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iPod touch Anyone with a preorder pissed?
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Yeah I have to admit I am a little irritated by the hole deal with the pre-ordering and such, if it says pre-order then we should get it before other people do. If they would just take the pre-ordering name off everything would be fine.
I still am glad that I ordered mine online, even though it hasn't yet been shipped and is not due till October 2, because I got the personal engraving. I know that may not seem that important but I like it, and since it came free, heck yes. I have no patience at all in this world but I think I might be able to wait, because from what i heard, its going to be worth it.
btw, this is my very first ipod, I was planning on buying one for my birthday (Sep. 21) anyways and I lucked up by hearing about the keynote. I am excited, even though I have to wait for ever freakish long for it.
I still am glad that I ordered mine online, even though it hasn't yet been shipped and is not due till October 2, because I got the personal engraving. I know that may not seem that important but I like it, and since it came free, heck yes. I have no patience at all in this world but I think I might be able to wait, because from what i heard, its going to be worth it.
btw, this is my very first ipod, I was planning on buying one for my birthday (Sep. 21) anyways and I lucked up by hearing about the keynote. I am excited, even though I have to wait for ever freakish long for it.
- I ended up calling Best Buy as the email wasn't getting sent to them for some reason. And after the half hour phone call, going from one person to another and having to hang up with little to show for it, I left for work.
- Sure enough when i came back I had a few new emails. My order status had changed, it was saying 10.01.07 was the ship date and I would get it on the 3rd, now it says 09.14.07 is the new ship date, but it still says my order is backordered (they are out of stock) but on my other email the woman I spoke to said that my order should be sent out on Monday and I should recieve it either by Wed or Friday being the latest next week.
- So I'm happy about that! I dunno if the status of my order changed becuase of my call or not... But I'm glad something new happened!
Now all I have to wait for is my confirmation email about charging to my card and my tracking number.
- Sure enough when i came back I had a few new emails. My order status had changed, it was saying 10.01.07 was the ship date and I would get it on the 3rd, now it says 09.14.07 is the new ship date, but it still says my order is backordered (they are out of stock) but on my other email the woman I spoke to said that my order should be sent out on Monday and I should recieve it either by Wed or Friday being the latest next week.
- So I'm happy about that! I dunno if the status of my order changed becuase of my call or not... But I'm glad something new happened!
Now all I have to wait for is my confirmation email about charging to my card and my tracking number.
i support you
i want u all to know that although i went to the store to get my ipod touch, i am thinking of u preorderers. I specifically ranted at the apple store on behalf of u. Just to let u know...its so worth the wait. This was all typed on my touch.
i want u all to know that although i went to the store to get my ipod touch, i am thinking of u preorderers. I specifically ranted at the apple store on behalf of u. Just to let u know...its so worth the wait. This was all typed on my touch.
I'm also typing this on my Touch. I preordered mine last week, only to find them available at two Apple stores in my area today. So on my way to pick one up from the store, I called Apple and cancelled my order. I ended up getting the last 16GB one left. I guess I got lucky
I would cancel my order but I have the 50 bucks off from apple card that only works online, so I can't go to the store and get it for a discounted price.
For future reference, Apple retail stores almost always get the product in-stock before people who ordered online get it.
Your right, yet I still ordered online
Yes I am pissed as well. I ordered mine a week and a half ago, and STILL have to wait 2 MORE weeks before I get mine when all the rest of you get to just drive down and pick one up? Im sorry but that is BS. Those of us who ordered the day it came out should have recived ours the DAY OF LAUNCH or at least VERY soon afterwards. What the hell is the point of being able to order it so early if you have to wait WEEKS after everyone else can get one?? Thanks for telling us pre-order people to go f*** our selves Apple.
Any order before an item is officially released is a pre-order.
Not only was it a pre-order, they added an incentive of free engraving if you pre-ordered before it's release.
Pre-orders are first orders, and orders should be filled in chronological order. First orders get filled first. Otherwise those getting queue-jumped get, as the title of this thread suggests, mightily annoyed.
From My understanding, all iPods have free ingraving no matter when you purchase as long as they are ordered on line from Apple.
iPod engraving has never (to my recollection) had a charge associated with it, so that's not an incentive at all.
I got mine yesterday - Apple Store Florida Mall, Orlando, FL.
I called the Apple Store at the Florida Mall, here in Orlando, FL and they said they had them, did I want the 8gb or the 16gb. I said the 16gb. They then said that they would hold the iPod touch until 9pm when the store closed and took my name. That was way cool for them to do that.
Morale of my story - if you are close to a store, call and see if they will hold one for you.
Anyway, they did have three of them on display but there was no advertising announcing the new iPod touch's.
I agree as well that it sucks if you pre-ordered and are still waiting. I was going to order mine as well and get engraving but then when I read these boards, I decided, what the heck, call the local Apple Store and see. But then again, not everyone has that opportunity.
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I called the Apple Store at the Florida Mall, here in Orlando, FL and they said they had them, did I want the 8gb or the 16gb. I said the 16gb. They then said that they would hold the iPod touch until 9pm when the store closed and took my name. That was way cool for them to do that.
Morale of my story - if you are close to a store, call and see if they will hold one for you.
Anyway, they did have three of them on display but there was no advertising announcing the new iPod touch's.
I agree as well that it sucks if you pre-ordered and are still waiting. I was going to order mine as well and get engraving but then when I read these boards, I decided, what the heck, call the local Apple Store and see. But then again, not everyone has that opportunity.
