Anyone willing to share their order number?

[mcdj]

I think your problem is that once people get the watch, they stop coming to the forum boards

There could (perhaps should) be a dedicated site, MacShippingRumors.

 

[anez]

Please someone tell me where is the evidence that apple is lying to their customer base... and what would be there motivation for doing so.?

There goal is to get as many watches into their customers hand as fast as possible..and they can pretty much get a watch anywhere in the world in about 48 hours... So why would they decide to skip over someone who ordered at xx:03 and ship the same model watch to someone who ordered at xx:05?

I actually want to know - please tell me. watch = power

I have no evidence, which is why I am not saying that they are. However, this thread and others suggest that people do believe this to be the case, which is why they are annoyed.

I'm no logistics expert, so I couldn't possibly say why they would skip some orders, but it could be anything. Perhaps the order list was randomized after they were assigned a 1st/2nd/3rd shipment wave. Maybe they're prioritizing orders which are in close geographical proximity to blocks of others-- I am guessing it is easier (and possibly cheaper) to pack one shipment of two hundred watches to the NYC area than it is to pack and ship two hundred orders to two hundred different towns in thirty different states. I don't know, but I'm sure there are many possibilities.

I am not accusing Apple of anything, and my post was very carefully worded to reflect that. I have no idea what their policies are, and considering that I got my Watch on launch day despite not ordering until nearly an hour after orders opened and having a number of shipment-related hiccups, they've treated me very well, so I have no beef with them.

I'm merely saying that people seem to believe that they are not being honest regards their dispatch order, and I can understand why this irritates them.

 

[Brammy]

W8675309

Are you Tommy Tutone? 🙂

 

[randalblanken]

This is very much like my Mcdonalds analogy a while back. Yes McDonalds. Anyhow if you order a fish combo and they have to fry the fish. And then five ppl after you order burgers. But they have burgers ready. Do they hold everyone up because the fish combo was ordered first?

Same thing here with Apple, everyone orders a white or black watch. But you have plenty of green watches. Do you hold up the green orders cause the black and white watches were ordered first? No you ship what you have, even if it was ordered after someone else.

I totally understand this analogy, but I met someone on another thread with my exact same white model, ordered 11 days after me, and is getting the watch tomorrow. I'm still in processing. That doesn't fit in the McDonald's analogy.

Say someone orders a fish sandwich, five people order burgers, then one more person gets a fish sandwich. I'm okay with everyone getting the burgers before the first guy, but if the last guy gets his fish before the first guy, there's something wrong. And that's what I'm starting to see now.

 

[lsutigerfan1976]

I totally understand this analogy, but I met someone on another thread with my exact same white model, ordered 11 days after me, and is getting the watch tomorrow. I'm still in processing. That doesn't fit in the McDonald's analogy.

Say someone orders a fish sandwich, five people order burgers, then one more person gets a fish sandwich. I'm okay with everyone getting the burgers before the first guy, but if the last guy gets his fish before the first guy, there's something wrong. And that's what I'm starting to see now.

The only other thing i can think of is some ppls theories that they are fulfilling orders base on location also. Very possible for them to be doing this also.

 

[Pbrutto]

Are you Tommy Tutone? 🙂

I want to up vote this 1,000 times

 

[FrancoRumors]

I totally understand this analogy, but I met someone on another thread with my exact same white model, ordered 11 days after me, and is getting the watch tomorrow. I'm still in processing. That doesn't fit in the McDonald's analogy.

Say someone orders a fish sandwich, five people order burgers, then one more person gets a fish sandwich. I'm okay with everyone getting the burgers before the first guy, but if the last guy gets his fish before the first guy, there's something wrong. And that's what I'm starting to see now.

Who was it? Did they show screen shots?