everyone preaching patience needs to can it, when i ordered this stuff MONTHS ago i was relying on their expected shipping date. for reasons ive already described in this thread, the estimated shipping date was extremely pivotal in my decision to buy the gear, and they stated that they were fully confident that it would be met...they chose their language carefully, so theyre probably not in breach of contract (at this point), but they're perilously close.
bottom line, if theyve got a lot of stuff in stock they need to hustle up and get it out, this pace is absurd. if there's something we need to know about that will delay shipping until next week then they NEED TO TELL US so that people like me can decide whether it would be prudent to change the shipping address so that i can intercept my gear during my winter break travels.
this isn't really a rant, it's basically just a description of what they should do to maintain a good faith relationship with their customers under a UCC Sale of Goods contract. i'm going to be doing contract exam hypos for law school all day, so if anyone is curious i might try to do a quick write-up on this situation later, including the kind of liability Saga is potentially exposing themselves to if they don't either ship the stuff make some sort of official statement soon regarding the nature of the delay.