Why is delivery so far out when stores have stock for sale?

[MartyCan]

I'm sure he misunderstood the sales rep who was probably telling him that he could go online right then and there and purchase the watch. Either that, or the sales rep is the most uninformed sales rep in the history of the Apple Store. Also, if you're so worried about everyone calling you out on it, all you have to do is call the store and ask them yourself instead of hearing it second hand.

This.

 

[adm58]

If you bought online you have to send it back. Can't be returned in store.

Again when I worked there we could return items no matter where they were bought. The exception being custom-to-order Macs or engraved iPods.

 

[bunnicula]

Again... a friend of mine works in THAT EXACT STORE. It is less than 15 minutes from my house.

They do not have any Apple Watches in inventory. And they haven't had any.

 

[adm58]

Again... a friend of mine works in THAT EXACT STORE. It is less than 15 minutes from my house.

They do not have any Apple Watches in inventory. And they haven't had any.

I'm sorry are you responding to me? I'm not claiming they have them. I'm just saying if they did, it could have been via a new-in-box return but that seems highly unlikely to me.

 

[SixtyK]

Not to worry, I won't come back again the future to ask such stupid questions that I would have already known the answer to had I spent copious amounts of time here like the rest that have taken great pleasure in being anything other than helpful.

Perhaps an internet message board isn't the best manner in which to spend your time. You seem to be taking all of this rather personally.

 

[bunnicula]

I'm sorry are you responding to me? I'm not claiming they have them. I'm just saying if they did, it could have been via a new-in-box return but that seems highly unlikely to me.

Nope. I should've been more specific. My apologies. I was responding to the original poster. I mentioned this fact (not stock at Southpoint Apple Store) a short while back, but this weird discussion has continued. You bring up a good point, but I seem to recall there being a press release that stated that returns could only be by mail until they start carrying the watch in stores.

I could be mistaken, but I do believe that was how returns were being handled.

Mostly because many returns are exchanges and the stores have no stock.

I would imagine that any returns they get (if they are allowed to process them right now) are supposed to be shipped back to Apple. But, I could ask my friend or another Apple employee might want to chime in.

 

[bigdaddy223]

Smh...

 

[flur]

My local store has no watches or bands to sell and doesn't know if/when they will. BUT, the have a display case with every model and band, they have them to try on, and if you try them on, they ask you if you'd like to buy one. So I can see where someone who wasn't buying might get confused and think they had them in stock. Just sayin'. It could be an honest mistake.

 

[rwilliams]

Ray, I totally understand what you're talking about. That's why I don't ask anything here anymore becuase people don't know how to act or treat others. Apparently everyone on here is a professional at everything.

I'm sorry you're going through this.

So true. I used to enjoy asking questions & engaging in conversation here, but at some point, it became filled with a bunch of rude badasses who type things they'd never have the nerve to say to another person's face. I don't get the shift.