Do you see any updates with your USPS tracking number? Mine has had no info/updates since I got the email last night.
I've seen movement on my USPS tracking number, yes. I got the tracking number yesterday (the 6th, Monday) at around 11:00 in the morning my time. It wasn't in USPS' system the whole day. This morning I checked, and it's showing as having left a distribution center in North Texas this morning, about 6:00am my time (which would be around 8:00am Texas time, since I'm on the west coast). It was sent Priority Mail, which means it's likely to be in my mailbox either Wednesday or Thursday.
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No it still said 'in progress' so I chatted with a rep and they told me it was backordered
If your order status w/ AT&T is currently showing "In Progress", it seems one of 3 things is going to happen:
1) It will change to "Preparing for Shipment" if they have stock allocated for your order, or
2) It will change to "Canceled" if they "couldn't verify your identity" (I've seen reports of that on this thread), or
3) It will change to "Back Ordered" if they intend on keeping your order and shipping when new stock comes in.
I've discovered, having dealt with reps from this past Friday & Saturday, that if you speak to 4 different reps, you're often going to get 4 different answers. That's really frustrating to me in particular, because I used to work for them when they were AT&T Wireless, all the way up to the Cingular merger. I remember when the Motorola Razr came out, and they wouldn't let people put phone insurance on it because it was too expensive of a phone. Smartphones were, for the most part, not really a thing aside from a couple of really high-end Nokia phones that almost no one had. Blackberries filled that niche at the time.
The frustration came from the realization that it was drilled into us that we needed to really insure we were giving consistent information to customers. "Rep shopping" (calling back repeatedly until you got a CSR who'd give you what you wanted; this was why we always had to put notes on an account after a call, which any other rep who got called should have been checking if the customer called again) was discouraged; the notes on the account helped insure a consistent company response to the customer. I hope they still do that; I don't know for sure if they do. I left the company about 2-3 months after the Cingular merger.
If your order gets canceled, they'll immediately refund your money (which, unlike Apple & Best Buy, they immediately charge your card for; Apple & BB wait til your order moves before charging your account). If it moves to Backordered, I recommend contact AT&T for a refund, which will take 2-3 business days (if they try to tell you it'll take longer, politely escalate the call until you get what you want; they all have the ability to immediately initiate the refund, then it just becomes a matter of their bank sending the money back to yours; I note this because I left 24 Hour Fitness at one point and they tried to tell me I'd get my refund in 30 days; it took outing them on social media before a manager contacted me and told me it'd be 2-3 business days til I saw my refund, which was more sensible), and once you have that money back, do these things:
1) Place an order with Apple. You're likely to see an estimated shipping date of mid-March, but it won't matter, because they won't charge you until they prepare you for shipping, and
2) Sign up for online stock alerts that watch for stores in your area getting stock. If a store gets stock before your online order is filled, go immediately to that store and get your Airpods, then cancel your Apple order.
If you wind up getting double-charged (the Apple order hits just as you're purchasing your in-person item), take heart: you'll almost definitely be able to sell them on Ebay for around $200.