Try using your email address instead of your login id. I was using my login id and it only showed the Time Capsule I ordered last week. But when I used my full email to log in it show me the iPad pre-order.
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Apple Begins Issuing Preauthorization Credit Holds for iPad Pre-Orders
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Try using your email address instead of your login id. I was using my login id and it only showed the Time Capsule I ordered last week. But when I used my full email to log in it show me the iPad pre-order.
ha!... I'm a shareholder too...
so sign up for more credit cards people and take out loans!
My merchant agreements (all except Amex) all stated that i could not change until goods were delivered/shipped. Which I would assume is why retailers all have that same policy.....
If you can't provide a name and contact phone number for said "Apple Online Supervisor"....didn't happen!
AMEN! I'm shocked that people have been talking (especially in the ipad forum thread on this) about shuffling money between accounts etc... to cover the authorization.If you can't afford a $750 pre-authorization on the 3G iPad then you probably shouldn't be buying it in the first place...
New iTunes
I got an email from Apple yesterday saying there was a problem with my credit card and my iPad order. When I called Apple to straighten it out, the customer service guy told me that there would be a new version of iTunes released on Saturday, April 3rd. He said this version would be needed to sync with the iPad, and download iPad specific apps.
I got an email from Apple yesterday saying there was a problem with my credit card and my iPad order. When I called Apple to straighten it out, the customer service guy told me that there would be a new version of iTunes released on Saturday, April 3rd. He said this version would be needed to sync with the iPad, and download iPad specific apps.
I can sort of see why people are enjoying tsk-tsking over this, given the financial climate of the last few years and whatnot, but a lot of people have online savings accounts like ING Direct and don't keep a lot of cash in checking accounts. Transfers back from ING to another bank can take a few business days.
That sounds like me. I really had no intention of getting an iPad but I have since found some uses where it would be ideal. I don't have a laptop so with the bigger screen than the iPhone, it would be great to use to read while outside or in other parts of my house. But I'll wait a bit...
Well, I'm pretty sure I am the only one that mentioned that. I will explain I had too - not that it is any of your business. Just telling about the male species in my house.
I'm in the process of a nasty divorce.
We gave my daughter one for her birthday.
We got some tax refund money and split it minus the bday gift, he kept that. I was in no positin to argue at that point.
I preordered in the first 15 minutes, using my debit card. Told him how much it was and waited for the money.
And waited.
Meanwhile, ordered mine in a separate order, but it was a 3g version. I wasn't overly worried about not getting the money for hers yet because well, it's not late April.
Then the charge hits yesterday. Ironically, he finally decided to give me the cash for it at 5:30 yesterday, my bank closes at 5.
Sooooo, I have $750 to deposit to cover the charge of one i wasnt supposed to be paying for in the first place. I transfered money from savings to cover my 3g (I was $50 short if it matters) version once I heard they were indeed doing those too. All because I'm hopeful it will actually ship early. I didn't want to lose a spot in the queue.
See how the charge could throw your "budget" off???
Or i could just really say, men suck. Only fair since you are generalizing about why it could be a banking shock to have a $780 charge happen 4weeks early.
I don't think we'll see the 3G model until at least April 18, and most likely not until the end of April, as Apple has stated. Why? Because there will be a LOT of Wi-Fi-only models going to back to Apple for exchange if Apple doesn't get outside the 14-day return policy window. I know I'd gladly pay the $50-$60 restocking fee to 1) use the iPad with only Wi-Fi for a week or two and 2) instantly upgrade to the 3G.*
*instead of waiting until later this summer as I'd planned from the beginning...
Hrmmm....by all means, please state your answer in the form of a circumference.
That took a moment, but I eventually realized what you were saying.Keeping my fingers crossed. This corroborates with another poster from the March 12 pre-order thread that allegedly spoke with an Apple rep. I know, still no official word yet from Apple, but I'm just sayin'............
It's simple. By charging people within March, they can recognize the revenue for the quarter. That way, they can talk it up during the earnings call.
Remembering that it did cost Apple some money to manufacture these things this quarter, it would be bad business (from a shareholder perspective) not to recoup any of it within this quarter.
Remembering that it did cost Apple some money to manufacture these things this quarter, it would be bad business (from a shareholder perspective) not to recoup any of it within this quarter.
+1. People, this isn't the time nor place to verbally "one-up"/belittle others regarding their financial arrangements to cover iPad expenses or boast about being APPL shareholders, etc. There are plenty of members here that are more than solvent and are shareholders alike that don't see a need to broadcast this sort of information to the rest of the forum. In the end, we all get to experience/enjoy great products provided by Apple, no?
Im sure your right on, but what sux is that many do not get Saturday delivery in their area. Oh well! They (includes me) shall just have to wait for Monday the 5th.
1. They are not Apple's policies. They are the Merchant Service Provider policies. Charging after delivery is a widely used process in different industries.
2-3. That was true years ago. Rules and regulations now prevent the vendor from holding certain data from the original transaction. Unless the vendor (in this case a computer retailer, where they highest credit card fraud is taking place) wants to take on more exposure from fraud they will not resubmit a ticket without consent or written contract to do so. That may or may not be the retailer's policy. Either way they are strongly encouraged by the Merchant Service Provider to NOT do just that.
4. Nice use of legal jargon, and no attack upon you personally, but yes it is. The process is burdensome for the vendor and requires the same proof that a court of law requires, especially with electronic/internet transactions. Fact is, people commit fraud more often than most think. Some vendors have loss prevention teams dedicated to this. Others do not. Either way the vendor and ultimately every customer pays.
5. As for the second to last assumption that a few people have gotten hung up on. This pre-authorization is not a good measure for determining if the iPad will ship early. It may or may not.
They are preauthorizations/holds, not charges to card. The card isn't actually charged until it ships. Aapl's quarter ends 3/27 so I seriously doubt any sales will be included in this quarter.
Go go hypocrisy! You're a shareholder but you don't support Apple's policies so much so that you're willing to put it in your sig? Guess what, you literally DO support those things.