Since only Sprint and Best Buy pre-orders seem to have been fulfilled so far, and not even all of those, I'm thinking Sprint just doesn't have enough EVOs to fulfull all the pre-orders, which is why they haven't announced a new launch date.
I've seen that Sprint actually controls all the stock being sent out, including to 3rd parties, and that they've also said that a pre-order is a pre-order, no matter if you ordered from Sprint directly or a 3rd party retailer, and pre-orders will be fulfilled proir to launch.
But since the customs delay shouldn't have affected how much stock there is, we now have a situation where pre-orders still aren't shipped, and 3rd parties like Amazon and Wirefly still haven't received any EVOs so they can fulfill their pre-orders.
So it seems like Sprint just allowed too many pre-orders and doesn't have the stock to cover them. So they can't have the official launch yet because, if they did, everyone that still hasn't had their pre-order at least shipped by any announced launch day would have a legitimate beef that their pre-order is no longer a pre-order if the product is available in stores before the pre-orders. Also, if they give stock to brick & mortar retailers for the official launch, that's stock that is taken away from pre-orders as well.
So why did Sprint allow all these pre-orders to be made, including by 3rd parties, knowing full well that they wouldn't get enough phones from HTC too fulfill the orders? The customs delay didn't affect how many phones HTC would be shipping. And shouldn't there be even more phones than originally expected shipping to Sprint, since HTC has had time to have more manufactured? Since the customs delay didn't affect HTC's production, shouldn't that mean they should have more now, given the extra week of shipping delay?
I've seen that Sprint actually controls all the stock being sent out, including to 3rd parties, and that they've also said that a pre-order is a pre-order, no matter if you ordered from Sprint directly or a 3rd party retailer, and pre-orders will be fulfilled proir to launch.
But since the customs delay shouldn't have affected how much stock there is, we now have a situation where pre-orders still aren't shipped, and 3rd parties like Amazon and Wirefly still haven't received any EVOs so they can fulfill their pre-orders.
So it seems like Sprint just allowed too many pre-orders and doesn't have the stock to cover them. So they can't have the official launch yet because, if they did, everyone that still hasn't had their pre-order at least shipped by any announced launch day would have a legitimate beef that their pre-order is no longer a pre-order if the product is available in stores before the pre-orders. Also, if they give stock to brick & mortar retailers for the official launch, that's stock that is taken away from pre-orders as well.
So why did Sprint allow all these pre-orders to be made, including by 3rd parties, knowing full well that they wouldn't get enough phones from HTC too fulfill the orders? The customs delay didn't affect how many phones HTC would be shipping. And shouldn't there be even more phones than originally expected shipping to Sprint, since HTC has had time to have more manufactured? Since the customs delay didn't affect HTC's production, shouldn't that mean they should have more now, given the extra week of shipping delay?