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Apple Delays iPhone 3G S Pre-Orders to Prevent Early Delivery?

Same here

Prez1082 said:
Anyone care to tell me what's going on?

I ordered my 3Gs from apple.com about 2 hours after the keynote. I got the email from apple about the technical mess-up:

Due to a technical error, we communicated an incorrect delivery date. We want to assure you that your iPhone 3G S will deliver on June 19th​

Now, it Wednesday morning, and still hasn't shipped...
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I also purchased the iphone a couple hours after launch on the 8th and it said the same shipment info. I even got the email that assured me it would be here on the 19th.

I dont see how it can get to me, in Michigan, in two days if its in China. Maybe they are bringing them over in bulk and they are sitting in California or Alaska waiting to be shipped out.

I contacted apple customer support and they said they dont really know which one to trust (the online order status or the email they sent). They said we would guess the order status but that hasn't changed since I first purchased the phone on the 8th.

I think my approx order time was 12:30 eastern time.
 
GiandaliaJr said:
I also purchased the iphone a couple hours after launch on the 8th and it said the same shipment info. I even got the email that assured me it would be here on the 19th.

I dont see how it can get to me, in Michigan, in two days if its in China. Maybe they are bringing them over in bulk and they are sitting in California or Alaska waiting to be shipped out.

I contacted apple customer support and they said they dont really know which one to trust (the online order status or the email they sent). They said we would guess the order status but that hasn't changed since I first purchased the phone on the 8th.

I think my approx order time was 12:30 eastern time.
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don't worry about HOW it will get to you by the 19th. It WILL get to you by the 19th :)
 
I'm going to say the ones who were saying the very first batch of 3Gs ordered right after the keynote have shipped in bulk in large containers to be broken up on Thursday or Friday are correct. I live in Louisville where UPS's ginormous hub is and I ordered the 3Gs a few hours after the keynote. Just as a lot of you did, I got the correction email reassuring me my phone will be delivered on the 19th. However as of right now my Apple account doesn't even show the phone SHIPPING until Friday the 19th, with an expected delivery date on the 22nd. So the only way that phone could ever get to me the same day if it were shipped out on the 19th is for it to be originating from the hub itself.

P.S. those few twots out there making fun of Kentucky are really showing their own ignorance. Louisville is totally different than the rest of the state and is an awesome city. I travel a lot and still wouldn't want to hang my hat anywhere else. I should drive over to the UPS hub, find the offenders' iPhones, steal them, and take a big, hot, steaming dump in the box for you to gittily unwrap. I hope a Louisville UPS employee saw your comments so they could "lose" your phone.
 
Just imagine....

Hundreds of thousands of iPhones, and people checking the statuses on the UPS tracking website. I'm sure some problems are being caused with the HUGE volumes of iPhones being shipped at once. Customs doesn't sound like it would be an issue, though. You would think that would be handled weeks in advance so there are no problems getting them out of China. As for delivery dates, I'm about 40% sure that some iPhones will be delivered tomorrow on the 18th, with the rest of them being delivered on the 19th. Although I'm about 60% sure that they will ALL be delivered on the 19th. Just because that's the way Apple is. A little anal about things like this. In my opinion, they should just let the pre orders be delivered. That's why we pre ordered them. To ENSURE that we got them on time. Getting them early will help Apple out a great deal, too. Some people would have gotten them today as 3.0 was launched, causing no problems with that and letting a large number of people activate their phones ahead of time, and then as more people get their phones on the 18th, more phones are activated. That would spread out the activations to prevent server crashes.
 
I ordered mine on the 10th and it shipped out the 16th. It showed being delivered on the 17th even but than like everyone else's keeps on getting more and more exceptions.
 
Just spoke to a rep at UPS International and he told me that the phone will be delivered tomorrow, 6/19, and that Apple requested UPS to hold all the phones until the release date.
 
Just got a shipping shipping confirmation from Apple. Sending overnight by Fedex
 

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Ordered mine on the 16th, just got a shipment notification saying it won't be delivered until monday, WTF! They said it will be delivered on the 19th. And oh btw its being delivered via fedex
 
klooney said:
Ordered mine on the 16th, just got a shipment notification saying it won't be delivered until monday, WTF! They said it will be delivered on the 19th. And oh btw its being delivered via fedex
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ordered mine the 15th and gots this in email:

Thanks for starting your iPhone purchase online. To finish the process, come to your nearest Apple Retail Store and look for a Concierge in an orange shirt. We'll help you complete your purchase, activate your new iPhone, and set it up for you. Find a store
Make sure to bring these items with you:
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A valid, government-issued photo ID
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Your Social Security number
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A debit or credit card
We look forward to seeing you.
The Apple Retail Store team

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I thought I ordered it to be delivered by tomorrow?
 
