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[Nexus 7 General] californiarailroader:
They've had some problems lately though, they closed a few stores here in NorCal, north of Sacramento and San Francisco they only have one, in Yuba City, but there are several WalMart's and 6 Costco's in that same area. To me, it seems Walmart and Sam's Club are an odd combination, it'd be like Costco opening up Walmart like stores, it wouldn't make much business sense to compete with yourself. That said, we only get to Costco once a month, the nearest one is in Santa Rosa, 70 miles south of me, though Ukiah, which is 9 miles south of me is going to be getting one in the near future, at least they're planning on it. :D We have Walmart, Staples, Friedman's (like Home Depot) and Home Depot in Ukiah, but that's it for big box retailers, no Best Buy, Target, Fry's, etc. Oh well, just part of living in Rural America I guess :D
[Nexus 7 General] r4d14n7:
And, if they used RFID, how easy would it be for a shipper to tear open your N7 and stuff the box in a stack with the rest? No one would find out until possibly too late. At least by manually scanning them, there is accountability.
[Nexus 7 General] mcb3:
I pre-ordered a 16 GB N7 with cover on the 28th for delivery in US.

No credit card charge so far, no notification e-mail, no usable info in GP, no info in myUPS.

*** Has anyone that ordered a case (from GP) with the N7 received the case or received the N7 without the case? ***

I feel like I made a mistake by buying this case when better / cheaper solutions are available and when this may be the reason for the current hold up on the delivery of my tablet.

I am going out of town for 11 days on the 18th and I probably will not have this device (yet) to take with me.

I figured on the 28th when I ordered this and it said that delivery would be 2-3 weeks that Google was sandbagging the estimate and I would receive it in 1-2 weeks.

Now it looks to me like they will be lucky to get it to me in 3 weeks.

The delivery of this product as been botched - especially when you look at how many other people have theirs now.

Anyone that claims otherwise is biased or not in the same position.

Oh well. No more *****ing from me on this. Good luck to all the others in the same situation and I hope those that have theirs now are enjoying them. I know I would be. :)
[Nexus 7 General] findmike:
This may help a little - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-order - I'll save you the click if you want... A pre-order is an order placed for an item which has not yet been released.

The Nexus 7 has not been released.

The first tracking numbers were released Friday... I got mine. Maybe Google knows you are special and wants to make sure yours is just right before they give you yours. Here's your assumption - because I got mine Friday, my Nexus will get here first. That's a guess. A wild and completely unfounded one at that. Here's another one, you paid for expedited shipping? Really? I mean do you honestly believe that? You paid for two day shipping, just like the rest of us.

No one is saying Google didn't know better... but I am saying YOU should have known better. You bought a tablet that was shipping in two to three weeks from a vendor that seems to be shipping them two to three weeks later and you are all ape spit mad about it.

I'm not.

Sorry that you choose to live in a world where the completely normal and absolutely expected drive you to madness. I'm off in lala land waiting for my tablet in the next week or so, happy as can be that Google is doing just what they promised they would.
[Nexus 7 General] Hemidroids:
I already explained why. Your preorder from Google will likely be just fine. Its only the B&M retailers that sold when they were told not to that had the bad batches.

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Home Depot sells tablet PC's?
[Nexus 7 General] californiarailroader:
Not in ours (Ukiah, CA) :D They do sell Networking cables, networking equipment, wireless routers, stuff like that, but no PC's or anything related to them.
[Nexus 7 General] tony1208:
Mine was shipped and labeled on the 12 so I'm guessing Tuesday the latest...
[Nexus 7 General] Ahmazin:
Hey, have you guys seen the video of this guy who rigged his nexus 7 case (likely a kindle fire case) allowing the N7 to wake from sleep when he opened the flap?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmORFFyA7Ig
[Nexus 7 General] californiarailroader:
Doesn't it give you scheduled delivery date? Mine was also shipped/labeled on the 12th, but it says delivery scheduled for Monday, the 16th, which makes sense since it's coming 2nd Day Air.
[Nexus 7 General] haloimplant:
I know this has been beaten to death but since then you are the 2nd person to post that link without reading all the way to the end of the paragraph: "Pre-orders allow consumers to guarantee immediate delivery on release"'

That is the point of a pre-order, not to wait until they get around to you after shipping a bunch to retail outlets.

