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Folks, not to gloat or anything, just for your info if in similar situation.

Ordered mine online at 12:10am on Friday 20th uk time, my order has now been dispatched. Looks like the first batch is on route.

Original estimates 7-10th oct. Dispatched today. No tracking info yet.

I ordered space grey 5s 32gb

I demand screengrab!! :D
 
Not to change the subject (though now hitting refresh on my order status regularly!) has anyone seen a shop in London stocking black 5s cases? In Civent garden they had blue and brown only. I don't want to pay the postage on the online apple store!
 
Folks, not to gloat or anything, just for your info if in similar situation.

Ordered mine online at 12:10am on Friday 20th uk time, my order has now been dispatched. Looks like the first batch is on route.

Original estimates 7-10th oct. Dispatched today. No tracking info yet.

I ordered space grey 5s 32gb

I think grey is the most produced model.

I wonder if any non greys have dispatched?
 
Before you all get too excited, anyone else showing as dispatched yet? Mine ain't and it was a 00:00 order on the app!
 
I ordered the 16gb Gold model quite late in the day (12:45pm) and it is still processing and "October" estimate, god knows when it will arrive :(
 
Not to change the subject (though now hitting refresh on my order status regularly!) has anyone seen a shop in London stocking black 5s cases? In Civent garden they had blue and brown only. I don't want to pay the postage on the online apple store!

You can get the cases at CPWH, free delivery to home or for collect instore. Same price as the apple store and last time I checked they had stock :)
 
Folks, not to gloat or anything, just for your info if in similar situation.

Ordered mine online at 12:10am on Friday 20th uk time, my order has now been dispatched. Looks like the first batch is on route.

Original estimates 7-10th oct. Dispatched today. No tracking info yet.

I ordered space grey 5s 32gb

You are either lying or you have mis-read your order status.
 
Gonna try and buy one on thursday morning in London... I cannot believe that these stores don't know when shipments arrive. I mean, they must be ordering stock themselves...
 
Got my 64GB space grey today from CW. 41 hours after ordering. One slight problem. The screw next to the lightening port is not screwed in properly and sticks out about 1/2 a mm.
 
Gonna try and buy one on thursday morning in London... I cannot believe that these stores don't know when shipments arrive. I mean, they must be ordering stock themselves...

I suspect Apple controls this centrally but senior store managers should be given access (perhaps they are but staff aren't allowed to tell customers - who knows?)
 
Are you sure it's dispatched?

Mine still says: "Processing Items Dispatched: 7- 10 business days", but if you look at that line with a squint and some wishful thinking, it can appear to read: "Dispatched: Delivery in 7 - 10 business days". Ha.

If that is the case then this thread has lasted a long time before someone made the mistake. Usually it happens pretty well daily.
 
Folks, not to gloat or anything, just for your info if in similar situation.

Ordered mine online at 12:10am on Friday 20th uk time, my order has now been dispatched. Looks like the first batch is on route.

Original estimates 7-10th oct. Dispatched today. No tracking info yet.

I ordered space grey 5s 32gb

Really hoping this is true. I'm starting to get really fed up reading about stores getting additional stock on a daily basis, while so far there doesn't appear to have been a single order shipped due to an online order.

Got my order through at 11:59 on the 19th (16GB Silver), so should hopefully be pretty well up the order list, but still stuck at "Processing".
 
I think we got trolled by Cully411..

Fair play to him, he made me go check my order status .......again!

Sparkyms do you hear if the Southampton store had any stock today.... I'm just down the road in fareham and bore of waiting for the online delivery ..
 
I suspect Apple controls this centrally but senior store managers should be given access (perhaps they are but staff aren't allowed to tell customers - who knows?)

Iv worked for P4U, and no one in the store knew what they were getting on the next delivery until they got it! It could be a similar matter with Apple! Although, I can see why they would not want to tell people especially around these times.

Iv also worked at O2, and they could check what stock they were getting delivered around about 24 hours in advance. We used to happily tell customer when they could expect stock for a particular product.
 
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