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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] be_vigilant:
Fards.

Firstly glad to see you picked up a note. Loved your work on the Streak (shame about all the noobs who ruined that scene)

I think everyone who has ordered from Amazon.de had that strange no mans land. Citylink website originally said 3rd for my delivery but it didnt turn up. I called citylink who said they didnt have it so I contacted amazon.de and they said they didnt have it.

It turned up on the 4th safe and sound. And what a phone. its simply brilliant. I loved my streak and this is the next evolution of that. Im running a nice clean rom now with all the samsung junk taken out. I look forward to seeing what a real dev can bring! hehe
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinokirk:
Phone delivered, unboxing video done :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SnakeManJayd:
Unboxing video uploaded?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinokirk:
It was in 1080p, was gonna take 8 hrs. Im converting to lower res now :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinokirk:
Got it from 1.27GB to 100MB :)

Hopefully about 30 mins

My channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/vinokirk

(have a laugh at my Gaultier advert remake :) my mate was leaving for afghan!)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SnakeManJayd:
I'll check it out after work
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fards:
My concern was when CL phoned me up last night to say that it was missing, that I should phone amazon and report it missing, but amazon didn't want to know.

anyway it hadn't arrived before I left for work (I left as late as I could) so I'm hoping its there when I get home.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pops_G:
Any American buyers order from Amazon.de? The site lists it at 525EUR which is only ~$722. Most other sites are asking for the $900 range.

Am I missing something, why are there not more American's posting in this thread? Most people who ordered/posted here seem to be from England.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SnakeManJayd:
Thanks for posting the video.

I watched it and it looked good.

The whistling in random places was funny.

The phone looks good.

Let us know what you think of it when after you've had a bit of playing with it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinokirk:
Yeah I'm a whistler lol.

The phone its great, but the penile sub matrix is not :( the text has an almost serrated edge to it, its not pretty. The resolution is spot on however :)

The vibration is also a lot better than the SGS2. The way it handles the screen when changing from landscape to portrait is good.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fards:
tried the ICS font yet ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eppic:
Probably because Amazon Germany won't ship to the US, but they will ship to the UK at a much lower price than UK retailers. I have US, Singapore, and UK addresses and tried shipping to the first two, but it was a no go, so I shipped to my UK address.

If you want a G Note shipped to the US, you should probably go with Handtec, which will ship there for a very reasonable price and you can avoid the VAT. I believe the USD price (with shipping to US) works out to a similar number as Amazon.de, about $740. I think there is another thread somewhere discussing Handtec and Clove shipments to the US, so take a look for it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mircury:
Yup, I'm in the US and tried to order from Amazon Germany because I have Amazon Prime and they wouldn't ship to me. So I got mine from Handtec. They were really good. Shipped Friday and got it Monday morning.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinokirk:
Not yet, I'm just in the middle of rooting it atm :-)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Techvir:
I am using robot font. Looks pretty neat.

meanwhile did ur note arrive yet ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theloginwithnoname:
Awesome vid, totally jealous!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paulshields:
Ordered online Monday lunchtime, arrived about an hour ago. Pretty good service from Germany to the UK. Total cost was £481.85p. First impressions - very nice. Typical Samsung overloading of widgets but soon sort that out. Screen looks very nice. Then again I've always thought the Pentile screen on my Nexus One was excellent so what do I know :). Unticking the auto-adjust screen power option makes the colours a bit more accurate.

Ordered the Samsung flip cover on ebay for £20, and may take out a squaretrade 'drops and spills' warranty. Still comes to a lot less than buying from current UK resellers. Now on to selling off the nexus one and tab 7" to help cover the purchase ;).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theloginwithnoname:
Got caught up in the amazon-say-citylink-are-delivering-tomorrow,citylink-say-its-out-for-delivery,amazon-update-their-site,citylink-don't-deliver thing today. Glad I was pre-warned!

Rock on tomorrow...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Super Chimp:
Can I say thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread, as it's answered a lot of questions for me as far as ordering it from Germany is concerned. I was a bit uncertain about doing this, but have been reassured by the posts in here about doing it. It's so much cheaper than the UK price that it seems the logical place to buy it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Prozac69:
If you order from this site to the UK, don't you have to pay VAT or any duty on it?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Super Chimp:
One of the posts up thread mentioned you have to pay the standard 20% VAT for the UK. But other than that I would think not as it's being sold within the EU.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tdodd:
You pay VAT at the full UK rate when you place the order. There is nothing further to be paid once you've checked out at amazon.de.

