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For those of you wondering about the Korean tour of your phones here is my tracking to let you know how my X now delivered traveled in time. My phone got to Incheon International Seol on the 3rd in evening. It sat for day and half while some phones left on the UPS99 flights, basically was roughly 36 hours in Korea. It did not even match the UPS numbers and times we had for the departure time to Anchorage. We finally found ours - -not all got sent on a Korean Air for flight to Anchorage roughly a 2 hour flight. We got no scan of departure or arrival on the 4th in Anchorage. I went to bed and morning of I got the departure data from Anchorage on evening of 4th, and the customs clearance at :51 in Louisville. Flight from Anchorage is 6-7 hours so that is about right before customs appeared. Later in morning I then got the arrival scan and import scan and finally departure from Louisville to Danville Illinois on Indiana border.

It is obvious to me that all the scans after Incheon South Korea did not even show til after arrival in Louisville. But we did see variable flights out of Korean on its local time from late on 3rd to all day on 4th til morning of 5th when it finally left Korean.None of the post Korea Scans in Anchorage or arrival in Louisville did not show til morning of 5th when it was there in Louisville and scans all caught up. This may be informative for your own cases with the wait in Korea and trying to figure out flights -- we had a hard time with that.


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11/06/2017 9:28 A.M. Delivered
11/06/2017 8:28 A.M. Out For Delivery Today
11/06/2017 5:13 A.M. Loaded on Delivery Vehicle
11/06/2017 5:08 A.M. Destination Scan
11/06/2017 1:55 A.M. Arrival Scan
Decatur, IL, United States 11/06/2017 1:03 A.M. Departure Scan
Decatur, IL, United States 11/05/2017 9:49 P.M. Arrival Scan
Danville, IL, United States 11/05/2017 8:11 P.M. Departure Scan
11/05/2017 3:51 P.M. Arrival Scan
Louisville, KY, United States 11/05/2017 1:26 P.M. Departure Scan
11/05/2017 11:00 A.M. Import Scan
11/05/2017 8:46 A.M. Arrival Scan
11/05/2017 5:51 A.M. The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / Your package was released by the clearing agency.
Anchorage, AK, United States 11/04/2017 7:18 P.M. Departure Scan
11/04/2017 5:45 P.M. Arrival Scan
Incheon, Korea, Republic of 11/05/2017 8:15 A.M. Departure Scan
Incheon, Korea, Republic of 11/03/2017 7:26 P.M. Arrival Scan
ZhengZhou, China 11/03/2017 4:24 P.M. Departure Scan
11/02/2017 11:19 A.M. The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / The package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
11/02/2017 11:05 A.M. The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / The package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
ZhengZhou, China 11/02/2017 11:35 P.M. Arrival Scan
11/02/2017 11:10 P.M. Departure Scan
11/02/2017 8:19 P.M. Origin Scan
China 11/02/2017 4:39 A.M. (ET) Order Processed: Ready for UPS

You got lucky! Mine is still stuck in the third clearing agency, after 5 days. Good thing I picked one up on launch day ;) I just want this one to get here so I can refuse it and cancel my pre-order.


11/08/2017 1:32 P.M. The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / Your package was released by the clearing agency.
Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong 11/08/2017 8:38 P.M. Departure Scan
11/08/2017 6:56 P.M. Arrival Scan
Incheon, Korea, Republic of 11/08/2017 4:08 P.M. Departure Scan
Incheon, Korea, Republic of 11/06/2017 7:46 P.M. Arrival Scan
ZhengZhou, China 11/06/2017 4:22 P.M. Departure Scan
11/03/2017 8:40 A.M. The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / The package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
ZhengZhou, China 11/03/2017 8:30 P.M. Arrival Scan
11/03/2017 8:00 P.M. Departure Scan
11/03/2017 6:30 A.M. The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / The package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
ZhengZhou, China 11/03/2017 3:39 P.M. Origin Scan
China 11/03/2017 2:16 A.M. (ET) Order Processed: Ready for UPS
 
For the first time ever. I just finally got a change in status. Prepared for shipment with CC charged. No reference on tracking yet though.

256SG ATT PIF ordered at :22 after the hour on Oct 27th..
 
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For the first time ever. I just finally got a change in status. Prepared for shipment with CC charged. No reference on tracking yet though.

256SG ATT PIF ordered at :22 after the hour on Oct 27th..
Same specifications at :22 after only difference is silver not sg for me. Hope this means the light is nearing the end of this tunnel.
 
Posting must help. I just went to “preparing to ship”. Nothing else changed, and it looks like I am getting the phone for free, no charge on bank card yet! This just gets more comical as the dreadful seconds pass.................

Welcome to the club. I've been in preparing to ship since Sat. and no charge, holding payment actually disappeared.
 
You got lucky! Mine is still stuck in the third clearing agency, after 5 days. Good thing I picked one up on launch day ;) I just want this one to get here so I can refuse it and cancel my pre-order.


