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magicmole

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Mar 22, 2011
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PC World have emailed me stating they will be selling these Friday from 5pm too.

I would have thought lunch time would be fine for the apple store. But, you never know!! :eek:
 

danielowenuk

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Mar 18, 2011
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Me and 2 of my friends will be at the Meadowhall store.
Was initially considering an overnight queue up as we thought it might open early at say 8am, but since it's now a 5pm launch I think we will just get there around 8am.

I'll be sat in the queue passing time with my iPad 1, lol.

What you really need to do is give us all an update.

I can get there pretty much any time on Friday, but as it's my birthday I would rather not spend it queing all day.
 

magicmole

macrumors newbie
Mar 22, 2011
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I will update this thread at 12:00 hrs on Friday (when I plan on getting there) if no-one else has done an update.
 

PhazonUK

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Jun 1, 2010
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I'll be getting there quite early so I'll post up some pictures of everyone lining up throughout the day and I'll see what the Apple folks say about availability and stuff.
 

lc25

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Jul 31, 2009
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i'm going to have a walk in after work about 3.30/3.45ish if the lines are long ill leave it if not ill join.
 

MacSiggy

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Apr 28, 2008
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i'm going to have a walk in after work about 3.30/3.45ish if the lines are long ill leave it if not ill join.

I'm thinking along those lines too. For the iPad 1 I got there 1.5 hours before opening and it was fine. It sounds like people are going to be turning up at silly times for this one. I'm not bothering to take the day off work for a 2nd iPad. I'm going to try a pre-order first, if I can get it within a couple of weeks I'll be happy.
 

lc25

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Jul 31, 2009
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I'm thinking along those lines too. For the iPad 1 I got there 1.5 hours before opening and it was fine. It sounds like people are going to be turning up at silly times for this one. I'm not bothering to take the day off work for a 2nd iPad. I'm going to try a pre-order first, if I can get it within a couple of weeks I'll be happy.

I'm easy on this one be worth a walk in if its acceptable ill get one if not I'm really not fussed,its on my way home anyways so will either be something gained or something lost.
 

appleboyy

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Original poster
Jun 18, 2010
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Got here at 5am and 7 in queue already! Doors were open so inside!

Hes not lying ;) we're 4th in line!

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magicmole

macrumors newbie
Mar 22, 2011
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I didn't realise Meadowhall opened that early!

Don't think I stand a chance of getting one if I am arriving at lunch time now.

Oh well.
 

SteelercazUK

macrumors newbie
Sep 15, 2008
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Damn, absolute earliest I'll be able to get there is 3.30/4ish, so looking like I won't be getting one after all! Ar$e...

I ordered a couple last night, after well over an hour of "Oops" messages from the website, but they're not shipping til 15th April / delivered 26th April - don't know if I have that much patience! :eek:

Nice one on the queue updates guys, muchly appreciated :D
 

joehoyle

macrumors newbie
Apr 27, 2007
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100+ people?

Hey,

I just rang the Meadowhall store, and he said there was 100+ people queueing already! Just wanted to see if anyone there could confirm/deny that - as the last post here said there were around 7?

Cheers!
 

Nufc_joe

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Mar 25, 2011
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joehoyle said:
Hey,

I just rang the Meadowhall store, and he said there was 100+ people queueing already! Just wanted to see if anyone there could confirm/deny that - as the last post here said there were around 7?

Cheers!

Theyres at least 100-150 people! Alot
Of people ordering 2 as well
 

joehoyle

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Apr 27, 2007
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Holy crap!

Do you think it's even worth coming down? I can get there in like an hour. I have no idea how many they will have :S

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Theyres at least 100-150 people! Alot
Of people ordering 2 as well
 

Nufc_joe

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Mar 25, 2011
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joehoyle said:
Holy crap!

Do you think it's even worth coming down? I can get there in like an hour. I have no idea how many they will have :S

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Theyres at least 100-150 people! Alot
Of people ordering 2 as well

Staff in shop have been saying people at back may be dissapointed! You could alway try buy someone's space in que
 

danielowenuk

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Mar 18, 2011
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Got there at just after eleven and was 93rd in the queue, they had sold out of white 3G 16gb by then but that wasn't the model I was after anyway.
 

Dogueboy

macrumors newbie
Mar 25, 2011
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I wish I had all day to bum about - finished work at 5:40, got to Meadowhall at about 6pm and figured if the queues were too long, I'd just wait for a few weeks.

Walked into the upstairs Orange shop - no queue at all but they only had 16 & 32 Gb ones left. Checked out huge queue outside Apple shop. Went to downstairs Orange shop - picked up the white 64Gb 3G that I wanted without any wait at all. Chuckled to myself looking at the large (and growing) queue outside Apple shop, left by 6:20.
 
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