In my cart, shipping for retina iMac was 7-10 days. Next day, 2-3 weeks.

[eroxx]

Talk about bad luck!

 

[maflynn]

It happens, I was trying to buy an iPhone 6, I saw it was in stock for local pickup, but by the time I was able to finish putting in the info to buy it. The phone disappeared.

Buy it, and with a little luck, the shipping estimate will improve

 

[greenhost]

Talk about bad luck!

I am from Russia and have the same estimate.
I try investigate why delivery take to much time and in Apple support I got the answer: "if you buy non common configuration your iMac will be assembled for you"
About luck: currently UPS tracking tells me that the parcel will come a week ahead of schedule

Good luck!

 

[MacTCE]

Talk about bad luck!

Is it a configuration you could pick up an Apple Store or brick and mortar?

 

[vkd]

You should think yourself lucky they would ship it to you at all. Why didn't you offer to pay double?

 

[Col Vandal]

I noticed the same thing. The stores seem to have the base model in stock but nothing else. If you tweak anything, the time slips to 2-3 weeks. You'd think that after two decades of supply issues Apple would be better at this. Then again, I guess they don't have to be.

 

[dlewis23]

I noticed the same thing. The stores seem to have the base model in stock but nothing else. If you tweak anything, the time slips to 2-3 weeks. You'd think that after two decades of supply issues Apple would be better at this. Then again, I guess they don't have to be.

Or...

Its a very popular iMac. More popular then they thought it would be and its tough to keep up with demand.

 

[Nismo73]

Probably a slight panel shortage since it's a new display.

 

[Balok]

ordered one (i7' 295x) on the 30th Oct. on Monday it had moved from processing order to preparing for shipment, now it's back to processing order again. Feel a delay coming on...

 

[neil1980]

In theory that could be just a day longer wait.

7-10 days is working days... so taking the weekend into account 11 working days would push it into the 2-3 week bracket.

Still waiting for mine to budge from processing (ordered first thing on Monday the 3rd) so I'm guessing it was closer to 10 days than 7 anyway.

Pretty scary how many times I've checked the Apple site to see if the order status has changed