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Cut Your Losses & Order The White Sport Band Now
- Thread starter ericgtr12
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It doesn't feel fair when you have no idea going in, especially to those of us who were on the button within 2 minutes of the store opening while others are placing orders within the last few days and are shipping.
Tried this last night. Cause you crazy ppl swore they had plenty of the white ones. And were shipping out before the others. And now it is stuck in processing hell like my other order. ###
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I honestly thought everyone would go for the "cheap" one and that the the SS would be fine. I originally wanted a SG sport because I'm not jazzed about $800 on a first gen product I'm not 100% I want. As soon as I placed that order at 2:03 cst it was already bumped. I said screwed it ordered the SS and now I sit without that too. lol wildness I tell ya!
This is my issue. People that got up at silly am to pre-order are still waiting but people that ordered like a week ago have already shipped purely as Apple didnt build enough stock of certain bands and colours. Bit stupid if you ask me
Thanks for sharing, if it's any consolation you're helping out a lot of us with the decision making process. Fingers crossed for you.
This is what happens when you have greater variety and choice. When there are a small number of choices, it's easy to build enough of each, or at least guess the proportions. The larger the number, the harder it gets.
You build what you can and catch up with demand. What exactly do you expect? Prescience? I mean, Apple has a good track record recently, but that is still asking a lot.
IMHO, the choice here was to either delay launch for a month or two, or launch with limited supply. They went for limited supply. It is what it is.
It is based on when you ordered. There are numerous different configurations. Someone getting an Apple Watch Sport before someone that ordered an Apple Watch with Link band before them isn't a big surprise.
I must've missed this... the ship dates have been June since the day of the pre-order. Where is the evidence that people who ordered this week have already shipped? This doesn't make sense.
It would seem Apple would have made more people happy if they had packaged the watch and bands in separate boxes. It would have been much easier to satisfy the demand for the different combinations by just picking up one of each as required to fulfil the order.
Check around some of these threads you will be pleasantly surprised at some of the orders that were placed as recently as early this week that have shipped out.
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End of the day, no matter what Apple had done they weren't going to make everyone happy. Once the supply catches up with the demand all will be forgotten until the next product launch.
Ordered a white 38 sport on 4/10 at 5:15 PM... still processing... Seems like the best bet is going with the blue band...
just the stats from trolling this forum for last week. you know what ones are shipping vs not shipping.