Yeah I've accepted the dates as correct September 23-30 for Matte Black 7 Plus.
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Carrier iPhone 7/7+ AT&T Pre-Order Thread
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I'm in Chicago and my phone shipped but I will camp out with you because I wanted Matte Black and ordered Gold because the Matte black estimated shipping it was giving me was early October. So I want to camp out at the AT&T store and try to get matte black.
I live in Lakeview. What area do you think will have short lines?
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Incorrect. They still are in fact using the Louisville, KY hub. I have a couple friends who's phone have already shipped from there.
I guess it is possible but if anyone is to blame it's probably Apple. AT&T can't do anything if Apple didn't provide the inventory.
My bad I got the regular 7, not plus. Still a good sign to start seeing them going out.
My tracking number says it was actually shipped on Sunday.
Mmmkay. I wasn't expecting anyone to reveal non-disclosure-type of things by any stretch (I would have hoped that this could have gone unsaid).Well you can verify it when you get your tracking info lol but my source can be determined by my username and location. I will just say these phones are heavily guarded along the logistics route. So I can't provide info I may know but nothing says I can't provide info I know is NOT happening.
Perhaps the better question is, does every carrier use the same logistics provider? In the past for many years, Apple used UPS, but this is an AT&T thread. Maybe FedEx is used by AT&T? I don't know.
Therefore, none of this might have anything to do with what you, per se, know, unless you're in the know in the industry enough to know what every carrier uses (and AT&T, obviously, would be of particular importance to know here).
Thanks.
Know that feeling lol I order 2:45am . 15 mins before preorder same phone... 7plus 128
Matte Black been like this since friday, however, my fathers 7 128g Matte black shipped this morning, he ordered his a whole 5 hours after me
When UPS MyChoice trolls you with your cases when you only want to know where you phone is at.
By the way, if your shipping (not Delivery) dates show something beyond this Friday, I'm very confused why you would think that you'd receive the device by this Friday. These dates are given for a reason, so quit causing yourself so much consternation; know that you're in line to get one, and you'll get one
My original shipping dates were estimated between 9/30 - 10/7, and I received a shipping confirmation this morning. It will be here on Friday. And my order went through at 2:58 EST last Friday morning.
This happens every year with preorders. Even though I got a date 2 weeks out, I was very confident I was getting it on launch day.
Apple is reallocating stock to upgrade program members. Hopefully this doesn't affect our shipments. Read the home page macrumors.com
I've had a hold on mine since I ordered Saturday, and the hold is still there. Have not been officially charged as of now but I'm sure that'll change soon-ish.
Personally, when it comes to these types of things, I don't deal with "seems like," I deal with what's actually occurring.
From the beginning of the pre-ordering process, because I'm anal-lytical, I tracked what was going on between the Jet Black and Matte Black shipping dates across both Apple and AT&T (the only ones I really cared about). By 4am ET, Jet Black was already heading towards end of October for shipping. As I mentioned in another comment, Matte Black remained quite viable as shipping by end of September well into 9/9/2016.
Therefore, by sheer intuition (shameless try at sarcastic humor), the dates remaining relatively stable for Matte Black versus Jet Black strongly suggest to me that there was either more of a demand for Jet Black and/or the inventory for Jet Black was less than for Matte Black.
They may have shipped from a carrier hub in Louisville but they did not come from Anchorage into Louisville UPS. That is what the flight aware is referring to. There are about 60 facilities that use the Louisville name on shipping information but there is only one place that Anchorage flights land. So when they see Louisville on their shipping info any time before Thursday night, its a carrier hub that received iPhones from another city by truck after they were flown into the states.
Maybe it's forgetting to take my adderrall this morning but it took me 15 minutes to read the text on this.
Then that's fantastic.
Considering there's always the unknown (to consumers) variable that these shipping dates are estimates and could be worst-case, then being able to get one significantly sooner is certainly joyous.
My original point was for those who were having a bit of a "weeping and gnashing of teeth" moment regarding their own devices that common sense (maybe not so common any more) would suggest that expecting earlier shipping dates is irrational until such time as getting a notification changes that.
While I appreciate intuition and other such kinesthetic systems of thought/feeling, I think that shipping inventory is more a function of available devices than it has anything to do with how one feels about the process
I'm in Chicago. Ugh wanted my phone Friday. There is still hope. We still have a full day to see if ours ships.
Apple has made a lot more 7's and 7 Pluses available for reservation for those who went through the Apple Upgrade Program. Doubt they manufactured so many so fast so they must have taken inventory from carriers. Perhaps AT&T got hit the hardest.
They got hit with a class action lawsuit, I'm sure they could probably care less about fair.