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Same here!! - now sold out

I rang them to check and they said PayPal
Wouldn't release the money to them.

Went on PayPal and there's nothing to suggest why or anything like that. No email from PayPal whatsoever just cancelled on the PayPal page. First time I've had this problem and I use PayPal quite often
 
Hi guys,

Does anyone have a 4-10th delivery date and still processing? Apple couldn't take a payment and phoned them at 20:00 last night. 7+ JB 128GB.
same boat still processing, i had not enough money yesterday when they tried to make a payment at 15:30, talked with apple support i they sayd that they trying at least two time per day to take make payment, so still waiting

128+ JB, Oct 4-10, 8:13
 
I rang them to check and they said PayPal
Wouldn't release the money to them.

Went on PayPal and there's nothing to suggest why or anything like that. No email from PayPal whatsoever just cancelled on the PayPal page. First time I've had this problem and I use PayPal quite often
Sorry to hear that.

FYI John Lewis have a habit of blaming your bank or PayPal or whoever for cancelled orders.

In reality, it is John Lewis's fault. They conduct their own fraud checks and if you are unlucky enough to be flagged by the system, your order will go into limbo until someone in customer service calls you to confirm the order is legitimate.

Unfortunately by that time, the item is sold out, and one isn't held for you.

So in John Lewis speak, "payment couldn't be taken" = "we suspended your order and now we're out of stock".

This is why stock randomly reappears in the early hours of the morning for John Lewis: it's stock that was assigned to orders which John Lewis flagged as suspicious.

For anyone else concerned that their order from John Lewis is at risk, once you have the "Service Guarantee" email, your order is safe. Until then, prepare for the worst, etc.
 
Do you have the link on how to set this up?
Hi pal - if you look through @l3uddz forum posts on here and look at the script here: http://pastebin.com/raw/TAi79uJX, you'll find all the info I used to do it as he's explained it fully, and it's mostly in the readme of his script.

On Mac, basically you need to install Pushbullet (as an add-in/extension to Chrome is how I did it, though you could also install the app on your mobile device), get your Pushbullet API key from the settings (pushbullet.com/#settings/account, Access Tokens>Create Access Token)

Next, ensure you have downloaded Python 2.7 (and no higher), adjust L3uddz's script (in 'IDLE' ideally, which comes with Python I think) and save it (as a new '.py' file on your machine) with the stores and models you want plus adding in the Pushbullet API/access key you got in the previous step.

You then use terminal to run the script ('python <filename>.py' from the command line in the directory where you saved the file).

To change directory in terminal to where the file is, use the command 'cd' followed by the directory path. So for example, if you modified the script and saved it as 'wantiPhone.py' and saved it to your desktop, you'd need to type the following in terminal to get it to run:

cd /Users/yourusername/Desktop
~then~
python wantiPhone.py

Your mileage may vary in respect to changing directory depending on how your machine is step up. You'd need to check Finder (go to finder, click your desktop icon, then click 'File>Get Info', look at the general section and look at 'where' and it should say 'Macintosh HD > Users > yourusername'.

On Windows I've no idea, but again there are people who have adapted the approach to work on Windows using powershell.

Being savvy enough to search forums and follow threads for info, and a bit of technical know-how are barriers to entry - but all the info is there for you to use, and once it works, you'll get immediate notifications the second stock appears thanks to L3uddz.
 

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If people are after them, carphone warehouse have 7+ 256gb in Matt black and gold in stock online, they can be bought sim free too.

They do lock to the network of the SIM you first put in it though. Not sure what it does if you put a SIM from Three in it because they don't appear to lock then.
 
Sorry to hear that.

FYI John Lewis have a habit of blaming your bank or PayPal or whoever for cancelled orders.

In reality, it is John Lewis's fault. They conduct their own fraud checks and if you are unlucky enough to be flagged by the system, your order will go into limbo until someone in customer service calls you to confirm the order is legitimate.

Unfortunately by that time, the item is sold out, and one isn't held for you.

So in John Lewis speak, "payment couldn't be taken" = "we suspended your order and now we're out of stock".

This is why stock randomly reappears in the early hours of the morning for John Lewis: it's stock that was assigned to orders which John Lewis flagged as suspicious.

For anyone else concerned that their order from John Lewis is at risk, once you have the "Service Guarantee" email, your order is safe. Until then, prepare for the worst, etc.

Cheers for this.

Hope you get yours without any trouble!
 
Sorry to hear that.

FYI John Lewis have a habit of blaming your bank or PayPal or whoever for cancelled orders.

In reality, it is John Lewis's fault. They conduct their own fraud checks and if you are unlucky enough to be flagged by the system, your order will go into limbo until someone in customer service calls you to confirm the order is legitimate.

Unfortunately by that time, the item is sold out, and one isn't held for you.

So in John Lewis speak, "payment couldn't be taken" = "we suspended your order and now we're out of stock".

This is why stock randomly reappears in the early hours of the morning for John Lewis: it's stock that was assigned to orders which John Lewis flagged as suspicious.

For anyone else concerned that their order from John Lewis is at risk, once you have the "Service Guarantee" email, your order is safe. Until then, prepare for the worst, etc.
I agree, I'm not sure mine will go through till I get the service guarantee email.
 
So has anyone with a 4th-10th Oct estimate for a regular (not plus) 7 in JB seen any progress on their order yet? My 128GB is still processing.
 
Hey guys

Has anyone ordered a 7+ non JB from Apple with 3-4 weeks dispatch seen any improvement on these times or do they seem to be pretty static?

I have a 7 but the Mrs is wanting it and I'm thinking of getting the plus giving it a try, always had the standard phone and after playing with the 7 I fancy the change.

Anyway cheers for any info
Scratch that, managed to reserve a black 7 plus on the upgrade programme for pick up later this afternoon, all is good :)
 
I rang them to check and they said PayPal
Wouldn't release the money to them.

Went on PayPal and there's nothing to suggest why or anything like that. No email from PayPal whatsoever just cancelled on the PayPal page. First time I've had this problem and I use PayPal quite often

Exactly the same for me. Tried again on John lewis site directly checking out with card, that didn't work. Then my card got blocked. Phoned bank and explained & they unblocked. Went back to John Lewis and sold out - complete farce!
 
Good luck!
Service Guarantee just arrived from JL, so maybe okay for tomorrow then.
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Exactly the same for me. Tried again on John lewis site directly checking out with card, that didn't work. Then my card got blocked. Phoned bank and explained & they unblocked. Went back to John Lewis and sold out - complete farce!
Had similar experience in the past. The CC blame JL and vice versa. Not sure who to believe with regard to blocking payments etc. but JL have upped their fraud checks and a lot get declined now.
 
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