That's interesting. Maybe it's a sign that shipping estimates will drop soon. Apple doesn't just charge your card for authorization and have it drop off.
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1.3 BTO - Credit Card Charged
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That's interesting. Maybe it's a sign that shipping estimates will drop soon. Apple doesn't just charge your card for authorization and have it drop off.
Nothing personal, but you are obviously an outlier here. Whatever is happening with your card and order is irrelevant to all of us who ordered on the first day.
I think when I ordered my iMac BTO, my card was charged when they started building it. It still took almost a week before it shipped.
I saw the MR article that some of the Apple Watch orders are preparing for shipment -- earlier than expected. Perhaps the same is true of our MacBooks. One can only hope, but I won't have high hopes until I see an actual shipping confirmation.
I saw the MR article that some of the Apple Watch orders are preparing for shipment -- earlier than expected. Perhaps the same is true of our MacBooks. One can only hope, but I won't have high hopes until I see an actual shipping confirmation.
Except it's happened to more than just him. There's a lot of us who have been getting charged today. I guess we'll see in few days if the charge goes through of but I wouldn't say what's happening to him makes him an outlier except that it happened to him a bit earlier than it happened to a lot of others. I can link you to the thread of people having the same thing happening if you haven't seen it yet.
But the shipping estimates are not set in stone. This would mean that Apple is getting ready to ship orders out. Plus, these are not pre-charge authorizations.
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That's great!
But a "Pending Charge" for the full amount is different to a "Pre-charge Authorisation" isn't it?
It has been in my experience. I've never had Apple charge the full amount for a pre-charge authorization.
I ordered pretty early on but I expected others to have done the same tbh. Hopefully some more will get the same soon and we'll finally get our hands on it
yes i ordered at launch, my shipping date is not set. The date is still sitting at its original may 6th ETA, but that will change soon of course.
I think 3bs's is a pending charge like mine, rather than an actual charge, but I may have misunderstood.
Nevertheless, watch this space!
No you're right it's still pending but that happens to all online transactions I make so I don't see why it would be different for this Apple charge. It takes a few days to show up in my recent transactions. Order still says "processing items" though.
I ordered two. One is a 1.3ghz space gray. The other is a 1.3ghz gold. The space gray got marked preparing for shipment. The gold is still processing...
