This thread is very depressing.
With all of you who know about this forum, and multiply that by a generous fudge factor for those with the same experience that have not posted yet, the forum is going to be SWAMPED.

Please, Please, Please use search, search ,search

And good luck to ALL of you, may they arrive in your possesion today!

I bought mine from Amazon when it listed as in stock, had it in hand 2 days later. Very pleased.

Update and rant:

Buy.com shipped in 1 day. Currently expecting delivery today.
No change from:
Dell (shipping 28th)
Let's Talk (No ETA on Web, email says expected 12/19)

I wouldn't suggest ordering from multiple places and canceling... unless they tell you it's "in stock" when you order and then later change their story to "backordered".

We have to fight back against this type of business. Just like overbooking of airlines.

Some of us may remember that about 10 years ago you could place an order before 3pm and routinely get free next day shipping on orders more than $100 and have your product next day from many retailers. I ordered for work several times per week for years.

I'm certain that these problems are due to the holiday rush and a shortage of product from Nokia. When the system is stressed you see the flaws that were there all along. The flaws are in inventory tracking and order placement systems. That can be fixed.

The only part I'm complaining about is the practice of showing "in-stock" when I ask them to check, then changing the story to "backordered" after the have my order. They should be electronically putting my name on a box when I place the order.

You may say that this is difficult to do technologically... but they sure have no trouble putting a 14 day authorization hold on my credit card when I place the order to ensure they will get promptly paid when they ship.

All 4 of the retailers were able to put this authorization hold on my credit card within 5 minutes of the order being placed... but all took more than 24 hours to determine that oops... we don't actually have the thing we sold you.

Seems a little unequal.

We should all rate these retailers on the ratings sites. That's our best tool.

UPS and FedEx do it right. They know exactly where my box is. It can be fixed.

Yankee

After reading this thread, I ordered from Nokia's online store in the UK on Christmas Day. They were closed Christmas Day and Boxing Day ... but it just shipped, i.e. the first business day after the order was placed.

(Sure Nokia charge full whack for it, but if anyone's got it in stock, they have ...)

The problem is clearly rogue retailers, rather than a fundamental non-availability issue.

alright...i just ordered it from that ebay listing i posted earlier in this thread and did overnight shipping...so hopefully that means tomorrow i'll get it

originally i ordered from provantage, up until they told me it wouldn't come in until mid-january

well, just got mine about 5 minutes ago from ups and here i am posting with it...that ebay listing i posted is legit

got mine the next day!

N810 arrived from Buy.com on 27th when ordered 25th.
Had to pay tax because of my state. Still a better price than LetsTalk.

Dell and LetsTalk both canceled my orders based on an email without any runaround.

Now playing with my new toy.

Yankee

buy.com pisses me off !! im still waiting for them to get back to me about my order .. they did manage to send me there phone number ... i think i read some where on this thread someone wanted it ... 1800-800-0800