dana5
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Flight distance : 14354 ft
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That is absolutely correct.
The Best Buy campus (their home office) is in Richfield, just a couple miles from my office. I have a lot of friends who work there (they employ a LOT of people). A good friend of mine works in their eCommerce group, which is what the company is focusing on.
The stores have no knowledge of web order status, except for what you can see from your own login as a consumer.
Even so, Best Buy ships to customers from a number of warehouses they have located around the country. Eden Prairie, Minnesota is one of them (in Best Buy's home town).
There is almost ZERO chance that they will be delivering by Nov 1. They would be ordering a lot of units from DJI, and contrary to what others may tell you, they are NOT going to be mailed one at a time via DHL. They will come in cargo containers, probably by sea, to the US, and then distributed to warehouses for Best Buy, Amazon and Apple via rail or truck.
There has simply not been enough time from when the Mavic started shipping for these units to have traveled to the US.
Shockingly, DJI has acted as their own warehouse, and has been shipping direct to customers world wide, via DHL. Can't believe they do this, as it could not possibly be cost effective for them. But there would be no reason for them to send small packages of 6 or 10 units direct to US retail stores directly from China. They would go to warehouses, and be distributed to stores from there, OR directly to customers to fulfill online orders.
A lot of people have disagreed with what I am saying, say I am wrong, and say that they are all being mailed... But the fact is that aside from a couple rumored customers of NewEgg, who's units were sent directly from DJI, no one has received a Mavic from a US retail store or site.
I am hopeful that freight will start arriving in the US in 1 to 2 weeks. It would certainly be nice to see the Mavic in stores BEFORE Thanksgiving, for the holiday shopping carnage. |
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