And if the baby's late, you gonna choose another woman like many of the posters on here would??
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**AT&T iPhone 4 Order Status Thread**
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And if the baby's late, you gonna choose another woman like many of the posters on here would??
Okay, I've been preaching patience for the past 2 days, but I'm starting to get pretty upset. I ordered at 2 pm CST on 6/15, and my order still says In Progress.
I know that I've seen many people on here say that they ordered at 5 or 6 pm and their phones have shipped...some even as late as 9 or 10. I'm still holding out hope that it's just a matter of connecting my order number to my tracking number, but if I have to wait until the 28th when I was clearly in before hundreds of others, I'm going to get angry.
I know that I've seen many people on here say that they ordered at 5 or 6 pm and their phones have shipped...some even as late as 9 or 10. I'm still holding out hope that it's just a matter of connecting my order number to my tracking number, but if I have to wait until the 28th when I was clearly in before hundreds of others, I'm going to get angry.
I am just seeing a pattern here in both the LIFO method of accounting/inventory and the shipping dates of these iPhone 4 orders. Seriously, most of the people who have their tracking working show ship dates of 6/20 or 6/22 and most recently 6/19, while those of us with shipping dates of 6/17 are still trying our hardest to bring down FedEx servers.
I don't claim to be an expert or anything, just a fun observation.
I am just seeing a pattern here in both the LIFO method of accounting/inventory and the shipping dates of these iPhone 4 orders. Seriously, most of the people who have their tracking working show ship dates of 6/20 or 6/22 and most recently 6/19, while those of us with shipping dates of 6/17 are still trying our hardest to bring down FedEx servers.
I don't claim to be an expert or anything, just a fun observation.
Yeah I have the 17th. This is getting on my ****ing nerves.
I am just seeing a pattern here in both the LIFO method of accounting/inventory and the shipping dates of these iPhone 4 orders. Seriously, most of the people who have their tracking working show ship dates of 6/20 or 6/22 and most recently 6/19, while those of us with shipping dates of 6/17 are still trying our hardest to bring down FedEx servers.
I don't claim to be an expert or anything, just a fun observation.
I am certainly not an expert either. I did get an A in accounting principles 1 and 2, but I think some of that had to do with my cleavage. However, LIFO and FIFO really just pertain to stocking (as far as I know) and accounting for inventory.
Like perishable items use the FIFO method, first in first out, (why dairy coolers have the room behind the shelves so they can stock from the back, pushing older items up front)- and non perishables get stocked from the front, pushing older items back, cause it's easier that way.
As for why people who had their orders marked as shipped days ago and still don't have updated tracking info -- i have no idea. You might be right in that sense.. that all the orders were packaged and shipping labels put on, etc, and then just piled up in a room - the 'first' orders got pushed back, and most recent orders were in front.. does make a lot of sense. But honestly, I don't see any rhyme or reason to what is happening. People who ordered at 2 am have their tracking info and are expecting their phones tomorrow - others not. And some who ordered at 10 pm are getting it tomorrow, others not. It's really, really strange. lol
I am indeed a victim of LIFO. Ordering at 0530 guaranteed my phone is on the pallet all the way in the back of the warehouse, up against the wall. That's why I've had a tracking number which tracks nothing for two days...
Being impatient, yet lazy and sleepy:
And then:
crontab -e
*/5 * * * * /mypath/checkfed.sh
Good luck, y'all, and good night.
Being impatient, yet lazy and sleepy:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
touch /tmp/fedex.txt
rm -f /tmp/fedex.txt
wget http://fedex.com/Tracking?tracknumbers=40863656xxxx -O /tmp/fedex.txt -q
c=`cat /tmp/fedex.txt | grep -i "no information" | wc -l`
if [ "$c" == "1" ]; then
echo "Not Yet dammit" > /dev/nul
else
echo "YES YES YES" | mail -s "Yes by golly!" my@address.com
echo "YES YES YES" | mail -s "Yes by golly!" mycellphone@txt.att.net
echo "YES YES YES" | mail -s "yes by golly!" mycellphone@mms.att.net
fiAnd then:
crontab -e
*/5 * * * * /mypath/checkfed.sh
Good luck, y'all, and good night.
What you are missing though is the time scale. There is a reason why I used the example that I did. It would be impossibly impractical to guarantee that every single order is shipped in order. They will logically group shipments by geographic region amongst other considerations. So what time scale are they using when they say that they will ship on a first come first served basis? Look's a lot to me like they are simply using the day (i.e. the 15th). In other words, those who ordered on the 15th will get theirs before those who order after. Now the fact that they stopped taking preorders on the 15th means that there really is no guarantee as to who will get their orders first (which is exactly what we're seeing) since in effect everyone ordered "at the same time".
WOOT! My iPhone is in St. Louis!
Sweet! I'm still waiting for mine to get out to Wentzville. It's been in Memphis since 6:02 this morning without an update. I'm guessing it's probably in Earth City too
Were in the same boat, one of my phones just arrived in Indy from TX, are you from NY or NJ?
Its a simple bash shell script.
You just replace the email addresses with yours and then save this file somewhere.
update your cronjob for it by using the command crontab -e
then paste that last line into it and make sure the file at the end of the line is pointing to the file you have saved with the code.
That't it. It will periodically keep pulling the status from fedex's site, parsing it and will mail you if the info is there
Have you never ordered something next day before? If you could fly from there and arrive at your house by 3PM tomorrow, they can ship you a package.
Their computers already have the schedule all figured out, it's probably waiting at an airport for the plane going to your city right now. I've seen packages arrive at my airport (PDX) and show up at my house a few miles away in a matter of a couple hours. 3PM is a long way off.
I make sure I get LIFO Milk.
LOL I do as well. take that **** alllllllll the way from the back lmao
I still have no tracking number. I was the first to order at my AT&T store on the 15th at 10:00am CST. AMEX card has an authorization from AT&T pending. I don't know what the hold-up is. I will be lucky to have my phone by next week at this rate.
nope I have NEVER ordered something overnight before, lol. it's usually way way way expensive, I always just get whatever the cheapest shipping is. I mean I know it's possible but since it's almost 2am where I am, and it's in TN.. I dunno! lol. I figured there would be a certain point where packages stop moving for the night. guess not!