The rumor is that Nikon’s warehouses in Canada have been out of D700 since early December. They have no indication if any new shipments are on the way.
I would expected the Nikon D90 to be out of stock, but why the D700? Both bodies are listed as 0 inventory in one of the district warehouses, which serves around 400-600 BestBuy stores. The out of stock date for the D90 is September 7th, 2010 and for the D700 is August 3, 2010:
Nikon D700 is currently out of stock @ B&H. This is either a regular supply shortage or really good timing on Nikon’s part. It will be interesting to monitor the availability in the next few days/weeks. Nikon shortages are usually for new products – the Nikon D700 is already 2 years old. In addition, the [...]
This is not the first time to report that the Nikon D700 is being phased out and and is no longer available for order in certain locations (see here and here). There is a another report from dpeview from few days ago about Cameta Camera not be able to order any new D700: “I struck up [...]
From April 24 till August 2, 2009: 20,000 ¥ (around 200 USD) cash back on the Nikon D700 in Japan. Did the recent price increase started to backfire (yes, even Japan got a price increase few weeks ago)? Source
Yes, it is possible and I don’t mean this solution:
Nikon told us about this update few weeks ago. Today the D3 got a new firmware: Windows Mac D700 got an update as well: Windows Mac