M9 Delivery Register

[rick_dykstra]

To while away the time let's track M9 delivery patterns.

Please post date & place of delivery (vendor, city, country). Retrospective and proxy entries welcomed - but no duplication please.

We'll see what we can do with the stats. Maybe a world map with pins to show deliveries.

Ready, steady, ... Go!

[Jager]

Great idea, Rick! I'd also suggest that in addition to date and locale that folks also post whether they received a black or grey model - as many of us are particularly interested in one or the other.

[MooMooMonkey]

Date: Sept 30
Vender: Leo's Camera (Thx Leo's for such fast delivery and service! )
City: Vancouver
Country: Canada
Color: Black

[erg]

Date: 9/9/2009
Vendor: Foto Rahn & Fine Art
City: Frankfurt
Country: Germany
Color: Black

[canlogic]

Sept 18
Montreal
Camtec
Black

[johnbuckley]

9/21/09
Vendor: Dale Photo and Digital
USA
Black

Thank you again, David Farkas, for having put me on the list when I inquired some months ago. Thank you Leica, for sending a black camera when the person ahead of me wanted gray ;-)

[rick_dykstra]

Here is a link to a Google Map showing M9 deliveries. I'll update daily. Anyone want to prepare an animated map that shows pins flying in from Germany and landing in a time sequence, say 1 day per second? Easy!

Leica M9 Deliveries - Google Maps

and here's a pic of the first few entries

[rondeb]

Thanks to David Farkas and Dale Photo for my black beauty. Got it today!

Best,
Ron

NYC

[nightfire]

I would suggest to track order fulfillment times instead of (or in addition to) the date of item received.

After all, this is probably the one metric most important to anxious M9 buyers right now.

[rick_dykstra]

Originally Posted by nightfire

I would suggest to track order fulfillment times instead of (or in addition to) the date of item received.

After all, this is probably the one metric most important to anxious M9 buyers right now.

I was about to write 'good suggestion'. Then I thought, "but we don't want them to rush and take shortcuts because we're tracking delivery times!"

Ah what the heck - folks, if you include your order/deposit date as well as the delivery date we can have some really good arguments about preferential treatment.

[ModernMan]

Sept 17
Photo Village
New York City
Black

[hoppyman]

Originally Posted by rick_dykstra

I was about to write 'good suggestion'. Then I thought, "but we don't want them to rush and take shortcuts because we're tracking delivery times!"

Ah what the heck - folks, if you include your order/deposit date as well as the delivery date we can have some really good arguments about preferential treatment.

Rick, you might like to put a solitary star on Melbourne for the one documented delivery down under.

[jjr1970]

Sept 19
Foto Henny Hoogeveen, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
M9 Black

[giampi-ita]

18th September
Foto Attualità
Treviso - Italy
M9 Black

[overgaardcom]

Order date: 09/9/2009
Delivery date: 11/9/2009
Vendor: SP Photo
City: Nürnberg
Country: Germany
Color: Black
User city: Aarhus
User country: Denmark
Serial: 380336xx

[overgaardcom]

Good idea (after all) though I'm intersted in where bought/used and the colors and then how the map will be filled with dots throughtout the next months. I know we're two M9 users since Sept 11 in my town of just 250,000 people.

As for delivery time, I guess that's best shown in another type of graph, not a geographical map.

[andybarton]

I hope that none ever get delivered to New Zealand...

[rick_dykstra]

Originally Posted by andybarton

I hope that none ever get delivered to New Zealand...

I had to keep that pic down to 960 pixels. It was either Alaska or NZ that got the chop. Sorry Kiwis. But you're on the map that matters. Let's get some pins stuck in the place!

[rick_dykstra]

I know that two black ones were delivered in Christchurch on 9/9/09, so they're on the map now.

Hoppy, did you say one was delivered in Brisbane? D'ya know when?

Thorsten, I've added the other one in Aarhus you mentioned. Colour? Vendor?

[chris_tribble]

London M9 Black (R.G.Lewis)
Handed to me on 9/9/9!