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I actually agree. What may sound as "apple defense" is honestly probably more me talking to myself.
This launch is off. I've also never missed a day one either. There are many factors and I want to be pissed too. I'm trying though to keep a healthier perspective.
Trying.
Anyone that wants to be pissed...don't let me talk you out of it
Anxiously awaiting a new way of card charges.
This sounds like the rep making something up on the fly. The confirmation email contains an order number, so it's hard to see how the order could be that far behind the confirmation.
I spoke to a supervisor in the chat and he said he believes my order time was 3:04am but sees why the rep sees 3:12. that there are in fact two different time stamps and he is going to look into it and call me back in an hour.
Honestly, you're wasting your time. None of this matters. Your order is in the queue just like everybody else's. Nothing you say to a chat rep is going to make your order come any faster. They have no power to do anything about that. The time stamps are all trivial anyway. Apple's method of fulfilling orders is clearly not by going down the list based on order time. There are other factors at work such as location, model ordered, and supply.
Buck up. Mine said 18 days when I got that app, and it's using the maximum timeframe for delivery. Literally overnight mine went to prepared for shipping through all the UPS tracking.
Cool app, but it's a bit misleading quoting that days countdown. Apple could very well fulfill your order before that clock runs down.
As someone else said before, I couldn't have gotten it in any earlier. 4 minutes and 26 seconds should be more than enough time. Regardless they had TWO WEEKS TO FULFILL ORDERS BASED ON THE QUANTITY ORDERED. No reason why any of us are playing the waiting game.
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How did you get your deliveries app to display that info? I thought it did tracking numbers only.
This is not about making my order come any faster, this is about finding out when my order was actually placed because then I will have a better idea of when it might come based on when other people in the same time frame as me get theirs shipped. Right now I am to believe I am in the :04-:05 range which is getting theirs shipped to them now.
However if I AM in the xx:12 time frame then I am going to be thoroughly pissed off for staying up late and getting in and out of the store in less than a minute and still being pushed back EIGHT MINUTES!!!
BUT I will be pissed at apple for a different reason not for not having my watch to me sooner. This is about the hope they gave their customers. Saying first come first serve.
By my accounts and everything Apple has told me so far (aside from this new information) I should be very close to the front of the line.
Exactly. It's nonsensical that there is no relative correspondence between confirmation email time stamps and Apple's internal order queue. Someone mentioned that emails can travel through different path, different servers, delaying travel for some, but that would only mean that the time stamps are *later* than Apple's internal number. At order, the only thing Apple cares about is does this customer have the funds to make the purchase. Once confirmed, the order is logged and the receipt goes out.
Having said that, it's like we're all at a diner and a lot of us have ordered the Space Gray meatloaf sandwich. If only a few order the Stainless Steel tuna surprise, they may get their order before the rest of us get ours even if all of us had our order in first. Short order cooks may work a different paces. Our waitress may be a ditz. There simply are a lot more variables at play than mere order sequence. Generally they are going by time and seem to be (with exceptions) at about the xx:04:30 mark. I have not seen any xx:05:00 SG orders go through. I'm at xx:04:41, so I'm hopeful I'll see some action Monday or Tuesday.
I've seen a few exceptions too, but by and large SG shipments in the US seem to be correlating to order time. Currently that looks to be in the mid 04's.
Yeah. I should be very close to the front of the line as well. But the problem is that no one knows what the front of the line actually is. Mine order was placed at xx:04:22 and I've seen multiple people with later seconds get their orders shipped already. Along with some people with May and June delivery windows. If there is a method to the randomness, no one has figured it out.
At this pointi just want my watch to charge and prepare to ship and I would be happy but still nothing
42mm SG Blk Sport conformation 03:04:22am eastern still processing no charge still waiting Got email eod shipping to jersey used bank card and store app Delivery est is 4/24 to 5/8
42mm SG Blk Sport conformation 03:04:22am eastern still processing no charge still waiting Got email eod shipping to jersey used bank card and store app Delivery est is 4/24 to 5/8
Exact same as you, down to the second. Except mine is shipping to NYC and I used AMEX w/ Apple Pay.
it may be a little bit of madness, but it seems to generally follow the minutes ordered at least as far as the SGs are concerned. It may be off my 30 seconds to a minute here or there, but I don't see many people having a confirmation time of later than xx:05 saying they are being charged which means that there is SOME pattern to it. If my space falls into that pattern at xx:12 than I have a much longer wait than I was hoping for. Which is something I would rather know so I don't have to constantly look for updates.
Tom Petty was right...
...the waiting really IS the hardest part. Newbie (first post) here. I just wanted to thank everyone for keeping me sane during this long and arduous wait. I have 2 watches ordered - a SG 38mm with a confirmation email time of :04:39 and 4/24 - 5/8 delivery and a SG 42mm with a June delivery date. Both paid via AMEX Apple Pay. Like many, I would have assumed the early one would have been in my home by now. No movement other than the EOD I received on 4/23. I live in Louisville, KY and watch the brown and white planes fly over all day wondering if my watch is in the cargo bay. One of these days, I'll be right.
...the waiting really IS the hardest part. Newbie (first post) here. I just wanted to thank everyone for keeping me sane during this long and arduous wait. I have 2 watches ordered - a SG 38mm with a confirmation email time of :04:39 and 4/24 - 5/8 delivery and a SG 42mm with a June delivery date. Both paid via AMEX Apple Pay. Like many, I would have assumed the early one would have been in my home by now. No movement other than the EOD I received on 4/23. I live in Louisville, KY and watch the brown and white planes fly over all day wondering if my watch is in the cargo bay. One of these days, I'll be right.
