Canada is shipping through about XX:17, hopefully because we have less orders, my April 25 order can come towards the beginning of what Apple set as 'June'!
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April 25 Order for Black 42mm Sport
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Prices are high, but not many are biting. I just sold my stainless steel and took a slight hit.
No orderd a space grey 42mm on the 25/04/15 and it's still pending with Apple and am just waiting for update #
I ordered the 19th & still have "June"
Like it's been said before, I think once were outta the initial bottle neck of the first 30minutes we will start to see some real progress being made. There's tens of thousands of people who stayed up for the midnight launch & ordered with in that first 30 minutes. After that I'm sure it tapers off to a more managae less number.
My buddy did a vague estimate. IF the pattern continued as it is progressing currently, just a few minutes a day. & my order being 9 days after pre launch it would take 967 days for mine to arrive. Lol.
Like it's been said before, I think once were outta the initial bottle neck of the first 30minutes we will start to see some real progress being made. There's tens of thousands of people who stayed up for the midnight launch & ordered with in that first 30 minutes. After that I'm sure it tapers off to a more managae less number.
My buddy did a vague estimate. IF the pattern continued as it is progressing currently, just a few minutes a day. & my order being 9 days after pre launch it would take 967 days for mine to arrive. Lol.
I also ordered on 25/4 and have the open June date.
To be honest, I'm not expecting to get it until at least the third week in June. It's crazy.
To be honest, I'm not expecting to get it until at least the third week in June. It's crazy.
It's mad people r putting them for 800 pounds on eBay and am not paying that you can get two sports for that am going to wait it's nearly the end of may soon #
Charged for Applecare... Does it mean anything?
Hi - I believe my CC was charged for the Applecare piece to my order this morning. It is $52.31 and I haven't ordered anything else from apple online.
Does this mean anything about my order? Or am I being too hopeful. Or is it Apple running a pre-authorization on my account again just like they did the first time (although that was for the watch and the applecare when I first ordered.
Ordered Black 42mm Sport on April 25th (evening).
Thanks
Hi - I believe my CC was charged for the Applecare piece to my order this morning. It is $52.31 and I haven't ordered anything else from apple online.
Does this mean anything about my order? Or am I being too hopeful. Or is it Apple running a pre-authorization on my account again just like they did the first time (although that was for the watch and the applecare when I first ordered.
Ordered Black 42mm Sport on April 25th (evening).
Thanks
SG BSB order placed on 4/11. Still a vague "June" shipping date.
Beyond frustrated that it's been 5 weeks and still nothing.
FFS, even just an explanation as to what the hold up is would be nice.
I'm with ya on the vague June date.
But the explanation is pretty clear if your up to date on the news of the apple watch.
The amount of pre order sales was Insane. If they only filled roughly 22% of 2.3 million pre orders on launch day that gives a pretty good idea about how much they underestimated the watch. It took pebble an entire year to sell 740 thousand watches. Apple doubbled that in a few days.
The tactic engine I believe is the real issue. I think the pre orders would have been manageable had there been no issues with the watch. But since they had to go back & replace a good majority of finished watches that created a bottleneck in finishing & shipping the product in a timely fashion.
But. Now that things today seem to be progressing with a lot of people's orders being processed that ordered the 10/11th I think in the next few days we will start to see some serious progress in shipping & receiving the watch of all models.
Apple hasn't officially come out and said, "It's been 5 weeks since you preordered. We know you're excited but we hit a snag in production."
As for preorders, they should have known to make more than needed. They weren't selling them in retail stores, they were online only. Even if the watch flops, people will STILL buy them and hold onto them as legacy devices. Doesn't the advertising before hand to hype the product help estimate or project sales numbers? (I'm totally ignorant on this so if I'm wrong please let me know)
I don't doubt that the taptic engine is to blame, I know that slowed things down but IIRC that is one production facility out of how many? Granted, one production facility probably churns out a ton of watches.
I'm hoping in the next few days we see some HUGE fulfillment waves. It's just frustrating is all.
Thoughts on the vague "June" shipping label? I think they're underpromising so that they can over deliver. "Remember that time it was in June? It's now being shipped tomorrow!!"
I don't know how they project their numbers but when the original leader for smartwatch sales sells under 1 million in an entire year I think it's a safe bet to assume they probably didn't think they would double that number in mere hours.
The smart watch niche is still small on the grand scale of things. They put their feelers out there but definitely didn't stretch them enough as we all obviously know.
Also there's the "luxury" aspect of the watch. Exclusitivity, being the only one to have one in your group of friends. Maybe it's a slow & steady for a reason at least at first.
My ship date was updated from "June" to arriving between June 26-July 6.
Canada here.
Ordered 42mm SG BSB on April 25.
Canada here.
Ordered 42mm SG BSB on April 25.