Since the UK VAT rate is 20% vs the German rate of 19% the price increases by about 1% when you add it to your basket. At the current price of 524.99 Euros within Germany the price for the UK would become 529.4 Euros. Add 7.2 Euros for shipping = 536.6 Euros in total before conversion to GBP.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Super Chimp:
Is it free shipping if you have Amazon Prime, or does that not apply to ordering from the German Amazon site?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tdodd:
No idea, I'm afraid. I don't have a Prime account. 7.2 Euros is the shipping rate to the UK for mere mortals.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paulshields:
I've a UK Prime account but shipping on amazon.de was extra. It wasn't that much though - around £5 or so.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Super Chimp:
I use Amazon quite a bit so that's the main reason I got a Prime account.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paulshields:
I'm an Amazon junkie too, but was prepared to pay the extra fiver for the £100+ saving in the item :D.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Super Chimp:
I realise I was probably sounding tightfisted asking about that, but honestly I wasn't meaning to be I was just wondering that's all.:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fards:
I got my note today.

I ended up going to the depot, 30 mile round trip..

they lied about trying to deliver it last night, when I confronted them about it a customer service operative said the van had broken down.

When I tried to arrange re-delivery (changing adress to work) the system crashed, and I was told it would be delivered tomorrow (always tomorrow, and we know when that comes), so I rode over to collect it.

the depot deputy manageress was a bit mad when she read what had happened, she said no vans broke down yesterday, and that someone was covering up a lazy driver, and she'd sort them both out.

anyway I have it now :D

and love it!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jUsT2eXy:
Enjoy it... I am so jealous lol :p

Was the courier company city link?

How long from ordering to delivery (or pickup in your case) did it take?

Other people have said around 5 days.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Techvir:
Fards, now you are in trouble . :D Time for start cooking now :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigelvis:
Hi

Another **** up with ordering from amazon de:(((

I ordered Galaxy note on Monday morning, on Wednesday night I got the tracking number, but so far I have following message on City link

"08/11/11 22:54 These goods have been scanned at the collection Depot and are now on route to the delivery Depot." but amazon de webiste says that the order is in Milton keynes, so I called city link today but they confirmed taht actually they never received my order from Amazon, so I contacted amazon de by email to clarify this.

What do you think guys, how long can it take to solve that?

Did you call amazon de?

Regards
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tdodd:
Everything you've said there mirrors my own experience. Don't sweat it. Ignore the forecast delivery date given by City link and look at the one that Amazon shows. Between the two parties they have a crap system in place but it should turn out OK soon enough. Look at my post HERE.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] be_vigilant:
Mine was exactly the same. When city link said delivery the 3rd but nothing changed on the site that day just stayed the same as what yours is reporting now. City link claimed they didnt collect it from amazon. It was deliverd the next day.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinokirk:
This is exactly the same as my experience. What a BS system Amazon and City Link have.

I ordered mine on 03/11/11 at 20:00 and received on 08/11/11 at 11:00.

Even though City Link told me that it would be delivered on 05/11/11
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jUsT2eXy:
Due to the exchange rate the Note has become cheaper... I think this is a good a time as any to purchase one... although I really want the white one :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigelvis:
Thanx guys, you gave me some hope.

Cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimbob456:
City Link delivered a nice empty box to me yesterday, now I have to sign a declaration and post it to Germany, God knows when i'm going to receive my phone, I originally ordered on the 4th :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andyiacovou:
Dude that sucks! Was the box a promotional empty box or had the seals been broken and the phone swiped?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimbob456:
One end wasn't sealed properly so i'm not sure if it slipped out (unlikely) or if someone has taken it which seems more likely
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Super Chimp:
That's bad, hope they don't muck you around sorting it out.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andyiacovou:
Good luck with it mate, hope you get the phone soon, some of these delivery companies are seriously dodgy
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kodbel:
Is it just me, or Amazon.de cannot ship this to Switzerland?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waxlight227:
I placed order on monday night. The tracking status always show only '08/11/11 22:54 These goods have scanned at the collection depot ...'. Citylink website showed the item should be deliveried yesterday, and amazon.de showed should delivery today. If you receive the note. Please post here. Do I need call citylink?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andyiacovou:
I would wait until tomorrow. Most who ordered from Amazon.de got theirs delivered after 3 working days. So if you ordered Monday night, dispatch would have been Tuesday, hopefully delivery Friday. I ordered on Thursday night, received on Tuesday.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waxlight227:
Citylink gives wrong status.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paulshields:
I think someone else mentioned that City Link scan it into their system while still in Germany. I'd placed my order on Monday, and CL had it already in their system later that day for delivery on Tuesday. It actually arrived on Wednesday. On the amazon.de website it was showing for arrival on Wednesday which seemed more logistically likely. I'd just add at least one day to any CL estimate...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigelvis:
Amazon.de support confirmed today by email that they shipped my Note on 9th of November not 8th as originally they said, so basically it took them 3 days just to pack it:/ but hopefully it will arrive tomorrow

cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waxlight227:
Hi biglvis. How to contact amazon.de support? I don't know germany. I called CL 5 min ago, and got the same answer - Amazon.de didn't give them the package. Amazon.de estimated the arrival date is today. But why they haven't passed the item to CL?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Super Chimp:
I have an email which I think says it has dispatched, need to fully translate, but fairly sure that's what it says. But I just want to double check that once it gets to the UK will City Link contact me?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjm77:
I'm afraid that citylink is rubbish. There was an unrealistic date of delivery on their tracking webpage and now it says that I REQUESTED the delivery to be rescheduled to next day. Thing is that I never did. I don't really care if they change the delivery date but why lie?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theloginwithnoname:
+1 (verbatim - german word?!). Really hope it turns up tomorrow now.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dotvoid:
yes they dont

I got mine from techmania because they were the first ones that got it. Paid 700chf (which is quite expensive looking at toppreise right now) but its worth every rappen :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Super Chimp:
The estimate for mine seems rather quick, I was expecting it to take longer than what was quoted to me.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carhigh:
How much is it in US $$$ on there???????? Very confusing
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sparkyxda:
As soon as the City Link site says it has arrived at the Delivery Depot call them with your tracking number, check the depot address and go and pick it up.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigelvis:
Hi

I logged in to amazon.de, clicked on "hilfe" on top right side, typed kontaktieren in the top field, enter, chose "Kontaktieren Sie uns!", clicked again on "Kontaktieren Sie uns!" and then there will be your order shown and in point 2 choose the first answer for both questions, in point 3 choose email, and type your question in english, they responded very quickly -within an hour.

Regarding my order, still no status change on amazon.de and citylink:(

Cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trancemaster:
I'm in the same boat Elvis. I ordered mine on Monday evening, it said it was tracked at Milton Keynes at 22:55 on Tuesday the 8th, and the status hasn't changed since.

I tried to call City Link last night but got a message saying that call demand was so high that they couldn't answer. I've given up hoping for it before the weekend.

City Link have always been and will always be terrible. Their nearest depot to me is a round trip of at least an hour, in good traffic and weather.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigelvis:
Yes, this is my 2nd bad experience with Amazon and city link, and exactly as you, I have at least 1 hour drive to my nearest city link depot, this is one of the "advantages" of living in a rural Wales:)

Good luck!

Cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tdodd:
That was my experience too, so I filled out the contact form on their website, expecting to hear nothing, and to my pleasant surprise I was called back in a few hours and had everything explained to me. From that point forward it all ran like clockwork, exactly as the CS rep advised.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trancemaster:
If I lived in rural Wales I could maybe understand the length of the drive, but I live in Derby and the nearest depot is Nottingham, but it isn't even in Nottingham!

Cheers tdodd, I'll fill in the form and see what they say.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koniakki:
Hey is anyone from Europe selling their Note? Maybe because is too big or they didn't like it or weren't what they expect, etc. I'm really interested so PM me please.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imranuk:
Just ring 01908 280250. That'll get you straight through to an advisor.

I ordered mine on Monday 7th, Amazon supposedly despatched it on the 8th.

It's still showing on City Link as delivery date Wed 9th! I rang City Link and they said they have a big contract with Amazon and so they put the delivery date on directly even if they haven't physically received the parcel from Amazon.

I have sent an e-mail saying I want to cancel the order as I was expecting delivery latest today. Let's see what Amazon say...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koniakki:
Anyone that got if from Amazon.de found any issues with the screen or anything else? But I'm more interested at the screen.

Example: Uneven backlit or whatever is called(I forgot), color tints(pink, green, grey or whatever) and in general any issues with the model from Amazon.de specifically.

Please someone answer this. Thank you.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tdodd:
I haven't looked for problems and I haven't found any in normal use. To my eyes the screen is fabulous, but then I am 49 and perhaps don't have the visual acuity of those who can focus on things an inch from their nose.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trancemaster:
I've just had a call from City Link to advise that my phone has failed to arrive at the Nottingham depot for three straight days so is now considered "missing" and I should contact amazon to get it re-sent.

