I ordered Oct 11 from DJI. I realise I'm way back in the queue but I wasn't too bothered by that as it's being sent to my in-laws and I can't pick it up until just before Christmas.
However, we still only seem to be on about 30th Sept orders at the moment and I'm starting to get concerned I might not have mine delivered before Christmas at this current rate.
That would be pretty pathetic from DJI, especially as they charged me on Oct 11th. You'd have thought ordering 11 weeks in advance would have been in plenty of time, but right now I'm not so sure!
I ordered at around a similar time... Agreed that we're way back in the queue, but it might not be as bad as it seems. I don't know anything for certain, but I would suspect that placement of orders is not linearly distributed between Sept 27 and Oct 11. Of those 15 days, you'd think the vast majority of pre-orders were placed on Sept 27 and 28 (guys who know they're going to pre-order likely pre-order ASAP). And then the lazy guys like us start to trickle in.
I'd say when orders placed early October start to go out, the mid Oct ones will follow shortly after (much quicker than it takes to move from say, Sept 27 to Sept 29 or Sept 30 orders).
If you look at the spreadsheet, there are 243 pre-orders logged on this forum. 158 of those orders (65%) were placed in Sept. (50% of orders in the first 2 days). By this (admittedly primative) method, by the time Sept 29 orders ship, half of the pre-orders will have been filled. By the time Oct 1 orders ship 65% of the pre-orders will be filled. Only 28% of the orders were placed between Oct 1 and Oct 11... so it shouldn't take quite as long.
Of course, there's some selection bias here (but probably not that extreme. Early pre-orders are more likely to post here, but if you're interested enough to pre-order at all, you're probably here anyway).
Plus, it doesn't account for how many units were manufactured in advance (although the initial period with zero shipments suggests not much!).
Anyway, just a little tidbit that might help things look a bit better!