M17x Order Status Discussion - Part 4

FedEx is known for "not being able to deliver" messages. I had way too many times this happened to me while UPS seems to be working just fine. What's even worse is that they never try to change the time of the second or third attempt. Most people are working during the day, but FedEx still insists that someone must be at home during the day or your package goes back. UPS is much better with adapting to customers needs. Just my observation.

 

I hear you guys, been reading some FedEx related issues on other forums when I saw the note this morning on the tracking site.

I ended up calling them just now on my lunch break and the rep. told me she'd re-route the package to the closest depot for me to pick up tomorrow night. The depot apparently is open until 11PM or so, so I'll swing by after work and pick up the package.

Not a big deal. It'd be nicer if they could deliver it sometime in the evening when someone is actually home, but whatever. No worries.

Edit: Just checked FedEx tracking page and it seems it was updated with a "Hold at location" note. Very nice. Can't wait to get it! I hope everything runs as it should and all the parts promised are there. Idk why, but for some reason, I always picture UPS and FedEx guys playing basketball with people's sh*t. Tossing boxes around and all that crap. Hopefully not reality, but you never know haha.

 

I hope it wasn't Ground service FedEx Guy Launches Boxes Off Truck - YouTube or Express FedEx Delivery Goes Terribly Wrong - YouTube. They seems to be really careful when it comes to electronics.

 

Damn, my other 2 dell items (orion backpack and a printer) came via UPS and they will actually leave things at my door. Are you guys saying the laptops themselves all ship via FedEx? Those clowns refuse to leave anything at my door, or make any attempt to deliver it when I'm actually home. Instead they make me come pick it up at the depot - which is 60 miles away...

 

I'd say that's not as bad as this. Check this out.

The estimated delivery date is 6/9 so:
"May 8, 2012 10:03 AMAt local FedEx facilityLOS ANGELES, CAPackage not due for delivery"

They have it, but they just don't want to deliver it. What the hell is that? This is what I get for the free upgrade to 2day delivery! When I ordered the M14x R2 (which I returned), I had 7day shipping and it came in one day. But, this, this is ridiculous... Fedex Express... pssst....

 

I received my cooling pad and mouse I bought from Dell through UPS, and it had to be signed for. My father was the one that was there at the time and he asked why it had to be signed for. We've bought computer parts from Newegg for instance valued at more than 2 grand and they just drop the parts off with no signature required. The UPS guy responded that they don't want to risk anything because there's a Dell sticker on the box. Lmao what? No no, Dell sticker has more value than my two 27" monitors. I hear you loud and clear.

The laptop itself is going to be delivered by FedEx however, and it's an "indirect" delivery, which means absolutely nothing. It requires a signature, but ANYONE'S signature works. The neighbor, your mother, a dog. It should be direct and it should be only the person who ordered it. Little ridiculous. I don't want packages going to my neighbor...

Anyway, if you'll miss the first delivery like I did because I wasn't expecting them to ship and deliver it SAME DAY within 5 hours in the morning, just call 800-GOFEDEX and keep hitting 0 until you get a representative. Ask to have it held at nearest depot and then get directions to that depot. You'll be able to pick it up next day like I plan on doing. Best plan imo.

 

Ugh this reminds me of why I hate fedex. I never had a problem with UPS. Fedex never seems to get it right. Still waiting for the package...

 

Mine was just delivered to my condo. Will be there when I get home. Luckily my day is almost over.

 

Yep, that is what I did with my last two FedEx packages. It works but is very annoying since the nearest depot is 60 miles one way, costing me $20 in gas plus 2 hours of time to get my damn box. It is almost worth taking a sick day to sit and wait for the delivery.

 

Ordered mine on May 1st, shipped yesterday by Canada standard shipping to Quebec...Waiting...

 

And they still may leave a note saying that they "tried really hard to deliver, but no one was home" - true story. I did it once and was actually online all this time checking on the delivery progress only to find out that status has changed to "Delivery Exception". Sure enough when I checked my front door there was a note from FedEx. So, I would advise against taking your sick day.

 

Hmm.. so I guess that rules out being in Canada as being the reason why my shipping is taking so long.

 

Haha yep, I've been there too. Sit home in the living room by the front door all day and the guy shows up during the 2 minutes you're in the bathroom :lol:

The better time to take the sick day is clearly the day after the computer arrives so I can screw around gaming all day.

 

I had to cancel my M17x order and reorder again. Heads up for everyone who has AAFES account, there is a huge discount on all AW units.
I got the same unit for much cheaper.

$1256.75
You can't beat this price no matter what. Highly recommend to all military/vetrans if you are thinking about new laptop - check out AAFES today, I think this is one day deal only.

 

That before or after tax because that's ridiculous. I have pretty much the same thing except with 500GB and blu ray. Came out to 1780 after tax.

 

There is no tax for AAFES purchases. It's final price.

 

Crazy good discount. You have over 20% more or less.

 

Damn. Ordered in the evening of 4/30 and mine shipped yesterday. They tried to deliver it today, which I would have stopped except I didn't get an email that it had shipped until 30 minutes ago :lol:

Now I have to wait until Thursday. At least I'll have it for the weekend.

 

That's the solid part, weekend fun experimenting!

I can't wait to pick mine up tomorrow.

