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I think you're conflating manufacturing with configuration. I suspect that Apple's manufacturing partner has been manufacturing the cases and the strap suppliers making straps for awhile. The cases and straps would be held as WIP inventory. Upon demand, the watches would be configured together into the case/band combinations ordered and undergo final packaging.
To me this is a logical reason for the two week window. Say they can configure x watches in a day (assuming adequate supply of cases and bands- if tight inventory for the case/band you ordered, ship date range slips straight away) and they have y orders. Assuming y is a multiple of x, watches will be configured and shipped daily for several days (two weeks?) until that wave is over.
Any status change
If anyones status changes between Monday-Wednesday, Please let us know.... I am leaning towards our status to change from the range I just mentioned.
Good Luck All!
If anyones status changes between Monday-Wednesday, Please let us know.... I am leaning towards our status to change from the range I just mentioned.
Good Luck All!
Lol Geeze. Maybe an Apple watch is the last thing you should be buying if you have ZERO FUNDS in bank account to cover it. Why didn't you use a credit card?
Never judge...there are a lot of people that are rolling in cash but sacrifice a lot of fun in their lives for that. Each to their own.
In my opinion, as long as you can comfortably afford to pay some or all of it off of your credit card each month and not getting charged a stupid % of interest, then I don't see a problem with it.
Haha! Thanks Gwynne! I was certainly saying its a big possibility! I live from pay to pay, yet am prioritising to buy a watch. I tend to live life like there is no tomorrow, and have a good time doing it! I'm sure there are plenty of cashed up people that have fun too, but unfortunately for me and the poster above, we're not one of them!
Haha..u can rest assured that as soon as a shipping status changes there will be 10 threads about it within milliseconds.
That is a very good point, did not look at it from that perspective before, makes a whole lot of sense.
Let's hope anyways because this place is going to be a mausoleum if only a small percentage of people have shipment notifications on Thursday.
I will give u my credit card # to use if u promise to pay it off in 3 payments. Each time u get paid u send me 1/3rd of the total.
I echo this comment. I'm in Toronto too, and my iPhone 6 plus pre-order had the same thing. Ordered the minute the preorders went live and was given a date range, not an exact date, and did receive it day one.
If you are correct, and I hope you are, we won't see status changes until the middle of the week.
Yea right.
Just throwing it out there. But I'll only do it for honest people who won't take advantage of the fact that I don't know the person.
Doesn't the Apple Store app offer push notifications when the order status changes? Why keep checking back when it will notify you automatically?
I don't mind not getting an update email till end of the week, as long as my bank is charged sometime soon. So feels a little more secure. Soon as charged ill relax.