customers are looking into maybe a different system because they havent gotten theirs yet. Gives time to their competitors to do something by then anyway.
Then the whole shipping process. Walmart has got its shipping down pat. Ever gone to walmart and finding something you were looking for, not there? Maybe on black friday. Just-In-time inventory system was created for this. I mean...
I am in Canada, and Henry's (one of the biggest here in ontario) has 600 back orders, they say. I called the local store, they have a few coming in. I called the other local store in the next town 2 hours over, they had 1.
It seems to me to be such a waste of time and money. Ship 1 camera to store X. Next week, Ship 3 cameras to store B. And 1 camera to store X. Savings in shipping can be had when you ship 20 cameras to store X, and be done with it. Also, when each store is getting 1 cameras a week, and there is 1 local store in a medium sized town 2 hours apart, and there is only a few medium sized town and big sized town in Canada...how many did they really ship here? I mean...600 backorders sounded like a huge number the way the guy described it...but its Really, Really, small, compared to other industries, i think.
And then, dealers not knowing how many allotment they are getting. Boy...if everything in store is done this way....
Imagine opening up a restaurant or a store where you never know how much of a stock you will have each day. In finance, you will fail your forecasting. You wont get capital from the bank. There is no lender who would work with you. What...you can't forecast income because you can't tell your level of supply at any single point in time? Its like walking to a restaurant and asking for their dish for your party tomorrow, and the owner says...well, i may or may not have the ingredients tomorrow. Put the preorder and come back tomorrow. And you may have a party...or you may not.
So many fails. Too many tolerances. I guess most photographers are patient folks ...staring at a scene for hours for the right moments.
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