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I noticed quite a few have received invoices from Apple and had the amount taken from their bank accounts. I received an invoice this morning but nothing has been taken. It's dated the 22nd and has my debit card details but according to the bank nothing has gone out. Anyone else getting this as well?
 
I ordered my iPad at 12:07 (their time, 1:07 ours) on the pre-order launch day. Since then I've been ridiculously excited. This thread, and the realisation that i'm not alone in my "child before christmas" level of anticipation, is only hyping things up even more for me !
Quite frankly i've spent the past 24 hours feeling a bit sick with excitement! God knows how i'll be come thursday !

Keep it up everyone, you're making me smile! :)
 
well, as I said above, one has slipped through the net and has got to Milan this morning...

http://www.unamelaalgiorno.it/content/1971-davide-il-nostro-primo-ipadder.html

That could be a US model. After I spoke to Apple today the lady gave me a very serious "you will not be able to get your iPad before Friday" like she has been saying it to the past 100 callers!

Are all 3G ipads coming with TNT and wifi with UPS? Is anyone with a 3G coming with UPS or wifi with TNT?
 
I noticed quite a few have received invoices from Apple and had the amount taken from their bank accounts. I received an invoice this morning but nothing has been taken. It's dated the 22nd and has my debit card details but according to the bank nothing has gone out. Anyone else getting this as well?

I got my invoice yesterday automatically with my shipping notification but nothing has been taken from my account. Apple keep saying my card is a credit card eventhough its a debit card but apparently they treat all Visa cards like that
 
I ordered my iPad at 12:07 (their time, 1:07 ours) on the pre-order launch day. Since then I've been ridiculously excited. This thread, and the realisation that i'm not alone in my "child before christmas" level of anticipation, is only hyping things up even more for me !
Quite frankly i've spent the past 24 hours feeling a bit sick with excitement! God knows how i'll be come thursday !

Keep it up everyone, you're making me smile! :)

Double-edged sword for me. iPad on friday which I have never been more excited about anything else, then the crushing realisation that three days later my law degree exams start.
So it's been a week of soul-crushing revision then a day of complete euphoria, followed by the crash of exams.
 
Are all 3G ipads coming with TNT and wifi with UPS? Is anyone with a 3G coming with UPS or wifi with TNT?

My 3G is coming via UPS, my tracking code works on the UPS site but is still just saying "billing information recieved". Not got my email invoice yet but I can view and print it from Apple's site. :)
 
I ordered my iPad at 12:07 (their time, 1:07 ours) on the pre-order launch day. Since then I've been ridiculously excited. This thread, and the realisation that i'm not alone in my "child before christmas" level of anticipation, is only hyping things up even more for me !
Quite frankly i've spent the past 24 hours feeling a bit sick with excitement! God knows how i'll be come thursday !

Keep it up everyone, you're making me smile! :)

and my girlfriend is away on a girly trip for the weekend

so it will be just me (probably naked) and my spangly new toy
 
Double-edged sword for me. iPad on friday which I have never been more excited about anything else, then the crushing realisation that three days later my law degree exams start.
So it's been a week of soul-crushing revision then a day of complete euphoria, followed by the crash of exams.

I feel for you. I have exam on Friday but I finish exams on friday too :D
 
Double-edged sword for me. iPad on friday which I have never been more excited about anything else, then the crushing realisation that three days later my law degree exams start.
So it's been a week of soul-crushing revision then a day of complete euphoria, followed by the crash of exams.

Hmmm, that's a tough one. Any chance you can import all of your revision notes into Pages, transfer it to the ipad and at least revise in style? :p
 
In terms of those who slip through the net it will likely be those that have been redistributed to smaller couriers, e.g, parcel express etc, from UPS or TNT if they don't cover the area. The reason these smaller firms will ship them out early is that it costs the courier company far more to keep a package than it does to store it. The likes of UPS/TNT will have the facility to
do this and use it in order to keep Apple sweet but the smaller ones will just want the package delivered and out of their hands. So, if your iPad has been passed to a third party courier, I reckon, you've got a good chance of getting it early.
 
Regarding money being taken. Mine has and I have had the lovely pleasure of paying an extra €30 because I paid using my UK Visa Debit on the German site. Great. But yes, the money has been taken but I have received no invoice, so the opposite of some.

