The funds have been authorized on my card and then released twice. Once when the Wi Fi version came out and just last Wednesday. They were released again on Sunday but it has not been charged.

Thank You. Finally someone who can see it for what it was. Apple knew what they were doing and for those who didn't catch it, they were deceived and unfortunitely will have to wait an additional week.

Thank You, finally someone that simply cut though all of the guessing and told it like it is. Apple knew what they were doing and those who didn’t get it were mislead.

It is a pre-order if you are ordering something that is not released at the time you place the order. The fact that when you place and order (whether it be a pre-order or standard order) you are getting in line with all the others that have placed orders should be obvious. There were pre-orders placed online and at stores for pickup. Those pre-orders outstripped supply and they will be filled in the order they were received. Pre-orders will be filled before orders received after the April 30th release date (at which point orders will no longer be considered pre-orders).

What about this is so hard to understand?

Those who reserved at an Apple retail store before you preordered will get theirs before you do, from that Apple store. Recall that the Apple retail stores also pre-ordered, and likely well before you did. It is then on each Apple store to manage their own pre-order list, first-come, first served on that retail store's list.

If it happened that some retail store preordered more than customers at that store did, one might get lucky, but it may be pretty unlikely.

Enough already!

What kind of fraud are you talking about? I use iTunes excessively… am I in danger?

Agreed, there's only so many items an inventory can hold. What's so hard to understand about that? -.-

Def still can’t wait to get mine ;)

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makes sense to me… its still a pre order even if it “comes to the stores before you get it”… sort of.

Absolutely. What most people missed is that on April 19th, the apple store changed it's ship date to May 7. So everyone who pre-oredered it then, did so knowing the estimated ship date of May 7. Anyone before should receive the unit on April 30th as indicated. The same scenario played out with the Wifi model.

Lots of sites are saying that they will ship on the 30th, and that is incorrect.

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On the other two Items I placed at the same time as my ipad (dock and case), they shipped those two items at different times the night my card was charged. So from that I would expect to wake up tomorrow, Thursday and see a tracking number for my ipad.

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On the other two Items I placed at the same time as my ipad (dock and case), they shipped those two items at different times the night my card was charged. So from that I would expect to wake up tomorrow, Thursday and see a tracking number for my ipad.

I'm certain if you call Apple back they will be happy to cancel your pre-order.

Me: maybe you should have ordered it earlier. Idiot.