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42mm Space Grey May 13 - 27

Ha! Just got a auto email from Apple saying my watch was due to ship in the next 2-3 weeks. Except the watch is on the truck coming today. Guess someone forgot to have the auto mailer check order numbers to get status before sending the mail.
 
Trying to wait patiently

I've been using the forums as a means to pass the time while waiting that seems like forever. I'm in the xx:07 04/10 group and I haven't had any movement at all, I hope it shakes loose soon though so I can get back to regularly scheduled programming😀
 
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"Preparing for Shipment" !!!

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It's happening folks 🙂

Model: 42 SG AWS
Status: Preparing For Shipment
Ordered: 4/10/15
Confirmation time: xx:07
Delivery: May 12-26
Payment: Mastercard
Location: Paris, France
 
Jpav-Louisville said:
Question for anyone who may know, asking for a friend. I know most of the 07 and 08's are up right now, at what time do most of the bulk of preorders start to decrease, basically at what time will we start to see preorders ship sooner?
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Apple is pretty secretive you know. There is no real way for anyone outside the company (or most of them inside the company for that matter) to know that. At most you'll get some speculation based on a limited and random data sample.
 
wills11 said:
I don't know what Apple "likes" but do you really think the company is "saving orders" for a week at a time when there's this much pressure to fill orders? Seems extremely unlikely to me.

If it is indeed true that more orders are shipped on Thursdays, I would posit that there's an alternative explanation.
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Considering a great deal of people are getting charged the same time they usually have the past 2 Thursdays I think is some proof.. get off your high horse
 
For the 4/24 - 5/8 people, the EoD basically signified not receiving the watch by the first day of their Estimated Time Of Arrival (4/24 for them, 5/13 for us). It could be the same meaning for all the people receiving it now. Not hard to believe considering we're still in the 7s.
 
Anti.Hero said:
For the 4/24 - 5/8 people, the EoD basically signified not receiving the watch by the first day of their Estimated Time Of Arrival (4/24 for them, 5/13 for us). It could be the same meaning for all the people receiving it now. Not hard to believe considering we're still in the 7s.
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FWIW - my sister got the EOD for the 4/24 - 5/8 time frame, but she still got her watch (pink sport, 42mm) 3 business days after launch day..
 
Anti.Hero said:
For the 4/24 - 5/8 people, the EoD basically signified not receiving the watch by the first day of their Estimated Time Of Arrival (4/24 for them, 5/13 for us). It could be the same meaning for all the people receiving it now. Not hard to believe considering we're still in the 7s.
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But if EoD now says 2-3 weeks that's the same time we are in may13-27 well 3 weeks from today will be may28 so I don't get this EoD that people saying it says 2-3 weeks
 
Fractology said:
The fact that there were like six planes landing in Louisville last night that resulted in zero people being charged really throws a bone in the whole "CCs are charged when planes land in Louisville" theory.

I think maybe cards are charged when leaving the facilities in China...in the past, it probably coincidentally coincided with the planes landing in Louisville (the time they were landing wasn't too far off when planes were leaving China). Then the orders probably get tracking info once they clear customs in the states.

If this is true, then flight tracking won't really do any good since we can't track planes before they leave China. And the times of charges have been changing from day to day, week to week which could mean different manufacturing schedules.

tl;dr: The credit card charges may have coincidently been linked to planes landing in Louisville or Anchorage when in reality the data may simply be a correlation but not causation.
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According to afrobat over on r/applewatch it works like this.

You get charged and "Preparing for Shipment" update around 1-3 hours prior to plane departures from Asia. This is when Apple is still in possession of the watches, so this is when they charge you and determine if your order is going to be shipped with this batch.

You get the UPS Tracking number and "Shipped" update a few hours after the planes have left Asia. UPS is now in possession of your package. So if you haven't gotten the "Preparing for Shipment" update at this point, you likely are not going to be getting it the next day.

Tracking information gets updated after the package has been processed through the Anchorage hub. That is, you'll start seeing updated statuses for your UPS tracking number.

Edit: There seems to be a lot of people who think that they're getting their updates after planes land in Louisville. This is wrong. This is just people who are getting their watches that day. It may seem like it, but it's only because people are charged and order statuses are "Preparing for Shipment" in the time between when planes arrive in Louisville and the next batch of shipments depart from Asia.
 
Order Change confirmation

A little odd, but I just received (5/7 8:29AM PST) an "Order Change Confirmation" email. I did change the shipping address of my order but that was last week and received a confirmation back then. Just received another one this morning - more speculation but something is happening with my order...
 
I deleted a bunch of new rows in the official sheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kU3O7zceWNdlD8GfT-QOmdY2whTRopxIJUTndyJWzvA/edit#gid=0) because for some reason someone was making a new table at the bottom of the sheet. Please double check your order is still there, correct, and up-to-date!

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I just received an email from Apple with the subject: "Your Apple Watch Order" and it said, "Your USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter is expected to ship within the next 2-3 weeks..."

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42mm SG
Email confirmation: xx:11:07
Card charged: No
Status: Processing
Greenville, South Carolina

I've been checking my email, bank account, and this forum almost ever hour of the day for the last 2 weeks! At least I have you folks who can cope with me. We will get our watches hopefully sooner than later! Still super excited.
 
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