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Watch with Stainless Steel Link Bracelet Orders
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That's no different from all others within the initial batch that are set to deliver May 13-27.
Ya got excited, have lots of friends waiting on the modern buckles, the link bracelet people are starting to breath relief while others still going mad lol
UPS just updated my delivery date. Now it's TOMORROW!!!
(42mm SSLB ordered on 4/10 at 2:08 AM, CT)
Man, this was an awesome thread! What are we going to do after we receive our watches tomorrow??? 
The LB is for me, the BMB for the wife, who, fortunately, is less anxious about all this than I am.
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Man, this was an awesome thread! What are we going to do after we receive our watches tomorrow???
Some of us will still be here.
Man, this was an awesome thread! What are we going to do after we receive our watches tomorrow???
Hey, not all of us are getting them tomorrow! We get to continue to obsessively check our order status till who knows when :/.
Man, this was an awesome thread! What are we going to do after we receive our watches tomorrow???
Your going to take lots of pictures and show us the precious!
I'll be here till June.
Still processing here. Ordered at 1:32 PST as I fell asleep after my alarm went off. I obviously can't really expect anything too early, but I'm really hoping that it gets delivered by May 22. I wonder if the whole May 13-27 lot will be sent out together and they are just processing them as they got them, or if the stock is unavailable to fill all of the first unit of orders.
I'm kinda hoping that Apple kicks it up a notch and clears all of the backorders...so they don't have a PR nightmare when they open up the in-store availability.
Me, I really don't want to wait to July if I have to.
To everyone who hasn't had any movement on their orders, keep in mind that these watches seems to be shipping next day! We 42mm LB got charged in the morning, and shipped in the afternoon.
This could be the case for the rest of you guys! Good luck! I'll be posting pictures of the packaging/watch tomorrow!
This could be the case for the rest of you guys! Good luck! I'll be posting pictures of the packaging/watch tomorrow!
Congrats to everyone who got their watches in the initial batch. The rest of you ... your day will be here soon. 6 or 7 planes on the way tonight.
For those that have orders shipped, what stage are you guys at on the UPS site? Mine is "ready for UPS". My guess is that it will go on a plane late tonight, and be out for delivery tomorrow morning. Am I right?
Hmm. That's suggesting UPS doesn't have it yet. Where does it say it is, Harrisburg?
Mine is out of Harrisburg - arrival scan in Middletown at 9:00 PM - coming to St. Louis. It initially had a scheduled delivery date of 5/13, but updated just a while ago to 5/12 delivery. Hopefully, you'll see something more on yours soon.
Mine's arrival scan Middletown, PA (05/11/2015, 8:28 PM local time).
It has already made its stop in Harrisburg, PA, by the way.
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It depends on how the product is shipped from China. Initial bulk shipments come in massive palletized shipments, and depending on wether it makes economical sense, they send items direct from China (ex, if only 100 people ordered links on the East coast, it doesn't make sense to send a massive drop shipment to the hub, it's easier to ship direct). With the SS+Link, they came from China on a massive pallet, then directed out to the regional Hubs. It's much cheaper to do this then send them direct from China.
Unfortunately I can't divulge any more details, but that is the general picture.
I saw on other threads that other people saw the same thing with no update until the next morning, and theirs got delivered that day. So this makes me think yours will most likely be delivered tomorrow as scheduled.
Updated: I was too slow. Congrats.
Ok, so they haven't started adding any tracking info yet. We won't know for sure where it is then, until they do.
I suspect this could be something similar to what we see when watches are coming into Canada. Some people report they have a status of Burlington, Ontario (well, that's just UPS headquarters) - if you have that status, it means the labels printed. Then the first update we would see would be a couple days later it would clear customs (our shipments come from Louisville, by way of Anchorage) - I think the shipments get broken up in Louisville. None of our UPS tracking is really populated until customs are cleared though (then we see a few lines below that, but no locations on them - because they weren't in the Canadian system for those stops) - those would be the origin scan from China, the stop in Anchorage, then Louisville.
Pretty sure the US folks saw the same on their launch window ups tracking - didn't populate until clearing customs. It means the planes aren't in the US yet. (or they're on the ground in Alaska). Either way, it doesn't impact your timelines, you'll still get them when Apple said.
...just read the posting from iPhone.Freak. That makes sense as well. I think our watches are a pretty small run compared to all of the sports and SS with sport bands.