Another funny saying I see is "pre-order doesn't guarantee that you get it upon release, it just guarantees that you get one". Really? I'm pretty sure anyone who wants one will get one eventually, again the entire point of a pre-order is when.

Anyways I don't think this mess happened on purpose, I think everything was supposed to ship last week but pre-order shipments got delayed for some reason. One thing I do know is that if it is true that it is UPS grabbing newer orders to ship before old ones, Google and UPS need to work that out because it's pretty ridiculous. Unless somebody is going to tell me know that serving customers in a queuing order isn't expected either?
[Nexus 7 General] armyboy11b:
Yep figured so. They ship location to location threw out saturdays but do not deliver on Saturday I usually order on a Friday and have it on a Monday every time :)
[Nexus 7 General] californiarailroader:
Nonov, that has to be the longest quote and post post I've seen yet. :D ;)
[Nexus 7 General] Andrew025:
I don't know why I read all that.
[Nexus 7 General] NonovUrbizniz:
Also I can't believe there is No Hitler Reacts to finding out other people have N7's before him even though he ordered it direct on you tube yet... I wish I had the dedication to bang that out... but alas... I have to f5 this thread and my UPS shipping tracking site while I'm hold with the 15th Google CS Rep today...

"****ING SAM'S CLUB?!?!?!? Goddam third rate cheap discount club member bastards have my ultra premium unicorn summoning powerhouse beast of the apocalypse?

This is SCHIZA!!!!"

"Mine heart is Kaput, Mine faith... shattered...."
[Nexus 7 General] ben dover:
No if you already activated a prepaid card on your gnex then it will just log you into the same account. If you have another gmail or Google apps account I'm sure you could activate that one and get $10 more but I can't guarantee that
[Nexus 7 General] gr0wlithee:
Any news on wave 2 orders? I ordered on 7/4 and still nothing...
[Nexus 7 General] findmike:
I did read it. The device has not been released. Some stores have decided to sell it. That's not a release. I have no doubt that the device will be released when Google gets all the shipments out.

Go ahead and find me anything from Google that says their device is released and ready for sale. I double dog dare you.
[Nexus 7 General] haloimplant:
What are they going to announce? They are promising the pre-orders are shipping and the device is selling in stores. I think they are probably laying low until this mess blows over a bit, like it will after they ship orders to those who ordered early on in June. In the meantime the play store page quietly changed from 'Pre-order now' to 'Buy now' in the last day or two.

I also think the retailers are selling it pretty much when they were supposed to and Google was just powerless to delay them while they did whatever they are doing with the preorders. It started selling in 3 (or more?) retailers on Friday here.
[Nexus 7 General] SimPup:
Not really sure about the whole wave thing. I'm assuming it's random since I ordered on the 11th and mine shipped out late Friday night
[Nexus 7 General] mjm2950:
so how do we count two days? got email late Friday night from google saying order shipped. IMI 2business day clock starts. as of now UPS SAYsays cannot find tracking number. not my problem google started the 2 day clock with my email and has not given the package to UPS.
[Nexus 7 General] ky0nkyon:
Are you in the US? From last i saw other countries were not getting their charges and shipping emails. Couldn't really keep up today so i might be wrong.

My life for Aiur
[Nexus 7 General] gr0wlithee:
Seriously? Really lucky..

Yep, I'm in the US.

More details.. I ordered a 16gb, no accessories.
[Nexus 7 General] rlh445:
Haha, I can't believe Google is paying you to be so wrong all of the time; they're very good at wasting money. Anyway..the thing is released. You personally may need a siren, five people screaming in your ears and a seeing eye dog to tell you when to cross the street, but most of us just look both ways. Google gave stores their blessing to sell after trying to enforce a 'hold' on sales and failing miserably. Play Store orders are shipping, albeit out of order (typical) and they HAVE officially announced that all orders are shipping in the next few days. The Play Store also says, 'Buy Now', and people all over the place are walking into stores and buying them. If you need more than that to tell you it's been released, with or without Google's consent (ya know, because something obviously went wrong with how they handled all of this) then you're even more intellectually impaired than I thought.
[Nexus 7 General] NonovUrbizniz:
asus has the right to sell them as well, so it's released. They're selling in stores.

