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I would imagine that Apple is treating resellers just like end-users. They can't really do otherwise withoout screwing people who order from resellers.

Let's say (hypothetically) on June 9th, Mickey puts in an order with the Online Apple Store at 6am. At 7am, CDW/MacWhereHouse puts in an order of 100 macs. At 9am, Jezebel orders a mac from the Apple Store. At 10am, the S.F. Apple Retail Store puts in an order for 100 macs. At 3pm, Jane orders from the Online Apple Store. At 6pm, Johnny orders a mac from CDW.

Apple ships out macs in the order they received them. CDW will get their 100 macs before Jezebel. This mean Johnny, who ordered at 6pm, might get a mac before Jezebel. Even worse, Joe Schmo could walk into the SF Apple Store and buy a mac before Jane gets her mac, because the Apple Retail Store is just another customer to Apple.

I don't see how else they could do it. if they favored the end-users over the resellers when shipping, people who ordered their mac via a reseller may never get it until there is no backlog. And they'd really piss off their resellers for punishing them that way. Also, Apple has no way of knowing what order the resellers sold theirs to their customers.

If Apple is claiming they are shipping out in the order that they received the orders, this could still be true even if we are receiving them in a different order.
 
Sneeper said:
I would imagine that Apple is treating resellers just like end-users. They can't really do otherwise withoout screwing people who order from resellers.

Let's say (hypothetically) on June 9th, Mickey puts in an order with the Online Apple Store at 6am. At 7am, CDW/MacWhereHouse puts in an order of 100 macs. At 9am, Jezebel orders a mac from the Apple Store. At 10am, the S.F. Apple Retail Store puts in an order for 100 macs. At 3pm, Jane orders from the Online Apple Store. At 6pm, Johnny orders a mac from CDW.

Apple ships out macs in the order they received them. CDW will get their 100 macs before Jezebel. This mean Johnny, who ordered at 6pm, might get a mac before Jezebel. Even worse, Joe Schmo could walk into the SF Apple Store and buy a mac before Jane gets her mac, because the Apple Retail Store is just another customer to Apple.

I don't see how else they could do it. if they favored the end-users over the resellers when shipping, people who ordered their mac via a reseller may never get it until there is no backlog. And they'd really piss off their resellers for punishing them that way. Also, Apple has no way of knowing what order the resellers sold theirs to their customers.

If Apple is claiming they are shipping out in the order that they received the orders, this could still be true even if we are receiving them in a different order.
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How do you explain Apple store orders that were placed at later dates being shipped before earlier orders? I ordered through ADC on 6/11 and there were July orders who shipped before mine. I'm getting fed up with them.
 
subb said:
I just read over at the Apple discussion board that somebody bought a 2.5 at an Apple Store in the US ('Costa Mesa' apparently, wherever that may be), and that the store have more in stock.
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I live near Costa Mesa, CA (20 miles). Also, live near the Fashion Island store (15 miles) and the Mission Viejo store (6 miles) but didn't want to pay the tax, so I ordered from MacConnection - now the wait is around 9/9/04. :eek:
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Kathy :(
 
awesome.

my g5 is shipping! it was a stock 2.5 ordered on 7/09 through education store. its scheduled for delivery on 8/19 from anaheim, ca. its going to be a great weekend.
 
Foiled!

I live near Costa Mesa, CA (20 miles). Also, live near the Fashion Island store (15 miles) and the Mission Viejo store (6 miles) but didn't want to pay the tax, so I ordered from MacConnection - now the wait is around 9/9/04.
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Damn, I've been foiled!!!. I just asked my dad who placed the order, and mine won't be ready till 9.9.04 either :cool: .
 
h4ckintosh said:
Damn, I've been foiled!!!. I just asked my dad who placed the order, and mine won't be ready till 9.9.04 either :cool: .
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Drats, foiled again? Who was the evil mastermind who didn't tell you about the 3-5 weeks?
 
Uh oh! Let the games begin! Found this at MacNN forums. But remember the caveat: 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!'

I've just came back from a Apple Reatil store with my brand new G5 2.5DP and 23in cinema display . Interstingly, Cinema display is assembled in China, hovewer the G5 label states "Assembled in U.S.A." prehaps Apple opened another manufacture facility which will produce G5 which means more G5 for Everybody.

CHECK YOUR LOCAL APPLE RETAIL - IT JUST MIGHT BE FASTER
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To 2.0, or not to 2.0? As someone else posted on here...

"I'm tellin ya guys, you're gonna want that cowbell on there"
 
Well, it's going to be 3 or 4 hours still till klaus in Belgium is up and goes to work, probably still waiting for his DP2.5 order to arrive.

