An Update On Deus II Shipping From XP

[Kickindirt]

The greatly anticipated USA arrival of XP’s new detector, the DEUS II, is still several weeks away!  Although the DEUS II was first released back in mid-December in the European Union countries (EU preferential origin), specifically France, Germany, etc, they have only just arrived in the UK this past week for dealer distribution.

For us “across the pond”, the first limited allocation shipment is planned to be air freighted to the USA late this next week and after import/customs processing and shipping to XP’s USA distributors, it could take two weeks, to as much as three, to get them to dealers and their customers.

Please keep in mind, these first shipments are limited in numbers so most of the dealers that submitted their orders by November 6, 2021, may only receive 1 to 3 units as XP and the USA distributors are striving to fairly share their limited availability across the USA. However, the good news is XP is assuring that the USA will have the top priority for the sending of the 2nd and 3rd allocations of DEUS II. 

In the meantime, following is the link for the XP DEUS II manual.  It is well written and will be helpful when the DEUS II arrive. 

UK RC DEUSII.pdf (xpmetaldetectors.com)

Incidentally, there were some USA DEUS II YouTube’rs/testers that thought the DEUS II USA shipments were already in the air and arriving in the USA by this past Friday.  However, the XPLORER manufacturing facility and headquarters in Toulouse, France, confirmed that this was not true and just wishful thinking. 

Also of interest, XP testers and/or YouTube’rs got pre-regular production versions of the DEUS II with version 5 software. The DEUS II that will be shipped to the USA will have the newer version 6. The DEUS II , its coil, remote control, WS6 headphones are all designed to have their software updated online! 

[abenson]

Well there you have it. Good luck getting a Deus 2 on the first shipment.

[GB_Amateur]

Was there a date associated with that message? 

There's a bit of confusion (on my part, anyway) between the first sentence:

22 minutes ago, Kickindirt said:

USA arrival of XP’s new detector, the DEUS II, is still several weeks away!  (emphasis mine)

and paragraph 2:

22 minutes ago, Kickindirt said:

For us “across the pond”, the first limited allocation shipment is planned to be air freighted to the USA late this next week and after import/customs processing and shipping to XP’s USA distributors, it could take two weeks, to as much as three, to get them to dealers and their customers.  (emphasis mine)

Maybe the 'several weeks' means for later (larger) shipments?  Or maybe in their meaning 'several' and {2,3,4} weeks are the same thing.

And what about the Southern Hemisphere?  It's peak of summer there.  Anyone in Australia have one, or is XP showing solidarity with Novak Djokovic and punishing you ingrates? 

[Kickindirt]

GB-Amateur

Meaning it will be on a flight this wk and then the shipment has to pass thru customs. Which could possibly take a couple weeks possibly. Hopefully not but possibly. 

[Dan(NM)]

Looks like February or March before I have one in hand. That's too bad because the weather's great out here in Central Texas.

[cobb05]

I believe east coast customs is in better shape that west coast customs so hoping it gets through quicker! 

[Hombre91]

This has been so far the toastiest and one of the driest  if not the driest to this point winter up here in the Panhandle in my life. 

[Kickindirt]

I would say don't let your Deus1 go to quickly lol. 

[abenson]

21 minutes ago, Kickindirt said:

I would say don't let your Deus1 go to quickly lol. 

Did they give any clue as to when the 2nd shipment will go out?

[Chase Goldman]

16 minutes ago, abenson said:

Did they give any clue as to when the 2nd shipment will go out?

No reason to give out too much bad news on the first communication. 

IOW - it's no accident they are not saying when subsequent shipments will fly.  They either don't know due to too many uncertainties (production yield, shipping irregularities driven by the pandemic surge) or don't want to say because they know it's going to be several weeks down the road.  I don't blame them in the least.

Like I said in another post, this will play out like the Nox.  A slow, steady ramp up to full production rates.  It will likely take a couple months to work down the pre-order backlog, complicated by 2022's supply chain challenges.  But hey, it's coming.

Thanks to Kickindirt for passing on the XP dealer notification.  It jibes with the info I have received from other dealers.