you can pop your email address into John Lewis and it’ll tell you when they’re back in stock, if they have a combo you’re after (they had different ones to the apple store). you can also add them to your wish list and then check store stock. I also found the apple store combos strange this year.Yeah, thats how I'm operating. Trying to impatiently bring forward my month wait
The normal filters only offer two bands (braided & leather), but I know others had success using the styles to choose other combinations (eg. solo).
(this is assuming you don’t have a pile of apple vouchers to use up!)