Stupid Fedex

Post by **Jackal** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:47 pm

So I ordered an ipod and I've been watching it on the fedex tracker thingy. It spent a day in China, came over to Anchorage Alaska (which is right fucking next to canada), and yet today it is all the way down in Tennessee. What the fuck is up with that?
I'm sure there's some retarded illogical reason to do with customs or summat but still, I want my gaypod.

Post by **duffman91** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:48 pm

Is there no Apple store in Canada? Why did you order it from over seas?

Post by **Jackal** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:50 pm

I ordered it from apple.ca
they apparently all come from the land of the small

Post by **Jackal** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:50 pm

that's China in case you didn't get that. Because the chinese are small.

Post by **Dave** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:21 am

I think Apple has a distribution center in Tennessee.. they're probably reshipping it out of there. I don't know if that makes you feel any better, but it gives you a possible explanation

Post by **Psyche911** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:27 am

Maybe they have a big sorting facility in TN. If they don't have enough to go strait from AK to wherever you live, then they could stick it in with the stuff going to TN, and all the stuff from everywhere else goes with it from TN to Canada.

Post by **Jackal** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:00 pm

riddla wrote:they have to flash it with the 'special' firmware before you can have it

what's that mean exactly? are they putting aliens in my ipod?

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:05 pm

Post by **Jackal** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:06 pm

they're putting young goats in my ipod?

Post by **Jackal** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:06 pm

How much space will that take up? Roughly how many gigs is a goat?

Post by **R00k** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:32 pm

There is a FexEx hub in Nashville, but I doubt they would route it all the way here just for that - there are hubs all over the country.

Post by **R00k** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:33 pm

riddla wrote:they're putting an update on it that forces all your mp3s to play at 64kbps quality. good stuff.

Seriously? Is there a way to change the firmware or something to allow higher quality music? Is that just for certain countries or something?

Post by **Jackal** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:03 pm

he's kidding you silly monkey.just like the goats.

Post by **o'dium** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:09 pm

Ebay, lol... My missus got me a Athena Marine Quake 2 figure from there... Well, tried to. She bought it 2 months ago, and we have been waiting for it since. we emailed them asking where it was, and got no reply. Anyway we got an email today, saying "yeah, well we was going to send it you out this morning, but you said you didn't want it so we didn't. Heres your money back".

YEH. THANKS GUYS. :THUMBDOWN:

Post by **o'dium** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:09 pm

riddla wrote:they're putting an update on it that forces all your mp3s to play at 64kbps quality. good stuff.

Where did you hear that? The only one i heard was that there was a forced update to control the VOLUME of your ipod, not the quality

Post by **Dave** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:11 pm

Apple has a distribution center in Tennessee.. they probably get thousands of them shipped there from China where the break out the shipment, send you your ipod and replenish their DC.

Post by **Canidae** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:25 pm

The first track of it is probably a crate of a bunch of them and at the rediculous price you pay for them they are probably air shipped from the Chinese Military Industrial Complex to the US of Gay by air.

Post by **Jackal** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:47 pm

Canidae wrote:The first track of it is probably a crate of a bunch of them and at the rediculous price you pay for them they are probably air shipped from the Chinese Military Industrial Complex to the US of Gay by air.

mine was pretty cheap actually. I got it from the apple store for education. and it is now sitting in the local fedex depot.

Post by **R00k** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:51 pm

Jackal wrote:he's kidding you silly monkey.just like the goats.

Oh.

Post by **R00k** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:52 pm

riddla wrote:as if 64k is good quality

I meant that if they limit it to 64, then would there be a way to change the firmware back, so it will actually play decent rates again?

Apparently it's a moot point now anyway, but surely you didn't think I meant 64 was 'high quality'?