"Awesome Mother's Day gift" you say? How about a 38mm Stainless Steel Apple Watch with the pink modern buckle? Check mate.
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"Awesome Mother's Day gift" you say? How about a 38mm Stainless Steel Apple Watch with the pink modern buckle? Check mate.
So I just called and talked to a rep. She said everything looks fine on my account, no red flags, just to sit tight. I asked her about the idea of orders processing first based on location vs distribution center and she sounded extremely confident that this was not the case. She did confirm, however, that almost all of these in the first wave look like they are coming from inside the US and not China.
She also added that she has seen significantly more orders move to preparing for shipment that were placed via the apple store app rather than through the website but that could be coincidence.
Hmmm then I'm going to need a little more movement than your last minute shipment notification. I'm still over hear waiting on anything for my 42 Space Gray Sport with :03 confirmation
I'd say if your card isn't charged by Wednesday night or Thursday morning it might be time to worry. It seems like everyone that got a prepare to ship yesterday saw their status change within a 1-2 hour window (like 5-7pm est). Maybe Apple is processing all the other orders now and will do a mass change, charging all the cards and updating all the orders to 'preparing to ship'
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LOL, never thought I would be looking forward/excited for $545 dollars to be added to my Visa balance.
Same here, though my order was preparing for shipment yesterday during the initial rush, went back to processing a few hours later and has remained at processing. Oh well.
My Assessment of How this works
So. Just thinking how this cycle works:
1. The watches get sent from the Asia in palettes to distribution centers across the world.
2. Each palette contains a number of watches from each "SKU" which is basically size, material, band combo. (I assume the reason the sports bands got the 2 sizes included is to reduce SKUs)
3. Once the palette arrives to the distribution center it is scanned into the warehouse as "Apple Inventory". Until this moment the watches are legally still Apple property and hence cannot be invoiced to customers.
4. Apple online orders are assigned to distribution centers based on customer ship location. So at this point we have "distribution center" inventory and "distribution center" orders under fulfillment.
5. Each day the new shipments get scanned into "inventory" and once that is completed, individual invoices are raised based on that inventory and orders under fulfillment for this particular distribution center. If inventory is not enough, then not all orders are fulfilled. If inventory is sufficient, then orders are processed and invoiced.
The key takeaway from this is that we need to think more along the lines of distribution centers and orders being fulfilled versus all of us being in one queue.
Think of it like this. Apple sends product to many locations, each one has it's own separate queue. How quickly we get our product is dependent on our position in that queue as well as the available product at that particular location.
Hope this helps
./sherif
So. Just thinking how this cycle works:
1. The watches get sent from the Asia in palettes to distribution centers across the world.
2. Each palette contains a number of watches from each "SKU" which is basically size, material, band combo. (I assume the reason the sports bands got the 2 sizes included is to reduce SKUs)
3. Once the palette arrives to the distribution center it is scanned into the warehouse as "Apple Inventory". Until this moment the watches are legally still Apple property and hence cannot be invoiced to customers.
4. Apple online orders are assigned to distribution centers based on customer ship location. So at this point we have "distribution center" inventory and "distribution center" orders under fulfillment.
5. Each day the new shipments get scanned into "inventory" and once that is completed, individual invoices are raised based on that inventory and orders under fulfillment for this particular distribution center. If inventory is not enough, then not all orders are fulfilled. If inventory is sufficient, then orders are processed and invoiced.
The key takeaway from this is that we need to think more along the lines of distribution centers and orders being fulfilled versus all of us being in one queue.
Think of it like this. Apple sends product to many locations, each one has it's own separate queue. How quickly we get our product is dependent on our position in that queue as well as the available product at that particular location.
Hope this helps
./sherif
Well I ordered through the website and mine went to preparing to ship like 21 hours ago. Id venture to say that the model you ordered plays a much bigger factor in the timeline than the method used.
My theory is that these watches are being taken off of massive skids at local distribution centers and then applied to orders. It'd make sense that different models are packaged together, so the admin is probably taking one watch from the pile, adding it to your order, charging the card and changing your order status.
What time did charges start being processed yesterday? Hoping we get another wave of that today starting at the same time
Poor Apple Support.
Having to put up with phone calls from people who can't wait for their order status to change which should be within the next day or two.
Again, just posted on this site..
Apple Watch orders that have not yet changed should not cause alarm, as based on the early tracking info received, Apple is using Next Day Air shipments.
Still processing:
42 mm SS Classic Buckle
Pennsylvania
Am I the only one?
No my pepperoni brethren, no you are not.
Ordered T + 11min in Las Vegas, NV and no updates on it.
No. You are not alone
My order is confirmed at T+6. I assume we are both in the same distribution zone, so let's see if they get enough today for both of us
./sherif
I just pinned them down on telephone customer service -- supposedly mine IS indeed shipping from the US. So there IS HOPE! Still nothing as far as charges and still processing! Yuck, I just despise that “P" word!
my card just got charged 5 min ago
4/24-5/8 delivery date
ss classic buckle
toronto canada
That's good news
Means today's shipments from Asia came in with SS and Classic Buckles. What time was your order email?./sherif
my card just got charged 5 min ago
4/24-5/8 delivery date
ss classic buckle
toronto canada
where you made the order via app or Web ?
Still processing:
42 mm SS Classic Buckle
Pennsylvania
Am I the only one?
Same boat!
People need to get a life, fancy checking this site 400 times a day for updates. Come on guys and girls, keep it down to 200 or so and enjoy life
