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My nearest apple store
Is two and a half hours away and my local Best Buy said they won’t get them in for weeks so I bit the bullet and preordered from Bestbuy.com. I’m supposed to receive them by 04/03 which is sooner than everywhere else online.
 
Apple retail is a mess.
My online order won’t ship until April.
I hear there are some units in central London stores, will they let me reserve or purchase for in store collection? Nope. That would be too convenient

Never used to be this way

Hey I’ve just ordered mine for pickup today in the UK! All stores look to have stock so act fast! I’ve ordered the ones with wireless charging case.
 
Hey I’ve just ordered mine for pickup today in the UK! All stores look to have stock so act fast! I’ve ordered the ones with wireless charging case.

Great! I just checked and ALL London stores have them available for pickup... except Stratford (my local) which will have them available April 23rd... Twenty-third!... *sigh* Thankfully I can nip around several stores without making a day trip of it!
 
SoCal Apple stores seem to have ample stock.

Also shoutout to the store employee in Glendale who got frustrated by me asking if the $159 they had was the 2nd gen, and he kept insisting only the $199 is G2. Even had the nerve to say AirPods didn’t exist 2 years ago, only EarPods....
 
Stores in the Lansing, Ann Arbor, Troy MI apple stores all have stock. It appears there are ample AirPods 2 stock in central and east Michigan.
 
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