How accurate is "iPad Ships within 5 - 7 business days?"

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fotomatt1

macrumors regular

Original poster

• May 10, 2010

• #1

Just ordered my 64gb 3g yesterday from the Apple online store. Just curious how accurate Apple's shipping times are from peoples experience? It says I should receive it between May 18 - 22. I just don't want it to be much beyond that.

 

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Battlestar

macrumors 6502

• May 10, 2010

• #2

They are pretty accurate. And remebmer they are coming all the way from China.

 

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MorganK

macrumors regular

• May 10, 2010

• #3

I'm curious about this too. I ordered a new MBP last week, quoted at shipping in 1-3 days. It shipped in about 12 hours and it was delivered 3 days after I ordered (regular shipping, not express). It was a nice surprise to check the tracking! I am hoping the iPads ship quicker too.

 

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blco02

Suspended

• May 10, 2010

• #4

Hopefully it's accurate - and from everything I've read, it is.

Just placed an order for a 16GB - getting excited already.

 

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ukwildcat

macrumors 6502

• May 10, 2010

• #5

Been ordering from Apple for a couple of years now. The estimates have always been dead on for me.

 

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s4yunkim

macrumors regular

• May 10, 2010

• #6

ukwildcat said:

Been ordering from Apple for a couple of years now. The estimates have always been dead on for me.

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I've ordered a lot of things from apple, always gotten them on time, if not early.

I actually worked for apple retail for a while and have never heard of shipments going out late, but I've been hearing that there are not enough planes out of China, which essentially limits Apple's ability to get it to people on time. 🙁

I ordered mine on April 29th, and it was supposed to be shipped by the 7th. Well, it was "shipped" by the 6th, but it's been sitting in Shenzhen, China for the past 4 days, and it's still there. It was supposed to be delivered by the 10th, now it says the 11th, and I bet you anything it's going to say the 12th tomorrow...

 

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Eric-PTEK

macrumors 6502

• May 10, 2010

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I ordered mine on the 3rd and it just changed to Prepared for Shipment a few hours ago.

Supposed to be here by the latest the 15th.

I'm still on a wait list in the Apple store but since this is already charged to my card I'll wait for it.

 

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itskristian

macrumors newbie

• May 10, 2010

• #8

Still waiting for mine... Apple says "preparing for shipment", delivery May 11-15!