Hmmm, well I'm sure if you don't pick up within the designated pickup time, your money will be refunded. Point is, April 7 is three weeks from March 16. That's just not a reasonable amount of time to hold an item for this type of pickup.
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Hmmm, well I'm sure if you don't pick up within the designated pickup time, your money will be refunded. Point is, April 7 is three weeks from March 16. That's just not a reasonable amount of time to hold an item for this type of pickup.
I'm not new at all to the "World of Apple Launch Day". I've been to several Apple launch days before, and I'm well aware that it can get chaotic. I understand your logic. However, what credibility do you have over the Apple rep who works at the actual store I'm going to pickup my iPad at?
Again, it may be store-specific (especially since I'm going to the NYC Fifth Avenue store, which is open 24 hours a day).
I'm not new at all to the "World of Apple Launch Day". I've been to several Apple launch days before, and I'm well aware that it can get chaotic. I understand your logic. However, what credibility do you have over the Apple rep who works at the actual store I'm going to pickup my iPad at?
For what it's worth, when iPad 1 launched, I pre-ordered it for pickup at 5th Ave, and I got there and was in and out with almost no wait time. I also don't have any recollection of seeing a line for walk-ins without preorders, but then, my attention may have been a bit focused on my shiny new iPad!
It may be helpful if you can talk to someone at the store or the manager there to explain your situation and find out what their process is. I think they have a finite window because they assume that most people aren't going to wait more than a week or so and they just as soon would rather sell it than have it taking up space. But everyone has their own set of circumstances. I'd try to get a message over there.
Another thing...when I preordered I think there was an option to have a third party pick up the iPad. If they won't hold it, you can see if that's still possible.
I preordered the iPad 2 for instore pickup last year and was in line at the flagship Boston store for four hours before being told that the model I wanted was sold out. I ended up buying a Verizon model instead of the AT&T one that I had preorderd. I will never do instore pickup again.
They didn't do pre-orders for the iPad 2, you must mean just ordering for in-store pickup.
Although there is no OFFICIAL preorder line, they will form them in many stores. Just like when I picked up my reserved 4s, there were several others there for the same thing, and they had us form a line in the corner of the store as we were helped one by one.
Well, last year when I bought my iPad 2 I did the same thing at WalMart and they held it for three weeks.
Really? Well, haven't shopped at a WalMart so I don't know what their policies are. I just know that whenever I've ordered electronics for pickup at stores here, including Apple, BestBuy, J&R and B&H, they would only hold it same day, next day at the most. So i would assume that was the case unless a store specifically tells me otherwise. Especially with the iPad, I remember when I preordered the iPad 1 for pickup, they said we have to pick it up by the time the store closed on launch day, or else it will be sold to someone else. I suppose the time could be extended at the discretion of a store manager, but as another poster said, you'd have to get in touch with your particular store to talk to them.
I'm not new at all to the "World of Apple Launch Day". I've been to several Apple launch days before, and I'm well aware that it can get chaotic. I understand your logic. However, what credibility do you have over the Apple rep who works at the actual store I'm going to pickup my iPad at?
My credibility is that I've pre-ordered for store pickup twice before and it was the same each time. It has to be because you have 50+ people p/u at the same time. In fact, during the launch the only way to get into a store, regardless of what you are buying is to get into a line.
Not at my store, which is in a mall. On these launch days they have one or two lines to get devices, but the lines do not block the front of the store, so anyone can just walk in without waiting in a line. People buying the new devices have dedicated reps taking them into the store one by one, and there are other reps there to handle walk-ins. And there's a rep standing at the door to guide people, that will send walk-ins to one of the lines if they are there to get the new device.
Good news, I went to a store yesterday (to buy a Smart Cover in advance) and the sales person told me the devices would go on sale in the morning. This is something Apple hadn't announced, and since last year they went in sale at 5pm, it wasn't just something you could assume. He also said that how they run the lines will all depend on how many people are camping out beforehand, so they wouldn't know how things would be handled until that morning.
Really???...last year I had no idea that I chose to purchase my MBA the same day they launched the iPAD2. It was at Best Buy and I asked the people in line why they were in line and they looked at me like I was from another planet and stated " iPAD2...duh". I was like "oh yea that's right", but I honestly didn't know. I walked right in and purchased my MBA
. Then again this was Best Buy.
Don't understand why Apple would make people who were buying other things like the iPAD2, or an iphone wait in a line to come into the store. It's not like you can lie and say I want the iPAD2 and then get in the store and "conveniently" change your mind and get the new iPAD in a breeze. IMO.
I have seen my Apple store so busy on same days even when there is not a major release that guards are blocking the entrance due to fire code regulations. Even if you have your pre-buy receipt between your teeth, how will you get in or without the crowd in the line rising up like a Occupy Wall Street mob?
Oh, no, that's not what they do. What happens is that some of the smaller stores sell ONLY ipads/iphones on launch day. Anybody who wants to buy anything else is told sorry, but come back another time.
So... from what I gather, no one knows how they're going to be handling this...
I bought one to be delivered, and one to pickup in store.
It was weird, at first, there wasn't an in-store pick up option, and then an hour later, there was. So I decided to bite, and got one reserved (I hope?!). Of course, the only reason I did this was because I didn't understand that when they said shipping on the 16th, they meant they would be ARRIVING on the 16th... but either way... I'll have an iPad!
I bought one to be delivered, and one to pickup in store.
It was weird, at first, there wasn't an in-store pick up option, and then an hour later, there was. So I decided to bite, and got one reserved (I hope?!). Of course, the only reason I did this was because I didn't understand that when they said shipping on the 16th, they meant they would be ARRIVING on the 16th... but either way... I'll have an iPad!
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Q: How long will they hold my preordered iPad for store pickup?
A: They will hold it for one week. You can call the Apple customer support number to have this hold time extended up to 60 days.
Q: How long will they hold my preordered iPad for store pickup?
A: They will hold it for one week. You can call the Apple customer support number to have this hold time extended up to 60 days.