I ve just ordered one from ebay US (I am in France).
@DaleDe I see you (as usual) have done a great work on the wiki (
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Galaxy_Tab_S5e ), if that s OK with you I will add a few links and info to this wiki page (I ll mostly take them from the xda forum ... I like to "tinker" a little bit with my devices, like rooting them and put a linux distro on them with linux-deploy

... )