These conspiracy theories are crazy. Once again... Apple paid for slow shipping. Other orders take precedent. Surprised none of you have experience with slow shipping before.
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Roll call - Oct. 4th - Oct. 10th original ship date
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Okay so this is my last and final theory.
Most of us have a Sept. 23rd delivery date on our apple shipment e-mail, apple does NOT want to miss this date, because at that point the phone is late. Yes, we were told October 4th at first but then we were told a new delivery date and thats the one they have to stick to.
In my opinion anyone with a Sept 23rd date will have their phones tomorrow. There is still so much time (for those in Korea) to get here and get ready for tomorrow. We were told the 23rd in the e-mail and thats the date theyll stick too.
HOWEVER, if we do not have our phones by the date in the e-mail, GET THE PITCHFORKS READY.
Most of us have a Sept. 23rd delivery date on our apple shipment e-mail, apple does NOT want to miss this date, because at that point the phone is late. Yes, we were told October 4th at first but then we were told a new delivery date and thats the one they have to stick to.
In my opinion anyone with a Sept 23rd date will have their phones tomorrow. There is still so much time (for those in Korea) to get here and get ready for tomorrow. We were told the 23rd in the e-mail and thats the date theyll stick too.
HOWEVER, if we do not have our phones by the date in the e-mail, GET THE PITCHFORKS READY.
After a whole day of nothing from UPS there is finally movement!
Before I read back through the 20-something pages I missed... are you guys still sitting in Incheon? I've been there for over 24 hours now.
What a massive cluster ****. Hey, Apple, if you're not going to beat the Oct 4-10 target, fine. But please don't taunt us.
It's. Not. Cool.
It's. Not. Cool.
After a whole day of nothing from UPS there is finally movement!
Were you part of the 8:01pm group from Incheon?
Mine magically changed to out for delivery after being stuck there all day yesterday.
Happy to say I got my shipping email last night 1:52am EDT. Here are my details for others who want to compare:
7+ 128GB AT&T Matte Black - New IUP
Confirmation email 9/9 at XX:14
Original Shipping - Oct 4-10
PFS on 9/17
Last UPS Tracking info:
ZhengZhou, China 09/22/2016 5:15 P.M. Location Scan
Scheduled Delivery 9/26 End of Day
I hope that whatever was going on with shipments over the past few days is sorted out and my phone catches a flight soon.
7+ 128GB AT&T Matte Black - New IUP
Confirmation email 9/9 at XX:14
Original Shipping - Oct 4-10
PFS on 9/17
Last UPS Tracking info:
ZhengZhou, China 09/22/2016 5:15 P.M. Location Scan
Scheduled Delivery 9/26 End of Day
I hope that whatever was going on with shipments over the past few days is sorted out and my phone catches a flight soon.
The UPS rep I talked to yesterday was full of it and my package is still in China
Wrong, Apple reps specifically state it has the fastest shipping possible for the devices (How else do people get Launch day phones that ship 3 days prior?). I also don't believe Apple if forcing delivery date arrivals by holding the packages, it just seems too silly.
I am happy for you, and hoping for the same result today.
It's definitely not the fastest international shipping method ups has. Look it up ;-)
There are a ton iPhone 7 Plus, 128GB phones for AT&T available in the stores ... if you want gold/rose gold. Nary one in black/jet black.
At least there were last night at midnight.
Can't say for sure. It looks like they may have updated the times to be more accurate? They were different yesterday.
Supposedly Korea ,but who really knows at this point
I feel like if our phones are really in Incheon they are probably trying to sort out which phones to send first. If all of these issues are true there must be tons of phones waiting to be shipped.
Wow thats so weird... well awesome good for you! I've got the same Icheon scan at the same exact time.. and nothing else.
Weird. I "knew" that my order would have an October delivery the whole time. I wasn't able to order until almost 6 hours after ordering started and I still knew it was an October delivery. You may have not known in going in, as in when you first tried to order, but you 'knew' when you pushed the button to complete the order. You knew a day after your order was complete and have know every day since until a few days ago when the orders were pushed up.