How long is the Preparing for Dispatch Process?

[OwenMeasures]

Can somebody please give me an indication as to how long your iMac orders have been Preparing for Dispatch?

Mine has just gone in 🙂

 

[gaddster]

mine was 3 weeks, then as soon as it changed i rec'd it 7 days later

 

[mushroomtip]

I ordered March 10th and as of today it is preparing for shipment . Im in NY !

 

[dsdrury]

March 10 27" iMac order

I ordered March 10th and as of today it is preparing for shipment . Im in NY !

What configuration did you order?
I also ordered on March 10 and it is still processing.

2.9GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5
8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM-2X4GB
1TB Fusion Drive
NVIDIAGeFrc GTX660M 512M GDDR5

I am in Colorado

 

[raziel101]

I ordered match 9th and it just shipped last night and 10pm from China. Canada here. Had a BTO config.

 

[Hakiroto]

It really depends where you are. I ordered a 3.4 i7/8GB/680MX on Feb 18 and it's still processing with an estimated delivery of March 20-27. In Europe it seems the delivery time is much longer. Here in Berlin, it seems to be the longest! 🙄

 

[mushroomtip]

What configuration did you order?
I also ordered on March 10 and it is still processing.

2.9GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5
8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM-2X4GB
1TB Fusion Drive
NVIDIAGeFrc GTX660M 512M GDDR5

I am in Colorado

as of today ,it has shipped ! I forgot to mention I will be picking it up in Delaware .

Configuration
3.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM-2X4GB
768GB Flash Storage
NVIDIAGeFrc GTX 680MX 2G GDDR5
MAGIC TRACKPAD
Apple WL Kybd (English)+UG
COUNTRY KIT

 

[gCloud]

24 hrs or so in preparing for shipment, then 4 working days to receive after it shipped as far as i could guess from people's reports. this is from china.

 

[mushroomtip]

mine is scheduled to arrive at its destination on the 3/21/2013

 

[Hakiroto]

Ok, mine went to "Preparing for Shipment" this morning and it's just changed to "Dispatched" with an estimated delivery of March 21.

Update: I refreshed the page and the date is now March 22. That said, if I check the tracking code with UPS it says estimated by the end of the day on March 20. I guess I need to pay attention to this to make sure I'm home. 🙂

 

[raziel101]

Mine shipped from China last night, and is now at Mississauga Canada. Will be delivered on Monday - so I only had to wait 1 week from the time I ordered my BTO configuration.

 

[Ashapalan]

3.4 GHz 27" BTO (just fusion drive added) ordered Friday evening - (27th September)

Estimate delivery was 10th - 14th October

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Tuesday 1st October - Preparing for dispatch 😀

Will let you know when it ships
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Update - was in Preparing for dispatch for 24 hours before moving to dispatched status. Its now giving a delivery time of 8th October. Its come from Cork and now says its in Hinckley. Would have thought it will get here sooner than the 8th in that case?

Update 2 - Now scheduled for delivery 4th October - So exactly a week for delivery, all being well

 

[macpants]

I wonder if BTO configurations are always built to order. I wouldn't be surprised if they have, pre prepared, some of the more common BTO configurations already boxed up and ready to go.

 

[bp1000]

my BTO went to preparing for dispatch on Monday, 5 hours later it said shipped.

This is from the Ireland factory shipping to the UK. It turns up today (Wednesday).

In total it has taken exactly 7 days (discounting Tuesday evening, when the order was placed).

 

[Hamburger]

my BTO went to preparing for dispatch on Monday, 5 hours later it said shipped.

This is from the Ireland factory shipping to the UK. It turns up today (Wednesday).

In total it has taken exactly 7 days (discounting Tuesday evening, when the order was placed).

same re five hours. ordered wednesay, shipped monday, got it at 11am tuesday (in germany via express shipping)