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Other 📱📱U.S.A. - Apple.com - New iPhone 16/Plus/Pro/Pro Max US Pre-Orders, Orders, and Delivery Status Thread (2024)
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The status on Apple won't change to Shipped until the phone clears customs in KY, which should happen sometime today.
They don't have trade in kits at the store to give you, but they should take it from you on the spot as a trade in.
My trade-in box has always come from Carlisle, PA (I'm in Maryland).
Yeah the actual UPS stores are independently owned. I've had an Amazon return get checked in but never left (lost) at a UPS store. Also same thing happened with a custom backpack that was shipped to me, tracking showed it scanned in at the store and it never left. The sender on that one had to file a claim and then re-make a backpack (two months wait)
Lol, we're going on Saturday, so day after Launch DayApple Store on launch day? Sending thoughts and prayers!
You can request, but for a fee usually. And even then there’s no guarantee they’ll deliver in your requested window. But you can get a refund in that case. So in my experience, it’s not worth it.
I just hope my driver shows up, wouldn’t be the first time he’s knocked off early on a Friday, then claimed “no one home”.
My last experience with an in-Apple-store trade-in was I was given a choice of getting a discount on an immediate in-store purchase, or I could get a gift card.
Mine is Chantilly. Today I had another order from Amazon and UPS arrived around 1PM.
No fee with My Choice premium. Not sure they will guarantee a delivery window with launch deliveries.
There are several stores that I avoid
Apple
Costco
Trader Joe's
There, fixed it
i was told gift card or charged back to credit card used or card of your choice when we picked up a MacBook air and iPad in store.
Same. Mine always ships from there. It typically credits me as soon as I ship back too.
That’s what I always thought it would be. They always have me reuse the same box the phone was shipped in though and there’s a prepaid label in it. Actually thinking about it I think the prepaid label sits under the label to my address and I just rip the top label off
I wonder, would it be possible to pin a post in these threads, to the top where it would show up on every page at the top, like. Q&A post with all the commonly asked questions? Those of us who pay attention to this thread all of the same questions get annoying for sure, but I don’t expect that anyone would read through thousands of posts to find the answer to their question. I know I wouldn’t…
I always try to lure the UPS drivers to my door by putting out a cooler full of drinks and snacks... maybe I'll just WFP (work from porch) on Friday.
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