[Nexus 7 General] NonovUrbizniz:
If you're using a freight forwarder and they don't adjust the box size then you should know who to point the finger at. Also this is something that is TOTALLY irrelevant to google's roll out plan. If you are getting it shipped to a destination and then freight forwarding it on then that's out of the scope of realistic expectations. The shipping charge you pay is agreed when you made the purchase from the Play Store. Box size is just as irrelevant to the intended customer as box design is.

I'd be happy to repackage it and send it off to you but that would obviously involve quite a bit of trust on your part. My username is my gmail, is my facebook, is my username on every forum I participate on so. Again up to you.

I would recommend talking to your freight forwarder about it though, they should be willing to optimize the box size.

The reason this is dumb is that JB was released before the Nexus 7 which was a planned event. BOTH events were under the direct control of Google. So if they didn't want it to happen that way it wouldn't have. They have no control over what Asus does with theirs if they signed a contract allowing Asus to sell them as well. Asus and their vendors ALL have MUCH MUCH bigger more robust distribution networks that have had a LOT more time to work out the kinks... Even established vendors have hiccups in physical roll outs.

Apology is realistic. Extended warranty is pointless IMO, if it doesn't fail after 1 year it's likely not going to from manufacturer defect which is what they would cover. The parts replacement warranties usually only cover flawed parts, not overheated or overused parts which is the only real cause of failure after the first month much less year.

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I have had BOTH scenarios happen with UPS and FedEx. The label was shown as "prepared" and did not show any updates, but it WAS shipping and showed a bunch of updates monday morning.. up to and including it being on the truck for delivery...

I have also had the same thing happen and the item not ship till Monday or even a couple days later.

Pre-orders are weird, they're really more about securing a guaranteed unit from the first run... not about WHEN you get it lol. I had a pretty good idea in my head when I ordered it on the 10th that mine would show after they were available in store, but I didn't want to deal with running around trying to grab one of the ones in stock, and wasn't sure if the in store one's would require pre-order or WHICH stores would actually get them before the weekend...

If I really can't take it I'll run to Sam's Club tomorrow and buy another one.

I don't get why the people freaking out don't just go buy one in store and put an ebay ad up for their Play Store one with an end date of tuesday so you can just turn it around.

Or refuse shipping... W'ever.

I really don't care if people want to vent and whine... I just am hoping to inspire them to see it's pointless other than causing stress to yourself and prob. ruining some poor phone support D'bag's day.

To even have to bring up the fact that there are slightly larger problems in the world and prob. in your own lives than the N7 ship date is kind of mind boggling to me.

Cheers All! Hope everyone's Tablets show up asap and work out great.