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Australian Watch Pre-Order Thread
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For those noting that payments were coming out around 5pm, money came out of my account at 2:25pm.
The reason I say that is cause HussRainbow had the same order (Space Black SS 42mm) as mine - got their confirmation email at 5:02 with a delivery of 5/25+
For me though - I got my confirmation email at 5:04 with a delivery of 5/12-5/25. If orders were truly on a first in, first serve basis based on confirmation times - that doesn't make much sense at all. But I got onto the store as soon as I could and had the watch added via my favourites - it was the payment section that I took more time in.
I can only see a few possible reasons here:
1. Orders are put into a temporary queue via the Apple Store app sometime between adding the item to the cart and payment - and secured after payment is made (or lost if cart is changed).
2. We're all referring to a confirmation email which may not reflect the actual internal queue system - where mailing server latency can break this theory.
3. We're also working with 'whole' seconds e.g. 5:03, 5:04 – even within a second you might have 10k orders being 'queue' worldwide.
4. Apple most likely serves orders on a first come, first serve basis but would be on a national level (not worldwide, that would be logistical disaster). So once a model is out of stock for that nation - then they need to wait for more stock, even though another nation probably has enough stock to serve those in June (if that makes sense?)
Anyway! Still waiting patiently
Always fun being an Australian - we seem to Apple everything first Awesome mate! That's good news that Apple is still processing orders in Australia #
Still on processing for:
Ordered on 22/04/2015
Apple Watch 38mm Stainless Steel Case with Soft Pink Modern Buckle - Small
Ordered on 21/04/2014
42mm Bright Blue Leather Loop - Large
Ordered on 11/04/2015
Apple Watch Sport 42mm Space Grey Aluminium Case with Black Sport Band
Sydney in the land of OZ
Ordered on 22/04/2015
Apple Watch 38mm Stainless Steel Case with Soft Pink Modern Buckle - Small
Ordered on 21/04/2014
42mm Bright Blue Leather Loop - Large
Ordered on 11/04/2015
Apple Watch Sport 42mm Space Grey Aluminium Case with Black Sport Band
Sydney in the land of OZ
Seems that some CC charges are coming through now for 42 SS BSB in Australia.
I was X:03 (Perth, AU) in the 24/4 - 8/5 window and my card has been charged in the last hour. Order is still at 'Processing Items' and received EOD.
Coincidentally, the next UPS plane from Honolulu is arriving in Sydney (UPS 34) shortly (ETA 15:12 EST). Doubt mine is on there but wanted to share in case it helped anyone else.
I was X:03 (Perth, AU) in the 24/4 - 8/5 window and my card has been charged in the last hour. Order is still at 'Processing Items' and received EOD.
Coincidentally, the next UPS plane from Honolulu is arriving in Sydney (UPS 34) shortly (ETA 15:12 EST). Doubt mine is on there but wanted to share in case it helped anyone else.
Awesome mate so excited!! Hoping this Sydney bound beaut had my shiny watch on it #
My 42 Sports SG BSB just changed to "Preparing For Shipment" ordered 5:03.
Hopefully will see it on Monday.
Hopefully will see it on Monday.
My 42mm Stainless Steel with BSB also just moved to Preparing for Shipment. I am based in Sydney and completed my order at 5:02pm.
When I called Apple earlier this afternoon they looked up my order and told me I would get it next week (but could not be more specific on day). With any luck it will be early next week.
It didn't, but I figured out it's because my native iPhone weather had had been set to F because I was converting something earlier lol.
To everyone who has preparing for shipment or shipped on the SS with black sport band,
did you people get the email of death?
did you people get the email of death?
