Apple Watch Series 2 Pre-Orders! Shipping Estimates, Order Time and Everything Pre-Order

[trlightning]

New to the party here. No movement on my SS42 AW2 with sport strap - Still processing for the 30th September. The pattern seems to be that the Sports are moving faster than the SS's

Interesting... what date did you order the watch? I ordered the same watch as you (white band) on 9/9 and initially had the 9/30 delivery date. Over the weekend it was bumped up to 9/21 but then I got the dreaded "Scheduled delivery information is not available at this time. Please check back later." update yesterday.

 

[Bazooka-joe]

Interesting... what date did you order the watch? I ordered the same watch as you (white band) on 9/9 and initially had the 9/30 delivery date. Over the weekend it was bumped up to 9/21 but then I got the dreaded "Scheduled delivery information is not available at this time. Please check back later." update yesterday.

8.20 UK time on the 9th so 20 minutes after the store opened. The Apple store was late coming on line in the UK by about 5 minutes. I ordered a iPhone 7 plus and then the watch as a separate order so that neither would be held up by the other. My phone arrived today after the original date of 26-28th September was bumped up. Just no movement on the watch so far.

 

[Xiph0s]

Mine is out for delivery!

 

[adamjackson]

My watch is going for a trip around the world:

As of Sunday, it was set to arrive here in New Hampshire today. Now it shows "no date available"

 

[CodeSpyder]

At UPS CC in Laurel, MD waiting for watch to come here from across the street warehouse.

 

[ninaco]

My watch is going for a trip around the world:

As of Sunday, it was set to arrive here in New Hampshire today. Now it shows "no date available"

UPS has totally screwed up tracking/delivery of the watches. My shipping progress looks like yours except the watch is apparently now in Korea rather than Japan

 

[meanwoman]

arrival scan in Anchorage but the second departure scan is out from Shanghai.. this is bizarre!

 

[JohnnyQuest]

My 38 SS Milanese just switched to preparing for shipment! How long has it been taking from this step to delivered for most?

 

[heyyzuz]

My 38 SS Milanese just switched to preparing for shipment! How long has it been taking from this step to delivered for most?

1-2 days

 

[adamjackson]

1-2 days

In my case, it went from Preparing for Shipment on Thursday, Shipped on Friday and now it's Tuesday and no ETA with the watch supposedly sitting in Anchorage for a full 24 hours now.

So in my case, Preparing for shipment to shipped is taking 6-7 days.

 

[Ryanmrash]

arrival scan in Anchorage but the second departure scan is out from Shanghai.. this is bizarre!

Don't forget your watch had to cross the international date line. It left Shanghai on Tuesday but landed in Alaska on Monday. So in that instance everything is OK it just shows up backwards On the tracking.

 

[RWil85]

Don't forget your watch had to cross the international date line. It left Shanghai on Tuesday but landed in Alaska on Monday. So in that instance everything is OK it just shows up backwards On the tracking.

Mind blown.

 

[RWil85]

Has anyone used the UPS MyChoice to change their delivery to pickup at UPS?

Just assuming that it will sit there and not go out on the truck in the early AM and that I can pick it up whatever time of day that I can?

 

[nightcap965]

My Apple Watch Series Two arrived on Cape Cod twenty minutes ago and is now out for delivery. Does anyone else picture a map of the world and an old four-propeller plane like the Pan-Am Clipper tracing a broad line from China to Japan to Alaska to Kentucky?

Oh, the Wells-Fargo wagon is a-comin' down the street....

 

[angrytoothbrush]

My Apple Watch Series Two arrived on Cape Cod twenty minutes ago and is now out for delivery. Does anyone else picture a map of the world and an old four-propeller plane like the Pan-Am Clipper tracing a broad line from China to Japan to Alaska to Kentucky?

Oh, the Wells-Fargo wagon is a-comin' down the street....

... and a tinny voiced 'Howard Hughes'-stached gent dramatically narrates as the entire nation sits in front of their radios. "...Truly a sight to behold. A flight of the beleaguered Apple products faced with the pending doom of communism in an rapidly changing and unpredictable world. If you're just tuning in this is a special broadcast and Dragnet will resume after these messages.."

 

[glintoz]

Anyone with a ship date of 10/17 - 10/28 have theirs moved up?

No but my 38mm silver aluminium with white sports band went from 10/11-10/24 to shipped today. Will have it by Friday. Shame I changed my mind and decided on a 42mm version. Hopefully the local Apple store will have stock in the next week or so and I can swap it over. If not I'll just return it and wait for the replacement 42mm I just ordered online with a shipping date of 10/18.

