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UK iPhone 4S thread.
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The problem with one UK thread "to rule them all" is that we keep going around in circles... all this has been discussued earlier in the thread (although I don't blame you for not reading all 70+ pages).
To summarise what I have read/my experiences:
- Apple online 'chat' have given conflicting info - some customers have been told they will get their phones AFTER the 14th but some (me included) were told the first orders WILL be delivered on the 14th
- Some (perhaps most?) UK iPhone 4 and iPad pre-orders shipped (i.e. from the point at which they could be tracked) from the UK and not China (my iPad pre-order included)
- We had the 'ships by [launch date]' issue with the UK iPad launch, but then they were delivered a day early!
I'm not expecting to see any change in my shipping status until tomorrow (or even Thursday), but, at the moment, I still believe that I will get my iPhone 4S on Friday
Why would they take full payment now? They don't usually do it until they dispatch or even shortly afterwards.
I just spoke to Apple Customer Service.
The person has confirmed that orders are being collected on Friday the 14th by the couriers from Apple and deliveries will take place Monday or Tuesday of next week.
When i informed him about the fact that people in the US will have their delivered on the 14th he said "Have they actually received shipment confirmations? Wow this has not happened for us (UK)".
The person has confirmed that orders are being collected on Friday the 14th by the couriers from Apple and deliveries will take place Monday or Tuesday of next week.
When i informed him about the fact that people in the US will have their delivered on the 14th he said "Have they actually received shipment confirmations? Wow this has not happened for us (UK)".
Just to clarify on the updating of delivery status on the Apple shop.
I had a quick flick through the UK iPhone 4 thread yesterday. This seemed to be the timeline. Remember, it was a Thursday launch, so everything should be a day later this time.
By Tuesday evening, nobody had any movement on their delivery status. However, if people logged in through the US site it was saying that it was being prepared for dispatch.
Tuesday night (in fact, the early hours of Wednesday): Items started being marked as dispatched, with delivery stated as by Thursday.
Wednesday morning: Some items started to be delivered.
Thursday: Almost all preorders delivered.
So, don't worry about delivery status not changing. For the iPhone 4, it was literally just a few hours between some items being marked as dispatched and orders starting to arrive.
If the status hasn't changed by Thursday morning then we may have a problem, not before. It is certainly no concern that they haven't changed yet.
I had a quick flick through the UK iPhone 4 thread yesterday. This seemed to be the timeline. Remember, it was a Thursday launch, so everything should be a day later this time.
By Tuesday evening, nobody had any movement on their delivery status. However, if people logged in through the US site it was saying that it was being prepared for dispatch.
Tuesday night (in fact, the early hours of Wednesday): Items started being marked as dispatched, with delivery stated as by Thursday.
Wednesday morning: Some items started to be delivered.
Thursday: Almost all preorders delivered.
So, don't worry about delivery status not changing. For the iPhone 4, it was literally just a few hours between some items being marked as dispatched and orders starting to arrive.
If the status hasn't changed by Thursday morning then we may have a problem, not before. It is certainly no concern that they haven't changed yet.
I just spoke to Apple Customer Service.
The person has confirmed that orders are being collected on Friday the 14th by the couriers from Apple and deliveries will take place Monday or Tuesday of next week.
When i informed him about the fact that people in the US will have their delivered on the 14th he said "Have they actually received shipment confirmations? Wow this has not happened for us (UK)".
Just shows how clueless they are. There is still no reason why they won't ship Weds / Thurs from a European location and arrive on Friday.
Maybe, i hope he is. But give the fact that UK iPhone 4 pre-orders were shipped 5 days prior to launch from China and not from UK/europe, it is a pretty safe assumption.
Highly doubt it - I just got off the phone with Orange and they've not even received the stock yet
They won't even let you go into a store on Friday and pick one up if you've pre-ordered over the phone.
I just spoke to Apple Customer Service.
The person has confirmed that orders are being collected on Friday the 14th by the couriers from Apple and deliveries will take place Monday or Tuesday of next week.
When i informed him about the fact that people in the US will have their delivered on the 14th he said "Have they actually received shipment confirmations? Wow this has not happened for us (UK)".
Life has taught me to take anything a customer service rep says with a massive pinch of salt.
As an experiment, telephone customer services (of virtually any company) several times and ask the same questions. Chances are you will get several different answers.
The vast majority of iPhones will be delivered on Friday, believe me.
Actually my iPhone 4 shipped from Ireland a couple of days before launch. Thinking back I'm pretty sure it shipped on the Thursday.
Mine didn't come straight from China, it was shipped from Ireland. They will have had more time to build the stocks up over here this time, so they probably don't need to ship any straight from China.
That is certainly not what happened going by the iPhone 4 UK release forum.
Items were marked as dispatched literally hours before some started being delivered.
Finally managed to speak to someone and i'm not having to pay anything extra (they originally told me £20 for the sim!)
they're sending a micro sim out, but im having to change to an iphone plan to do so! they also said it would be 4 working days... so i've also bought a sim cutter off ebay which hopefully should get here first!
Im not paying any extra a month, but to keep to the same price my call time minutes have to go down from 600 to 100. which doesnt bother me at all. will just go back to the 'phone me back!!' style of PAYGO lol
I'm not worried about the phone not being delivered on friday, but I'm a little concerned about the time. I'll be away after 3pm on friday.. Anyone in the London-area with experience with previous pre-order deliveries? Did you get the delivery in the morning or in the afternoon?
If you want to see for yourself what happened in the UK with the iPhone 4 release, here's some links:
First report of item showing as shipped:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/924451/
That was at 1.13am on the day before launch date.
Others followed closely after that.
First delivery:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/924451/
The first reported delivery on that thread was at 9.34am, just over 8 hours after the first dispatch report.
Incidently, there are some very good predictions on this page from Journojulz and bbisman about this years release.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/924451/
First report of item showing as shipped:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/924451/
That was at 1.13am on the day before launch date.
Others followed closely after that.
First delivery:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/924451/
The first reported delivery on that thread was at 9.34am, just over 8 hours after the first dispatch report.
Incidently, there are some very good predictions on this page from Journojulz and bbisman about this years release.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/924451/
Anyone noticed you can add a message to the order? I added a cheesy 'Happy iPhone day Tanuj
Yes, i just added... 'Please cancel my iPhone 4S Order'
It does make me giggle reading this thread... What if it turns up a day late??? Or even 3 days late because they dont deliver Sunday's?? what will I ever do?