Hi guys
I just wanted to share this with you. When I was in the USA (I was a seasonal worker from Peru at Park City, UT for Park City Mountain Resort), I bought my 32 gb iPod Touch at the local (well, Salt Lake City, about 40 mins and you needed to rent a car...) Apple Store. I also bought some clear skins for the screen and back and a Agent 18 clear protection case. That went great. When I got home, in the next few days I decided I wanted to get some iPod socks and an iPod charger so I didn't need the PC to charge it. So, since going to the Apple Store was not a possibility due to cost and time, I decided to order online from the Apple Online Store.
The iPod socks and the charger were sent separately and both came from... SHANGHAI, CHINA!!! I couldn't believe it, it took almost a MONTH to get to my place, and what's worse is that I only got the iPod socks, the charger took almost 2 MONTHS to arrive and it just did... I'm in PERU now, where I live. I'm having a friend send the little box over here (it will cost me like 14 dollars, so the charger now just elevated it's price from 29.99 + 4.00 to an extra 14.00 bucks, that's almost 48 bucks!!). Plus, Apple in both cases used some sort of DHL service which aparently was some sort of regular mail service or something, without tracking. They should've specified or provided an option of carrier since some people, like me, needed either FedEx or UPS (like most stores do) since the items were going to a bussiness address because my apartment complex didn't have a mailbox.
Well, anyway, my biggest concern now is, if I custom order a MBP on the Online Store, which I believe is the ONLY way to do it since you can't at the Apple Store, will the product still be shipped from CHINA and take more than a month to arrive ?
I just wanted to share this with you. When I was in the USA (I was a seasonal worker from Peru at Park City, UT for Park City Mountain Resort), I bought my 32 gb iPod Touch at the local (well, Salt Lake City, about 40 mins and you needed to rent a car...) Apple Store. I also bought some clear skins for the screen and back and a Agent 18 clear protection case. That went great. When I got home, in the next few days I decided I wanted to get some iPod socks and an iPod charger so I didn't need the PC to charge it. So, since going to the Apple Store was not a possibility due to cost and time, I decided to order online from the Apple Online Store.
The iPod socks and the charger were sent separately and both came from... SHANGHAI, CHINA!!! I couldn't believe it, it took almost a MONTH to get to my place, and what's worse is that I only got the iPod socks, the charger took almost 2 MONTHS to arrive and it just did... I'm in PERU now, where I live. I'm having a friend send the little box over here (it will cost me like 14 dollars, so the charger now just elevated it's price from 29.99 + 4.00 to an extra 14.00 bucks, that's almost 48 bucks!!). Plus, Apple in both cases used some sort of DHL service which aparently was some sort of regular mail service or something, without tracking. They should've specified or provided an option of carrier since some people, like me, needed either FedEx or UPS (like most stores do) since the items were going to a bussiness address because my apartment complex didn't have a mailbox.
Well, anyway, my biggest concern now is, if I custom order a MBP on the Online Store, which I believe is the ONLY way to do it since you can't at the Apple Store, will the product still be shipped from CHINA and take more than a month to arrive ?
