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How many Apple Watch bands do you own? OEM only.

  • One band only.

    Votes: 436 16.5%
  • 2/4

    Votes: 965 36.5%
  • 5/8

    Votes: 525 19.8%
  • 9/12

    Votes: 178 6.7%
  • 12/15

    Votes: 105 4.0%
  • 16/20

    Votes: 77 2.9%
  • more than 20

    Votes: 221 8.4%
  • more than 50

    Votes: 67 2.5%
  • more than 100

    Votes: 31 1.2%
  • more than 200

    Votes: 24 0.9%
  • more than 250

    Votes: 4 0.2%
  • more than 300

    Votes: 4 0.2%
  • more than 400

    Votes: 1 0.0%
  • more than 500

    Votes: 1 0.0%
  • more than 600

    Votes: 8 0.3%

  • Total voters
    2,646
So my replacement order for the big order got cancelled. Lesson learned — I’m re-trying with smaller orders.

And going much more conservative on Solo Loops until I verify my size, to reduce the return kerfuffles should they be necessary.

This has been a very un-Apple frustrating buying experience thus far. And it ain’t over yet.

On a happier note, here’s the very nice Smokey Mauve / Particle Beige I’m wearing today.

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And my Product Red band and loop should arrive tomorrow.

So there’s that, I guess.
 
I would love to know if anyone inside the company fought and lost the battle for a tool that used existing pin holes. Perhaps it was deemed too confusing and better to use a standalone system.

Yeah, while it doesn’t work for new users (which I expect is the actual reason) it seemed to me from straight away that a simple “hole 4 on a 44mm Sport Band is equivalent to size 10” would save a lot of returns

If I can interrupt for a second...care of @mikedop Watch Band Wonderland Emporium SuperMart...I have gone Nike complete (until Oceania gets their launch shipments) and one of his helpers even slipped in a super grail Watch chamois

black/white Nike sport band
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So, S2 Grey ceramic running a WatchOS7 new face, right? How so?
 
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So my replacement order for the big order got cancelled. Lesson learned — I’m re-trying with smaller orders.

And going much more conservative on Solo Loops until I verify my size, to reduce the return kerfuffles should they be necessary.

This has been a very un-Apple frustrating buying experience thus far. And it ain’t over yet.

On a happier note, here’s the very nice Smokey Mauve / Particle Beige I’m wearing today.

View attachment 954763

And my Product Red band and loop should arrive tomorrow.

So there’s that, I guess.

I placed individual orders for three bands after my single order for three bands was cancelled. Only one of those three bands shipped. The other two were cancelled.
 
Yeah, while it doesn’t work for new users (which I expect is the actual reason) it seemed to me from straight away that a simple “hole 4 on a 44mm Sport Band is equivalent to size 10” would save a lot of returns



So, S2 Grey ceramic running a WatchOS7 new face, right? How so?

Pretty sure Gray is S3.
 
Odd the cancelled order thing. As I mentioned earlier I had that in the UK store back in the day (for the first 2-3 months after S0 launch we didn’t get the Watch in NZ. I happened to be in the UK on launch day, so mine came from the UK via my mother), and all I wanted was one of each of the handful of colours from launch.

Present day my 8 band order is processing and they haven’t taken payment so time to cancel yet I guess.

Pretty sure Gray is S3.

Would it not have a red crown in that case as it would be LTE?
 
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My Royal Pulse from the Best Buy Sale just arrived. This is my second Nike Sport Band after Anthracite Black and I really like it! Hard to describe this color it’s like a light violet with blue hints, definitely very unique!
Wish I could double heart this. Never thought I would have all four royal pulse SKUs and yet here we are. Hoping tomorrow we find out Obsidian Mist/black is packing even just half the “irl pic” punch of rp/b...
 
So my replacement order for the big order got cancelled. Lesson learned — I’m re-trying with smaller orders.

And going much more conservative on Solo Loops until I verify my size, to reduce the return kerfuffles should they be necessary.

This has been a very un-Apple frustrating buying experience thus far. And it ain’t over yet.

On a happier note, here’s the very nice Smokey Mauve / Particle Beige I’m wearing today.

View attachment 954763

And my Product Red band and loop should arrive tomorrow.

So there’s that, I guess.
Matchy match matching.
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Yeah Artist is the one face that made it down to the s3. Indeed covered with a space gray vinyl sticker, still sold on Amazon, no longer staying super put since the Cali heat wave...

I (clearly mis-) thought the grey ceramic started with the white. Do I now sorta remember it being added with the S3? Maybe, or maybe I’m projecting that memory.

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My Royal Pulse from the Best Buy Sale just arrived. This is my second Nike Sport Band after Anthracite Black and I really like it! Hard to describe this color it’s like a light violet with blue hints, definitely very unique!

Royal Pulse is an awesome colour. It was a band that originally went in the “one of us will get that one” list of our his & hers combined collection, but that I decided I wanted enough to get a double of when I saw it. It is such a unique colour that I have literally nothing to wear it with, however.
 
I (clearly mis-) thought the grey ceramic started with the white. Do I now sorta remember it being added with the S3? Maybe, or maybe I’m projecting that memory.



Royal Pulse is an awesome colour. It was a band that originally went in the “one of us will get that one” list of our his & hers combined collection, but that I decided I wanted enough to get a double of when I saw it. It is such a unique colour that I have literally nothing to wear it with, however.

If nothing else works, black is always a safe bet!
 
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I (clearly mis-) thought the grey ceramic started with the white. Do I now sorta remember it being added with the S3? Maybe, or maybe I’m projecting that memory.
I’ve said this here before but all my archival moments with the bands has been a massive (and massively humbling) object lesson in false memory syndrome.

Berenstain Bears ain’t got nothing on Watch memory fails.
 
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