Ordered a 40MM SS Series 4 on the 14th with a status of Order Received ever since (like a lot of people), and just got off the phone with Best Buy Support. They said I should receive my order no later than October 5th. Hopefully it's a similar result for the rest of you.
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Best Buy Pre Order for Series 4 Apple Watch?
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I’m super annoyed at Best Buy. I have been contacting every couple of days for a status update. I ordered a SBSS 44
Their last response was pathetic. “We understand your frustration this is a hot new item and we are doing our best to fulfill them. If we had the item we would ship it.”
I don’t doubt Apple messed up on their allotments for Best Buy or maybe Best Buy just took as many orders as they could. The part that insane is they let it go for a week and a half with no communication. Other than your shipment is delayed and might be canceled.
You’re the ones promising sept 21. I trusted and ordered as soon as it was available on sept 14th. And now I’m the problem for wanting the hot item when it was promised. They should have had emails or some type of info a day or two before the 21.
Charging and pre auth my credit card a few times during this process was misleading and frustrating too.
Best Buy corporate should have a hard number of what Apple is sending and estimates. Tim Cook the logistics master has to have it down better than what Best Buy is dishing out.
This watch launch is on of the worse I’ve seen in a while. If you can order the moment it’s available and miss the launch day by a week and a half and now get est of November is insane...
I do a lot of business with Best Buy and don’t fault the staff or stores. Either Apple screwed them big time or there corporate office doesn’t have a clue what they are doing.
Their last response was pathetic. “We understand your frustration this is a hot new item and we are doing our best to fulfill them. If we had the item we would ship it.”
I don’t doubt Apple messed up on their allotments for Best Buy or maybe Best Buy just took as many orders as they could. The part that insane is they let it go for a week and a half with no communication. Other than your shipment is delayed and might be canceled.
You’re the ones promising sept 21. I trusted and ordered as soon as it was available on sept 14th. And now I’m the problem for wanting the hot item when it was promised. They should have had emails or some type of info a day or two before the 21.
Charging and pre auth my credit card a few times during this process was misleading and frustrating too.
Best Buy corporate should have a hard number of what Apple is sending and estimates. Tim Cook the logistics master has to have it down better than what Best Buy is dishing out.
This watch launch is on of the worse I’ve seen in a while. If you can order the moment it’s available and miss the launch day by a week and a half and now get est of November is insane...
I do a lot of business with Best Buy and don’t fault the staff or stores. Either Apple screwed them big time or there corporate office doesn’t have a clue what they are doing.
This might not be helpful for most, but if any of you are close to Nashville, TN..the Brentwood/Franklin store has some Space Gray GPS 44 watches in stock. They had LTE as well, but those apparently were sold over the weekend. I walked in Friday and was able to buy the 44 non-LTE. I made a comment to the employee about how odd it was they they had stock when no one else seemed to. He said they got a lot more Space Gray watches than they were expecting...as if it was a lucky mistake (well, lucky for those who are close enough to that store to walk in and buy one).
I purchased a Nike edition on BB, and it says “Get it by Friday, October 5th” on my order status page and is still listed as “In progress.” After reading about everyone else’s experiences, I contacted BB via chat, and the representative assured me that I would get it on the 5th. Maybe they worked out their stock issues with Apple, or maybe the rep was just telling me what I wanted to hear. Fingers crossed that it arrives on Friday.
Same here. I'm pretty sure I got the last preorder that said it would be delivered on the 5th, but my order still says "in progress." All the other versions, including now the one I pre-ordered, don't have a deliver by date on them.
I’m hoping this watch isn’t as popular and there will be more available on release day. Guess we will find out soon.
Still not a word from BB or any change in my order status. 44 SS white sport band ordered as soon as the page loaded just after 3 AM on 9/14. No delayed emails. No charges. No updates whatsoever. Unbelievable.
I got extremely lucky yesterday afternoon....was able to get the 1 and only Gold Stainless Steel at my local Best Buy.
I would recommend maybe checking the best buy website throughout the day and buying that way.
I would recommend maybe checking the best buy website throughout the day and buying that way.
Mine was ordered two days later, same watch. Started as “we will let you know” and moved to “in process” five days later, so I got excited. Still in that status over two weeks later.
Hey guys. Just wanted to let you know that my 44mm Aluminum GPS with ugly white sport band finally shipped. I ordered it on 9/22 on BB.com and they printed the shipping label the next day as a tease but nothing happened after that until last night.
Has anyone received a Space Black Stainless Steel 44? I called again today. I got them to tell me where I was on the list for one. Apparently #10 on the list out of like 500+ orders. That seems very small in the grand scheme of things.
I ordered right way on the 14th. Still no news or status changes.
I ordered right way on the 14th. Still no news or status changes.
I ordered mine on the 15th and still no word. I have noticed that it seems to be depending upon what band you ordered because the watches that were previously sold bands seem to be available at my local store. I ordered the space gray with black sport loop.
I have also noticed on the website it now shows this for the one that I ordered:
Getting more soon
FREE Shipping: We'll notify you when it's ready to ship.
Only available for shipping
I have also noticed on the website it now shows this for the one that I ordered:
Getting more soon
FREE Shipping: We'll notify you when it's ready to ship.
Only available for shipping
I mainly checked anytime after 12pm EST as that’s when they update their online inventory system. And when I say check, you’ve gotta check incessantly.
At Best buy 44mm, Aluminum version(GPS only) showing that it will be shipped on 10th oct. Should I rely on this delivery date?, or they have the tendency to delay the shipment?.
I have never ordered any apple product from bestbuy before. Help me guys?
I have never ordered any apple product from bestbuy before. Help me guys?
still nothing, pre ordered on the 15th, not a is ole email, the credit card charge fell off a week ago, when I call Iget different stories, this is the last time I would ever buy a toothpick at Bestbuy