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Anyone care to share any info on how to track by reference? I'm part of the 4-6 week group that just went to preparing for shipment.

Go to UPS tracking site, click 'Track by Reference'
enter your phone number (associated with your apple acct) as ########## (no dashes/spaces)
Change the end of the date range to 4/24/2015
enter Country and Zip
 
For those of you that have found your tracking number, does anyone show anything other than "Order Processed: Ready for UPS"?

Looks like the watch will be transitioned from Apple to UPS tomorrow, but wondering if anyone else is seeing actual movement within the UPS system.

EDIT: I'm in Atlanta, so Tennessee distribution area
 
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For those of you that have found your tracking number, does anyone show anything other than "Order Processed: Ready for UPS"?

Looks like the watch will be transitioned from Apple to UPS tomorrow, but wondering if anyone else is seeing actual movement within the UPS system.

Nope. Same status.
 
I've seen a ton of people say they have been able to find evidence of UPS now in the process of moving watches around. They have done this via the UPS MyChoice or via reference number tracking.

Has anyone had success with Fedex reference tracking, or otherwise identifying their watch in the Fedex delivery chain? If past day 1 shipments for iPhones are any indication, I'll receive my watch via Fedex, not UPS.

My credit card was charged two days ago (Monday) and everything moved to preparing for shipping a day or so ago. Nothing since...

My extra charge cable, by the way, arrived today via Lasership, a last-mile service here in NYC.

I ordered both a space gray 42mm sport and a classic buckle steel watch at 3:02 ET.

Thanks.

I am in almost the EXACT same boat, except I am in Washington D.C.
Ordered 42mm SS w/Classic Buckle, got confirmation at 3:02 AM EDT, with the 4/24 - 5/8 Ship window.

CC Charged and status flipped to "Preparing to Ship" late Monday afternoon, but no movement since. We are both in the North/Mid Atlantic corridor so perhaps similar situations. I also ordered an additional charging cable, which is being delivered today, via Lasership. I hadn't seen anyone else besides me mention Lasership before, and I don't believe I've ever received a delivery from them before.

Perhaps Apple is leveraging regional "last mile" carriers to help drive this massive preorder delivery campaign?
 
I am really starting to get pissed. Still my order is processing.

42ss BSB. Los Angeles.
12:03 pst confirmation.
 
Central Texas Hubs

I live about an hour South of Austin, I've been through every iPhone pre-order. Every Time it has been through Alaska, then Kentucky, then Dallas, and then my local hub (San Marcos, TX). FWIW
 
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I mean....WTF?

Why are, seemingly, tons of people getting tracking #'s from UPS while many of us (who ordered like right at 3am ET) still stuck in "Preparing for Shipment"

A sucker's bet says that those of us that cannot find our tracking numbers by reference are going to be SCREWED by apple and our watches are shipping from China and will not be here Friday.

My order for 42 SS Classic Black Buckle was confirmed via email at 3:02ET.... Not quite sure how to get too much higher on the list than that.

Thanks a lot, Apple! NOT
 
I mean....WTF?

Why are, seemingly, tons of people getting tracking #'s from UPS while many of us (who ordered like right at 3am ET) still stuck in "Preparing for Shipment"

A sucker's bet says that those of us that cannot find our tracking numbers by reference are going to be SCREWED by apple and our watches are shipping from China and will not be here Friday.

My order for 42 SS Classic Black Buckle was confirmed via email at 3:02ET.... Not quite sure how to get too much higher on the list than that.

Thanks a lot, Apple! NOT

Or some who are still stuck in "Processing" :-D
 
So ....Once these planes land in Alaska, we still wont get a tracking number there would we? or do we have to wit untill the packages hit major distribution centers before UPS shows we have a package coming in My Choice?
 
I mean....WTF?

Why are, seemingly, tons of people getting tracking #'s from UPS while many of us (who ordered like right at 3am ET) still stuck in "Preparing for Shipment"

A sucker's bet says that those of us that cannot find our tracking numbers by reference are going to be SCREWED by apple and our watches are shipping from China and will not be here Friday.

My order for 42 SS Classic Black Buckle was confirmed via email at 3:02ET.... Not quite sure how to get too much higher on the list than that.

Thanks a lot, Apple! NOT

Where do you live? I'll bet some serious cash you aren't in the Tennessee dist. center's catchment area, as many of us have said repeatedly. Only that one was updated with UPS information.
 
So ....Once these planes land in Alaska, we still wont get a tracking number there would we? or do we have to wit untill the packages hit major distribution centers before UPS shows we have a package coming in My Choice?

Link to planes please?
 
I mean....WTF?

Why are, seemingly, tons of people getting tracking #'s from UPS while many of us (who ordered like right at 3am ET) still stuck in "Preparing for Shipment"

A sucker's bet says that those of us that cannot find our tracking numbers by reference are going to be SCREWED by apple and our watches are shipping from China and will not be here Friday.

My order for 42 SS Classic Black Buckle was confirmed via email at 3:02ET.... Not quite sure how to get too much higher on the list than that.

Thanks a lot, Apple! NOT

These watches will be shipped next day. So getting them to UPS could very well take until Thursday morning with a tracking number generated then. If you don't see any movement on Thursday, you can still be a little worried, but again I've had Apple products say "Prepared for Shipment" only to be holding them in my hand five minutes later.
 
I mean....WTF?

Why are, seemingly, tons of people getting tracking #'s from UPS while many of us (who ordered like right at 3am ET) still stuck in "Preparing for Shipment"

A sucker's bet says that those of us that cannot find our tracking numbers by reference are going to be SCREWED by apple and our watches are shipping from China and will not be here Friday.

My order for 42 SS Classic Black Buckle was confirmed via email at 3:02ET.... Not quite sure how to get too much higher on the list than that.

Thanks a lot, Apple! NOT
Are you seriously complaining about your order being in preparing for shipment status? Mine is processing and I placed my order at 12:01.
 
REITERATING:

The only people who have found their tracking details from UPS are those who live in the Tennessee distribution center's catchment area. As of now, few to no other people have.

Apple has other centers in Newark, NJ, Harrisburg, PA, etc. :apple:

FWIW I in driving distance of that center and my "4/24" delivery is still processing.
 
My order is still processing :/ I ordered mine at 12:08am PST on 4/10 and have the 4/24-5/8 window.... Any hope for me on Friday? Lol 38mm SS BSB
 
People don't seem to understand that preparing for shipment is a good thing. No one officially has received a shipping confirmation from Apple. Some of has success with the UPS track by reference, but it's safe to assume if you've got that status, you're good as gold.

The real problem is for us still stuck in the processing stage with the 4/24-58 window. With more and more news of the Mid May orders getting updated to Prepared For Shipment, it's hard for us still stuck not to be extremely frustrated.
 
Clearly, only us with 42 SS with Black Sport Band are left behind! I'm from the UK but this seems to be a worldwide theme...

Picked the wrong queue this time :D dang
 
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