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Apple Pushing Back Initial iPad Orders in UK as Shipments to US Customers Begin
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Ordered Black 32 4G on 8 March at 10am - 'Preparing for Shipment'. Delivery to London. Happiness is tempered by lack of 4G capability on international models but hope UK's 3 network's hdspa upgrade achieves 42MG when rolled out 'later this year'. Will be ringing Apple PR to ask when they are going to remove the misleading '4G' advertising from site. But hey, there's still the retina screen to look forward to... and hoping it comes early, which happened to previous preorder Apple product purchase I made. 
Shipped
It's sitting in a truck or shipping station only fifty miles from my house.
WTH,
All shipment travel activity is displayed in local time for the location
Mar 9, 2012 9:46 PM, Picked up, ONTARIO, CA--Future delivery requested
I expected shipment from China as usual.
It's sitting in a truck or shipping station only fifty miles from my house.
WTH,
All shipment travel activity is displayed in local time for the location
Mar 9, 2012 9:46 PM, Picked up, ONTARIO, CA--Future delivery requested
I expected shipment from China as usual.
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Mine does say delivery in the 16th but in brackets subject to change.
I'm assuming that is probably referring to possible unforeseen circumstances such as weather.
Not sure who syncron parcel services are though
Mine does say delivery in the 16th but in brackets subject to change.
I'm assuming that is probably referring to possible unforeseen circumstances such as weather.
Not sure who syncron parcel services are though
My order status changed this morning, now "Preparing for shipment". It's a black 32GB WiFi model. I live in UK NW.
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My order has now shipped and the date on the Apple UK site still states March 16th. According to the parcel tracking, the iPad (64gb white) is in Hinckley UK.
My order has now shipped and the date on the Apple UK site still states March 16th. According to the parcel tracking, the iPad (64gb white) is in Hinckley UK.
Shipped!
I ordered mine (32GB WiFi Black) after the store went back up at 12:30am after 4+ hours of trying and I just got the 'Shipped' email. It's does say to be delivered (by TNT) on the 16th with a nice bracket next to it stating it's subject to change!! Haha
We'll see how it goes. I'm based in Norfolk, the delays so far do appear to be related to location. I've ordered a few things in the past where they've stated that areas such as Scotland, Cornwall, Ireland etc might take a couple of extra days for delivery.
I ordered mine (32GB WiFi Black) after the store went back up at 12:30am after 4+ hours of trying and I just got the 'Shipped' email. It's does say to be delivered (by TNT) on the 16th with a nice bracket next to it stating it's subject to change!!
HahaWe'll see how it goes. I'm based in Norfolk, the delays so far do appear to be related to location. I've ordered a few things in the past where they've stated that areas such as Scotland, Cornwall, Ireland etc might take a couple of extra days for delivery.
I ordered mine here in the UK on the 8 March at around 7am. I got an email this morning saying:
We are pleased to inform you that your order has shipped.
Please see the details of the shipment below.
Your Delivery Reference Number is 81*********
We expect your order to be delivered to your shipping address on 16/03/2012.
The Apple Store
We are pleased to inform you that your order has shipped.
Please see the details of the shipment below.
Your Delivery Reference Number is 81*********
We expect your order to be delivered to your shipping address on 16/03/2012.
The Apple Store
Slipped not shipped
Cornwall, UK
Ordered mine whilst on holiday in France at 20:22 on the 7th and my order page is showing 'Processing Items' and will deliver on the 16th. However I did get an email from Apple showing my delivery date would be the 21st, and the order page reflected this. Now its back to the 16th again?
Anyone else getting this?
Cornwall, UK
Ordered mine whilst on holiday in France at 20:22 on the 7th and my order page is showing 'Processing Items' and will deliver on the 16th. However I did get an email from Apple showing my delivery date would be the 21st, and the order page reflected this. Now its back to the 16th again?
Anyone else getting this?
pre order delay
ordered my iPad 32 4g wifi when store came back up about 11.40ish placed then went back on store and ordered partners with different card, i have received an email to say mine has been delayed partners is shipping so the second one is being delivered but first one delayed both going to same address ..... no one in apple can explain how or why this could be
ordered my iPad 32 4g wifi when store came back up about 11.40ish placed then went back on store and ordered partners with different card, i have received an email to say mine has been delayed partners is shipping so the second one is being delivered but first one delayed both going to same address ..... no one in apple can explain how or why this could be
ordered my iPad 32 4g wifi when store came back up about 11.40ish placed then went back on store and ordered partners with different card, i have received an email to say mine has been delayed partners is shipping so the second one is being delivered but first one delayed both going to same address ..... no one in apple can explain how or why this could be
I take it you ordered the exact same model? If so, that's unfathomable.
