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iPad EU News (Abandon all hope, ye who enter here..) ("Are you nuts?!" - Steve)

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-Ryan- said:
Well I've got a particularly bad problem. My iPad is currently in the air! Where will it go? This is hilarious. :D
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When I orderd my Iphone It went on sightseeing tour of Germany for a little while, it actually arrived at UK afterwards then went back to Germany again lol. Not sure if Germany is one of the countrys with closed Air space, if it isn't it might end up there, I think Usps has a sorting place there or something.
 
Well I just checked my order and it says they could not manage to authorise my card.

Trying to renter it, but it now no longer accepts it when I enter my city and post code into the City field, also no longer accepts 00000 as a zip code and is still requiring I enter a state.

Totally not sure how someone got this to work :/

Is there any other way to get a US debit card other then usunlocked.com? usunlocked.com takes a week to topup :/

Edit - yay here comes the calls from the fraud squad -.-;

Edit2- and now I clicked retry card and it didnt even seem to try and reverify it but accepted it this time instead of saying invalid and I got an Order confirmation email... maybe it will work now that the bank isnt stopping me spending my own money -- .
 
Reser said:
Edit2- and now I clicked retry card and it didnt even seem to try and reverify it but accepted it this time instead of saying invalid and I got an Order confirmation email... maybe it will work now that the bank isnt stopping me spending my own money -- .
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You got a confirmation from Apple?

I ordered yesterday, the money's been taken from my card but no order confirmation or cancellation!
 
Pring said:
You got a confirmation from Apple?

I ordered yesterday, the money's been taken from my card but no order confirmation or cancellation!
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Money just left my account! woot so far.

I got the confirmation seconds after my card went through after the fraud call, they said I would get an email confirming the new payment option and I got an Order confirmed email as below

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Reser said:
Money just left my account! woot so far.

I got the confirmation seconds after my card went through after the fraud call, they said I would get an email confirming the new payment option and I got an Order confirmed email as below

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did you use the 00000 again?
 
Ashmanspice said:
did you use the 00000 again?
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00000 would not work anymore , I just clicked rety on the card with their new random zip code starting with 7, I have a feeling since I have authorised the transaction as genuine with the banks pet Robot that even if the information is a bit off they will let it through.. I hope..
 
Reser said:
Money just left my account! woot so far.

I got the confirmation seconds after my card went through after the fraud call, they said I would get an email confirming the new payment option and I got an Order confirmed email as below

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interesting you've got the same delivery dates as me, I ordered a few days ago.
 
Ok, talked to Apple in USA, and they've basically said that the iPad would need to be shipped back to USA to be serviced/replaced. As far as warranty, it was the same as the previous chat to Apple UK. She did note that this would be subject to change "if international release" occurs.
 
ct2k7 said:
Ok, talked to Apple in USA, and they've basically said that the iPad would need to be shipped back to USA to be serviced/replaced. As far as warranty, it was the same as the previous chat to Apple UK. She did note that this would be subject to change "if international release" occurs.
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I must add that I don't trust that man who talked to me.
 
ct2k7 said:
Ok, talked to Apple in USA, and they've basically said that the iPad would need to be shipped back to USA to be serviced/replaced. As far as warranty, it was the same as the previous chat to Apple UK. She did note that this would be subject to change "if international release" occurs.
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So basically what they are saying is.....


iPad warranty at the moment covers USA only. So if you imported and something goes wrong you will have to send it back to Apple USA for repair / replacement.

However..... When the iPad is released here - then you will be able to return it locally as they will then deal with them at an 'international' level.

Err pretty much common sense would have told anyone that at this stage.

You can't return it locally because there are no iPads locally. However when there are - you will.
 
ct2k7 said:
Ok, talked to Apple in USA, and they've basically said that the iPad would need to be shipped back to USA to be serviced/replaced. As far as warranty, it was the same as the previous chat to Apple UK. She did note that this would be subject to change "if international release" occurs.
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That makes sense, obviously they won't cover you in the UK before the iPad is released, but once it is it should just be an iPad and no matter where you are, an official Apple Store should replace it.
 
MacRumorUser said:
So basically what they are saying is.....


iPad warranty at the moment covers USA only. So if you imported and something goes wrong you will have to send it back to Apple USA for repair / replacement.

However..... When the iPad is released here - then you will be able to return it locally as they will then deal with them at an 'international' level.

Err pretty much common sense would have told anyone that at this stage.

You can't return it locally because there are no iPads locally. However when there are - you will.
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Yixian said:
That makes sense, obviously they won't cover you in the UK before the iPad is released, but once it is it should just be an iPad and no matter where you are, an official Apple Store should replace it.
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I meant here there, not she :)

Well, he didn't 100% say that he did say "subject to change" but I think he actually meant, unconfirmed which would be more along the lines of what the UK team leader said.

northy124 said:
If he is anything like the guys I have talked regarding repair on my MacBook (Apple Care as well) I don't blame you, bunch of plonkers :) :p
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I have to say, he did seem to be slightly pre-occupied whilst asking me to clarify my questions several times.
 
-Ryan- said:
I would. When have you ever seen Apple give you a good deal for something in the UK? I'll answer that for you; never. Everything kicks up the price here; transport; retail space; warehousing; VAT; Apple Tax; employee costs; costs to withdraw the money from the EU. I think people are now becoming entirely unrealistic to expect these will be below £400 at base level. It's just a fantasy. You're dealing with a luxury product here, not some cheapo Dell.
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Doesn't it have as much to do with your countries taxes as it does with the companies and their pricing decisions?
 
iPad frenzy is reaching unimaginable levels. There's semi-rioting because it's being released a few weeks later in Europe.
 
Whats all this... "are you nuts?!" stuff?

ive been gone a few hours, come back, everythings changed miles off topic and theres a new title?!?!? ahhhhhhh
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:apple:Mike
 
I've gone the ebay route now as they cancelled my order :(

including vat it should turn out to be £550 delivered which isnt too bad for a 32GB i guess.
 
I think you ll find you made the right decision:D

I think the uk price for the 32gb will be 549.99 anyway

Don't regret getting mine it's amazing:)
 
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