Pre-release purchases are about ensuring you GET ONE, they very well could sell out of their current supply or hit supply chain issues that will keep it back ordered...

If you're ready to flip just freaking buy one in a store if you can. If you can't then clearly you were smart for pre-ordering. If you get one and don't want two sell one as soon as the other comes... You won't lose money considering you will get the $25 credit and they are likely to have supply problems considering how they've run the allotments, sounds like they don't want to flood any retailers for fear of running out if they ship too many to once source.

I called Gamestop, Staples, Best Buy, PC Richards, AND Sam's Club the ONLY place that had them was Sam's Club... and that means paying $106 bucks for a membership.... I still might do it and I'm not even spazzing out about when the one I pre-ordered is going to get here.

It's a solid device being sold for basically free. You couldn't design and outsource this thing for this cost if you didn't have to pay licensing and did a 10k unit run for crap's sake.

Everyone should thank Google for making a cheap capable tablet with a pure Android experience and freedom to root and rom to your hearts content available for what it used to cost for a sub-par tablet loaded with bloat and compromise and often not many options.
[Nexus 7 General] findmike:
Yeah, what would a major company like Google announce? Try Asking Jeeves this in a few days I guess "Google Nexus 7 Released". I bet what comes up is not "Release Date Leaked" or "Release Date Rumors" but something more like "Nexus 7 Officially Released on July XX"

I mean it's awesome that THREE whole retailers have decided to sell the device early... Sam's Club said no to me in two locations. Staples in five locations, GameStop didn't have any to sell. Didn't even call Best Buy or Target. So yeah... you really think it's released huh?

I wasn't even checking because I wanted to get one, mine is on pre-order so I am set, I was checking because the reality of it is that the product is NOT released and the fact that a few people got them is not at all unlike every other highly anticipated product launch ever, sometimes a few people sell them early, they don't have enough for everyone so good luck with that.
[Nexus 7 General] BepAicD:
wave 2 ......im still on wave 1 ordered 3:33 6/27 charged cc 7-14 2am...tracking number sent 7-14 2am... ups no shipment found im in us midwest last name j
[Nexus 7 General] rlh445:
Dang haha, that's pretty cool! Somebody must have read the '11' and thought it was a '1' :D
[Nexus 7 General] NonovUrbizniz:
I think that UPS got overwhelmed with tracking numbers and packages... I'm sure that randomly ordered lots expected to go out all at once did not, and as a result they held some confirmation emails so as not to have people freaking out...

I'm guessing equal numbers of people who have or haven't gotten emails will be happy and disappointed on Monday. Some who thought it was held got shipped and will be on the truck Monday morning and others got held and might not even be on a plane till Tuesday.. out for delivery Thursday... Hell it could be worse than that.

You count the 2 days from when UPS tells you it left. So if they haven't said scanned at origin yet don't start counting...
[Nexus 7 General] Teqonix:
I couldn't resist any longer and went and purchased a 16GB at Sam's Club today. I'll either refuse the Google Play store order or return the tablet they send me to Sam's Club.

After messing around with it for a little while, I can say it's the best Android device I've ever used. Hope this trend with Nexus devices continues.
[Nexus 7 General] SimPup:
Lol whatever happened I'm glad it did. I honestly wasn't expecting it til next week or so. Was really shocked when I got the email
[Nexus 7 General] NonovUrbizniz:
No, I ordered on the 10th as did many others who've gotten confirmation emails... I have a feeling the system crumbled at a certain point on Friday night and UPS nor Google wants to dedicate time or energy to anything other than actually trying to get you your package...

I think Google overwhelmed UPS later than then expected and could not deal with it, so some people are going to luck out and others are not.
[Nexus 7 General] rcg8584:
My tracking number shows nothing, like the number doesn't even exist. In a way I kind of hope that I don't get ny N7 until Wednesday, because that is beyond 2 day shipping and I will contact Google asking for a refund of my shipping charges. If I don't see a status change in the morning (Sunday), I am going to call CS to see if they can give me any information.

This entire pre-ordering process has been a major clusterf**k... I really hope that Google can get their stuff sorted out, I want this tablet to do well, but the pro-Apple press will happily jump on Google for any shortcoming.
[Nexus 7 General] haloimplant:
The only places I would even buy it around here, Canada Computers and NCIX, were both selling yesterday. The Canada Computers is sold out at most locations now but I could easily have gotten one, they didn't sell them all at the location near me until today.