 

[adamjackson]

Don't forget your watch had to cross the international date line. It left Shanghai on Tuesday but landed in Alaska on Monday. So in that instance everything is OK it just shows up backwards On the tracking.

That did occur to me but I've pre-ordered lots of Apple goodies over the last 6 years. Never had tracking show up out of order.

 

[Ryanmrash]

That did occur to me but I've pre-ordered lots of Apple goodies over the last 6 years. Never had tracking show up out of order.

This Korea thing is crazy. The shipment arrived in Alaska, and then what should have been a departure scan to Louisville came in as an arrival scan in Seoul. I don't believe they went to Korea. The time span would be impossible. Its a huge glitch, possibly even mis-numbered containers. I figured scans in and out of Louisville this morning would clear it up, but its still saying Korea. Dunno whats going on at this point...Maybe they just shut off public internet updates....

 

[ninaco]

This Korea thing is crazy. The shipment arrived in Alaska, and then what should have been a departure scan to Louisville came in as an arrival scan in Seoul. I don't believe they went to Korea. The time span would be impossible. Its a huge glitch, possibly even mis-numbered containers. I figured scans in and out of Louisville this morning would clear it up, but its still saying Korea. Dunno whats going on at this point...Maybe they just shut off public internet updates....

I was thinking that maybe they never made it onto the plane for Alaska. Instead, they just sat in China for days and then went to Korea where they've sat. Heck, for all we know they're still in China.

So much for delivery today . . . .

 

[rwstgermain]

My watch is currently on its way from Anchorage, AK, probably headed to Kentucky like the iPhones did. ETD is tomorrow, 9/20.

At UPS CC in Laurel, MD waiting for watch to come here from across the street warehouse.

Same here. Not across the street though lol. Silver Spring.

 

[Ryanmrash]

I was thinking that maybe they never made it onto the plane for Alaska. Instead, they just sat in China for days and then went to Korea where they've sat. Heck, for all we know they're still in China.

So much for delivery today . . . .

Mine just popped up a departure scan out of Korea. Weird as hell at this point.

 

[rwstgermain]

Has anyone used the UPS MyChoice to change their delivery to pickup at UPS?

Just assuming that it will sit there and not go out on the truck in the early AM and that I can pick it up whatever time of day that I can?

I have used this before. Several times what happens is it gets placed on the truck but doesn't get delivered then they just bring it back and keep at the location.

 

[grrlinabook]

I was thinking that maybe they never made it onto the plane for Alaska. Instead, they just sat in China for days and then went to Korea where they've sat. Heck, for all we know they're still in China.

So much for delivery today . . . .

My watch is in this globe trekking group, and I'm going out of town so I decided to call UPS to try to get an answer as to what in the heck is going on. As expected, they were less than helpful in giving a delivery estimate. However, the rep did tell me that the shipment never actually went to Anchorage or Korea, and that they are waiting for China to "release" the shipment. The scans that we're seeing are for documentation for the shipment, not the actual shipment itself. Other shipments of phones and watches seem to have made it to the US and into the hands of pre-order customers without any issues, so who knows what is really going on here. I'm not optimistic that we'll be getting our watches this week though.

 

[meanwoman]

Mine also just got a departure scan out of Korea now
My guess here is that it was suppose to be on the same plane to Alaska, but it got missed and instead it got re-routed to Korea.. why not just wait for the next plane to Alaska though.. unless the Korea route is going to be faster?
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My watch is in this globe trekking group, and I'm going out of town so I decided to call UPS to try to get an answer as to what in the heck is going on. As expected, they were less than helpful in giving a delivery estimate. However, the rep did tell me that the shipment never actually went to Anchorage or Korea, and that they are waiting for China to "release" the shipment. The scans that we're seeing are for documentation for the shipment, not the actual shipment itself. Other shipments of phones and watches seem to have made it to the US and into the hands of pre-order customers without any issues, so who knows what is really going on here. I'm not optimistic that we'll be getting our watches this week though.

So UPS is really providing false information with the tracker.. because customers now think their product is in Korea / Japan... even though it actually never got shipped out????? that's a major flaw

 

[adamjackson]

So UPS is really providing false information with the tracker.. because customers now think their product is in Korea / Japan... even though it actually never got shipped out????? that's a major flaw

It's like UPS is some fly-by-night courier service on their first international gig.

UPS Answering the Phone:

This company movies a billion boxes a year, right? Every time this happens it's with Apple stuff. I get international boxes all of the time and UPS is always on-the-sport with delivery estimates and tracking.