Q: Apple Watch Shipping Notices

wow surpirsed you had an order completed at 3:12 when mine was earlier and you got it on the 24th. Lol. You should have kept it for yourself  

did you order the SS or SG

I Ordered the stainless steel.

ordered on 10th 2:26 am cat . Got it today . Classic buckle apple watch .

Speaking with issues with your credit card. I received note from Apple this morning that my card was declined. I just came from the bank and it had gone to their fraud dept because Apple had submitted my card three times on April 10th when I placed the order. This morning I get notice from Apple card declined. They had attempted to submit the card two more times. My bank declined it based on this behavior on my card. I think Apple needs to get this business handled with submitting your credit card. This is not customer friendly.

Ordered the same watch. 3:08 am NJ  Still in Processing Limbo 

Possibly the reason for the delays:  http://time.com/3840905/apple-watch-taptic-engine-delays/

I called my credit card company, MasterCard, yesterday to advise them of the possible transaction in the next month or so, whenever they decide to ship my watch, and they said they had several people call them to make sure the transaction goes through. Guess people are paying with multiple forms of currency, some from gift cards and some just from there debit or credit cards. I don't want the transaction to be declined, bc by then I will be getting the apple watch 2.0 when it comes out in 2017. Lol.

Keeping my head up and hoping for an early ship date than June.

I'm in the UK. I ordered went pre ordering went live on 10th April and the 38mm SG with black sports band already had a dispatch date of June. I ordered about 6 hours after the site when live. Apple sent me a email last Monday saying it would dispatch in the next 3-5 weeks and delivery would be between 20th May and 2nd June.

I woke up this morning to a email to say it was dispatched and would deliver tomorrow!

Excited is a understatement!!!

For my personal sense of sanity, I hope your story is true so I can know mine is coming soon. On the other hand I hope it's not considering I ordered the same thing eleven minutes after it went live and got stuck with the 5/13 shipping date range...

No word of a lie, I swear. Hang in there, I'm proof it could all change in as little as 24 hours! x

What I am most surprised about is the lack of information from Apple.  This a company that prides itself on the user experience of its processes and devices and yet they are dropping the ball here.  All that needed to be done was for Apple to privately inform folks who pre-ordered there was a delay in the shipments and while unfortunate and unforeseen they were working to resolve the issue to quiet most folks down.

To go even further, if it is an issue of supply on the 38mm Sport w/ black band then they should have issued an addition communication with those folks letting them know that they had ordered a device that would be back-ordered longer than most and if you were willing to swap for a sport watch with an alternative band to receive an earlier ship date please let us know - I imagine most folks would be willing to make the change and simply purchase the black band at a later date.  Those who chose to stick with black would also know what they were expecting and a PR nightmare would have become a positive.

Now, we hear there is a potential hardware issue and again no comment from Apple.  If this is the case I am guessing again that most of us would praise Apple for proactively recognizing the issue, correcting it and advising us of the needed delays....  Again they are radio silent.  My issue isn't with the shipping delays, although having ordered mine at 12:05 am PDT and still not having a watch or a prep for shipment is frustrating, it is the complete lack of communication by Apple as to the issue at hand.  I expected better of Apple and therein lies the problem.  We have all be told to expect more and they have let us down spectacularly.

What delays have there been? Who has not received their Apple Watch past their estimate dates?

The article regarding the engine is a rumor, not proof of any hardware problems. If you want to search at the rumor sites you will also find an article regarding the Sapphire facility in Arizona going bankrupt which could have "delayed" the Stainless Steel models. But none of us know that for sure.

You must be very new to Apple.

42mm SS BSB

Confirmation 3:05 4/10

Delivery 4/24 - 5/8

CC charged this morning status changed to Preparing to ship

Status just changed to SHIPPED

UPS has no info yet. Hopefully arriving tomorrow!

More transparency from Apple would have been nice, but the fact that info is just now coming out that one of two taptic engine suppliers released bad product underscores Apple's previous opacity, as well as poor planning.

In retrospect, so much of this irritation over lack of communication and extended delivery times could have been avoided if they had proactive decided to say "Preorders start on April 10, and delivery is expected between May and June." This would have given them time to deal with any possible slip-ups in production (like the taptic engine one we're now facing), and would have afforded them the opportunity to look awesome if people started receiving their Watches in late April instead of mid-May to as late as July (for orders being placed at this point in time).

Instead, an expectation was set with the heavily-advertised availability date of April 24.  They only pulled that down a few days before the date arrived when they realized they couldn't meet the date for the vast majority of orders. Even then, the page still says "Apple Watch is here." Customers who faithfully preordered on 4/10, but didn't do so within the first 5 minutes or so after midnight, aren't seeing that.

The problem is exacerbated by actual in-store stock being available at 5 top-end boutique stores worldwide. If you were fortunate enough to live in the right area, you could just walk into the store and walk out with one on April 24. Meanwhile, the "guaranteed money" of preorders still sits with a majority of people wondering when they're going to receive their product.

But there's more going on than just taptic engine delays, because there are people who ordered days after the preorders started, and they have their Watches in hand, while there are others (and I'm in this camp) who were very, very close to the midnight preorder start who still have orders showing in Processing, with no money taken from their account. The only consistent thing I've been able to narrow down as a common point for those people is the 38mm Space Gray Sport with a Black sport band. So there are other supply issues happening.

But we don't know which ones, because Apple won't talk.