Like I said Google probably wanted everyone to hold off but failed. Argue semantics of release date all you want the bottom line is I could've walked down the street and bought one yesterday from a legit store without paying $20 shipping.

Maybe I should have, but I don't want to deal with the hassle of returning the preorder. Many people will though and in the end it is Google that will pay for this, they have said that shipments can be refused/returned unopened for full refund and, looking around here, there are going to be quite a few of them.
[Nexus 7 General] californiarailroader:
I think you mean mein. ;)
[Nexus 7 General] rmm200:
Tell him he is violating Apple's patent, and they will check with him Monday.

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Don't include me in your rant - I was only quoting Google customer service.
[Nexus 7 General] ShadowKast:
Ordered Nexus 7 8GB June 28th around 5:00pm with case. No email, Not charged yet, No tracking. I live in PA. It appears anyone that ordered the case has been delayed because of the case....come on Google...
[Nexus 7 General] rcg8584:
See, this is my concern. I don't even see the yellow bar. Here is what my tracking number pulls up:
[Nexus 7 General] punitenshu:
You don't have much experience with UPS, I'm guessing. The absence of tracking isn't out-of-the-norm for them at all--especially when things ship on Fridays. I've had a few dozen orders shipped 2-day from Amazon that ended up out for delivery before the tracking info posted.
[Nexus 7 General] rcg8584:
Well this Wednesday will be 2 weeks since you ordered, and I think on the 4th GP was quoting 1-2 weeks to ship. I think a lot of people will see movement on Monday, especially if you ordered in later "waves", past the 1st.
[Nexus 7 General] californiarailroader:
Close, but it's citing ;) :D Just givin' ya a hard time :D
[Nexus 7 General] whatsinaname:
montana

Yeah, of course I am leaving for vacation mid week.... Not worried about not having it on my trip, but sad that it will be sitting unused for a week, a true shame... :( Would that make me a neglectful nexus owner? poor little nexie... I guess I should cancel my vacation, my family should understand.
[Nexus 7 General] armyboy11b:
+1 ^^^^^ ppl don't understand that tracking orders don't update right away...it can take 24+ hours ..

I ordered tons and had shipped ups 2 day shipping and my package was almost here before my tracking was even updated ....

Its just how it works ups now a days :p
[Nexus 7 General] NonovUrbizniz:
So the cheaper walmart for cheaper people is better than walmart??? It's not some loose association, Sam's Club IS Walmart. It's their cheaper than cheap store for seriously penny pinching folk. So is Costco...

I'm afraid you've prob. gotten screwed by the accessory this happens a LOT on pre-orders. They use it as a good excuse to delay shipping some of them so they can get supplied again.

My brother ordered his Atrix in a store and the laptop dock and car dock both showed up on a friday and the phone didn't come till monday... I preordered online and the phone showed up at my house on the thursday before he got his dock at the store.... I went to the store and bought a laptop dock full price then *****ed there to get an instant manager discount, then *****ed at the phone sales people and got the phone 100 buck credit on my ATT bill... So I ended up saving and getting it all sooner.

You are ALWAYS throwing the dice when you order something that isn't ready yet... **** the boat shipping them could have sunk... lol

There have been multiple vapor ware devices that people prepaid for on faith and never even made it to market so... this really isn't even bad by comparison... and we are again talking about freaking toys...

I really can't believe how much of this thread I've actually read... or wrote.. lol...

America... people can buy hand held computers for less than the manufacturer paid for them and they still complain... What a Country!
[Nexus 7 General] rcg8584:
LOL, that made me laugh. Thanks :)

I helped a friend move today and my phone had a low battery. It was nice to be free from this thread and wondering when it would ship. Enjoy your trip and you will have something fun to look forward to when you return. If you know shipping information before you leave, you should sign up for the free account of UPS My Choice. You can redirect your shipment to your local UPS center for free. I think it is $5.00 to redirect to a local UPS store. This way your lil Nexie will be safe.
[Nexus 7 General] NonovUrbizniz:
First one was German so I have an excuse at least... **** I'm even on my desktop... it's late and the unicorns are playing games with my mind!
[Nexus 7 General] altrikdout21:
Definitely. Once I get the email, I'm set. But until then...
[Nexus 7 General] whatsinaname:
My neighbor will get it for me.... Hopefully they will not be tempted to open it. Maybe I should leave a 6 pack of beer as a "good neighbor" incentive. :)
[Nexus 7 General] altrikdout21:
Or a few handles to knock them off their rocker so they won't even be able to open it. You know.

