Yeah my AMEX was charged full amount and I used Apple Pay, shows as a pending but no biggie, if they charge now or in 14 days, all the same
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Delivery Dates 4/24-5/8
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Yeah my AMEX was charged full amount and I used Apple Pay, shows as a pending but no biggie, if they charge now or in 14 days, all the same
I doubt that say they have been fully charged have actually been. More likely it was a temporary hold to make sure you had the funds for them to approve your preorder. Like the majority of online retailers Apple doesn't charge until they ship the product. It would be very unusual and unlikely for them to do otherwise.
I believe Apple Pay uses a hold instead of an authorization to keep the token open on a card not present transaction.
I've never seen any "cushion" dates for any iPhone launch when u ordered as soon as preorders went live. Always had a single delivery date, that exactly coincided with launch day.
I used Apple Pay with Touch ID on the Apple Store app using my iPhone 6 to order my watch. The Passbook app immediately (2:03am CT) showed the "last transaction" with the full amount charged. I just checked and it is still showing exactly the same, no change. I am in the 4/24-5/8 ship range and received a confirmation email right away though I wasn't able to view my order page until the next morning and my order showed "processing" then and it still does
honestly im so over this thing i want to local store and man my heart beat starting bumping when he took it of my wrist ... lol i wanted to walk out with it (well ofcourse paying for it, not stealing it) it just broke my heart cant wait for it
i want to local store and man my heart beat starting bumping when he took it of my wrist ... lol i wanted to walk out with it (well ofcourse paying for it, not stealing it) it just broke my heart cant wait for it
I hope so. Ill be upset if mine doesn't arrive on the 24th. But the fact that they put a cushion in there tells me they are preparing even the people who ordered in the first minute that they may not get exactly on the 24th, and up to the 8th of may. But I think us guys who ordered in the first minute or 2 and have the 4/24-5/8 date will get on launch. If no one does, and they are not available in stores (as has already been said) on the 24th then the launch date really isn't the 24th. Which would not look good for apple.
I agree, I think we will see them on the 24th because if they are stating that is the official launch date and that none are in stores, then that means most of the people with 4/24--5/8 dates should get them. That would look really bad when the press wants to talk about it and no one gets any on the 24th
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've yet to see a picture of an order confirmation showing just the 24th date. I had mine ordered and confirmation email at 3:01EST with 24th-8th. Anybody with a 'just' 24th confirmation is a mystery. I think if you ordered in the first minute, you should at least have an April 24th delivery date.
Honestly, I think that range is there for shipping mistakes, I believe anyone that has those ranges will get it on the 24th. My order was in by 12:03, confirmation email at 12:03. I believe I will receive mine on the 24th. (Will not be happy if I don't)
Bs, no one has a 4/24 delivery date, without a range, beginning on 4/24. Not even people who ordered 1min after 3:01am est. I ordered at 3:03am, and got shipping dates of 4/24-5/8, and another watch even later than that. The date ranges, coupled with the fact that they are not selling the watches in store, and not even allowing instore pickup for 4/24, the fabled "launch date"......all of this just means they don't have watches available, or problems with the watches that they did have available. Obviously, something is wrong.
I have two theories on the shipping range, but neither have to do with leaving room for shipping mistakes.
Theory A: Ahrendts is using the NASA ploy of under-promising and over-delivering. The people who stayed up late to pre-order the morning of April 10th are junkies, and she's intentionally leaving us hanging because we worry we won't get our product straight away. When we get shipping notifications saying April 24th, everyone breathes a sigh of relief, and we're that much more addicted to Apple.
Theory B: Apple is not confident they will fill all these orders by April 24th. If they were confident, there's no reason to leave it ambiguous. Some percentage of the 4/24 - 5/8 group, probably a large percentage, will slip from April 24th.
I'm torn between the theories. On one hand, Apple does seem to have rushed the launch just a bit, and it's possible the orders simply won't be ready to go.
On the other hand, Apple's behavior is very calculated, and it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it this is a psychological trick to give early adopters a shot of Apple-infused dopamine.
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I'm guessing it's Theory A, it makes sense, gets them in the papers, keeps people on edge and will make them look really good when it arrives on the 24th.
This time must be different. I was charged on 4/10 per my credit card ($1 verification charge on 4/9).
Edit: the charges are pending.
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They are just to lazy to type out the whole range. No one has a 4/24 delivery date. The earliest anyone has- other than Pharell etc. - is 4/24-5/8 range.
Theory A requires some medication for you.
Theory B is correct. I predict that about 10% of the 4/24 to 5/8 group, me included, will get it after 4/24. Supplies are very constrained. Apple will get some out on 4/24 to satisfy their promises. I'm under no illusion that I'll see it on 4/24. Don't get me wrong, I'd love it if it happens. But I doubt that it will.
guys, the dust has settled, if you order within the first few minutes and you got a 4/24-5/8 date, and it STILL SAYS THAT date, it means you are in the first wave of shipments and you have just about been paired with a watch.....congrats...we WILL see our watch on 4/24
It's a real mystery honestly, for a normal company delivering 3 million watches on the same day is really hard, for Apple it's an average Tuesday morning at work.
So are we supposed to believe that are only starting to build these things now? They needed 8 months after showing them to build 3-6 million on time?
I'm referring to the period between the start of preorders (10th) to the official day of shipment (24th). This is a cushion for Apple to get everything in place for the 24th.
The date RANGE that apple has provided is more to set expectations. Orders will be filled in the order they are received but that will start on the 24th until all orders are filled.
Why do you think that Apple has never done this Date Range before, for initial orders(people who ordered right away), but is doing it now? You don't think this was done because they have an inventory problem?