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This kind of reminds me of camping out for the Wii. It was the preorder camp out, the system itself was still two months out. Anyway I was second in line for 14 hours, it was 40 degrees out, I didn't sleep at all, but I got my preorder. So then came the big launch. I drove down to Gamestop at quarter to eleven, I had my receipt, everybody lined up according to their number and the store managers locked the doors. As we all stood patiently some dude we'd never seen before knocked on the glass. The manager ran to the chain link partition, cracked it open and let this kid in. He must've been 19 or 20 and looked an awful lot like the manager. Two minutes later the kid dashed out carrying a brand new Wii in a bag, trying his best to conceal it from the rest of us. Everyone was pissed. We asked the manager who that kid was and how he got a preorder without standing in line. Very aggravated the manager mouthed, "He's an employee" and stormed back inside. Five minutes later they started letting us in, one by one. Thankfully the guy packing my stuff wasn't the same manager, but a nicer, happier clerk. I asked him, "Who was that kid that got let in before us? None of us saw him on preorder day, and he most certainly wasn't at the front of the line." And then he said four words that will always been engraved in my mind. "He's the manager's brother." Okay, well maybe that doesn't completely apply in this situation, but it really bugs me how preordering doesn't always guarantee first come first serve.
So my order says it's prepared for shipment. What does that mean exactly? Do they have the actual Ipod boxed up with my name on it? Or have they gone so far as to print off the FEDEX label that will go with the Ipod two weeks from now? I paid for priority shipping so I could get it as soon as possible? Now I feel like I kinda wasted ten bucks.
So my order says it's prepared for shipment. What does that mean exactly? Do they have the actual Ipod boxed up with my name on it? Or have they gone so far as to print off the FEDEX label that will go with the Ipod two weeks from now? I paid for priority shipping so I could get it as soon as possible? Now I feel like I kinda wasted ten bucks.
So I figured I would just let Apple ship my iPod touch right? Well if I would have went home this weekend (from college, which i was planning to do, but i thought that two weeks in a row my parents would not be happy about) I could have went to a Best Buy and gotten one already..
I think that is a legitimate reason to call apple and complain a little, I will be nice about it and post my results if you guys want.
I think that is a legitimate reason to call apple and complain a little, I will be nice about it and post my results if you guys want.
I, also, was unhappy about the late shipment on the ipod touches as bestbuy is holding one for me right now. Anyway, I called Apple to cancel the order and explained the situation with best buy holding one for me, and they offered me 45 dollars off my purchase price... just so everyone knows.
I think i was only on hold for around 15? And I had called around 20 to 30 minutes before that post? so the wait time has obviously jumped.
hmm, I don't know but these pictures add to my case... Sorry for the quality, but it is an iSight taking pictures of my phone so are bound to be bad. But the last line of the last picture reads.. 1:00:48 -_- And again sorry they are backwards, but i am not touching them with any gfx editing program..
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Any time I've pre-ordered online before, amazon or play.com, whatever, I have received the product ON release day, in the post in the morning. They post them the day before release so you get them on time. Occasionally I've received something a day or two BEFORE the official release day because they've made an effort to get them in the post, and fulfil orders IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY WERE RECEIVED.
I am in the UK, so not only am I not getting the chance to drive to a store and get one, they are not released AT ALL here, while people are able to wander into stores in the US and just pick one up.
Apple have always excelled at releasing products simultaneously, Steve announces as soon as the announcement, or maybe next day at a push (if the announcement is in the evening UK time) they are in stores and available.
Apple said on or before the 28th. If they didn't have enough stock to post out all the preorders, and stock the stores, they could have waited until they did have stock. Their options were.
1. Post preorders when they have enough stock for them, then when they have enough stock to stock the stores, make them available in store.
2. Wait until they had enough total stock for sores and preorders, and post the orders out the day before they are available in store.
3. Ignore the preorders, and just stock up the stores. Piss off your loyal customer base in the process and create confusion.
I can really see why they went for 3!
I am in the UK, so not only am I not getting the chance to drive to a store and get one, they are not released AT ALL here, while people are able to wander into stores in the US and just pick one up.
Apple have always excelled at releasing products simultaneously, Steve announces as soon as the announcement, or maybe next day at a push (if the announcement is in the evening UK time) they are in stores and available.
Apple said on or before the 28th. If they didn't have enough stock to post out all the preorders, and stock the stores, they could have waited until they did have stock. Their options were.
1. Post preorders when they have enough stock for them, then when they have enough stock to stock the stores, make them available in store.
2. Wait until they had enough total stock for sores and preorders, and post the orders out the day before they are available in store.
3. Ignore the preorders, and just stock up the stores. Piss off your loyal customer base in the process and create confusion.
I can really see why they went for 3!
does anyone know if apple ships on the weekend? I am checking my status every hour and want to know if this is a wast of time. thnxs
does anyone know if apple ships on the weekend? I am checking my status every hour and want to know if this is a wast of time. thnxs
Not on weekends i'm afraid.
I am so utterly pi***d off with this. I live in Spain and have never had a problem receiving apple products on time. I realise that the shipping date was the 28th Sept but to me this means that anybody that pre-orders should receive them before, or when, they are available in Apple Stores. This is NOT the case. One month after I receive it they will probably lower the price by 200 dollars.