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A little more than 24 hrs, Post your pre-order Game Plan!

  • Tuck kids in around 8:45pm
  • Make a couple Jack n Cokes and play Starcraft 2
  • Go to bed around 11:40PM
  • awake at 2:55 AM and go to computer room
  • prepare to refresh apple store page every 2 seconds at 3AM
  • click for the next 60 seconds feverishly
  • Buy when the button finally shows
  • After victory, check macrumors site and see whats up
  • Go back to bed around 3:30AM
  • Wake up around 6:45 and wonder if it was all a dream
 
Technodynamic said:
  • Tuck kids in around 8:45pm
  • Make a couple Jack n Cokes and play Starcraft 2
  • Go to bed around 11:40PM
  • awake at 2:55 AM and go to computer room
  • prepare to refresh apple store page every 2 seconds at 3AM
  • click for the next 60 seconds feverishly
  • Buy when the button finally shows
  • After victory, check macrumors site and see whats up
  • Go back to bed around 3:30AM
  • Wake up around 6:45 and wonder if it was all a dream
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LOL. I've heard stories of people going to sleep hoping to wake up just before preorders start and just sleeping through. If it was me I wouldn't risk it.:eek:
 
Have 2 watches already "favorited" on iphone app.

Set alarm for 2:55 AM - (Wife will make me sleep in different bedroom tonight)

Wake up, refresh app until available

Add both to cart

Buy with Apple Pay/Touch ID

If wait times slip, oh well. No compromise on model/band here.

Back to bed
 
Wake up usual time, get myself in front of a computer for 8:00am, then hope that my order goes through nice and easy so I can go and get some breakfast before another day in front of my books. Exams are a month away after all :cool:
 
I rarely sleep through the night anyway and it's even worse when I'm excited about a pre-order. I'm sure I'll wake up several times before 3AM EST.

Pre-order or reserve. Not sure if I want to do in-store pickup or not.

Go back to sleep.
 
jbromer said:
Have 2 watches already "favorited" on iphone app.

Set alarm for 2:55 AM - (Wife will make me sleep in different bedroom tonight)

Wake up, refresh app until available

Add both to cart

Buy with Apple Pay/Touch ID

If wait times slip, oh well. No compromise on model/band here.

Back to bed
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How do you refresh the app?
 
Will be staying up until I order the 42mm SS with the Milanese band.

At 7:50am I will be setting my Firefox add-on called auto refresh to refresh the Apple page every 10secs until it's live. Will also be keeping my 6+ and Air 2 with the app store app ready.

When the iPhone 6 launched, I was able to complete the pre-order via the app store app before the main site was available.
 
Just1n12 said:
- Go to the Apple Store app
- Go to my Favorites section
- Select my 38MM Space Gray Apple Watch Sport
- Order it
- Go on here and brag about it
- Go to sleep
- Wake up a few hours later
- Go in to try it on in the Apple Store near me
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You are missing one step: setup a try-on appointment.
 
You would think it was actually something important.

Well, I guess it is (which is odd).

Anyway, I'm up at that hour anyway. I will try to order the space grey. When that fails (which it probably will), I will order any other Sport color as they are all hideously ugly. Maybe the blue one. Pink is odd. White is...well there's some statement there I think i'm not sure what that is. Green looks a little insane.

To each their own :)
 
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1. Work until 6 pm tonight.
2. Go home and walk the dogs
3. work out from 7:30 pm-8:30 pm
4. Take a 30 minute shower
5. Sit back with the wife and chit chat until we get tired (9:30 pm-10 pm)
6. Set alarms on both iPhones & ipads for wake up (Im a very light sleeper and wake up around 2:30 am to go across the hall like clock work every morning anyway...)
7. Wake up and make sure everything in my presence is set to order.
8. Pre-Order and do an in store reservation.
Fall out and wake up , goto the apple store and see one in person and thats a wrap!
 
A couple more tips:
  • Disable your screensaver on your Mac or PC.
  • Disable Auto-Lock on your iOS devices, but keep them charged.
  • Have multiple browsers open on your Mac or PC, with one of them at least viewing this forum!
  • Make sure Do Not Disturb is enabled on your Mac and/or iOS device(s).
 
1.) Get home from work at 8.
2.) Get on MacRumors and discourage as many people as possible from buying the 42mm Space Gray Sport.
3.) Drink Mountain Dew.
4.) Watch the September and March :apple: Watch events and promo videos
5.) Set backup alarm for 15 minutes before pre-orders open in case I fall asleep
6.) Get Apple Store app open on my iPhone and iPad and set on my favorites.
7.) More MacRumors browsing.
8.) Pre-order my 42mm Space Gray Sport right as the pre-orders open
9.) Get on MacRumors and see if everyone got what they wanted.
10.) Go to bed. :)

*Alternate Ending*
9.) Not end up getting my 42mm Space Gray Sport
10.) Cry.
11.) Order a 42mm Silver Aluminum Sport with White Band and buy the Black Band separately. :D
 
Already updated Apple Pay and have my top three watches in favorites section. Head to bed early, maybe around 9 pm. Set alarm for 2:50 am.W Wake up, refresh app store until I can order, order and pay with Apple Pay. Go back to sleep.
 
Mr.C said:
LOL. I've heard stories of people going to sleep hoping to wake up just before preorders start and just sleeping through. If it was me I wouldn't risk it.:eek:
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I'd be more worried about trying to stay awake and falling asleep...

Haven't entirely decided whether I'm going to be staying up (central time here, so 2:01 AM for me...) but either way I have a few alarms set 1:45-55 so I know I'll be up... Being awake isn't worrying me though. How fast the (seemingly very popular) 42mm Space Gray model sells out is what's scaring me.

Will have iPad & iPhone (with the Apple Store app) and my MacBook set up waiting though. Not sure which will be faster though: Apple Pay on iOS or express checkout on the web... Really comes down to which one goes live first though...
 
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