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Looking at the other retailers Argos pcworld john Lewis (usual suspects) they are saying 8am. I'm still hoping for a 12.01 on the apple site but not looking good. On 5s launch night the Europe stores I believed went live at the same time following the UK even though we were 2 hours behind France and co. Any thoughts?

Where did you get the info for Argos? I have tweeted them for info and theey said they don't know about website or in-store stock or availability (even just to order).

I'm just staying up to check the site after midnight but i'm not hopeful.
 
I'm sure we're always just one hour behind France and co.

Regardless I'm staying up just in case but I don't think this is happening people :|
 
I'm going to be optimistic......

There is no reason why we would be any different to the Asian countries and so orders should start at midnight.

In terms of the site going down. I don't see why it needs to go down for any significant length of time - The lengthy site outages are usually when they are changing contact, adding new products etc. - all of the products are already there and all they have to do is change the availability (presumably linked to stock in background).
 
Hmmm... To risk a trip to the Tesco Extra store which is about 25 mins away or not??

If not, plan is to either try and reserve through Argos or try Currys/PC world store at 8am tomorrow morning even though opening time says 9am.
 
Store is still up with about 15 mins to go, not happening at midnight. What a waste of time, thanks Apple.

Will probably happen about 3am...!
 
Hmmm... To risk a trip to the Tesco Extra store which is about 25 mins away or not??

If not, plan is to either try and reserve through Argos or try Currys/PC world store at 8am tomorrow morning even though opening time says 9am.

Don't do it, although I'd be interested in the result.

Probably a waste of time
 
My technology at tesco in Oldham was shut for the night. Can't really call it 24 hour opening when half the store is closed!
 
00:01 AM and no iPad order. Brilliant. See you guys at 8AM! Night guys.
 
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So it didn't happen, feel like a right fool now!

Oh well off to bed, not bothering to do this again. So annoying that they let Asian stores do it, but not European stores - and yet they gave no info to anyone.
 
This wasn't a waste of time. It gave me the excuse to stay up and enjoy a lovely bottle of JD whilst baiting some android-loving commenters over on Engadget. Always fun :p
 
It's clear now they want a scene in UK to gain press. Apple said 12:01 now nothing. Joke.
 
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