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Apple Watch Now Available for Purchase in Apple Retail Stores
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You choose the watch you want and make a reservation. You then choose the time you want to stop by to pick up that watch. The watch will be reserved for you until your pick up time. After that if the watch is not picked up, they will release it back to the wild...
There's an option since last night but mines is still disabled and have a message "come back at 8am". I have an order that just got changed to Preparing for Shipment last night as well. Once I see it available in stores, I will do the in store pickup and cancel the PFS. Anyone else doing this?
Its def available in stores but since its PFS you will have been charged I imagine so best be quick before it changes to shipped otherwise you cant cancel
Boom! Just reserved my 42MM WSB at the Apple Store here in VA - going to pick up when the store opens at 10am. I had ordered one Monday online but it looks like it's time to cancel that order.
I don't understand this reasoning.
Until yesterday, I never saw anyone with a Samsung phone. NEVER. Should I deduce that Samsung is not really selling phones, and their numbers are lies? No, of course not.
Same with the Apple Watch. Only about 1 in 1000 people have Apple Watches. It's very hard to find someone with one. But, it's STILL the most successful smart watch, even with those numbers.
Just reserved mine. 42MM Apple Watch Sport w/ Green Sports Band. Figured I'd go for a less popular band to make sure I got one. Picking it up at 7pm Tonight!
Thanks for the reply. I was worried when it said "next reservation at 10 am", and I thought that was the only time I could go. I figured they would let you choose a time, but just wanted to make sure.
There's an option since last night but mines is still disabled and have a message "come back at 8am". I have an order that just got changed to Preparing for Shipment last night as well. Once I see it available in stores, I will do the in store pickup and cancel the PFS. Anyone else doing this?
Too late, I'm afraid. You can't cancel an order that already has Preparing for Shipment status:
"Not eligible to cancel or return: We're currently preparing your order and, as a result, are unable to modify it at this point. If items are being shipped directly to you, we'll send you a Shipment Notification email. If items are being shipped to an Apple Store, we'll send you a Pickup Notification email when they're ready to pick up."
So all excited to order mine online, and it appears that the Syracuse, NY store is like the only freaking one in the state with 0 stock of either the 38 or 42MM. Geez. Try again tomorrow.
There's an option since last night but mines is still disabled and have a message "come back at 8am". I have an order that just got changed to Preparing for Shipment last night as well. Once I see it available in stores, I will do the in store pickup and cancel the PFS. Anyone else doing this?
Yep. Got a white and a black Sport 38mm on order. White has dispatched but as it's for the Mrs that's ok. Black hasn't dispatched yet but has gone past the point of cancelling so will return once it arrives.
Got the black Sport 38mm reserved in store for collection tonight!
Looks like they are available here in PA... it will be interesting to see how busy stores are over the next few days.
Got a 42mm SG! Lexington, KY Fayette Mall store. Chose the earliest reservation, 10am.
I think we're precisely on the same page. You've summed up my impressions of the Watch exactly. I have a Bluetooth headset, and I carry my phone in my pocket, and when people call, I glance at my wrist as I'm brining my hand up to my headset to answer it. If I see that it's not more important than what I'm currently doing, I just dismiss the call with the watch.Got mine about three weeks ago and I feel the same way. I feel sad if, for whatever reason, I have to take it off and leave it behind, and I look forward to putting it on every morning. Odd, I'm sure, as I imagine people seeing me through the day would think I hardly use the watch at all. But that's the thing about the watch. You use it differently than a phone or iPad, mainly because you can't lift your arm and stare at it for long stretches of time. It's for glances, not staring. You get a tap, see a message, maybe send a quick response...then go back to whatever you were doing. Ditto with most everything else. Check the time (glance), note reminders when they pop up (glance), incoming phone calls, etc.
I use to miss texts and calls a lot because my phone was in my bag and I didn't hear it, or I did and thought it was someone else's phone. The taps on the wrist make sure I don't miss texts or calls nearly so much. And I'm finding that most of the things I used to do on the phone, I now do on the watch, like check my shopping list, do quick calculations, pay for groceries/coffee; I like that it don't have to juggle it hand to hand as I often did the phone in a lot of those situations (and I'm not going to drop it like I sometimes dropped the phone).
As for phone calls...I think we've found the weakness in Dick Tracy. It's tiring lifting your arm for a long conversation
On another note, thank you to all of the thumbs up for my Australia post. It's nice to see that a post can be at the top of the heap for something nicely said.
I'm going to go to the Lynnwood, WA store after work. I'm just going to be a customer that likes them. I'll be the real testimonial.
I'd try to go to the store, reserve it on one of the computers there, and see if I can pick it up.
If it's anything like the demo appointments, which they said you had to make in advance, they'll make you an appointment right away in store if they aren't to busy. That's what we did in Willow Grove. Probably depends on the store though.
I've had my Apple watch since April and really like it, but I've only seen 1 other watch out in public. I don't think the AW is a failure, but it's kinda weird that Apple's first new product in years won't create any lines of people waiting to buy it at their stores.
