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iPad Pro Apple Pencil UK Availability
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Bath got 3 pencils and 3 keyboards in. Nabbed a pencil for myself just now, so there might still be 2 left.
Much appreciated, you're first in line regardless of any offers I might get. I don't want to break any forum rules (assuming I haven't done so already) so will PM you when I know when my order will be here.
Doors locked, dogs on alert and alarm armed. Thanks for the tip!
Well, I had some luck today
. Just nabbed the last pencil myself today in the Glasgow store...Thanks again for the kind offer.
Went to Covent Garden today to buy a Smart Cover, I asked for the pencil and a very nice employee told me they received 3 this morning but all gone in a few minutes. She said also that they are often receiving new pencils, but no more than 3/4 per day, so if someone is desperate can try to go there at 10am and hope to be lucky...
Different to what I heard. I was told they haven't received any since launch day. I've been checking every day at 10-11am.
I'm being told different stories by different employees... some saying they haven't had any and some saying they've been getting very little.
This is rather annoying though. I hope it doesn't last for the rest of the year. I don't want to keep walking into the Covent Garden store to keep asking. Would be wonderful to find one just by popping in, but that would be too easy of course
I made a whole thread on the issue, and most people agreed with me, that they should just hold their shipments for the day, and open a reservations page at 6am like they do when iPhones are constrained.This is rather annoying though. I hope it doesn't last for the rest of the year. I don't want to keep walking into the Covent Garden store to keep asking. Would be wonderful to find one just by popping in, but that would be too easy of course
No reason why they can't do that.
And fundamentally fair: the most dedicated/desperate/sad rather than the most lucky gets theirs first!
Mine was meant to be delivered today. I got a text from DPD this morning that it would be delivered. I responded by selecting leave with a neighbour. Got a message just now saying we tried to deliver but you were not in. I phoned them up and asked why they did not leave it with a neighbour? I was informed they can't use this option with Apple products, so they can try and deliver another day or i have to pick up (20 miles away). Arghhhhhhhh
They did the exact same thing to me.
I rang Apple and the "can't deliver to neighbour" thing is BS, only applies to Macs and higher value things. iPads and accessories can be left with a neighbour and it was just DPD who were incompetent.
Well, I had some luck today
Thanks again for the kind offer.
That's great news, glad you got fixed up. My online order just arrived (Pencil and Smart Keyboard) and I have another not-for-profit customer for the pencil lined up in reserve so all good.
Enjoy!
My 11/11 11:30am UK order is still Processing... Anyway, I decided that a second pencil might be a good idea (keep one at work and one at home and also in case I lost one). So I have just placed an order and it looks like I will be lucky to get the second pencil by Christmas:
Was in Cribbs mall this afternoon and called into the Apple Store as usual with little hope of them
having any in stock. Nearly fell over when she checked and said yes they had both the pencil and
keyboard available. Happy Bunny! Apple orders cancelled.
Now trying to work out how the keyboard folds.......
having any in stock. Nearly fell over when she checked and said yes they had both the pencil and
keyboard available. Happy Bunny! Apple orders cancelled.
Now trying to work out how the keyboard folds.......
Wow! A Pencil and keyboard at the same time? Extremely lucky. Still looking for a keyboard to no avail.
Do let us know what you think of it!
so the dpd guys sent me a text saying they could not deliver due to no one being home and then two hours later i get another text saying they had delivered at a neighbours house. The bit i do not get, is why do they add a pic of your house and the delivery house in the update? random and messed up. So i now have a apple keyboard and a pencil and writing this on the actual keyboard. Very clicky in a loud way and will keep trying it out. Let me know if you want me to check or test anything for the community.
So although Apple charged £79 to my AMEX at about 5am this morning, my Pencil order is still Processing...
Do Apple (Synchreon?) process orders for dispatch over the weekend? i.e. could it dispatch Sunday for delivery Monday? If not I guess it will be Tuesday 24th, still within the 19-26th delivery window, but previous Apple orders have generally arrived at the beginning and not the end of the window.
Do Apple (Synchreon?) process orders for dispatch over the weekend? i.e. could it dispatch Sunday for delivery Monday? If not I guess it will be Tuesday 24th, still within the 19-26th delivery window, but previous Apple orders have generally arrived at the beginning and not the end of the window.
Getting a bit peeved here - I ordered the iPad pro and Pencil online from the Apple Store as soon as I could on launch day - got the iPad last week, but Pencil is still stuck at "processing". I feel that online orders should have been honoured before sending stock to stores - I would check my local Apple store in Edinburgh, but that's an hour bus journey from me. Dying to try out the Pencil...........
That sucks.
The problem is Apple's argument will always be that you were quoted a delivery time, you agreed to it by paying, and they will deliver in that time.
They do this all the time. For example, the MacBooks that launched earlier this year. I ordered as soon as the store went live, yet Apple Stores received plentiful stock days before mine arrived.
The idea I suppose is that by feeding stock into stores you increase impulse buys, but really that only works when supply isn't constrained. The situation right now is benefiting scalpers and no one else.
I have to admit, I'm not a fan of this secrecy. Some employees just say they haven't got any and then don't share any more info.