Amazon not shipping till March? I pre-ordered, but now I have an estimated ship date of the middle of March. Apple is shipping next week. This doesn't seem reasonable.
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anybody receive a shipping notification yet ? apparently some who pre-ordered from the apple store early on have gotten theirs already.
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It is true that those of us who ordered from the Apple Store online have received our MacBook Air computers or they are in transit from Shanghai. But, we ordered within 48 hours of the introduction My local Apple Stores do not have demos yet. Mine will likely arrive before theirs. So, patience, folks. I am pleased to see pre-ordered MacBook Air computers already number 29 in Amazon Electronics.
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Still waiting for mine. Says 4/1/08 shipping right now. Hope they'll ship next week.
596770
Amazon always gives a generous blanket date on pre-released products. In my experience, they always ship within a week of Apple.
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Hey, I called Amazon and spoke with the department that handles product stocking. They told me they will not be receiving it until April. Does this make sense? I'm seeing posts here claiming to be receiving March.
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I have emailed and called Amazon, and was told that the March date is only a placeholder, orders should begin shipping sometime next week.
982113
Amazon has to provide an estimated ship date. The open-ended delivery date will drive me to cancel my amazon order and go with apple.com. Customer's who ordered priority shipping must be very annoyed with Amazon right now. And the current $499.99 list price for the 500 GB hard drive is misleading and unfair (and a scam).
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JC - do you have any update on shipping status for your iMac (24" right?)? Amazon now says Sep 20 - Oct 4 timeframe for shipping new orders, and I'm hoping that you've seen something a lot better than that...
467874
I ordered mine on Sept 21 and still have had no luck, unfortunately, I can't just cancel my order and buy straight from apple because of some amazon gift cards I used to purchase it. When these gift cards are gone, I hope to not be doing much, if any, more business with amazon.
1072112
Yeah, what's up with that? I just bought it for my sister's birthday and Amazon is telling me that it'll ship in November??? Forget it, I'm canceling the order and buying it from Apple.
95381
Recieved my MBP 17" today. Ordered May 8th, received June 8th. Looks like Amazon has enough to fill backorders since the status of the MBP is that it ships within 24 hours. Hopefully it lasts for anyone who wants one. Loving mine so far (it does get a bit warm...)
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That USED to be the case with preorders on Amazon (arriving on release day). However, at least in my experiences that last few years, they seem to just ship them on release day. They want you to pay for the faster shipping options. If you choose standard or free shipping I don't think you'll get it on release day. Choose a faster method and you should.
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I just got the "items shipping soon" notice on my S90 purchase. I'd pre-ordered on September 25th, so Amazon seems to be prioritizing based on pre-order order (sorry for the double word use!) -- at least based on the comments above mine.Good thing, too; I was just about to head over to a few Best Buy stores in my area, and, based on any supposed success, cancel the Amazon pre-order. It all worked out in the end for me -- it's all good. :-)UPDATE: My order has just shipped, due to arrive on October 14th. Awesome!
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I am in same boat guys, I did notice on eBay a lot of the vendors are saying "pre-order till March 11". Hard to imagine Amazon getting it much later than them. Good luck.
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My experience in the past is Amazon aims for you to get the device the day its available to the public. My preorders in the past have arrived on the listed "available on" date. I'd try contacting Amazon directly though- it seems to mildly vary from product-to-product as to when preorders are actually received by the buyer.
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I saw that too.I hope thats just for people that did not preorder the iPod Touch.I placed my order on September 7th and my order still says it going to arrive October 2nd with 1 day shipping.So far my order status has not changed and my order has not been charged to my bank.
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Apple's lead-time is down to 5-7 days as of today. Since amazon hasn't said or done anything about this, I've placed an order on apple.com.
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As of March 3rd... Apple has shipped some from their online store and local stores have had some limited inventory. I asked Sunday afternoon at my local Apple store. They had two being used on display and said that they had sold some but no longer had any in inventory. The Apple online store indicates that they ship within 5-7 business days. I predict it will take a little while yet before Amazon starts to fulfill orders.As of March 15... Local Apple store still did not have any in stock. I do note that the 1TB version is soldout at BestBuy and they have dropped the price from $499 to $424, the 500GB version is also sold out at BestBuy and has price dropped from $299 to $254. As of March 3rd... Apple has shipped some from their online store and local stores have had some limited inventory. I asked Sunday afternoon at my local Apple store. They had two being used on display and said that they had sold some but no longer had any in inventory. The Apple online store indicates that they ship within 5-7 business days. I predict it will take a little while yet before Amazon starts to fulfill orders.As of March 15... Local Apple store still did not have any in stock. I do note that the 1TB version is soldout at BestBuy and they have dropped the price from... » Read More As of March 3rd... Apple has shipped some from their online store and local stores have had some limited inventory. I asked Sunday afternoon at my local Apple store. They had two being used on display and said that they had sold some but no longer had any in inventory. The Apple online store indicates that they ship within 5-7 business days. I predict it will take a little while yet before Amazon starts to fulfill orders.As of March 15... Local Apple store still did not have any in stock. I do note that the 1TB version is soldout at BestBuy and they have dropped the price from $499 to $424, the 500GB version is also sold out at BestBuy and has price dropped from $299 to $254. « Show Less
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Looks like we are all recieveing conflicting information from the Amazon reps... I was told that it should be shipping tonight, with a delivery date of tomorrow... I guess we will see. If I had known that there was going to be extra processing time I would have just gone with Newegg!
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I did the same thing ordered on the 12th @ $299. Hopefully the iPod will qualify for Amazon's pre-order price guarantee where we get the lowest price the item sells for, since we did pre-order them. Mine has shipped out already so I can't cancel and re-order.
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Correct. Except, I talked to someone who also works with Apple and I asked them, if I buy from Amazon, will it take longer for them to ship? He said not really, since Amazon gets the shipments earlier before so that they can ship around the same dates as Apple does. I've already bought 2. One from Apple and the other from here. I bought it on Apple, only to get it engraved for my husband. And the other iPod touch is for me. Let's see which one comes in first! As to the release date, Apple says the estimate date is the 11th. (I spoke to a representative of Apple on the phone.) Correct. Except, I talked to someone who also works with Apple and I asked them, if I buy from Amazon, will it take longer for them to ship? He said not really, since Amazon gets the shipments earlier before so that they can ship around the same dates as Apple does. I've already bought 2. One from Apple and the other from here. I bought it on Apple, only to get it engraved for my husband. And the other iPod touch is for me. Let's see which one comes in first! As to the release date, Apple says the estimate date is the 11th. (I spoke to a representative of Apple on... » Read More Correct. Except, I talked to someone who also works with Apple and I asked them, if I buy from Amazon, will it take longer for them to ship? He said not really, since Amazon gets the shipments earlier before so that they can ship around the same dates as Apple does. I've already bought 2. One from Apple and the other from here. I bought it on Apple, only to get it engraved for my husband. And the other iPod touch is for me. Let's see which one comes in first! As to the release date, Apple says the estimate date is the 11th. (I spoke to a representative of Apple on the phone.) « Show Less
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I agree. I too pre-ordered in early Aug and I also received the moved up email only to find out it was later than stated. As long as I get mine in time for Christmas I don't care, but at this point I am a little worried that I'll even get it by then. I hope that Amazon takes the lessons learned from this and other hot pre-orders like the Wii Fit to heart and improve on their service level standards. **Update** I was checking my account for another reason and I see now where I should be getting mine by the 24th of this month. Odd. But good news for me, I hope it actually ships then.