886 shipping

Just wondering if any of you guys that just ordered from the promotion received your shipping notification?

I haven't received mine yet and my card hasn't been charged. I was just hoping to get this unit sometime next week.

I just got an email from Jennifer stating that the website says it could take up to 5 days for the order to ship and that details would be transmitted at that point.

That's the same info I got. Why does it take 5 days to ship ? The only thing I can think of is that they said they will be shipped with the latest Firmware, maybe they have to update each unit. I know the latest is 1.05 if they come with 1.04 firmware update I will be happy.

Or more likely....they don't keep them "in stock" and are simply reboxing and shipping them when they arrive. Onkyo (or whoever their intermediate distributor is) probably rang them up and said "Hey, guess what? If you take these X number of extra units off our hands we'll give you an additional X percent discount." Or "Hey, we noticed you're just below our gold reseller level in terms of sales. If you make it to our platinum level, we'll retroactively credit you the X% difference in reseller discount. You only need another $50k in purchases to qualify." These end of the year "sales" are usually a means for folks that earn their living in sales to meet their quota for the year. Ho ho ho.

Best,

Ritz, Your's is the most likely scenario, I do hope they come with the latest firmware like they said they Do.

THe five-day window suggests to me that they don't actually have the units in their own warehouse and they are having them drop-shipped from an Onkyo distribution center.

Any significant differences between 1.04 and 1.05?

No one I know of has seen anything between 1.04 and 1.05 that they can determine if there is any difference at all.
So No One Knows.