Awesome thanks.
Mine is in china. Any chance it will be on an overnight flight and then get delivered to me tomorrow ?
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Awesome thanks.
Mine is in china. Any chance it will be on an overnight flight and then get delivered to me tomorrow ?
10:30 pm At local FedEx facility SHANGHAI CN
No chance to make today's Anchorage flight or the direct to Memphis one. Might be another chance tomorrow but more likely it won't be until Monday.
No chance to make today's Anchorage flight or the direct to Memphis one. Might be another chance tomorrow but more likely it won't be until Monday.
Yep, I'll call Apple to see what they say, it does not make any sense. It's not about the $14 is about creating false expectations.
Mine is in China, too. They will travel together
. Where in the UK are you?I don't want to dissappoint you, but in my opinion there's no chance. My experience says that: It will travel overnight and it will arrive early in the Saturday morning in one of the European hubs of UPS (probably Cologne/Bonn). Then it will travel (road and air transportation) to the UK depot. Then trucks will carry them to your local depot and finally on Monday a van will bring it to your door.
I have no proof that what I am saying is correct, it's just what I believe based on some previous experience I had. In other words, don't take this message seriously.
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I can't find any UPS flight that departs from Shanghai airports and arrives anywhere in Europe. I can only find flights to the US. DO you have any idea why or which UPS flights transfer our laptops to Europe/UK?
It's fine, I have great patience. Besides I installed Mavericks today on my current MBP so that has given me something to keep me occupied.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but can you explain?
How would an expedited shipping option with FedEx not get an item to its destination faster than regular ground with FedEx?
Are we still going back and forth about battery life?
Maybe as someone coming from a windows world and used to 2hr battery life, I think you guys are being a bit silly.
If you're doing heavy, resource-intensive work, what's the chance that you're not at a desk, close to a power source? Or are you saying you wait until your commute to start designing with photoshop?
Come on, whether it's 7h versus 8hrs or 9 vs 11, that's a really long time. And if you're on for that long, time to take a break.
I just got a 15" maxed with a battery life of 8 hours. Am I going to complain that it's not 9 or 10? Or am I going to be one of those sad cases who shut down everything just to save battery life rather than plug it in. Heaven forbid they increase their cycle count or whatever the hell that is.
I agree. I was so torn between instant gratification (2.4 i5) and waiting for a BTO (2.6 i5) but ultimately ended up doing BTO.
When I ordered the 5s on launch day at 3AM, I paid for expedited shipping. It ended up being worthless.
But I decided to bite the bullet and called today to pay for expedited shipping. I asked the representative if this would make a difference after explaining my dissatisfaction with the 5s order. He had already changed it -- and said it would be on the house.
He then asked me if there was anything else he could help me with... I said no - he already me happy. He then asked me if I had heard about the magic trackpad. I thought he was going to try to sell this. To my surprise, he was offering to give this to me!!! I politely asked if I could get the SuperDrive instead
. The extremely nice representative totally made my day!!!
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Once it's ready to be shipped, the specs don't affect the shipping time. BTO orders take longer to process and prepare to ship because they can't be pulled directly off a shelf of pre-built machines. That's why the default configs show "Available to ship within 24 hours" and the BTO options say 1-3 business days.
Mine is in China, too. They will travel together
I don't want to dissappoint you, but in my opinion there's no chance. My experience says that: It will travel overnight and it will arrive early in the Saturday morning in one of the European hubs of UPS (probably Cologne/Bonn). Then it will travel (road and air transportation) to the UK depot. Then trucks will carry them to your local depot and finally on Monday a van will bring it to your door.
I have no proof that what I am saying is correct, it's just what I believe based on some previous experience I had. In other words, don't take this message seriously.
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I can't find any UPS flight that departs from Shanghai airports and arrives anywhere in Europe. I can only find flights to the US. DO you have any idea why or which UPS flights transfer our laptops to Europe/UK?
