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iPad mini iPad Mini with Cellular Pre-order Thread
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Just called my company fed ex rep at home on a Sunday. He says, he not international, but normally that means the container got picked for a inspection. Depending on how it's packed ( pallet or loose) will determine the time it's held by customs.
Wow. That blows. Have never seen that before. Sorry. Hope they resolve it quickly.
Clearance delay
I've got the same message, same times. Must have pulled the whole pallet.
my preordered minis are on the stuck in clearance shipment...
i've been having a ball playing with the mini i picked up in the store yesterday....
Do you think that has anything to do with the 3600 Minis stolen from JFK airport?
IMO, no... cuz mine didn't leave china until after the ones at JFK were stolen.... not sure what the clearance hold up is?
Indeed, but in our case, it went through AK, then to NJ. But from there, to Memphis TN! They should have gone from AK to TN to NJ, not AK to NJ to TN
And I think that funky scanning/time stamps aren't to blame, as right now the shipment is in PA.
What a wild ride!
Just got off the phone with a CSR at Apple. She was very helpful, called FedEx for me, researched it, etc. It appears that Apple managed to not include the commercial invoice, and the department at Apple that handles those is closed on Sunday. (I ship things internationally at work, and we produce commercial invoices all the time. They are quite critical for customs, and have to match up properly)
I'll be calling that department tomorrow morning to see if I can get them to speed up. The package was in Memphis on Saturday, which should normally mean a Monday or latest Tuesday delivery, if it cleared properly.
Still trying to buy a 32GB black or white for pickup next day and still NOTHING. It's a disgrace. This whole process is a disgrace.
I think Newark was a "typo" as you're missing a departure from Newark scan and a arrival in Memphis scan. I think it went from AK to Memphis.
Check at 9 or 10pm local time. They may not have received deliveries on Sunday. Using the iPhone app, fill your shopping cart with every model you might be willing to accept. It will let you quickly and easily choose to check stock for only a single item from your cart, and you can then tap every single store near you...
Officially, they say that the stock levels are updated at 10pm, but I saw and reserved an iPad mini on Friday at 9:20pm local time.
I should add that, IMHO, it is unlikely that my phone call tomorrow morning is going to do anything. It's *possible*, but I suspect that it is all going to move forward regardless. Still, it will be interesting to see...
We loose nothing in trying because if this didn't happened I think we would've got it tomorrow maybe
I've tried that for the past two nights and tonight as well. Nothing. No 32GB WiFi only.
The five Apple Stores in my city only have cellular versions of the iPad mini available.
From the looks of it they're not going to have any 32GB WiFi iPad minis tomorrow either. I'm going to buy a sealed iPad mini from Craigslist and pay the extra $30 at this point. I'm extremely impatient and tired of waiting.
http://newyork.craigslist.org/que/ele/3419458301.html
Thanks to all the foreigners for buying up all of our gadgets in my country for cheap and hauling it to their **** country.
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MAC MALL has 32 gig wifi black and white in stock. Call them. U could have it shipped overnight to you for $30 u r willing to pay someone u don't even know off Craigslist. Macmall.com
I ordered a 16 gig black Wi-Fi Friday for a friend of mine who was leaving the country tonight and didn't know the iPads were so hard to get I called Macmall Friday at 2 o'clock Pacific time and paid the $30 overnight shipping for Saturday delivery and my friend had his brand-new mini iPad at my house Saturday by noon everything was perfect with it
I think they're even open 24 hours here's their phone number. 1-800-622-6255. It ships from Memphis Tennessee and I was one hundred percent satisfied with the transaction
Perhaps! Though about an hour ago, it got though PA and is now in NJ again for its second "Arrival Scan" there !