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Apple Now Offering Free Two-Hour Delivery on Last-Minute Gifts

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As we expected, Apple is now offering free two-hour delivery on eligible, in-stock products ordered through December 24 in select countries. The offer is available for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, AirPods, Apple TV, and Beats only.

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Free two-hour delivery is available in most U.S. and Canadian metro areas for orders placed through Apple's online store, until December 24. The items will be delivered from a local Apple retail store by a courier service such as Uber Eats at a time selected during checkout. Apple normally charges $9 for two-hour delivery.

Apple is also offering free three-hour delivery in Australia until December 24.

Apple's extended return policy remains in effect for the holiday shopping season. In the U.S., for example, most products purchased from Apple between November 8 and December 25 this year may be returned through January 8, 2025.

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marinersaptcomplex said:
Do not use this for expensive items. I had an iPhone go missing, which I never would’ve used this express shipping for if I knew it would be through some random uber eats driver…in the end Apple made it right but it took a while and a lot of hours on calls with them.
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And yest where I am at I have not had issues with using this service since they started doing it, even for phones and macbooks and what not.
 
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Not only is Apple offering a dubious and risky delivery service, they have the nerve to charge for it. Tim could certainly absorb $ 9 on a $ 4,000 MacBook order. Shameless pure greed. How disgusting.
 
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turbineseaplane said:
Oh sure -- 2 days after I pay $9 to get a Mac Mini delivered
It was still worth it to avoid the mall & the Apple Store

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Maybe for you THAT time. Farming out Apple delivery/courier services to the low-paid restaurant food delivery industry is just asking for trouble. Trusting the professional couriers like UPS and FedEx with your expensive purchases isn't much better in my opinion. It can be a rat race, but I'll deal with the mall and trust the rodents at the Apple Store with my purchases before Uber Eats drivers.

marinersaptcomplex said:
I’m sure 99 times out of 100, it will be completely fine.

But is it really worth that headache for 1/100 times? Not for me, anymore.
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Nope, it's not for me either for the same reasons I don't trust home delivery via FedEx or UPS with my expensive tech purchases. I'll choose in-store delivery and pick up at the store when possible, thanks. Because people suck and will steal from you, I'll use DoorDash, GrubHub, and UberEats for occasional food deliveries, not my Apple products.
 
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DELLsFan said:
Maybe for you THAT time. Farming out Apple delivery/courier services to the low-paid restaurant food delivery industry is just asking for trouble. Trusting the professional couriers like UPS and FedEx with your expensive purchases isn't much better in my opinion. It can be a rat race, but I'll deal with the mall and trust the rodents at the Apple Store with my purchases before Uber Eats drivers.



Nope, it's not for me either for the same reasons I don't trust home delivery via FedEx or UPS with my expensive tech purchases. I'll choose in-store delivery and pick up at the store when possible, thanks. Because people suck and will steal from you, I'll use DoorDash, GrubHub, and UberEats for occasional food deliveries, not my Apple products.
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I think Timmy saves a penny on every delivery over ups/fed-ex
 
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In the UK what many of us do is to buy Apple products through a store called John Lewis who will deliver to a local food supermarket called Waitrose who have branches all over the UK. JL extend the warranty to 2 years as standard and the product arrives for collection within 18 hours or so. I think there is also a more generous returns policy but it may incur a charge if there is no fault.
 
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Expos of 1969 said:
Not only is Apple offering a dubious and risky delivery service, they have the nerve to charge for it. Tim could certainly absorb $ 9 on a $ 4,000 MacBook order. Shameless pure greed. How disgusting.
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One plus of charging is it will drive people to go to the store, which is a goal of Apple's, while still allowing people who need it and can't get in an option for getting the product.
 
Lies! I tried to get a free iPhone delivered, and they still tried to charge me $999 or $41.62/mo. for 24 mo.
 
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I remember my first eagerly awaited MacBook Pro delivery ten plus years ago - how excited I was when the van turned up, and how worried I was five minutes later after listening to the loud bangs and crashes coing from the back of the van, as the driver flung parcels around to root out my two thousand pound laptop from the bottom of the pile.

As expected, the battered, flattened package contained a laptop that immeiately overheated when turned on, with random hieroglyphics on the screen. Returned.

Quite relieved to see my latest purchase arrive well packaged, and seemingly in one piece.
 
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