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Do you plan on ordering the new Apple Watch Series 7 (2021) this September?


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Mine is still in Shanghai as of 10/16 11:50am. I also have Starlight aluminum.
Yep that seems to be the case as well it supports my hypothesis that our aluminum watches are different pallets and batches at airport. What arrival date is UPS estimating for you? Mine is this Friday but Apple says next Tuesday 26 still the first day of my date range I got shortly after opening pre order day
 
I didn’t pay for express it was honored and change by Apple on the day pre-orders went live. Looks like I’m only traveling with a few people in here. You should expect to see movement later today. Can’t wait till you catch up :) rest assured, you will be out of China today.
Ok did not remember how you got express. I forgot how did you convince them to ship it express. I pushed hard on my 13 pro max because of same issues as watch on preordering day but did not try with watch because the 26-28th was better time for me anyway if it could not come on 15th. Mine currently shows Friday still on UPS see below and same place as yours in Shanghai
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Ok did not remember how you got express. I forgot how did you convince them to ship it express. I pushed hard on my 13 pro max because of same issues as watch on preordering day but did not try with watch because the 26-28th was better time for me anyway if it could not come on 15th. Mine currently shows Friday still on UPS see below and same place as yours in Shanghai View attachment 1869431
I was able to notify them before AW started to slip to November. I’m only getting it a day ahead of you. I’m pretty sure you will be out of China today.
 
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I was able to notify them before AW started to slip to November. I’m only getting it a day ahead of you. I’m pretty sure you will be out of China today.
Oh so yours shows Thursday still? Given where it is I would guess you will get it by Wednesday at latest. We shall see hope it does not come Thursday however its the worse possible day this week will have to contact UPS to hold or deliver next day if that happens. Which I have never tried before. If UPS comes in morning it works on Thursday but after 2 PM it does not. One reason why I like those opening days on Fridays which are single one day I can be there to receive it. Having to plan a whole week for us is often hard to be tied down or risk missing delivery.
 
Oh so yours shows Thursday still? Given where it is I would guess you will get it by Wednesday at latest. We shall see hope it does not come Thursday however its the worse possible day this week will have to contact UPS to hold or deliver next day if that happens. Which I have never tried before. If UPS comes in morning it works on Thursday but after 2 PM it does not. One reason why I like those opening days on Fridays which are single one day I can be there to receive it. Having to plan a whole week for us is often hard to be tied down or risk missing delivery.
Currently I’m seeing this now. But I’m not too worried. I have a feeling I might get it on Thursday.

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Yep that seems to be the case as well it supports my hypothesis that our aluminum watches are different pallets and batches at airport. What arrival date is UPS estimating for you? Mine is this Friday but Apple says next Tuesday 26 still the first day of my date range I got shortly after opening pre order day

My arrival date from UPS is October 25 which is Monday. Apple's email gave me a date of October 26th like you. I'm in Canada so it may be a day longer than yours if it transits through the US. My original given date was October 15th when I pre-ordered.
 
Currently I’m seeing this now. But I’m not too worried. I have a feeling I might get it on Thursday.

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Given our experiences with the 13 ProMax I would bet you will get yours by Wednesday at latest unless it languishes in UPS hands on Wednesday. It should be in Louisville tonight and on way to you on Tuesday, delivery on Wednesday I am speculating. ;-)
 
My arrival date from UPS is October 25 which is Monday. Apple's email gave me a date of October 26th like you. I'm in Canada so it may be a day longer than yours if it transits through the US. My original given date was October 15th when I pre-ordered.
Ah that could be the case in our UPS date differences. I am guessing we will see movement on Wednesday timeframe ot make those dates. But probably not today or Tuesday. For packages it seems 3-4 days in China (at least with the watches and iPhones I have observed people post on threads here.). We basically had arrival at airport late on 15th (Central Time here in midwest) So tonight we are at 3 full days. So my guess will be movement late on the 19th (tomorrow) given this typical 4 day wait for planes and some kind of number of pallets to fill them. But this is just experience and speculation on my part LOL.
 
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My arrival date from UPS is October 25 which is Monday. Apple's email gave me a date of October 26th like you. I'm in Canada so it may be a day longer than yours if it transits through the US. My original given date was October 15th when I pre-ordered.
I guess we‘re on the same plane/shipment to Canada. I was also was originally given the 15th, then pushed later.
 
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Mine is still saying 10-17th November, but I suspect it wont change until they start to make it, which at best will be next week rather than the original week after (allowing a week to ship).

I ordered a Space Black Titanium minutes after the Apple Store was open for preorders and got a Nov 9 - Nov 11 delivery window. It does not seem that Apple made many before preorder day or that they are making more now.
 
I ordered a Space Black Titanium minutes after the Apple Store was open for preorders and got a Nov 9 - Nov 11 delivery window. It does not seem that Apple made many before preorder day or that they are making more now.
Yeah i was 13:03 or so, email received by 13:10 i think. Tis what it is. For Nov 9th, they'll need to make it a week before normally, which suggests if its in next weeks production run then it should be a week early.
 
Mines preparing to ship since last Friday, no tracking on ups my choice yet, anyone the same? Original date is October 22~26
 
Currently I’m seeing this now. But I’m not too worried. I have a feeling I might get it on Thursday.

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Don't worry. Mine has said this about the estimated delivery FOR DAYS. I've had a separate email from DHL giving me a time slot for tomorrow, yet on tracking, it still says this.
 
Great, I can't check my daily "are there any Apple watches in store" because Apple apparently can't add prodicts to their store without taking the whole sales website down.
 
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Something is finally happening at my end. Store is down so i cannot check the status but my CC has been charged so the order seem to be finally moving.
You might try to use UPS app, website if that is going on you might have the label and such created and tracking showing finally. I have a fee account however so when I log in to website or app on iPad or iphone I see such tracking while it moves from factory to airport and through the usual customs scans
 
Great, I can't check my daily "are there any Apple watches in store" because Apple apparently can't add prodicts to their store without taking the whole sales website down.
Yes that always seems to be same the whole website code/server just cannot be changed without uploading new info on the new devices. I wanted to check my watch status with apple again compared to UPS that says this Friday but yeah now I have to wait til noon hour CDT to see anything although probably no change since no change in three days since my watch ended up waiting at Shanghai airport LOL. Just something to do while we wait for our next toy LOL
 
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And ultimately what I really suspect is like the hype of preordering day, opening and arrival day, this taking down for hours of whole site is further ways Apple builds the suspense and hype
It would be funny if pre-order starts this Friday lol 😂
 
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