Does anyone know a phone number for Amazon.de? Can I ring the UK call centre or will I only be able to use the web form to raise an enquiry?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Johnmcl7:
I ordered mine on Saturday night and it arrived late Tuesday which isn't bad as I'm in the north of Scotland. No screen issues I've noticed (screen is stunning, beautiful colour and resolution) and working fine with my Vodafone Sim.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimbob456:
@trancematter, you need to fill in the online form and use the email tab, if you ring them they Just fob you off and tell you to fill in the form anyway. Then you will need to write and sign a declaration to send to them before they will start investigating. That's the stage i'm up to, posted mine yesterday
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trancemaster:
Really? What a massive ball ache! Where does it need to be posted to, Germany? And have they given you any indication how long it is likely to be before they send you another one?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theloginwithnoname:
Update after speaking to Amazon.de

All,

Here's a little update from my side. Ordered Monday afternoon, it was "collected from Milton Keynes" on Tues 22:54 (like everyone else), then nothing.

Called CL twice, on Wed and Thur; got same message - not left Amazon yet.

Called Amazon.de yesterday, got someone with poor English who said they'd ask a better English speaking colleague to call me back.

Think they called yesterday (unknown number ignored).

I took the advice of people here to go down to the local depot today. Got same response, with a bit more from the guy there who showed me their screens and that they had noted on their systems that it hadn't arrived on the delivery [from Amazon] on the 9th (~8am) and that it was effectively marked as "missing" or never to be delivered, words to that effect.

Ironically, on the way back, got a call from amazon.de who was reluctant to give many details away. However, I managed to get out of him that:

- there are issues with their tracking systems! (no ****, Shirlock).

- my device was dispatched from Frankfurt (!) on Wednesday (!)

- I have to wait until 16th until they consider it missing, and at that point I can reorder(?!)

So, not great news (especially as I am Note-less for the weekend) but thought you may appreciate a bit of extra knowledge (/disappointment!)...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimbob456:
Yeah had to post the letter to Germany Amazon, they just said they will investigate when they get the letter so God knows when I'll get it, I asked for a replacement in the letter though
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eppic:
This is apparently a very widespread problem. I ordered on the 8th, tried to cancel a few hours later because I decided I wanted a phone with NFC, but that was refused (Amazon claimed order was being prepared for shipment already). On the 9th, status changed to shipped and got CL tracking.

CL tracking status:

[09/11/11	22:54	These goods have been scanned at the collection Depot and are now on route to the delivery Depot.]

Has not changed since then, so I emailed CL and received following response:

[Thank you for your email.

Unfortunately at this time we have not yet received your consignment from Amazon's fulfilment centre.

I would advise you to contact Amazon on their free phone number 0800 4961081 to have them look into this matter for you.]

I would assume that is a UK number, so it will be useless. In any case, no way in hell I will be writing a letter to Germany. I would rather contact my credit card company and dispute the charge if Amazon doesn't provide a quick refund based on an email request.

FWIW, I have ordered dozens of times (maybe hundreds) from Amazon in the US and UK, with a 100% satisfaction rate, never had a delivery problem....EXCEPT, two out of two fulfilled by CL have been f--ked up. So, 100% failure when CL is involved, 100% success when they are not.

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Update: 12/11/11	00:42	These goods have successfully arrived at the Depot ready for delivery.

Finally some progress, so hopefully delivery will be Monday, four days after original estimate (I am in Central London). Clearly Amazon and CL do not play well together, so my confidence level remains low until the package is in my hand
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koniakki:
I'm sorry for your problem but thank you for sharing. It always good to know what's happening and have users/buyers sharing their information so it might be helpful to someone other.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theloginwithnoname:
+1

Question is, should I do a 1.5hr round trip and pick it up today!??!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigelvis:
Mine finally arrived to delivery depot as well, but I won't have it untill Monday:( because I would have to sacrifice overtime to have 1hour drive to pick it up.

Cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trancemaster:
Mine has been updated to say its out for delivery today. Its almost a shame I don't work Saturdays. Almost!

I tried calling city Link to confirm it's not a figment of my imagination but apparently they again have an "extremely high volume of calls" which prevents them from even putting you in a queue to speak to someone.

Fingers crossed for Monday. Thanks for the help everyone.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imranuk:
12/11/11	05:35	These goods have successfully arrived at the Depot ready for delivery.

Wey Hey!