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

Claypidgeon said:
Keep in mind the delivery date on the Apple website when we pre-ordered was "Delivers *by* June 19th". Not "on" June 19th", but "by" June 19th. It's a small game of semantics, but it does have a different meaning.
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The main ad giving buyers options for getting their paws on the new iPhone said delivered to your door "on" June 19. That is the only date on which anyone is entitled to rely. It's more than semantics. That was a precondition for the sale. By the 19th was a shipping notice.
 
they already sent them here :D

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justflie said:
Could see this action coming a mile and a half away. Mine is still "prepared for shipment" so I didn't really have any hope of seeing it before Friday anyway.
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Yesterday afternoon the status on my order said "prepared for shipment". Last night and this morning it has "not yet shipped". Practically they mean the same thing from my perspective. I'm not sure why they would bother to "unprepare" a package for shipment though.:)
 
Ariz said:
Yesterday afternoon the status on my order said "prepared for shipment". Last night and this morning it has "not yet shipped". Practically they mean the same thing from my perspective. I'm not sure why they would bother to "unprepare" a package for shipment though.:)
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All you need it to be is shipped by Thursday. Apple can easily do overnight shipping for many of these. If you ordered your phone and it said, 'delivered by june 19th' you should be fine.
 
dwd3885 said:
All you need it to be is shipped by Thursday. Apple can easily do overnight shipping for many of these. If you ordered your phone and it said, 'delivered by june 19th' you should be fine.
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I'm not concerned, I just found the order status interesting. If mine is sitting in Louisville like others, UPS will just put it on a truck there tomorrow and it will get to me Friday.
 
Ariz said:
I'm not concerned, I just found the order status interesting. If mine is sitting in Louisville like others, UPS will just put it on a truck there tomorrow and it will get to me Friday.
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yea me neither. we ordered the phone and it said it will be delivered by Friday, we have no reason to think it won't. :)
 
justflie said:
Could see this action coming a mile and a half away. Mine is still "prepared for shipment" so I didn't really have any hope of seeing it before Friday anyway.
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Don't loose hope. They can still ship out of China toady and make it. Another option is that Apple has stock in their distribution network in the US (which I'm betting they do). If so, they can ship through Thursday afternoon for Friday delivery.
 
dwd3885 said:
I didn't get my panties in a bunch, but when I go to the website and it said the 17th and now the Apple website says the 18th, it makes me think it's the 18th now.
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That's just a time zone issue. When its released, it will be the 18th in places close to the date line. That wasn't the US apple store, I think it was for Hong Kong. This is the US site link.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/

Still says 17th.
 
Claypidgeon said:
Keep in mind the delivery date on the Apple website when we pre-ordered was "Delivers *by* June 19th". Not "on" June 19th", but "by" June 19th. It's a small game of semantics, but it does have a different meaning.

After the disappointing announcements about both MMS and tethering being delayed by AT&T (and seeing that cryptic delivery promise from Apple) I fully expected Apple pre-orders to arrive early in order to:

1) Generate additional buzz for the product when some of them showed up early
2) Further distance Apple from AT&T in consumer's minds, so that the next time a big upgrade comes around people are driven to purchase through Apple channels.
3) Give a big "F U" to AT&T over the MMS and tethering issues (and their crappy network).
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Good luck with that. You'll get your phone on Friday
 
Richie3000 said:
Just got off the phone w/UPS after pulling the 'ol "I'm the receiver and never requested a hold" routine.

The woman told me that UPS isn't "holding" the package but that the "exception" is simply a mechanism that goes into action when a shipment from China comes to the states and they need to allot some extra time to compensate for the customs process.

She then said I'd have my package by 10:30 Thursday morning.

Let us bow our heads in prayer.
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You beleive that crap. Customs is cleared at point of entry into the country not the delivery destination.
the hold is to meet Apples and ATT release date/request not customs.
 
My AT&T order shipped today too. I didn't pre-order until June 13, and they told me that mine would come in the 2nd wave (i.e. not on launch day). But the status just updated on my order page to Shipped, and I have a FedEx tracking number that shows it arriving in Louisville on June 18 by 3pm. I guess I'll get mine on launch day after all.
 
Bad sim cards

Could be more bad sim cards. I received an email from apple yesterday saying mine shipped with a bad sim card and that they are overnighting one to me...
 
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