Ah ok, i don't know about flights, but ye, i figured it would be a matter of waiting til monday! lets hope the storm doesn't affect anything
When did you place your order? I ordered the exact same configuration to also be delivered to NYC. I didn't place my order until 10/24 though as I couldn't decide which model SSD size to get. Currently my order is still "processing" with a delivery estimate of 11/1 to 11/5.
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Tested and true.
Thank you.
I have tested it for myself, I only buy build-to-order and every single time this is the result. If I do not pay expedited shipping my BTO MacBook Pro still arrives around the same time as expedited. The only time expedited works is when I ship something through the carrier of choice. So consider the fee on this fruity company's site as a surcharge or processing fee ladies and gents. It doesn't take a heck of a lot of time to "process an order", trust me, I've worked there before, once it is in the carriers hands' it gets sent to you when it gets sent, but the time it takes this fruity company to so called "process an order" is a different story. When they finish processing it and ship it, the shipping estimate time frame is the same across the board regardless.
ADDITIONALLY: when they say "Free shipment on orders over $75" you should demand it and especially if it is a Build-to-order hot ticket item, especially, so let us all demand right now that if it is "Free Shipping" then they should ALSO WAIVE the so called 'expedited shipment fee' for us BTO customers. I'm gonna get on the phone now and let you all know their lame justifications and excuses shortly
In more cases when I do not pay the extra shipping fee, my MacBook Pro arrived much more timely than my other items which I paid extra shipping for.
Food for cents and thoughts.
Thank you.
I have tested it for myself, I only buy build-to-order and every single time this is the result. If I do not pay expedited shipping my BTO MacBook Pro still arrives around the same time as expedited. The only time expedited works is when I ship something through the carrier of choice. So consider the fee on this fruity company's site as a surcharge or processing fee ladies and gents. It doesn't take a heck of a lot of time to "process an order", trust me, I've worked there before, once it is in the carriers hands' it gets sent to you when it gets sent, but the time it takes this fruity company to so called "process an order" is a different story. When they finish processing it and ship it, the shipping estimate time frame is the same across the board regardless.
ADDITIONALLY: when they say "Free shipment on orders over $75" you should demand it and especially if it is a Build-to-order hot ticket item, especially, so let us all demand right now that if it is "Free Shipping" then they should ALSO WAIVE the so called 'expedited shipment fee' for us BTO customers. I'm gonna get on the phone now and let you all know their lame justifications and excuses shortly
In more cases when I do not pay the extra shipping fee, my MacBook Pro arrived much more timely than my other items which I paid extra shipping for.
Food for cents and thoughts.
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When I ordered the 5s on launch day at 3AM, I paid for expedited shipping. It ended up being worthless.
But I decided to bite the bullet and called today to pay for expedited shipping. I asked the representative if this would make a difference after explaining my dissatisfaction with the 5s order. He had already changed it -- and said it would be on the house.
He then asked me if there was anything else he could help me with... I said no - he already me happy. He then asked me if I had heard about the magic trackpad. I thought he was going to try to sell this. To my surprise, he was offering to give this to me!!! I politely asked if I could get the SuperDrive instead
The extremely nice representative totally made my day!!!
That's so nice. Good story
When I ordered the 5s on launch day at 3AM, I paid for expedited shipping. It ended up being worthless.
But I decided to bite the bullet and called today to pay for expedited shipping. I asked the representative if this would make a difference after explaining my dissatisfaction with the 5s order. He had already changed it -- and said it would be on the house.
He then asked me if there was anything else he could help me with... I said no - he already me happy. He then asked me if I had heard about the magic trackpad. I thought he was going to try to sell this. To my surprise, he was offering to give this to me!!! I politely asked if I could get the SuperDrive instead
The extremely nice representative totally made my day!!!
That's great. I've just called them and they have offered to refund me the expedited shipping fee since the estimated time is just on the last day of the initial delivery estimation.
Not as nice as having a superdrive free, but still helpful
a good story but a pointless waste of time since it will not get the computer in his hands any quicker . Dell and others always throw out the free next day shipping line but the bottom line is it will still get to you in the same amount of time