11/08/2017 1:32 P.M. The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / Your package was released by the clearing agency.
Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong 11/08/2017 8:38 P.M. Departure Scan
11/08/2017 6:56 P.M. Arrival Scan
Incheon, Korea, Republic of 11/08/2017 4:08 P.M. Departure Scan
Incheon, Korea, Republic of 11/06/2017 7:46 P.M. Arrival Scan
ZhengZhou, China 11/06/2017 4:22 P.M. Departure Scan
11/03/2017 8:40 A.M. The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / The package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
ZhengZhou, China 11/03/2017 8:30 P.M. Arrival Scan
11/03/2017 8:00 P.M. Departure Scan
11/03/2017 6:30 A.M. The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / The package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
ZhengZhou, China 11/03/2017 3:39 P.M. Origin Scan
China 11/03/2017 2:16 A.M. (ET) Order Processed: Ready for UPS


I wonder given the 14-16 hour time difference between North America and the Korea and Hong Kong if that last one is the customs in Louiville?

Yeah I remember you were nearly in same batch as rest of us yours has had the worse luck indeed. hmmm
 
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Finally preparing to ship one of my iPhones. The 256GB Silver T-mobile I confirmed at 12:15 a.m. just got out of OIP. I supposedly got a place in line reserved for the AT&T IUP 256GB Silver iPhone before that one, and that's still OIP.

For anyone who got a "reservation code" and a space held in line, do you suspect we actually got a place held in line? I'm starting to think that my place is probably somewhere around 2:30 a.m., when I actually got email acknowledgment, even thought I received to code around 12:11 a.m. Kind of annoying, but I'm patient.
 
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does anyone else have a 12/6 ship date? I pre ordered the 256GB SG on verizon like 4 hours after the pre order opened.

No movement or changes yet.......
My order has the same delivery estimate, actually worse, 06-13 December, no movement or changes yet. But I'm with W6059
 
nepalisherpa said:
I had placed two orders within a few minutes of each other. One (2:19AM) says "Preparing to Ship" and the other (2:22AM) still says "Order in Progress". Date range for both hasn't changed. Range is till 11/17 - 11/24.
Quoting my own post. First order has shipped with delivery of 11/14. Second order (placed 3 minutes later), is still in progress. Weird!
Quoting my own post. First order has shipped with delivery of 11/14. Second order (placed 3 minutes later), is still in progress. Weird!

Finally, my second order is now in "Preparing to Ship" status.
 
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For those of you wondering about the Korean tour of your phones here is my tracking to let you know how my X now delivered traveled in time. My phone got to Incheon International Seol on the 3rd in evening. It sat for day and half while some phones left on the UPS99 flights, basically was roughly 36 hours in Korea. It did not even match the UPS numbers and times we had for the departure time to Anchorage. We finally found ours - -not all got sent on a Korean Air for flight to Anchorage roughly a 2 hour flight. We got no scan of departure or arrival on the 4th in Anchorage. I went to bed and morning of I got the departure data from Anchorage on evening of 4th, and the customs clearance at :51 in Louisville. Flight from Anchorage is 6-7 hours so that is about right before customs appeared. Later in morning I then got the arrival scan and import scan and finally departure from Louisville to Danville Illinois on Indiana border.

It is obvious to me that all the scans after Incheon South Korea did not even show til after arrival in Louisville. But we did see variable flights out of Korean on its local time from late on 3rd to all day on 4th til morning of 5th when it finally left Korean.None of the post Korea Scans in Anchorage or arrival in Louisville did not show til morning of 5th when it was there in Louisville and scans all caught up. This may be informative for your own cases with the wait in Korea and trying to figure out flights -- we had a hard time with that.


5
11/06/2017 9:28 A.M. Delivered
11/06/2017 8:28 A.M. Out For Delivery Today
11/06/2017 5:13 A.M. Loaded on Delivery Vehicle
11/06/2017 5:08 A.M. Destination Scan
11/06/2017 1:55 A.M. Arrival Scan
Decatur, IL, United States 11/06/2017 1:03 A.M. Departure Scan
Decatur, IL, United States 11/05/2017 9:49 P.M. Arrival Scan
Danville, IL, United States 11/05/2017 8:11 P.M. Departure Scan
11/05/2017 3:51 P.M. Arrival Scan
Louisville, KY, United States 11/05/2017 1:26 P.M. Departure Scan
11/05/2017 11:00 A.M. Import Scan
11/05/2017 8:46 A.M. Arrival Scan
11/05/2017 5:51 A.M. The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / Your package was released by the clearing agency.
Anchorage, AK, United States 11/04/2017 7:18 P.M. Departure Scan
11/04/2017 5:45 P.M. Arrival Scan
Incheon, Korea, Republic of 11/05/2017 8:15 A.M. Departure Scan
Incheon, Korea, Republic of 11/03/2017 7:26 P.M. Arrival Scan
ZhengZhou, China 11/03/2017 4:24 P.M. Departure Scan
11/02/2017 11:19 A.M. The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / The package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
11/02/2017 11:05 A.M. The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / The package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
ZhengZhou, China 11/02/2017 11:35 P.M. Arrival Scan
11/02/2017 11:10 P.M. Departure Scan
11/02/2017 8:19 P.M. Origin Scan
China 11/02/2017 4:39 A.M. (ET) Order Processed: Ready for UPS


