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Oct. 1 to 6 2014 Delivery Date Orders (Update) Delivered earlier!
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I predict by the end of the night, we will have hacked UPS and Fedex website and will know the shipping date of all 4 million iPhones
it's totally possible W123456789...would work because it's default sequence of numbers that's never used for orders, after all it's 123456789
Try any other random numbers and it doesn't work. But put in your order, phone number and it works - this can't be random.
I guess we'll know soon enough if we get a tracking number tonight. Apple charged my credit card today, they gotta be shipping.
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Same experience I had (sans Dwight Yoakam). Second call today got another really nice lady that offered me a free leather case. I was gonna let the 6+ go commando for a bit but a nice lil leather jacket can't hurt. Sooooo back to waaaaiiittting but at least the status is Preparing for Shipment
It just seems too easy to "fake out" the system and get a status; I have a hard time believing this is legit. Not to mention that I haven't seen anyone else getting Fedex shipments; maybe that's because they were all coming from China and these are coming from within the U.S., but that just seems like wishful thinking.
I do agree though that we should be getting some kind of info soon. If the status of our orders had simply changed I would be skeptical, but having been charged for both my orders I can't help but think that we're on our way.
You want it so bad that you can't see clearly
I changed my order number by one digit and my phone number by one digit, and it still gave me an 'in transit' status, clearly a bug.
Actually, as mentioned by other, UPS has the same bug...
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPh...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
live ifixit teardown of a 6+ ifixit said the sydney australia store only got 40 6+'s and there were over 1000 people in line so glad I preordered.
live ifixit teardown of a 6+ ifixit said the sydney australia store only got 40 6+'s and there were over 1000 people in line
so glad I preordered.
Most likely what is happening is that Apple purchased a flat rate fee for shipping the iPhones from fedex. FedEx then generated a few million tracking numbers from the order number sequence range Apple gave them a few weeks ago.
So the order numbers show up in the FedEx system.
So the order numbers show up in the FedEx system.
I don't think so. W123456789 doesn't seem like a tracking number that Fedex would be passing out.
EDIT: I'm pretty sure that's not even how it works. Tracking numbers are generated when labels are printed, which is tied into the shipping system, if I understand it correctly.
Most online sites will only charge your card for preorders when they're getting ready to ship. I know Amazon preorders work this way.
i tried w555444333/5554443332 with my zip code and it gave the same in transit results
ok fair enough, looks like the fedex reference tracking is a dead end. Wait that's not random that's 555444333...jk... ah who knows what's right
The only time that's not true is when they generate a hold charge, as far as I know.
Same experience I had (sans Dwight Yoakam). Second call today got another really nice lady that offered me a free leather case. I was gonna let the 6+ go commando for a bit but a nice lil leather jacket can't hurt. Sooooo back to waaaaiiittting but at least the status is Preparing for Shipment
Haha, free cases are always nice. My leather cases came in and i really like them. I'm on hold with Apple right now, maybe I'll get something free.
Whatever; what I'm saying is that these numbers returning some kind of a result is meaningless at this point. We have zero evidence that Apple is even using Fedex, so anything else is pure unsubstantiated speculation.
Depressed? lol try still stuck in processing and the money still in the bank! Thats depressing! Everyone else preparing for shipment and I am stuck at the same place since last friday! lol (Did I honestly say money in the bank is depressing?!?!
)Depressed? lol try still stuck in processing and the money still in the bank! Thats depressing! Everyone else preparing for shipment and I am stuck at the same place since last friday! lol (Did I honestly say money in the bank is depressing?!?!
I'm with you. I've never wanted someone to take my money so badly. I wish there was some logic behind who has progressed and who hasn't. I've seen multiple people that ordered the same phone as me, after me, and they are already preparing to ship while I'm still processing.
This is my first time actually having to wait for my pre-order past release day (I usually never have a problem ordering them and getting them on time) and I'm having a hard time figuring out if I enjoyed this experience better or not.
The only downside, besides not getting it on the release date, is that I'm going to have to suffer through a few days of seeing other people with their iPhone 6/6+
The only downside, besides not getting it on the release date, is that I'm going to have to suffer through a few days of seeing other people with their iPhone 6/6+