dana5
lvl.4
Flight distance : 14354 ft
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I just got off a chat with NewEgg about my order... These were some of the statments from NewEgg support, and did not get much useful information. In short, they cannot verify inventory or determine if or when my Mavic will ship. But, they did say this, which is kinda interesting...
It is sold and shipped by the Marketplace seller not us. For your reference, Marketplace is a division of Newegg.com which allows third party sellers to list, sell, and ship merchandise directly to our customers. Newegg grants select seller the opportunity to advertise their products. So we do not have the accurate information about the item inventory. What we can do for you now is to contact the seller to check and I have contacted them via email. They may have the warehouse in the US. We do not have this information either.
This is what I infer from above...
DJI likely has a US warehouse, which makes sense. DJI manufacturing is in China, and they have been producing units for some time, but needed to be shipped to the US, probably by shipping containers on a boat, which takes weeks. Then, that freight is transferred by rail and or truck, to the DJI warehouse, likely in NY. This is where the distribution to all US resellers would happen. Amazon, Apple, and of course, NewEgg. Now, NewEgg has this direct channel that the support person mentioned above. So, DJI probably kept a limited number of units to be sold via NewEgg, as a pass-thru, and that is what I ordered. This also explains why Apple is suddenly starting to ship, and I think we can expect B&H, Amazon and others to start shipping in the next few days as well. In short, the inventory had to get to the US first. Now, it is also possible that Apple and Amazon receive their inventory from DJI directly, meaning that those units would bypass the DJI warehouse... Who knows... But the timing of it all is exactly as I had expected. I just thought it was interesting that in the case of NewEgg, it is just a generic storefront for DJI, as a 3rd party reseller, much how Amazon and Ebay function.
In the end, I still think the limited offering from NewEgg this morning was real, and the chances of those Mavic orders shipping the next few days are good. |
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