On the money being taken, does anyone have any videos which reassures them they made the right decision to buy one? I am starting to miss that £472 :(
 
In terms of those who slip through the net it will likely be those that have been redistributed to smaller couriers, e.g, parcel express etc, from UPS or TNT if they don't cover the area. The reason these smaller firms will ship them out early is that it costs the courier company far more to keep a package than it does to store it. The likes of UPS/TNT will have the facility to
do this and use it in order to keep Apple sweet but the smaller ones will just want the package delivered and out of their hands. So, if your iPad has been passed to a third party courier, I reckon, you've got a good chance of getting it early.

That's what I hoping for.....but it needs to get here in order for that to happen.

With the UPS tracking numbers being down, there is no indication that they are making any progress at all.
 
That could be a US model. After I spoke to Apple today the lady gave me a very serious "you will not be able to get your iPad before Friday" like she has been saying it to the past 100 callers!

Are all 3G ipads coming with TNT and wifi with UPS? Is anyone with a 3G coming with UPS or wifi with TNT?

My 32GB 3G is coming via UPS. Still on Billing Info received, so it is blatantly sitting in the UK distribution centre until it's time to push them out for Friday delivery.
 
Aviation is a big hobby of mine. With our friend having such a lot of detail I thought he might have been into the same sort of thing. My only gripe with the system is it has to run under bloody Windoze.
Do you have Plane Finder for the iPhone/iTouch and iPad? That's good for tracking plane flights and is currently showing TAY002 which is the TNT flight from China to Leige.
 
Do you have Plane Finder for the iPhone/iTouch and iPad? That's good for tracking plane flights and is currently showing TAY002 which is the TNT flight from China to Leige.

Yes I have that as an app on the iPhone and iPad. There are always aircraft not showing that I can see. But great when your out and about.
 
Double-edged sword for me. iPad on friday which I have never been more excited about anything else, then the crushing realisation that three days later my law degree exams start.
So it's been a week of soul-crushing revision then a day of complete euphoria, followed by the crash of exams.

Ah, you poor sod! I feel for you! Just had my last exam today, the past couple of weeks have been sheer misery...
 
Yes depends on your aerial. I have a small aerial just outside the window and receive aircraft about 150 miles north and 200 miles to the south. But they are also ways to network them with other receivers in the country to improve coverage.

That's what I was wondering. It's quite a while since I stopped 'squawking'! ;)
 
Are all 3G ipads coming with TNT and wifi with UPS? Is anyone with a 3G coming with UPS or wifi with TNT?

My 32GB + 3G iPad is being delivered by UPS and is currently in the 'Billing Information Received' state...
 
That could be a US model. After I spoke to Apple today the lady gave me a very serious "you will not be able to get your iPad before Friday" like she has been saying it to the past 100 callers!

It could be a US model, but it's probably not! It was delivered with case, camera connection kit and an Italian Vodafone SIM card. He said that according to UPS tracking it was supposed to be still in Holland, and it was delivered to his door instead.

It's a good sign.
 
I don't know if any UK buyers find this relevant but on my invoice it says my order for my 32GB 3G iPad ships BY 28th May. I leave the UK for 3 months on the second of June till september. According to the apple rep on the phone, he says that my order will be shipped from the UK and not from the factory in China. Meaning that, including Monday being a bank holiday I should receive my goods tuesday! (close one!) yay!
 
Do you have Plane Finder for the iPhone/iTouch and iPad? That's good for tracking plane flights and is currently showing TAY002 which is the TNT flight from China to Leige.

Thats not the right flight, its coming from the wrong part of China. The right flights are some hours behind that one.
 
Yeah I think the flight left at 11:35 HK time, although TNT had two 747 planes at HK at the same time so Im not entirely sure which is which. This site shows the position of their planes:

http://www.tntairways.com/RealTimeAircraftSituation.html

Ours might be the one that is getting close to Dubai. I was expecting it to fly to Liege rather than straight to the UK, so some further tracking info may appear in the hours after about 4-5.30pm tonight when it should land in Liege. But Im only making educated guesses about this as I havent actually spoken to TNT.

11:35 HK time yesterday I presume?

Mine shows on the chinese TNT site as

2010-05-24 Country City Status
18:02 Hong Kong HONG KONG Consignment on-forwarded to next station
04:53 Hong Kong HONG KONG Shipment received at transit point.

18:00 HK time was 11:00 BST.

The Chinese site has not updated since and the UK TNT site still has no info for my Tracking No. It's over 24 hours now so the plane should have landed somewhere :confused::confused:
 
Ah, you poor sod! I feel for you! Just had my last exam today, the past couple of weeks have been sheer misery...

It's horrible. I was almost tempted in not going home to collect the iPad and wait until after exams to reward myself, but I can't wait another two weeks.
 
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