 

Yeah, I could go pick it up tomorrow if I call up and hassle them but by the time I drive to the depot and back and get everything opened up and running it will be time to go to bed anyway. Fortunately it's only 'indirect' signature which means I can sign the door tag and they will leave it at the door on Thursday. I was thinking that they'd use direct signature.

 

Fedex took their time but finally got it. Looks like they forgot to instal the AMD driver. I'll have to grab the driver on the resource disk. I'll post some pics later when I get home from school.

 

Good looking out, I happened to have stumbled on this thread and I just cancelled and reordered my M17, and got it down to $1256.00 instead of $1580.00. I also have no problem waiting a few extra days. +Rep to you.

Edit, BTW, just noticed we have the exact same build. Awesome.... And, the sale ends May 14th, to anyone wondering.

 

Thats a sweet discount. The blasted EPP discount completely blows, only like $70 bucks off...

 

Good for us. That's a really good price over 40% discount from after tax price. Had to order M14x R2 for my wife (more like backup laptop for me ) as well.
I also decided to get SquareTrade 3 year warranty instead of Dell one (well 1 year comes standard) for half the price ($150 with discount from some really nice person on Slickdeals).

 

i got mine to 1580, how do you get it down to 1256? Also how do you had accidental protection

 

Wow thanks for the heads up... unfortunately it had to be the day before my expected delivery.Sux! But good looking indeed. Get in on it while you can!!!

 

Mine finally shipped. Who knows when it will actually show up. Just says it's coming via USA but no specific location. Order status page now has an estimated delivery date of "Order Shipped". How very informative.

 

@rorkas hey got it down to $1256. I canceled the 1500 one. I +rep you too, i had it shipping via oconus vs conus nice savings though.

 

Glad you got it. I like that removing Office 2010 option saves you $199. I couls get the Office for $25 anyway from Microsoft EPP if I needed another one.

 

Like how if you upgraded the processor from the 6 series to the 7 series it was 19 dollars cheaper? I don't understand the price point on that but, hey I am not complaining...lol

 

What is this Alienadrenaline? How do you use it and what are the benefits?

Slightly confused here?

Thanks Guys

 

So according to dell rep system is shipped but they dot have tracking info yet and it could be up to 3 days to get the tracking info. So I apparently need to play a guessing game for when it arrives. They aren't even sure if it shipped yesterday or monday. Im gonna take a wild guess and say it could arrive betwen Friday and Monday.

 

Mine is out for (re)delivery today, I thought it would be tomorrow but can't read a calendar. Now I'll be refreshing the tracking page all day :lol:

 

Anybody know where most of these systems ship from?

 

May 7, 2012 undefined
Picked up
Location
KEASBEY, NJ

 

A few people have mentioned New Jersey. Based on a quick search I think there's some kind of large Purolator depot in Edison NJ. Mine shipped yesterday morning; given a 10 hour drive assuming other stops/packages it should arrive to me today or tomorrow. Of course I could be totally off; and my order might not even be coming from NJ.

 

Mine shipped from what an earlier poster said, Keasbey, NJ, wherever the hell that is.

On an updated note, once I redirected my package for a Hold @ Fascility request, it took them roughly 18 hours (6AM) to update the FedEx tracking site. It now says "Delivery Exception" with a Redirecting to FedEx Office note. Then it seems an hour later it's at a FedEx facility in my hometown. Half an hour after that it's "On FedEx vehicle for delivery", which I can only assume that means it's on the way to the depot in the next town over (as the FedEx rep. said it would be on the phone yesterday afternoon).

I can't wait for after work.

 

I am hoping for tracking number ASAP so I can try to redirect the shipment to a local FedEx facility so I can pick it up after work.

 

Ya you will have yours soon don't worry. At least you know it's in your area. Mine is coming via Purolator rather than FedEx. Just looked up their depot locations, could be coming from anywhere. I guess no tracking updates is a good sign that it's at least moving on a truck somewhere rather than getting processed/sitting in some depot.

 

Initially ordered April 20th.

Called Dell to ensure (before we knew the R4 only supported IB) that I'd be getting the 3rd gen processor, they said they'd cancel my order and change it to make sure I did...

Now it lists my order date as May 1st with an estimated arrival date of June 4th and it's tagged as "in production" still.

...sigh

 

Just got updated. FedEx delivering to my house tomorrow. Gonna call and try to redirect.

 

Mine's officially now at the Depot awaiting my glorious pick-up.

 

Apparently my package cannot be held at a fed ex location... Shipped from somewhere in Georgia.

 

Package arrived at Toronto processing. Should be here tomorrow!

 

Great news man! Glad it's all working out. I'm going out to pick mine up in about 10 minutes. Will post pictures later tonight/tomorrow morning.

 

Mine showed up at 4PM local time, I left work early to go grab it. Currently posting from it after doing some initial setup. It feels much higher quality than the new Dell Latitude I got from work 2 months ago.

 

I got mine today, my system shipped one day earlier than you.It takes about three days for them to deliver a system to Canada...So you will get yours tomorrow.

 

Love my machine so far!!

 

Finally had some time to put it through some paces tonight. Boy this thing really flies, much better than the old C2D in my m15x. Ran 3Dmark vantage and got a score of P21951 Played some SC2 with the 7970m and it did not disappoint.

 

Order Status: Delivery Preparation

Yippeeeeeee