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No, I wasn't blaming you, but I figured you talked to your source again today and asked him or her what happened. Sorry, didn't mean to bring it back up.
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Thanks!
No, I wasn't blaming you, but I figured you talked to your source again today and asked him or her what happened. Sorry, didn't mean to bring it back up.
My Watch Arrived
Hello all,
UPS delivered my watch at 3:25 CST in the DFW area. I really love it and look forward to learning to use all it's features. I was in the xx:07:04 group so I hope the rest of you get your watches soon. It's more impressive than I expected from the Apple Store demos.
Demosthanes
Hello all,
UPS delivered my watch at 3:25 CST in the DFW area. I really love it and look forward to learning to use all it's features. I was in the xx:07:04 group so I hope the rest of you get your watches soon. It's more impressive than I expected from the Apple Store demos.
Demosthanes
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Lucky to have made it just before yesterdays huge slow down. Still waiting on updates after your group got through.
Maybe Apple was using a false flag to find leaks and your souce is getting shown the door now.
I'm new to this thread today. I took a look at the google doc and it looks like between yesterday and today they shipped ~30 seconds of orders per day. Is that accurate? What has the rate been like leading up to today? I keep seeing stuff about a big slow down.
My info again:
xx:08:19 confirmation email.
Saint Paul, MN.
Processing.
No Credit Charge.
No EoD.
My info again:
xx:08:19 confirmation email.
Saint Paul, MN.
Processing.
No Credit Charge.
No EoD.
This was my first time preordering anProduct and honestly, its been a frustrating nightmare. But not really, its just a first-world problem imo. Yes they jacked up the launch, so much so that I might not preorder again and just wait (I REALLY WANTED THE
Good luck and happy waiting!
First time preordering also. If much rather wait long hours in line
It was going good. Until last night. Usually we wake up to a room full of charges. But last night there wasn't any charges.
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Don't let this be your bad experience. I have always pre-ordered as I don't have time to go wait in line. I always pre-ordered my iPhone's thru Apple except once I went thru Verizon because they were having a promotion. And I always got it on launch date without any problems.
I would agree with you if you were right.
But you are wrong.
So I won't.
I was in China last year and saw what a big deal it has become.
After last weekend there was a return in pace. Like you said, about 30 seconds of orders getting through each day with a couple stragglers here and there. Yesterday however, there were no changes from processing to preparing for shipment, and still no updates today except for a few European orders.
Or maybe the entire shipment was sent to Maxfields?
I heard Maxfield's had some, so I went on Monday afternoon and was told that they were out of "tickets" for appointments. They only had 50 appointments a day. I went on Tues mid afternoon and they increased it to 100 appointments a day but they didnt have any 42 SG sports. So I ordered one and I am still waiting. So even though people are getting their watches faster by going to Maxfield's, it is only 50 (now 100) people a day. I seriously doubt that is making any impact on how fast (or slow) the Apple.com orders are being shipped. And most people are taking whatever Maxfield's has in stock so they can have something in hand when they walk out the door.
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Slowdown, yes. But we've discovered an important dividing line IMO.
I got in to place an order around :05, but due to some issues with the billing info attached to my account didn't get to actually submit until late :07's. In that time, the shipping window changed on me from the first wave to the 5/3-27 timeframe.
We're seeing a slowdown because Apple has finally fulfilled their first wave. They are under no obligation to move on to that 2nd wave until next week and can use this time in between to build up internal stock, that of their premium retailers, and begin the ramp up for their own stores.
Just some observations given the timing of it all. Could be wrong. But if we didn't come up with hypothesis of some kind, we'd be in the dark completely.
I got in to place an order around :05, but due to some issues with the billing info attached to my account didn't get to actually submit until late :07's. In that time, the shipping window changed on me from the first wave to the 5/3-27 timeframe.
We're seeing a slowdown because Apple has finally fulfilled their first wave. They are under no obligation to move on to that 2nd wave until next week and can use this time in between to build up internal stock, that of their premium retailers, and begin the ramp up for their own stores.
Just some observations given the timing of it all. Could be wrong. But if we didn't come up with hypothesis of some kind, we'd be in the dark completely.
Actually we're still completely in the dark because this hypothesis is nothing more than a guess based on almost no supporting info. Maybe the big slowdown in NA is because they had not been fulfilling European orders and finally sent a big shipment that way? Less MR users from Euro on here so we're hearing less about how many are being delivered.
My comments are based on Hawaii time (6 hours behind EDT). When I looked at reports Tuesday night (just after Midnight so technically Wednesday morning), they had reached 7:13. The next night they had only moved to 7:27 and now I see 7:29 (at 4:30 PM Hawaii time).
I didn't make it a point to note if it was credit card charged, or changed to "preparing to ship", or "shipping" or "delivered". I just figured any of those showed the person was very close to getting it at least.
So today has been really slow. Now, if you work from April 24th to May 5th, that's 12 days to go from 1:00 to about 7:13. Just over 6 minutes (of course, not all orders for the SGS were filled that were within that time frame), so 30 secondss a day - sort of. But not now!
Hope we don't have a second real bad night tonight!
My puppy somehow got to the band portion of my Black 42mm Sport.
Luckily he only got to the band portion where the holes are on the S/M band.
If there's anyone out there with a large wrist that cannot use their S/M section can I please have it? I'll pay to have it shipped.
Just got it last week so I have no idea how this happened.
Luckily he only got to the band portion where the holes are on the S/M band.
If there's anyone out there with a large wrist that cannot use their S/M section can I please have it? I'll pay to have it shipped.
Just got it last week so I have no idea how this happened.
Ok, I am confused.
I thought it was determined that the billing happens when the planes take off from China, not when they land.
My accounting and revenue recognition rules are rusty, but I thought that they can bill once they take possession (e.g. from the third party supplier) and put them into the shipping process.
Bill - upon possession (e.g. in China)
Shipping info - once transferred to UPS.
So if apple ha stock in the store before you receive your pre order does that mean you can go to the store for pickup or do you still have to wait for delivery?
I'll be camping out on this forum for the next several overnight hours to see if we can get some movement and/or a wave started. I have plenty of chilled Sam Adams to keep me company.
Anyone else with me?
Anyone else with me?