*Quasi-Official ENVY 14 discounts, delays, "mine is shipping" lounge*

Bro, don't worry about cancellation--I don't think you're supposed to get discounts on top of 10% student anyway. Just think of it as a possible extra bonus that you MIGHT not get. All you need to do is visit each one of those cashback websites, visit the HP store listed with them then log in with your username you have with each one (or the other way, forgot, shouldn't matter) for each one. One at a time. Make sure your cookies aren't disabled. Don't try to stack Student 10% with Bing as the former will only cancel out the latter 30-60 days later.

 

Thanks! Now I feel a bit better about my options! Anyways I might still want to try my luck with the BCB.

 

i cant find ne thing that i need to buy on overstock right now. i kinda want to take advantage of that 30%..

 

ditto. was going to buy my external while it's up, but i decided not too. i'll just wait for a different external deal on slickdeals/techbargains.

if only they had envy 14 configure to orders..................

 

If I call HP to do a pricematch on Windows 7 Professional for students, will they change my account to HPA?

 

We can always wish, but that would have probably been a bit insane and unbelievable.

Anyways don't go wasting money because of the overstock 30% if there's nothing good to get. It'll be like more pocket money for when you actually want to go get some accessories or something.

 

Hey guys. With all the complaints about the problems of the E14, how does HP handle exchanges? I mean, I don't believe that I can find a better computer at a lower price, so if there's something really effed up with my E14 when it gets here, can I just exchange it? I'm asking mostly cause if I return it and order another, I'd lose out on the 30% BCB which was one of the reasons I was able to buy this.

 

wait...WHAT complaints and problems?? i haven't been reading the owner's lounge.

i don't think you can exchange. of course you can return with the 21day return policy.

 

A select few are saying there's gaps in the body, some flexing, scuff marks, improperly placed logo lights, strange noises, whining, keyboard and touchpad not flush with body. That's pretty much it.

And if we return we lose the 30% cash back. HP FTL.

 

must be the first line of production errors. hopefully when i order, there won't be problems like that.

 

No one knows whether it's easy to replace/exchange easily?

 

zeth, i think they are all sleeping. probably tired from all the adrenaline they got every time they heard the doorbell ring or heard footsteps outside.

 

@harpwned, you have NO idea
@zeth I've heard it's pretty easy

buttt, IT'S IN OAKLAND

 

you are right!
but i WILL have an idea one week into my order....which will hopefully be soon, with a bcb and ssd d^^b.

 

The day my notebook arrives, I'm going to lock myself in for a day alongside a cup of tea to inspect it inch by inch. I'll probably figure out within a couple of days whether I want to keep it!

 

LOL! i will keep mine unless there are some flaws with it. i'm still debating whether to do the whole "clean install" business or just manually uninstall some stuff...

 

I am just going to manually uninstall the stuff. I don't want to risk messing it up within the first week. I would wait till someones makes a video or wait untill someone confirms that it went well. That's just my 2 cents.

 

There is a review type video on you tube showing that somones envy wobbles lwhen he uses the touchpad. But I think it is a rare problem. If you want to see just search hp envy 14 then see all the videos posted within the last week.

 

yes i just saw it; it makes me cringe. i'm hoping that his was just a rare lemon and that someone dropped it or something. besides, he DID order one in the first fleet....i'm guessing there won't be as many lemons in the later fleets of envy 14's?

and yeah i will wait until the current owners clean install...i heard the touchpad drivers might get messed up.

 

Envy just arrived in Memphis!

 

mine too! Our laptops are traveling together it seems.

 

Well, some great news just showed up!

After opening up a Service Request with Bing earlier this week, to report the problem with my 30% rebate on my HP Envy 14 order, I got escalated and was told the problem was under review. That was on Wednesday.

Earlier tonight, this popped up in my inbox:

I checked in my Bing cashback account, and sure enough, I have the $415.20 sitting in Pending, with 56 days remaining until I can claim it.

I never got an email from the person assigned to my Escalation (outside of the initial "Your issue has been escalated, we're looking into it" automated notice), and my Service Request was subsequently closed. But still, it looks like Bing honored the 30% discount for me! Now I can actually open the laptop when it shows up (I had planned to return it if Bing gave me any guff).

Also, whoever had me on the PM list for the 30% off notices... you can take me off now. Thanks again!!!

