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The "I just bought/ordered/got/shipped my new/refurb MBA" thread, [Merged]
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Unexpectedly a day earlier than foreseen, my MBA has now not only arrived in my country but is now out for delivery as well! Yay 😀🥳
What does your shipment progress say, especially departure times from china and arrival in europe?
Finally they charged my card,
Shipment went from august 2-9 to 1-8
Still processing.
Shipment went from august 2-9 to 1-8
Still processing.
Shipment progress is a bit messy.What does your shipment progress say, especially departure times from china and arrival in europe?
The last China timestamp was on 16 July at 9h41min from Chengdu. After that, no news for 4 days until yesterday when it showed up in the Netherlands (Elst 20 July 12h39min). Since then I've been swamped with progress notifications as the shipment traveled through Europe.
I omitted it from my first post, but I'm in the UK.
This ended up being delivered 5 days ahead of schedule, on the 20th (yesterday).
So I've just got a Departure Scan for my Air. You too? I think the scan was too late for todays 5X11 flight so I wonder where it's heading now. 🙂Delivery date just got removed with no additional info. My package is now officially in limbo
Delivery date is Monday according to UPS.
I haven’t got a departure scan yet, you’re ahead of me 😉 I was too optimistic, and will probably have to wait a couple more days before my MBA is on an 5X11 flight 🙃
Cool stuff! No, nothing new for me yet.
I’ve now set up to receive text messages for any event but I go visit the UPS page frequently regardless 😅
Oh, it just arrived in Incheon, South Korea. That matches exactly the 5X173 flight from ZhengZhou to Incheon. Maybe it was in ZhengZhou after all. So if it takes 5X11 to Cologne it will lay around till tomorrow.
No official movement yet but just got charged for my Midnight BTO with 16GB that is set for 8/2-8/9 delivery! So expecting some movement soon, fingers crossed.
I got my shipping Notification yesterday! Bumped from Aug 1-8 to July 28th We'll see how it goes but at least 1.5-ish weeks earlier than expected
We'll see how it goes but at least 1.5-ish weeks earlier than expected 
I'm almost jealous of anyone who can realtime track their order. I can only see that mine is sent and that I can pick it up on the 25th. There's no info of it on the ups.com site so I'm patiently refreshing the status on the Apple Store app like 25 times a day!
Ugh. Mine (starlight/10/16/512) is still showing last update: 7/19 "On the way" Shanghai, China, and UPS even has the gall to have updated the estimated delivery date from tomorrow (7/22) by 7pm to tomorrow by 5pm! 😱😩
I'm now thoroughly doubting their tracking systems 😂😭
I'm now thoroughly doubting their tracking systems 😂😭
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You can try tracking it on UPS by reference number using your order number. When you set up a UPS My Choice account it lets you track by reference: https://www.ups.com/track?loc=en_NL&requester=ST/I'm almost jealous of anyone who can realtime track their order. I can only see that mine is sent and that I can pick it up on the 25th. There's no info of it on the ups.com site so I'm patiently refreshing the status on the Apple Store app like 25 times a day!
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Similar build to mine, at this point I'm resigning myself to not expecting it until the date that's on apple, as even if it ships today, I wouldn't see it for 10 days most likely. I miss the days of preordering a product and it shows up ON launch day, not a month after lol.
Received notification yesterday from FedEx that a delivery is on its way but the delivery date is "pending" with "no scheduled delivery date at this time." Checked the FedEx website, and it's coming from Shanghai from "AI." My order on Apple's website still shows as preparing to ship. (Midnight 10/24/512)
I am dying here now. I have seen people with midnight and 1TB ship, and people with 16GB midnight ship. But I have not seen my config, Midnight 8/16/1 ship. Argh! lol
When did you order? My acknowledgment email from Apple for Midnight 8/10/24/1 is July 8, 8:04 AM EDT and still just "processing".
Midnight 10/16/512 just moved to preparing to ship over night! Ordered immediately at 8:02 AM EDT with Aug. 1-8 ETA.
OMG OMG my Midnight 8/16/1TB just switched to preparing to ship. Had a confirmation email of purchase at 2 minutes after pre-orders began on pre-order day. It was sitting at Aug 2-9 delivery until literally a couple minutes ago. Now it says Aug 1-Aug 8 and the ability to cancel the order is gone.
I don't currently see anything in UPS, though I see that a lot of people are shipping through Fedex now. But, I don't know how to do the "track by reference" trick with Fedex.
I don't currently see anything in UPS, though I see that a lot of people are shipping through Fedex now. But, I don't know how to do the "track by reference" trick with Fedex.
My 10/24/1TB SG is in a similar situation. It "shipped" on 7/18 but it's stuck in Shanghai still (it was supposed to deliver today according to UPS). I just got off the phone with UPS and they said China is only "shipping" a certain amount of Apple products a day and just keeping a bunch on the shelves (first in, first out). UPS has no idea when it will leave Shanghai...
Thanks.
That’s super irritating then that they’re (UPS) not only still reporting delivery tomorrow, but actually “refining” the delivery window 🤦