Dont Sweat Delivery Dates---Heres why

[JGayle007]

Basically;
if it says 24/4 - 8/5 we get it on 24/4
if it says 12/5 - 26/5 we get it on 12/5

This was as I expected when first seeing the predicted delivery dates... No special knowledge, other than being involved in plenty launch day deliveries

What if you're not given a date range ?

 

[Glene]

What if you're not given a date range ?

NO ONE (at least verifiable here) has received a single "will deliver on x/x/2015" date....

if you are given a month (like June) - then the system will home in on that month and a specific date range as we get closer....

 

[KauaiBruce]

I have the 24th date range. No one delivers on Saturdays here so it will make me crazy waiting until the next week if I do not get it that day. ONE thing I just realized is that when I ordered all of the sports bands had an estimate of April 29- May 12. That tells me they are not going to clog up the deliveries the first week with BANDS. I think that is a GOOD thing.

 

[iamasmith]

I have the 24th date range. No one delivers on Saturdays...

24th is a Friday..

 

[chrismac2]

I don't think everyone who received the date range 4/24 to 5/8 are going to receive their watches on the 24th.

I'm not keeping my hopes up. This is unusual for Apple. For product launches in the past (edit: for iPhone launches anyways, can't speak for iPad), if you order early enough, you are given a guaranteed launch day delivery.

I think they did it this way because their initial stock is so low, that if they gave people launch day delivery guarantees, it would have exposed how little launch day stock they have, as it delivery dates would have slipped even faster than they did.

By giving themselves a 2 week launch window, their numbers look better and it doesn't expose how low their stock is for the 24th.

 

[zea mays]

It's far from a standard bnusiness practice. I've never seen a wide date range for a preorder release. They have always been specific dates. This is certainly a first for Apple as in the past they have always given a specific release date for initial orders which is usually the launch date. To my knowledge for all the iPhone and iPad preorders in the past it's always been a specific date.

I wish that people would quit saying this. There HAVE been other delivery ranges. One was the original iPad. I don't recall one that spanned two weeks, but it HAS been done by Apple before.

 

[KauaiBruce]

24th is a Friday..

Your point? I was saying if I do not get it on the 24th I have to wait the whole weekend.

 

[mark-in-mk]

I've just checked around the copier paper in Best Buy. No Apple watches.

Any more bright ideas ?