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2016 Macbook Pro, Order/Shipping Thread
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Anyone from Europe, especially Denmark have seen any movement or changes? I special think about the Stock 13 TB?
Remembers me of 2002, when the MiniDisc Player I ordered was destroyed during the Überlingen air collision
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Überlingen_mid-air_collisionHere is my theory. If you have a delivery date of 11-18, yours is coming in the first wave. It takes time for Apple's back-end systems to (a) seek approval for a charge, (b) receive approval for that charge, (c) identify a particular MBP unit within the bulk stock as yours, (d) seek a tracking number from UPS/FedEx/whatever, (e) receive that tracking number from the carrier, and (f) update the system with the tracking number.
My 13" stock went to PFS yesterday afternoon. Here's hoping my theory is correct!
My 13" stock went to PFS yesterday afternoon. Here's hoping my theory is correct!
Just got a shipped notification! Apple says delivery on the 16th. UPS says delivery on the 15th. Currently in Shanghai.
It's actually a bit more complicated than that. They don't just cram the planes as full as they can. Actually, there's a lot of empty space too. These airplanes have a maximum takeoff weight (fun fact: It's actually a lot higher than their maximum landing weight. On 9/11, millions of gallons of jet fuel was dumped into the atmosphere as planes had to shed weight to land safely), plus; balance is absolutely crucial. So there's enough open space to move stuff around to get the balance correct prior to takeoff.
Everyone with tracking numbers...do you have a departure scan? Just like it took time for everyone to get to P4S it will take a little time for everyone in this first batch to get the shipping info. They can't scan every MacBook at the same time.
That doesn't really make a lot of sense. You wanted it enough to spend thousands; but not enough to wait an extra couple of days?
You guys can't be serious. You were given a delivery window. Some of us are getting them early, but you'll still get it inside the delivery window you were given... I mean, I'm not trying to be rude; this just boggles my mind. The sense of overwhelming entitlement that this product isn't going to arrive before the company said it would arrive so you're going to cancel your order because someone else got theirs first?
By the way; whoever the adamant poster was that these weren't going to ship out until Wednesday: I think we have evidence yet again that any Apple employee who tries to give you "insider information" is blowing smoke. They don't know anything we don't know and none of us are such a special snowflake that we get super secret information.
I do.
Shanghai, China 11/12/2016 5:00 P.M. Departure Scan
I ordered within 3 hours of the keynote, BTO 13", credit card was charged very early Tuesday morning and I'm still sitting at processing. :/
My delivery window is still the 17-25th.
Is there any chance I'm going to make the flights out today?
My delivery window is still the 17-25th.
Is there any chance I'm going to make the flights out today?
If you have a different opinion to me, that's great, but this is how I see it.
It is not "overwhelming entitlement" to expect:
- Your order to be fulfilled before someone who ordered after you.
- Transparency if favouritism does occur (e.g. Schiller could have said ships in two weeks for the US; three weeks elsewhere).
- Precision in this process. The amount of buzz Apple engineers is immense with carefully-chosen embargo dates (which were even staggered this year to get the "Pro user" review out) and ensuring the first orders all arrive on the same day is a big part of that, and they manage it with most products.
Hope it wasn't on this flight...it seems to have disappeared! At least on Flightradar24...
I understand how you feel. But I just can't imagine Phil Schiller spending 30 minutes of the keynote breaking down all of the logistics and when each country is getting theirs. He said "You'll get them in 2-3 weeks" and everyone was given a delivery window.
In fact, I doubt very much there is ANY preferential treatment going on. It's in the hands of Apple's logistics partners. UPS's air service is 24/7/365 (I originally went to school to become a Commercial Airline Pilot and UPS was a company I really wanted to work for.) Perhaps Apple is simply using someone else to deliver to your country and they aren't flying out at 3AM on a Saturday, the list goes on.
If you have paid with a Visa CC and your order is more than 25.000 dk kr, you could very well run in to the same issue as I have. It will show up on your Order status though, so check that.
Now, if you have paid with Dankort (or the Dankort part of your Visa/Dankort CC), you might not run into an issue at all. That could depend on whether the Apple charge is considered coming from Denmark (since it is a Danish web store after all) or whether it is charged internationally. I think you can use your Dankort for more than 25.000 dk kr if the transaction in considered within Denmark. My bank couldn't tell whether that is the case with Apple.
What I find weird is that the Apple Online Store system doesn't throw an error when you try to use a Visa CC on an order that exceeds the amount of 25.000 dk kr. It really should, because that would spare both the customer and Apple a lot of trouble.
BTW, a funny fact is that I tried to use my Dankort and while the webpage threw an error, I was actually charged 1 kr from Apple as their pre-authorized the card. And I got an email that I had changed my payment method. In other words, a complete mess.
I think charges from Apple are coming from Ireland (not sure if for WW orders or EU only)If you have paid with a Visa CC and your order is more than 25.000 dk kr, you could very well run in to the same issue as I have. It will show up on your Order status though, so check that.
Now, if you have paid with Dankort (or the Dankort part of your Visa/Dankort CC), you might not run into an issue at all. That could depend on whether the Apple charge is considered coming from Denmark (since it is a Danish web store after all) or whether it is charged internationally. I think you can use your Dankort for more than 25.000 dk kr if the transaction in considered within Denmark. My bank couldn't tell whether that is the case with Apple.
What I find weird is that the Apple Online Store system doesn't throw an error when you try to use a Visa CC on an order that exceeds the amount of 25.000 dk kr. It really should, because that would spare both the customer and Apple a lot of trouble.
BTW, a funny fact is that I tried to use my Dankort and while the webpage threw an error, I was actually charged 1 kr from Apple as their pre-authorized the card. And I got an email that I had changed my payment method. In other words, a complete mess.
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lucky..