The day this is delivered I will be perched on my doorstep, just waiting... :D sike but I will be checking all day.
[Nexus 7 General] haloimplant:
Are you implying that those hanging in the first wave are likely to do more waiting? :confused:
[Nexus 7 General] californiarailroader:
LOL They can be nasty huh? :D
[Nexus 7 General] ThumperBN:
I received my shipping email on the 14th and the label create day was July 9th as well - although I still don't have a schedule delivery date showing. At least I know it will be here soon. :)
[Nexus 7 General] rcg8584:
Lol, nice Jonah Hill reference... I think that Google will post most transactions on Monday once the banking week starts. Be interesting to see if people in Australia start to see changes today, as it will be Monday morning there soon.
[Nexus 7 General] Mist17:
Any news from Australia or the UK yet?
[Nexus 7 General] rcg8584:
I think it is still late Sunday afternoon in Australia and early Sunday morning in the UK. I don't think we will hear any news from those areas for another 12-16 hours.
[Nexus 7 General] ky0nkyon:
Lol damn, can one device really overwhelm UPS?

My life for Aiur
[Nexus 7 General] DeadPlasmaCell:
Similar situation. Ordered during the announcement and ordered the case as well.. no email or anything yet.
[Nexus 7 General] darkamikaze:
Yea I think it's the case. Sucks they can't ship it separately. lol Woulda made my weekend better.

If anything hopefully they're fixing the rumored screen issues and what not. If that were the case delay away.
[Nexus 7 General] noneabove:
Sadly still no word on Canada shipments.. I really hope to hear something Monday!! I'm so excited for it, it's my first tablet ever and I want it do bad. :P as long as I get it by Friday I'll be happy :) but I have yet to be charged emailed or anything :S any Canadians get any action ??
[Nexus 7 General] DagsJT:
Just received a generic email reply from "Wade" saying that pre-orders are starting to ship blah blah. Interesting that it came at this time on a Sunday morning.
[Nexus 7 General] bcvictory:
Wonder if Aussie orders are the same...
[Nexus 7 General] glowworm62:
eh?
[Nexus 7 General] ThumperBN:
Mine says the label was created on the 9th as well, but there is no expected delivery date at all...hoping it will get here by Tuesday...but more likely Wednesday.
[Nexus 7 General] darkamikaze:
Wow this thread is actually slowing down.. ): Now I'm even more sad cause we'll be the minority without the tablet Q_Q loll
[Nexus 7 General] mikereidis:
Nope. Not a hint of ANY N7 love outside of the US of A.

After reading in the first few pages of this thread that so many people were ordering 16 GB, I decided to order the 8 GB on the theory that I might get it sooner, LOL.

I ordered just one, no accessories at 6:30 PM EDT on day 1: June 27.

Google Canada won't even respond to emails.

Do we know for sure who is delivering in Canada ? Any special methods to refuse shipment here ? I have an eye on a B&M store purchase if that looks good by mid-week and there continues to be no word from Google Canada.
[Nexus 7 General] mikereidis:
Always slows down from 3-7 AM or so EDT zone.
[Nexus 7 General] ThumperBN:
For me, it has been more than 24 hours and still no update on the UPS tracking page. Also "label printed" apparently does not mean "shipped". I received my email on the 14th at 12:30AM EST and the UPS site said the label was printed on July 9th...if that really means "shipped" then they massively missed their two-day commitment. :)
[Nexus 7 General] nandihno:
It could be that international orders might start on the Monday hoping tomorrow for Australia
[Nexus 7 General] cheezcake:
we can only hope
[Nexus 7 General] mikereidis:
Exactly. No official word.

For all we know they shipped ours to the US to take the heat off in Google's home market, LOL.
[Nexus 7 General] TedT100:
In other news...

I finally got around to making a signature, what do you guys think?