Mine was supposed to arrive today, the hour slot passed, phoned DPD Driver is 90 minutes behind. 3 hours go by phone DPD again. You are the next stop. Another hour goes by, another call to DPD. Driver has gone back to the depot. Shambles.
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I'm in a similar position with Vodafone. They've been truly useless in trying to get it activated. I've not even got the secondary number showing in my account yet, so no amount pairing/unpairing/resetting would make the slightest bit of difference anyway until the new line is provisioned on their end.
Oh ok I didn't know that.
I did nothing wrong and didn't use any vouchers, paid £799 straight up using my debit card. All my details were correct. Also, I have bought high value stuff from Amazon and eBay and Apple and Curry's PC World and they never performed any such checks. I placed the order and I received the order. Simple as that!
When placing my order, I didn't sign up for finance. I did get an option to create a Very account, which would've allowed me to get finance but I skipped that and paid directly using my card. I have read that they perform these checks when you open a Very account to buy something on finance, but I am not sure why they performed a check in my case, when I paid upfront.
Yeah, I can see an option to "Question This Payment", but they won't let me revert it until the 7 days are over (they'll actually revert it automatically). Very should change their system, like Apple, to do a £1 auth and then deduct the whole amount before shipping. This is so much better, as at least people won't have to wait for ages to get their refund back if their order gets cancelled for stupid reasons.
Thats the thing - they're really only geared towards purchases made through finance so it might explain the additional security checks - it might be an automated thing. I'm assuming your delivery address matched the billing address?
Have you spoken with COps? They're normally pretty good - if you can provide them with the evidence the order was cancelled they'll often manually reverse the payment showing there and then - especially if it is just a pre-auth. They'll give you the caveat that if the retailer does present the transaction it will show up though.
I can't remember if I've asked this before so forgive me if I have but, those who have chosen the SS series 4 over the aluminium, can I ask why?. I had a look in the Apple store and yes, I agree that the SS looks better, but only slightly and, to me not £300 more. Just wondering why you chose the SS?
Partly looks nicer, and while I don't get much fancy stuff, I've really liked having a nice watch, but particularly having sapphire instead of glass. I've still got a S0 and the display, despite me not being very careful with it, still doesn't have a single scratch.
No problem. For info, even after Cellular is active, in the Apple Watch app, I get ‘‘waiting’ with a spinning disc in the cellular section of settings, when I have WiFi switched on. However, if I swipe up on the Watch, turn WiFi off, return to the Watch App cellular section, after about 10 seconds, the springing disc goes away & is replaced with a message confirming cellular is active on the Watch. I could be wrong, but I think ultimately, whilst connected to WiFi, the Watch does not need to bother having its own cellular active (it can just piggy back of phone, which probably saves battery life).
I wonder how many queries/phone calls that Vodafone would save, if their script for staff to follow, told the staff to ask customers to switch WiFi off, before going through the process of adding a Watch to a customers existing plan!
The extra cost was a bargain compared to what Mercedes wanted to upgrade my new car to CarPlay - £2000. It’s all relative.
My watch is now delayed in Shanghai because of a 'mechanical failure'. Looks like it won't be here tomorrow after all.
I think it’s worth it, the extra weight and the materials is something I like about the SS models.
Same here. Was due tomorrow. Not sure what’s going on. Extremely annoying.
Will get on blower to Apple if it doesn’t update again by morning.
I guess you have to weigh that up with whatever your original delivery estimate was.
Hi, I think the watches will be on the flight tonight and will be delivered on Tuesday.
Normally they fly west westwards. Shanghai, Incheon, Kazakhstan, Germany and into UPS hub in England (can't remember the name) and a flight to regional centres.
However, my 2018 MBP flew eastwards and had an extra day travel:-
Shanghai > Anchorage > Louisville > Amsterdam, Ferry to sorting hub outside London > truck to Edinburgh > Glasgow
Looks like the watches have left Shanghai. Prob on the attached fight. No arrival airport, but looks like Inchoen
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There has been no deliveries for two days according to iStock so that’s what I was hoping for too!
There has just been a national Chinese holiday so shipments will be slow. Hopefully things will start to pick up again this week
UPS flight about to take off heading to Europe with the latest batch
My date is showing the 11th now. Normally UPS shows a date later than delivery.
Unfortunately I go to work tomorrow afternoon for 4 weeks. Was really hoping it. would be delivered by lunchtimtime tomorrow. Still a slim possibility, but.....
