The Review I ordered this premium Dobsonian from Discovery on November 20, 2000. It arrived in the subsequent millennium, March 31, 2001.
Good things are worth waiting for.
As it turned out, I did not miss a lot of viewing days during that time. On the few crisp, cool late fall evenings we had in Wisconsin last year, I enjoyed getting out and using my Orion SVD 90. That's a lot of fun until the middle of December when the bone marrow finally freezes over, about the same time as Lake Geneva does, and stays frozen like the lake until at least April. There was only a handful of clear nights during that time this winter any way. All in all, the long delivery time wasn't much of a set back.