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The SS Apple Watch Leather Loop update thread
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I am completely and utterly confused.
HOW can the bands be shipping, but not our watches? Considering that OTHER combinations are shipping en masse, this makes NO sense.
The bands are here. The watches are here. WTF??
So frustrated. Just venting. Thank you, lol.
HOW can the bands be shipping, but not our watches? Considering that OTHER combinations are shipping en masse, this makes NO sense.
The bands are here. The watches are here. WTF??
So frustrated. Just venting. Thank you, lol.
I'm pretty angry as well ... wanted to cancel last week, but did not.
Now it's even worse.
PS: Blah blah .... shipping window ... blah ... don't school me ...
I go through phases too...
One minute: I'm just going to cancel the damn watch I can't wait any longer!
Next minute: I'm just going to wait, I'm almost at the front of the queue!
Then: £600 for a watch? I could buy 2 sport models for that price when they are in store...
Finally: But I love being the first with Apple products. Plus, no one else will have the leather loop band! OK OK, keep the watch.
Well it's the same stainless steel watch that's been being delivered since the 24th oO
Exactly. My. Point. The watches sure SEEM to be ready, don't they? As in, all the other SS being shipped with different bands??
Again, pardon my
, but...yeah.
But he's asking why the bands are shipping and not the watch with the band
Apple is going to have substantially more bands available then watches, so it makes perfect sense why my band order, which I made a couple days is going out soon. The watches have to be distributed among like 10 different SKU's per size, not enough to go around while Apple is struggling with production
Understood. I suppose it all goes back (again) to the "Why we, the LL few, were so screwed to begin with?"
maybe the boxes aren't ready....I'm sure the boxes are made from the highest quality wood found in the Russian Forest, so this adds delays in shipment and configuration, hence the waiting.
I also ordered within 3 min of live pre-order on the 10th...I did not receive an email this morning, still showing 13-27 of May.
I also ordered within 3 min of live pre-order on the 10th...I did not receive an email this morning, still showing 13-27 of May.
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ouch...
2 - 3 more weeks for people that ordered it when the site went live?! So it is pretty safe to say that I really won't be getting mine until June then(ordered Late on the 12th after a fitting appointment).
2 - 3 more weeks for people that ordered it when the site went live?! So it is pretty safe to say that I really won't be getting mine until June then(ordered Late on the 12th after a fitting appointment).
The user waiting eagerly for Leather Loop or Link bracelet in Japan are getting angry too!!
If this was Japanese Company (Panasonic, Sony etc...), everyone puts a lot of claims in the Government Consumer Center...
It's Apple to offer the Best Items by the Worst Shopping Experience.
Please become calm and wait.
Because it's Apple, it's inevitable.
If this was Japanese Company (Panasonic, Sony etc...), everyone puts a lot of claims in the Government Consumer Center...
It's Apple to offer the Best Items by the Worst Shopping Experience.
Please become calm and wait.
Because it's Apple, it's inevitable.
The leather loop bands alone always said they were shipping earlier than the watches with leather loops. The company making the leather loops is in Italy, right? I'm guessing something went wrong with them and they were delayed to 2 or more weeks after whenever Apple wanted the loops made. So, now the delayed loops are shipping out, and are within Apple's specifications. This is a good thing.
However, there are two routes the loops must take to reach customers. 1) Leather loops are being sent to China to be attached to watches and 2) Leather loops are being sent to Apple directly to be shipped as stand alone bands. This accounts for the delay.
However, the delay isn't exactly fair to those who have been waiting patiently for their SS with Leather Loop, is it? But Apple doesn't have packaging to accommodate sending watches without bands, so it's not like they could have skipped the leg where they ship some to China for assembly.
As unfortunate as the situation is, Apple gave everyone fair warning on this at pre-order. The SS Leather Loop watches always said they were shipping in 2-4 weeks. That's EXACTLY the reason some of us switched to watches with sport bands and ordered the leather loop separately.
Still unfair though...
But what SHOULD Apple have done? They found out they were going to have delayed leather loops and their response was to simply ship them later. They made that decision clear. What else could they have done without incurring significant costs?
They could send us our watch with a complimentary BSB first and then the Leather Loop later as soon as they are ready. ;-)
It's even more frustrating seeing all these peasants with their Sport Watches already!
Surely we should have priority!
(Shouldn't have to point it out, but that was a joke)
Surely we should have priority!
(Shouldn't have to point it out, but that was a joke)
Lol...
You want a $50 freebie for having to wait 2 weeks? I honestly hope nobody believes we live in a world like that.
I think it's as simple as "Because our factory broke." The more I think about it, the more I feel that the factory that had the taptic engine problems was the one designated by Apple to assemble the LL, MB, and Stainless Link watches. And rather than shuffle a bunch of bands around the factories to assemble ours earlier, they just pushed back production by a couple weeks.
Aside from the leather loop, this was our (my wife's) second order. Way to pick two winners, right?
Someone else in the same boat.
42mm SS w/ Blue Leather Loop
3:08 am ET email confirmation
38mm SS w/ Pink Modern Buckle
3:11 am ET email confirmation
So now, after waiting a month, we are getting a fresh, new, personalized email of death? ********** great
Why is it a bad thing - from what I can tell when people get the email their watch ships shortly thereafter.