Shipopment

zerosnipe said:
I ordered mine on the 10th and it shipped out the 16th. It showed being delivered on the 17th even but than like everyone else's keeps on getting more and more exceptions.
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Did you order from ATT or Apple Store? I ordered mine on the evening of the 9th from Apple (for an already existing and eligible line) and it is STILL prepared for shipment (since several days - how long does that take I wonder).. While the world doesn't stop for me if it is NOT coming tomorrow I will be dissapointed. I am quite curious what the logic is behind all that (maybe the wrong question anyway...). Some order the 16th, its shipped on the 17th, some order on the 8th itself and its not even shipped:confused:
 
I just got a shipping notice from Apple saying that mine has FINALLY shipped. Its being over-nighted via FedEx (crap...) from Memphis. Memphis???!!? I guess the thing where people thought they came in bulk and are getting split up here is correct.
 
I just got this from Apple:

To Our Valued Apple Customer:


Thank you for your recent order with Apple.

Our records indicate that your iPhone 3G S pre-order has shipped.

Our carrier's website may have displayed an incorrect delivery
date for your order. However, we expect your iPhone order to be
delivered on time on June 19, 2009.

You can view the most up-to-date status of your order at
<http://apple.com/orderstatus>.

Thank you for shopping at the Apple Online Store.

Sincerely,
Apple Online Store Team
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UPS says Apple ordered the throttling of iPhone deliveries

The rep told me that employees were informed just yesterday that, at Apple's request, all iPhone deliveries would not be delivered until Friday. I asked if she had ever heard of a shipper making that kind of request of UPS, and she said no. I also asked if she thought UPS would be overburdened tomorrow, having to deliver every preordered iPhone on the same day--"I'm not sure. I hope not," she said.

We know that Apple reads sites like MacRumors, AppleInsider, etc. I wonder if Apple started receiving complaints about the early shipments from customers who planned to buy their iPhones in person. It seems like Apple made an eleventh-hour decision to throttle the shipments, no? Maybe we made too much noise about the early arrival dates.
 
expatnyc said:
The rep told me that employees were informed just yesterday that, at Apple's request, all iPhone deliveries would not be delivered until Friday. I asked if she had ever heard of a shipper making that kind of request of UPS, and she said no. I also asked if she thought UPS would be overburdened tomorrow, having to deliver every preordered iPhone on the same day--"I'm not sure. I hope not," she said.

We know that Apple reads sites like MacRumors, AppleInsider, etc. I wonder if Apple started receiving complaints about the early shipments from customers who planned to buy their iPhones in person. It seems like Apple made an eleventh-hour decision to throttle the shipments, no? Maybe we made too much noise about the early arrival dates.
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Why would UPS be burdened because they have to deliver all the iPhones on the same day? Do you realize how many packages UPS sends each day?
 
expatnyc said:
The rep told me that employees were informed just yesterday that, at Apple's request, all iPhone deliveries would not be delivered until Friday. I asked if she had ever heard of a shipper making that kind of request of UPS, and she said no. I also asked if she thought UPS would be overburdened tomorrow, having to deliver every preordered iPhone on the same day--"I'm not sure. I hope not," she said.

We know that Apple reads sites like MacRumors, AppleInsider, etc. I wonder if Apple started receiving complaints about the early shipments from customers who planned to buy their iPhones in person. It seems like Apple made an eleventh-hour decision to throttle the shipments, no? Maybe we made too much noise about the early arrival dates.
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This is doubtful. Apple can certainly request for packages to be delivered on-date in cases like these. Isn't the ability to do this one of UPS's business perks? Sounds like something I heard in one of those lame dude-with-whiteboard commercials.
 
Was anyone REALLY surprised by this? UPS is just moving the iPhones to different locations to make them easier on the 19th to handle and ensure they meet their service guarantees with Apple.
 
expatnyc said:
The rep told me that employees were informed just yesterday that, at Apple's request, all iPhone deliveries would not be delivered until Friday. I asked if she had ever heard of a shipper making that kind of request of UPS, and she said no. I also asked if she thought UPS would be overburdened tomorrow, having to deliver every preordered iPhone on the same day--"I'm not sure. I hope not," she said.

We know that Apple reads sites like MacRumors, AppleInsider, etc. I wonder if Apple started receiving complaints about the early shipments from customers who planned to buy their iPhones in person. It seems like Apple made an eleventh-hour decision to throttle the shipments, no? Maybe we made too much noise about the early arrival dates.
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This has been discussed before. This is nothing new for a company to do. Especially Apple. If a company doesn't want something delivered until a specific date then it will be done. Just because the status pages weren't updated until later doesn't mean that it wasn't already planned.
 
Still prepared

Mine still says "Prepared For Shipment". And I ordered on the 9th. :(
 
atomize22 said:
P.S. those few twots out there making fun of Kentucky are really showing their own ignorance. Louisville is totally different than the rest of the state and is an awesome city. I travel a lot and still wouldn't want to hang my hat anywhere else. I should drive over to the UPS hub, find the offenders' iPhones, steal them, and take a big, hot, steaming dump in the box for you to gittily unwrap. I hope a Louisville UPS employee saw your comments so they could "lose" your phone.
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funny, you defend your state in the 1st sentence and sound just on spot for a Kentuckian in the rest of your monologue.
 
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