Hang in there klaus.

I ordered early June and I live less than an hour from 'Infinite Loop' (street Apple headquarters is on)...and I don't have my DP2.5 either yet.

It has been nice to chat with another suffering soul in Belgium who is in the same boat.
 
Mustang Mac said:
Uh oh! Let the games begin! Found this at MacNN forums. But remember the caveat: 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!'
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Probably is, I'm in constant communication with a around 4 or 5 stores. I have yet to hear anything. Hopefully within a week or two...
 
Soire said:
How do you explain Apple store orders that were placed at later dates being shipped before earlier orders? I ordered through ADC on 6/11 and there were July orders who shipped before mine. I'm getting fed up with them.
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Reading this from the Terms of ADC Membership

5. Apple will endeavor to ship items within four to six weeks after accepting your order. Apple cannot, however, guarantee shipment within this period.

When I was considering purchasing a new G5, I thought about purchasing through ADC. After reading that though, I decided against it.
I mean, if I purchased a G5 that had a 3-5 business day shipping (like 1.8ghz), it sounds like through ADC it would take 4-6 before ever seeing it.... The discount is very nice!

However, I don't really have any experience, so I could be totally off.. But maybe that's the reason ADC orders are delayed (more so!)
 
Mustang Mac said:
Uh oh! Let the games begin! Found this at MacNN forums. But remember the caveat: 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!'
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heh I wonder if they re-hired all the people they downsized when they shipped off to china..
 
For all of you mad about shipments out of order.

A quick rehash of some info that was posted days and days ago on this thread that seems to have been confermed by a few people.

Apple ships in order "within" the channel you order in (Edu. Adc. Retail Etc.) and then based on componet availibility.

I'm not saying people are not getting screwed, maybe some realy are. I just thought I'd mention it dosent look like Apple pools all orders together then ships them out in order, maybe they should?

How many 2.5 total do you think are on order world wide?
5,000 10,000 50,000?
Dose anybody have 1.8 or 2.0 G5 sales data from previous quarterly reports or somthing?
 
Just checked credit card and noticed a pre-auth. hold.

I had one about two weeks ago as well, which ended up being credited back to the card. But with the 8/20 date so close....

Here's hoping us 8/20ers get a confirmation soon!! :)
 
Uh oh, it looks like Apple's going to start shipping to us 8/20ers this week, but the thread's not over 3000 posts yet!

Desperate times call for...


BUSH SUCKS AND/OR RULES! COMMENTS PLEASE!
 
Rocketfella said:
Well, it's going to be 3 or 4 hours still till klaus in Belgium is up and goes to work, probably still waiting for his DP2.5 order to arrive.

Hang in there klaus.

I ordered early June and I live less than an hour from 'Infinite Loop' (street Apple headquarters is on)...and I don't have my DP2.5 either yet.

It has been nice to chat with another suffering soul in Belgium who is in the same boat to chat with.
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Well, i'm up! Still a bit sleepy but still :) Actually, i'm definitely not thinking my g5 will arrive any day now, cause my reseller still has no word from Apple, and it won't be delivered to my house :(.

But if your orders are getting fulfilled, than mine would also be under way, that's my prediction, and yes, it's nice to chat with others that are in the same boat, keep it up guys!
 
Mine was ordered 16/06, est. shipdate is/was 13/8. Then i recieved the 'email' from apple, telling me shipping is slipped til 3/9. Damn!!!!! I'm emailing with the apple costumer dept. right now. Trying to speed things up. They must not forget the good people in Holland, most of all not me :)
 
Well, mine is red as well, but that's not exactly right, cause I didn't fill in an estimated shipping date, since I haven't got one from my reseller.

Maybe it's for the best, since I would've broken my f5-key by now
 
Hey Partyfart, are you by chance the same Partyfart that lingers around in CGtalk C4D-forums? Waiting for the 2.5 to give you finally the renderspeed you need? So am I. I ordered on 7/20 and still have an estimated shipping date of 8/31, so thats now before yours ( BTW I 'm also from NL). I guess I will receive my e-mail very soon now telling me to wait another month or so... :mad:

seeya, odo
 
unfortunately I am using a windows machine.. at work and at home, had a performa some years ago, but needed a pc for autocad while in school.

and now, since I can afford it, i'm switching back to mac! if only my mac would arrive though :D
 
odo said:
Hey Partyfart, are you by chance the same Partyfart that lingers around in CGtalk C4D-forums?
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Is there another PartyFart out there? i thought i was 'one of a kind'...
<robot mode>Must kill, must kill, must kill</robot mode> ;)
 
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