Bob and Yolanda, - I fell for you both. I pulled the trigger on that one-day sale of 31/1.8 on Cyber-Monday, and bought one from B&H. It said (and still says) "Usually ships in 3-7 business days", but it's been a while (3 business weeks), and I am still waiting..
That day Ricoh also had the sale for this Pentax lens (which prompted the matching sale by B&H). It says "in stock" for that lens on Pentaxwebstore.com. Igor Fri Dec 20 16:21:16 EST 2013 Bob Sullivan wrote: Ya, I was disheartened to see that sale as I have/had the grip on backorder with B&H. I figured the Ricoh deal sucked up all the supply of grips. To hear that you didn't get an immediate shipment gives me a glimmer of hope that they protected their other backorders. I'm waiting to see the cheap Chinese version on ebay. I bought 2 (for the K-7 then K-5) and they worked just fine. You'll get the order jammed back up your ~~~ distribution system if you don't deliver soon. Regards, Bob S. On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Yolanda Rowe <yprowe at gmail.com> wrote: > Grrrrrrrrrrrrr! Now, that I have that off my chest I can tell you why > I feel that way. > > We hopped on the deal for the K-3 w/battery grip (who cares about the > sling bag; it will simply go in the pile collecting dust). I've been > watching the email for the shipping notification (and the charge acct > for a earlier hint). Saw the charge pending but it disappeared, so I > contacted Ricoh (refuse to say P*ntax on this one--LOL) > > The damn thing is back-ordered and customer service has "no > information" on when it will be in stock. From what I've read here, > it's probably because of the grip. In any case, it might have been > nice to learn that from them. Simple thing to have the system generate > an automated email reply for a WEB STORE order that has an associated > email. If they're too cheap to ship twice, contact me and give me the > option to pay for extra shipment. > > In any case, we know that they are moving product. > > So much for sneaking off and playing with a Christmas gift before it > goes under the tree. > > Thanks for *listening* to my first world problem... > > Yonnie > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
