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Order Thread for UK (BST)

jafacake310596 said:
Carl Howe on the reality of Apple and the Apple Watch process:

“Imagine that someone came to you and asked you to deliver a million Origami (that’s the art of Japanese paper folding) lobsters within the next month,”

“Now let’s make this a little more realistic. As it turns out, we really want a million lobsters of two different sizes. Further, ordinary paper tears too easily and is the wrong color for Origami lobsters, so we’ve decided to make our own paper; that will require its own process. We also need to be able to deliver some of the lobsters with glitter and others with hand-painted decorations; we’ll need to plan to supply and apply those materials too. Oh, and we want to make a few thousand out of two colors of pure gold leaf instead of paper. You’ll have to manufacture the paper for that too,”

“There’s no rush; you can deliver your million lobsters any time during the month, provided that you don’t mind people complaining that you are way too slow at getting this done. Oh, and you’ll be criticized in the international press for every failure to produce perfect lobsters.”

“And now, imagine this same plan, except with this twist: no one has successfully folded this particular type of Origami lobster before, so you really don’t know how it’s all going to turn out. And your reward if you are successful will not be praise, but demands that you build even more next month,”
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This is complete BS. They've been working on the watch for 4 years. Production also started 6 months ago.
 
I have come to the conclusion that the SS Black sport is not being shipped/charged due to there being a limited supply of black bands. I would think the black bands are the most popular?
 
spikerules said:
I have come to the conclusion that the SS Black sport is not being shipped/charged due to there being a limited supply of black bands. I would think the black bands are the most popular?
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I am in a different frame of mind. I think Apple though the most popular would be black bands and pink, turns out pink wasn't. but I believe there are stock for all black bands and pink band watches already in the UK, US, etc as no one with these have had payment taken.

Apple has then shipped what has been need of the other combinations into the relevant countries as required.

For example why have 30,000 green strap watches sitting unsold in Germany when 15,000 might be need in the UK.

Apple have this sort of thing so tied down from years of doing preorders for phones they can use preorders to distribute based on stock needs.
 
mathieuh said:
Just then or a couple of hours ago?

Interested to see if they're still making charges or if people who haven't been charged yet are out of luck
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Yeah. They are still possibly charging. My mate didn't have anything until 15 minutes ago. Although, it could be that different banks run debit charges at different times (not in real time)
 
jafacake310596 said:
Agreed but going off his theory they've played it safe and only started mass manufacturing in the last 2-4 weeks, hence the supply issues that might occur come Friday
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It's not playing it safe, it's announcing before you've actually worked out all the kinks. They knew what they were releasing in October, but they didn't know how they were going to make it. What's interesting is that the bands are causing the issues: none of the leather loops are in the first wave... Seems like they've had more of an issue manufacturing those as than they have the actual watches despite the apparent technical challenge being the electronics not the strap.

Designing and manufacturing are two different problems, and the designers clearly got out ahead on this one...!

Edit: grammar.
 
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Ok now that the euphoria of Apple taking our money is starting to die down, are we expecting status to change to 'preparing to despatch' sometime today/tomor?
 
They will change Thursday to preparing for shipment and shipped later on thursday/friday. Our watches are currently at Syncreon Distribution Centre in Leicester, Hinckley and will be picked up by couriers tomorrow and Thursday. I work a stone's throw away from Syncreon and know people/contacts in the offices there.
 
Etiene said:
It's not playing it safe, it's announcing before you've actually worked out all the kinks. They knew what they were releasing in October, but they didn't know how they were going to make it. What's interesting is that the bands are causing the issues: none of the leather loops are in the first wave... Seems like they've had more of an issue manufacturing those as they have the actual watches despite the apparent technical challenge being the electronics not the strap.

Designing and manufacturing are two different problems, and the designers clearly got out ahead on this one...!
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I agree with your first point, but not your second about leather loops being harder to produce.

I believe they staggered the launch of some bands to relieve the pressure from production. It makes more sense to ask China to make you a limited number of variations to kick off and sell, then slowly start to also produce additional bands when the pressure of the initial release dies down.
 
danny3103 said:
42mm sport black. Ordered at 8:03

I've had the £1 authorisation taken but not full payment.
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That could be the difference, since I have not been charged yet either, but I had the £1 authorisation when I ordered. So wondering if that is the reason why I have not been charged yet.
 
Order Thread for UK (BST)

joeallen said:
Yep I had 2 gift cards on the order, was charged around 4pm like most others.
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Bugger. So the gift cards are now empty? My whole order was on gift card.

I can't believe that space grey 42mm was sold out at 8.03 when I put my order in. Will be really pissed if it isn't here Friday!!!
 
Mic2904 said:
That could be the difference, since I have not been charged yet either, but I had the £1 authorisation when I ordered. So wondering if that is the reason why I have not been charged yet.
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no idea, they didn't really have an explanation for it. HSBC said they haven't received any pending transactions either.

Just sucks that i had it confirmed not to be getting it Friday
 
Mic2904 said:
That could be the difference, since I have not been charged yet either, but I had the £1 authorisation when I ordered. So wondering if that is the reason why I have not been charged yet.
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I got my confirmation email at 8.03 and no charges yet either :-(
 
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