Monday, September 18, 2006 12:41 PM
This is letting the cat out of the bag a bit, and I had hoped to have a huge whiz-bang announcement that would blow the socks off of all my friends that think I just go home and worship at my alter to Steve Ballmer, but I need to blog about this annyance, so...
I'm buying a Mac.
Yes, its true. Mr. Microsoft-To-The-End is going to be surfing the web on one of the machines made by the other Steve. I placed my order for my new 20 inch iMac back on September 7th. As I was customizing my Mac, I was quite pleased to notice that they seemed to be pretty quick on the shipping:
1 - 2 business days is fantastic! I even paid the extra $43 bucks to get it express shipped, so in my head I figured I'd have it within 4 - 5 business days (Note: that image was taken today...I think when I placed the order it may have said 1-3 as I have 3 days stuck in my head, but close enough, and still relevent to the rest of the story).
I checked back with the site a few business days later to see what the status of my order was. Very exciting...until I noticed an odd date: Estimated Shipping - Sept. 18th. September 18th?! And not "You'll have it shipped to your door by" but "It's leaving our warehouse on."!
So today is the 18th. My order status still has not been switched to shipped. If I had known I'd be waiting almost two weeks for it to begin with, I wouldn't have tacked on the extra dollars for the fast-shipping. And so here I am, waiting.
But why are they still showing 1-2 business days to ship this thing on their site?! Does it really mean that you can have it shipped in 1-2 business days if you keep the default configuration (I did change mine up)? So anyway, I'm a little unimpressed so far with my Apple purchase, especially seeing that Best Buy has lowered the prices on their IMacs as well and I could have just bought it and had it home already. But whatever...I've been waiting this long, what's another few days right?
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Edit: So I called Apple and asked them what's the deal...turns out that because my configuration was custom, my ship time is 5 - 7 business days. I guess I missed seeing it somewhere during the configuration? Sigh...