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Delivery time for BTO iMacs
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Impatient, its the holiday season so they're busy. Relax you have plenty of time before Xmas.
I hit refresh on the shipping at least 20 times
One wants to closely track the birth of their third or fourth [In my case 5th Apple computer]. You don't tell an expectant father to "relax" I ordered a maxed out 27" on Black Friday, and received it on the east coast yesterday. (8-days)
I ordered my first 27" iMac yesterday (Saturday) but it has not been shipped yet (today is Sunday). I also added a SSD to mine.
It states that it will be shipped in 1-3 business days, so I'll hopefully be receiving it sometime later this week.
I will let you know how long mine took to arrive.
iMac 27" 3.2ghz quad core i5, 8gm RAM, 256gb SSD.
It states that it will be shipped in 1-3 business days, so I'll hopefully be receiving it sometime later this week.
I will let you know how long mine took to arrive.
iMac 27" 3.2ghz quad core i5, 8gm RAM, 256gb SSD.
Uhhhh Saturday & Sunday are NOT business days. The earliest it will ship is Monday or as late as Wednesday, then it will take a time for the shipper to get it to your front door. Seriously, did you think Saturday or Sunday were business days?????
Sorry if I was unclear, but I was intending to point out that I ordered on a weekend so it would help give a fair judgement on how long it took to ship.
So no, i did not mean to say those were business days.
I was being optimistic on it shipping early this week and getting to me near the end of the week.
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we ordered our iMac yesterday morning, Saturday, by yesterday late afternoon we had shipping confirmation and shipping label, by today it is on its way, so I guess they do ship on Saturdays................
They do however i doubt your machine was a CTO model, it was probably one of the standard iMac models.
I ordered on Dec 3rd, 27" with an i7 and 1 TB Fusiondrive. The website estimates delivery (despite express shipping) around the 17th, so that´s quite the wait I think.
Black Friday might have impacted on that, but then it´s probably not their first holiday season and they might (read: should) have anticipated a certain increase in volume.
Black Friday might have impacted on that, but then it´s probably not their first holiday season and they might (read: should) have anticipated a certain increase in volume.
Apple today surprised me by shipping it early and estimating delivery on the 12th! Which is quite handy since I have to lift all my data over before the 20th...
If it hasn't changed status yet, then I would call Apple as it's now several days past where it should've shipped.
It just changed status. Mine went the other way.
Only thing I changed was the 512 SSD and a trackpad. Ordered on the 4th and now won't ship until possibly the 13th.
My BTO was 4 days. Shipping was (free) next day. Came with Mavericks preinstalled. Arrived Monday.
EDIT: I did regular shipping, during my BTO time I decided to call and pay to have them upgrade shipping. Apple offered FREE next day shipping right away. Crazy! Customer service is reason enough to stick to Apple!
EDIT: I did regular shipping, during my BTO time I decided to call and pay to have them upgrade shipping. Apple offered FREE next day shipping right away. Crazy! Customer service is reason enough to stick to Apple!
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I called to change from the Magic Mouse to the trackpad and they threw it in, I get both for free now.