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Preparing Shipment!

Dm84 said:
Mine also says preparing shipment. For those who have had their copy shipped, how long did your status say preparing shipment? I know it could be that way for up to 24 hours, but I'm trying to figure out the average length of time it took to ship.
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I would like to know as well.

I also just called Apple Customer Service, and they said the same thing as yesterday. They said that once your shipment goes into "preparation," it should ship out within 12 to 24 hours.
 
I'm in preparing shipment too. Kinda like purgatory...in between the heavenly product actually making its way to your doorstep and the hellish time it spends sitting in a warehouse. :)
 
Just for the record, mine has been listed as 'preparing shipment' for at least 27 hours. So apparently that 12-24 hours means about as much as Windows Longhorn when it comes to pre-orders for Tiger. I'm guessing that mine won't ship until late tonight or tomorrow so that the 2-day shipping puts in on target for a Friday delivery.

It had better come by Friday though because I'm moving out of my apartment and my lease is up at the end of the month, and I won't be living there anymore come Monday! :eek:

Worst case scenario, can I call FedEx/DHL/UPS/whoever and get the shipping address changed to my new place (still in the same town)?
 
mkrishnan said:
So is it better in the sense that it's more accurate, or in the sense that it's more favorable? ;) :D

Mine just changed to preparing shipment today! Yayness! :D
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Hehe...I am guess it is a bit of favouritism...
:D :D

But it is true that the US store is more accurate. There are more options, from Preparing shipment to processing shipment. Preparing Shipment and processing Shipment might all be the same as "open" on the european website, cos i have never seen any sort of Preparing shipment on the europe site.. Oh well i prefer the US site...it just makes me more hopeful.. :D :D :D
 
do people know where it's being shipped from? is it their elk grove, california facility, which is in sacramento? if so, we northern cali people might get it on thursday. yummy.
 
Bradley W said:
Order Date: 04/12/2005
01:23 PM PST

"Preparing Shipment" > sounds more hopeful than "Processing"

By the way, on sites like the UK site, "open" is just the older term Apple used for processing order... maybe you noticed the US Order Status page has a newer look?

Does anybody keep getting the message "Did not receive any response from application. It is possible that the application does not exist, or that the requested url is incorrect."? Using Safari... a few refreshes make it work...
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Do you live in UK...
 
EANx said:
I would like to know as well.

I also just called Apple Customer Service, and they said the same thing as yesterday. They said that once your shipment goes into "preparation," it should ship out within 12 to 24 hours.
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Have you received you copy yet????
 
Bradley W said:
Thank you for shopping at the Apple Online Store

Apple's Online and phone Order Status services are temporarily unavailable due to a scheduled upgrade to our systems.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Interesting!!!
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Yeah i was just about to post this aswell....Very strange. It is only on European stores i guess cos it still works on the US site. But i think that it is just some normal technical repairs...
 
Yeah i was just about to post this aswell....Very strange. It is only on European stores i guess cos it still works on the US site. But i think that it is just some normal technical repairs...
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US Site down too. Tiger must be on it's way
 
vouder17 said:
Have you received you copy yet????
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Nope. Looks like it will be Friday. I did talk to someone today, feakbeak, whose Tiger had shipped from the Apple store thought. I also read about some other people's who had shipped today or yesterday. I don't know what the deal is. :mad:

Maybe this whole Order Status services being down thing will bring some good news. :D
 
EANx said:
Nope. Looks like it will be Friday. I did talk to someone today, feakbeak, whose Tiger had shipped from the Apple store thought. I also read about some other people's who had shipped today or yesterday. I don't know what the deal is. :mad:

Maybe this whole Order Status services being down thing will bring some good news. :D
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I think the store being down is due to the Powerbooks supposedly coming tomorrow.
 
Androit said:
I think the store being down is due to the Powerbooks supposedly coming tomorrow.
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either you're a real newbie or you just mistyped. PowerBooks are not reported to be updated. In fact, January was the last update.. the end of january. That leaves a whole 3 months since they were updated. In other words, no powerbooks until AT LEAST WWDC in June, and if they do update in June i predict dual core G4's.

What you really meant was PowerMacs I imagine. Which are definitely scheduled to be updated. However the store only goes down when they are actually updating the store, in this case that would be in the morning of the release or after they were announced. They havent' been announced, so this is probably just a simple system upgrade, no new products, no real reason behind it.
 
Patience people...this is nearly exactly how it went with Panther. I finally got shipped notice for Panther on Thursday morning, and sure enough it showed up at 4:00 in the afternoon the next day, just like it was promised
 
dswoodley said:
Patience people...this is nearly exactly how it went with Panther. I finally got shipped notice for Panther on Thursday morning, and sure enough it showed up at 4:00 in the afternoon the next day, just like it was promised
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Oh come on! It wouldn't be as much fun without the bubbling and the jumping up and down. It's like that moment at a running race, when you're back in the pack, and you know they're about to start, but you can't go anywhere, and everyone just jumps up and down and gets giddy. It doesn't do much for you but it feels GOOD! :D
 
mkrishnan said:
Oh come on! It wouldn't be as much fun without the bubbling and the jumping up and down. It's like that moment at a running race, when you're back in the pack, and you know they're about to start, but you can't go anywhere, and everyone just jumps up and down and gets giddy. It doesn't do much for you but it feels GOOD! :D
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Exactly.
 
EANx said:
Nope. Looks like it will be Friday. I did talk to someone today, feakbeak, whose Tiger had shipped from the Apple store thought. I also read about some other people's who had shipped today or yesterday. I don't know what the deal is. :mad:

Maybe this whole Order Status services being down thing will bring some good news. :D
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Maybe yours is on its way....
I hope this order status page thing is sometthing to do with Tiger...Please :rolleyes:
 
DXoverDY said:
either you're a real newbie or you just mistyped. PowerBooks are not reported to be updated. In fact, January was the last update.. the end of january. That leaves a whole 3 months since they were updated. In other words, no powerbooks until AT LEAST WWDC in June, and if they do update in June i predict dual core G4's.

What you really meant was PowerMacs I imagine. Which are definitely scheduled to be updated. However the store only goes down when they are actually updating the store, in this case that would be in the morning of the release or after they were announced. They havent' been announced, so this is probably just a simple system upgrade, no new products, no real reason behind it.
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Hahaha yeah Powermac I'm tired.
 
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