Seems some of the first to order are getting delays. Maybe the store was up but the backend order taking wasn't working correctly. Other than that, it makes no sense at all. Maybe they were manually trying to reconcile early orders come the morning but further orders sucked up allocation so backlogged them (?). Not really fair at all if so.
FWIW my order was at 0130 and it's shipped so there were no issues at that time.
Update
I just phoned Apple and they confirmed that I'm 'almost certainly' not going to get mine on the 16th and that it is 'highly likely' to be the 21st. Shame they can't get this straight on the order status page as it would help me plan when I'm going to work from home to take the delivery. Never mind, I'm still excited about getting one as I've been without my iPad 32Gb (original) for a few weeks now as a nice person on eBay gave me £300 for it!
I just phoned Apple and they confirmed that I'm 'almost certainly' not going to get mine on the 16th and that it is 'highly likely' to be the 21st. Shame they can't get this straight on the order status page as it would help me plan when I'm going to work from home to take the delivery. Never mind, I'm still excited about getting one as I've been without my iPad 32Gb (original) for a few weeks now as a nice person on eBay gave me £300 for it!
I ordered just before midnight and haven't received any emails about delays and online still says 16th. But, it's still at 'preparing for shipment.' Not sure if I should be worried.
I got a shipment confirmation this morning, courier is Syncreon..never heard of them. Anyway, checked and tracked through their site and it states mine was shipped on 9th and its sat somewhere called Hinckley in the UK.
On another note, my order took quite awhile to put through as it kept erroring out at the last screen (saying "Oops, something went wrong") so I kept trying again. When I eventually got to get one through using Express Checkout mode, I found that two iPads were ordered separately and were sat in my order history. So I cancelled one. I checked my MasterCard this morning and 3 have been authorised so my balance is £1200+. Hopefully this will be rectified when the one order I have is actually charged and the rest will hopefully remove themselves, otherwise a swift call to Apple will be needed!
On another note, my order took quite awhile to put through as it kept erroring out at the last screen (saying "Oops, something went wrong") so I kept trying again. When I eventually got to get one through using Express Checkout mode, I found that two iPads were ordered separately and were sat in my order history. So I cancelled one. I checked my MasterCard this morning and 3 have been authorised so my balance is £1200+. Hopefully this will be rectified when the one order I have is actually charged and the rest will hopefully remove themselves, otherwise a swift call to Apple will be needed!
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Shipping notification received. I put my order through at about half six on Thursday morning GMT. 64 gig black 4g. I'm in London and, according to my notification, so is my iPad. I'm not sure if it's good to know it's so near or if it's a bit frustrating that I can't just have it! I mean, I could go pick it up! I could hop on a tube and have my new iPad in an hour.
Now, this is the first time I've preordered for delivery a new iOS device. In the past I've always queued up with all the crazies (the iPhone 4 line was pretty good fun actually. I even got to be the nice guy who got the store to let a pregnant lady come in and sit down instead of standing in the queue). I've heard tell that some people receive devices they preorder a little early and I wondered if this is a USA thing or if it's been known to happen in other countries with less easy going delivery companies.
Anyone in the UK ever received one of these kinds of items early?
Now, this is the first time I've preordered for delivery a new iOS device. In the past I've always queued up with all the crazies (the iPhone 4 line was pretty good fun actually. I even got to be the nice guy who got the store to let a pregnant lady come in and sit down instead of standing in the queue). I've heard tell that some people receive devices they preorder a little early and I wondered if this is a USA thing or if it's been known to happen in other countries with less easy going delivery companies.
Anyone in the UK ever received one of these kinds of items early?
I didn't think you could get Edu discount on the iPad? I work for a University so would like to know if I can get something off the retail price.
Thanks!
Aye, seems new - I didn't get one for my 2. It's only about 15 pounds, but rather in my pocket than theirs
Only a bit, but yes you can. I only noticed it when I ordered an iPad 2 for my mum a few months ago.
for what its worth, i just placed an order to Belfast, UK and got a shipping date of April 2nd with delivery expected April 10th! =[