"Do they have chips" was never the question. Dave mentioned that they have enough in stock that if I wanted a reel I could have it tomorrow.
No, that wasn't my concern... my concern was that I ordered these on 9/1, and part of the reasoning behind the absurd price of these chips was that you'd get them immediately.
Ah .. interesting ... so "immediately" turns out to be about 10 days?
On a second thought - that's probably normal and okay. There was a long weekend (9/2) in between, so there are 4-5 business days between then and today. Unless you ordered a "overnight" or "second day" shipping it would take on average 3-5 business days. If they shipped it on 9/3 and you received it yesterday - that's okay and perfectly within the expected time frame.
As for October availability Dave had mentioned earlier: "we'll have plenty of reels available starting early October". That's why I didn't consider "availability" as a concern.
They shipped it on 9/6. five days is what it is, and I know they were busy over labor day weekend building and testing miners.