 

Anybody else's in Newark now? woot woot
seems like they should be able to get it to me before the 20th
now I'm equally excited as I am nervous though...I really don't want any of the issues being reported *fingers crossed*

 

Can you add me to the BCB PM list aswell...thanks

 

I dont think you can combine with discover, I'm planning to do this too at first but Bing stated no other discount/offer can be combined. Did you check with bing?

 

i would appreciate if i could be included into the list as well

 

mines is in oakland :]
any chance it'll be shipping to houses today?

 

So how many days on average did your guys status change from in production to shipped?

I ask because I am currently without a computer (just sold my hdx) and my iPhone 4 is all i got.

And I can't excatly play SC2 on this thing..

It's been 5 business days for me already.

 

whats the 1x4gb DDR3 in the envy? thanks

 

mine's in the city too.. there has to be some way for me to pick it up.

 

im going to attempt to pick mine up...bribing the worker $50 to let me take my package. since they arent allowed to give it to us, im going to try to ask the worker if they can take the paperwork and basically make a new package to pick up monday. of course i will also bring 2 forms of ID. My drivers license and school ID. but i hope i dont have to do that...i hope the worker doesnt know about the pick-up policy.
am i really that desperate to get it? yes i am. im leaving monday morning, and cannot wait for it to be delivered.

 

Think you'll have better luck calling HP and ask them to waive the no pickup thing but its your call.

How do you know which fedex to go to anyways? There's 4-5 in my city thats almost equally far away from me.

 

I dont think so. Fedex told me that they dont deliver on Saturdays, unless the shipper requested and paid extra for it.

 

Thats the 4 gig, single stick of RAM. (As opposed to two, 2 gig sticks)

 

YES, mine just left Memphis. I'll probably get it by Monday which is one day earlier than the estimated date.

 

wait does FedEx deliver on mondays?

 

Oh, thanks for the info! I guess I need to get posting. (only things of actual value of course )

On a side note, does anyone have any insight on the future of BCB? I know someone in the past called HP and the CSR told them that they knew bcb would be back. Has anyone tried this recently with any luck?

 

Ive only heard that its ending at the end of July. But, nothing about it returning.

 

Don't say that! I cant believe I missed out on BCB twice! Life sucks.

 

Envy just left Memphis at 6:19 AM

 

Yup. Currently at Newark right now... I guess I'll be seeing mine on Monday. The Day After Tomorrow...

 

My Fedex tracking update told me that my sleeve shipped to my address. Being overseas, I had one of my friends check my front door and they said nothing was there. Maybe it was stolen.

So what am I supposed to do now?

 

Ironically, I'm not at the shipping destination for mine right now, I'm out of town visiting my dad.

However, I checked the status update a minute ago, and about 20 minutes ago mine was scanned as "On FedEx vehicle for delivery" in my town. That suggests to me that HP at least had the sense to authorize Saturday deliveries on our delayed Envies.

So don't get your hopes up too high, but your Envies might all be arriving today.

 

Depends - do you live in the kind of place where your neighbors would pick that up and hold onto it for you so that it didn't get stolen, or the kind of place where your neighbors would steal it?

You could try calling FedEx to confirm whether or not it was actually delivered, or if the delivery guy just scanned it out of the truck and then tossed it back in when nobody opened the door. Then again, they probably wouldn't know that, since they can only really go by the scanning information...

 

Interesting, mine is a few miles from my house at the FedEx facility and when I called they checked and said my Envy 14 is in a container and they don't have enough manpower to unload it today so I can't pick it up. They didn't mention anything about a no pickup policy though.

 

Yeah...the nice guy that I spoke to said that it might be stuck in a container as well, but there is a slight chance that if I call in right away once I see once it arrives, they can hold it outside of the container for me to pick up.
But some other reps said that I cannot do that because they have a contract with HP saying that they cannot let people pick up their items.

 

I called HP, they said it takes 24-48 hours...and the first rep I spoke to told me that he guaranteed me that he would send the stuff to fedex to allow me to pick it up, but he never did...nothing new on HP's part though.

 

are you in california?

 

what the eff, my laptop was stuck in alaska for an extra day, said it was cleared for regulatory stuff but the plane left so it stayed over another day....now it just arrived in Houston this morning. Been in houston for 4 hours now and still has not moved. what the effffffff. If my laptop was opened and played wtih by fedex employees, someones gonna get a hurt reallll bad

 

Sort of neither. I don't know my neighbors, though the area is usually a pretty crime-free area.

I don't see why they didn't require a signature.