Thank you this definitely helps! I have been trying to find the tracking info from someone who already had their X delivered to know what to expect. ;)
 
for all that are finally in PFS, did you receive email that made you go to apple and see it there also or did you just go on apple and then notice status change?
 
for all that are finally in PFS, did you receive email that made you go to apple and see it there also or did you just go on apple and then notice status change?

No notification. Was looking at my credit card online for an expense travel report when I saw the pending charge. Immediately checked my Apple order status from my phone on the Apple Store App and it showed PFS.
 
STILL no change whatsoever: W44, 11/17-24, OIP, IUP, ATT SG256. No CC charge. Ordered 10/27 about 12:10 PT but never went through due to Citizens bank foul up; reordered about 24 hrs later with Apple restoring original delivery date.

Really tempted to cancel and take my chances finding one for pickup at a local Apple Store (several within easy driving distance), or Best Buy, ATT, or even Target.
 
STILL no change whatsoever: W44, 11/17-24, OIP, IUP, ATT SG256. No CC charge. Ordered 10/27 about 12:10 PT but never went through due to Citizens bank foul up; reordered about 24 hrs later with Apple restoring original delivery date.

Really tempted to cancel and take my chances finding one for pickup at a local Apple Store (several within easy driving distance), or Best Buy, ATT, or even Target.

This is my story too. W44 as well, and all other details similar except for Verizon rather than ATT. I went to preparing for shipment just two hours ago, so maybe (hopefully) you will see movement soon. I feel your antsyness really I do. I thought my status would never change. Looking at istocknow.com, looks like supplies are pretty short right now in actual stores--best of luck with whatever you choose.
 
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I have had the hold payment on my account for two days now, yet no movement at all. Like someone else said, I have never wanted a company to take my money more. Just make it official Apple and get my order moving!

:apple:

Finally, my second order is now in "Preparing to Ship" status.

#289
Finally got PFS and a pending charge on my Credit Card. AT&T 256GB Silver, paid in full from Apple.com. Order confirmation email came at 12:23 AM.
Still no freakin movement whatsoever. Paid in full, Apple.com, AT&T Silver 256 GB. Order confirmation came thru at 3:22 Eastern :)22 mins into pre order) after 18 mins of the store still not going live. This is my daily rant since launch. Been a faithful Apple person since 03-04 I forget precisely. Owned everything from iPod minis and shuffles, to 128 gig classics, PowerBooks, MacBook Pro now, iphones since 08 for my gf then and now wife, iPads etc etc. Never did a pre order before and never had an issue. Since I really wanted this phone sooner than later and the pre order opened in the middle of the morning on my actual birthday I figured why the hell not? No charge for taxes, no pending charge for anything, just an order number beginning with W414 and a growing impatient mindset when I see all these people in similar boats getting at least something going. I even spoke with a rep via chat on the Apple site yesterday. Was polite and grateful for their time the entire conversation and forget about being offered a free $100 case as some were in prior posts, I didn’t even so much as get more than a generic sorry but nothing we can do, you just have to wait. Makes me feel like I should’ve just ordered thru AT&T in the first place or gone over to any number of stores morning of launch or on my lunch break even and I would’ve had a phone no problem. There are multiple AT&T stores and Appke stores, plus third party venders all within less than a half hour from me. Silly me thought I was doing the “right thing” by waking up at 2:40 am on a work night, to get everything set and refreshing prior to 3:01 when pre order began, if I wanted a launch day phone. Turns out I was greeted with the store being down on Apple.com and the app itself, since 9:00 pm the night prior all the way till 3:18 where I was already in the 2-3 week shipping window.
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STILL no change whatsoever: W44, 11/17-24, OIP, IUP, ATT SG256. No CC charge. Ordered 10/27 about 12:10 PT but never went through due to Citizens bank foul up; reordered about 24 hrs later with Apple restoring original delivery date.

Really tempted to cancel and take my chances finding one for pickup at a local Apple Store (several within easy driving distance), or Best Buy, ATT, or even Target.
As others have said, good luck. I know myself in the North East I haven’t found a single store (carrier, Apple or third party) with stock since launch day.
 
UPDATE.......get the latest bulletin here.....They just took my money..........pending.........I guess phone will arrive later today.........boy, that Apple sure knows how to run a show.......time to set out the case and glass screen protector on a micro fiber towel, along with surgical gloves and an alcohol swab.........and a REAL TALL glass of Jackie D ...........lol
 
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