Amazon sucks: still no Shipping Date for my Passport!
So I ordered the Passport at the $599 price tag a while ago (on Amazon). By the time I checked out I was put on backorder. The Passport was not available anymore. And that's where my order sits.
Today I received an email that the Passport is back on Amazon. With excitement I logged in to see when the ship date will be but nada. Still it says "not available yet". But what I saw on Amazon is the Passport being offered from $849 to a whopping $1300 through third parties.
Does anybody know when Amazon continues to ship? When are they getting new inventory in?
I think it was a huge mistake to just manufacture 200,000 units. I read that BB needs to sell 850,000 units to break even on the Passport. Why not manufacture the 850,000 units first? In BBs past the write-off on unsold inventory was one of the big financial problems. Wasn't it one of Chen's great moves in the beginning to outsource manufacturing to Foxconn with Foxconn taken on the inventory risk (essentially the same deal Foxconn has or had with Apple)?
So where would BB get hurt by ordering 850,000 units and maybe only selling 600,000?
My daughter wanted the IPhone 6. When I ordered it with Verizon it was out of stock but the invoice said it will be shipped by 10/7. Out of stock yet a possible shipping date? What a novelty. Well she got it earlier.
But how is that possible that neither Amazon nor BB can tell you an approx shipping date? Have they even ordered additional units or am I sitting with my order for the next 6 months without any date or time frame?
I do like what Chen has done so far but to bungle the sale of a brand new phone like that is outrageous and quite aggravating.
Has anybody heard or read somewhere at what point BB and Amazon can actually fulfill all the pre-orders they have received?