I understand that it could be shipped early, but man it seams that this year everything I want is super back ordered or impossible to find. Had to wait a month for my Nexus 6, now I'm having to wait a month for this Watch. Uh, I'm very impatient when it comes to electronics, waiting SUCKS!
Zenwatch Availability
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looks like its in stock on the google play store as of right now.
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I used this link to check availability in local stores. Input your zip code, and then check In Stock Today, and it will show BB stores in the area with stock. But the B&M stores have very little stock, two stores in UT recently got two ZenWatches each, one store sold out within a day, and I was able to get up to the other store the next day to get the one they still had in stock.
http://m.bestbuy.com/m/e/product/storesearch.jsp?skuId=9835147&cl=y&pid=1219438695422&command=ajaxcall
(If you don't think it's working because no stores have stock, try out ZIP 98373, as of right now, there are four stores in WA with ZenWatch stock)
http://m.bestbuy.com/m/e/product/storesearch.jsp?skuId=9835147&cl=y&pid=1219438695422&command=ajaxcall
(If you don't think it's working because no stores have stock, try out ZIP 98373, as of right now, there are four stores in WA with ZenWatch stock)
Heads up about trying to get a ZenWatch in Canada using the US Best Buy's "International Order" feature.
Short version - it's pretty much useless. They only let you ship to US addresses, which was to be expected - but they also block any known mail receiver or forwarder. Note, these are not the same thing. A receiver simply receives packages and mail - you still have to drive across the border to collect the packages. It would be like sending to a friend in the US and then having them hold it for you until you visit. A forwarder actually repackages the items and ships it to you in Canada. Best Buy US rejects all addresses from either. This would be like having it sent to a friend and having them ship it to you.
I found this out the hard way after putting in web orders on their site - by phone - trying different addresses - only to have my order autocancelled after 5-15 minutes because "the address could not be confirmed".
Since I live close to the border - about 45 mins to the nearest US Best Buy, I usually just order it for pick up at the store - but for some reason the ZenWatch can't be ordered that way. Worse, they won't ship to store - from the website. What I had to do was drive down to the BB in the US and even then at the customer service desk, they insisted they couldn't order it to the store.
So I wander to the wearable section and there's the ZenWatch on display! I flag over a sales clerk and ask if they have it in stock. They don't, but he offers to (wait for it) order one in and have it delivered to the store. (Gnnnn) I pay for it - a day later it's on its way to the store - five days later, I drive down and pick it up.
Exactly as if they'd sent it to my mail receiver.
Seriously, a true pain. Since then, they've updated their website to reflect the policy and note that:
International orders are intended for use in the US, and it is assumed that products will be used in the US.
Best Buy does not ship to known freight forwarders, and orders to such will be canceled..
Sooo.. they're letting Canadians order products from US Best Buy stores... why exactly? We can't bring the products back to Canada (well, of course we do - but you get the point).
Clearly, Best Buy is on crack. I recommend Amazon - if they carry the same product - since they don't block shipments to mail receivers. Alas, right now, the ZenWatch is a BB exclusive other than the US Google Play - which we can't access from up here.
PS: There's this North American Free Trade Agreement, that's suppose to encourage free trade between our countries. Obviously not that useful for consumers. To show how it *could* work, I give you the European Common Market. Under EU law, no country in the EU may discriminate against any citizen of any country in the EU. This includes shopping., as Apple found out. Every country can charge what it wants, but it can't stop someone from buying a product offered for sale if they're not in that country. This lets EU citizens shop in ALL EU countries and find the best deal, or buy any product available in any country.
That's how it should work.
Short version - it's pretty much useless. They only let you ship to US addresses, which was to be expected - but they also block any known mail receiver or forwarder. Note, these are not the same thing. A receiver simply receives packages and mail - you still have to drive across the border to collect the packages. It would be like sending to a friend in the US and then having them hold it for you until you visit. A forwarder actually repackages the items and ships it to you in Canada. Best Buy US rejects all addresses from either. This would be like having it sent to a friend and having them ship it to you.
I found this out the hard way after putting in web orders on their site - by phone - trying different addresses - only to have my order autocancelled after 5-15 minutes because "the address could not be confirmed".
Since I live close to the border - about 45 mins to the nearest US Best Buy, I usually just order it for pick up at the store - but for some reason the ZenWatch can't be ordered that way. Worse, they won't ship to store - from the website. What I had to do was drive down to the BB in the US and even then at the customer service desk, they insisted they couldn't order it to the store.
So I wander to the wearable section and there's the ZenWatch on display! I flag over a sales clerk and ask if they have it in stock. They don't, but he offers to (wait for it) order one in and have it delivered to the store. (Gnnnn) I pay for it - a day later it's on its way to the store - five days later, I drive down and pick it up.
Exactly as if they'd sent it to my mail receiver.
Seriously, a true pain. Since then, they've updated their website to reflect the policy and note that:
International orders are intended for use in the US, and it is assumed that products will be used in the US.
Best Buy does not ship to known freight forwarders, and orders to such will be canceled..
Sooo.. they're letting Canadians order products from US Best Buy stores... why exactly? We can't bring the products back to Canada (well, of course we do - but you get the point).
Clearly, Best Buy is on crack. I recommend Amazon - if they carry the same product - since they don't block shipments to mail receivers. Alas, right now, the ZenWatch is a BB exclusive other than the US Google Play - which we can't access from up here.
PS: There's this North American Free Trade Agreement, that's suppose to encourage free trade between our countries. Obviously not that useful for consumers. To show how it *could* work, I give you the European Common Market. Under EU law, no country in the EU may discriminate against any citizen of any country in the EU. This includes shopping., as Apple found out. Every country can charge what it wants, but it can't stop someone from buying a product offered for sale if they're not in that country. This lets EU citizens shop in ALL EU countries and find the best deal, or buy any product available in any country.
That's how it should work.
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I'm a bit confused here - how is it an international order if they only ship to the US?
Qmwei
Most US websites will only let you enter a US address as a billing address. Typically, you get stopped when you have to enter a zip code which is 5 numbers. Canada (like the UK) uses a set of letters and numbers (X0X 0X0 for example) which is blocked or rejected. They also list the states in a drop down list, so you can't enter the province you're in. This means the order will get rejected by the credit card company since you cannot enter an address that matches the one on your card account info.
Most also restrict your shipping address in a similar way. That's why mail receivers and freight forwarders came into being - they give you an address inside the US to which you can send a package and either collect it yourself (mail receivers) or have them repackage it and ship it to you in your home country (freight forwarders).
Just to put the icing on the cake, it's commonplace for American branches of multinational companies (like ASUS, Samsung, Toshiba, Google, HP, LG, Acer. Dell...etc) to open a Canadian branch and then enter into a reciprocal 'no-compete' agreement with themselves. So Samsung US, for example, will not allow an American retailer to sell their products to a Canadian, and Samsung Canada won't let a Canadian retailer sell their products to an American. This would be fine, except - Canada has 1/10th the population of the US and so we get a tiny subset of the range of products sold by the US version of the same company. Case in point, for the longest time, Samsung didn't sell ANY of their computer hardware in Canada - just phones and appliances... and we couldn't buy them from the US other than going down and buying in person.
Again, in Europe, this would be illegal. It would be illegal if Samsung and say ASUS did the same thing *within* Canada. But since it's across a border, it's allowed.
Well, not to sound sarcastic (seriously - I'm not) - but it's because the person making the order is from another country than the US. The 'within in the US' part is the crazy part.
Most US websites will only let you enter a US address as a billing address. Typically, you get stopped when you have to enter a zip code which is 5 numbers. Canada (like the UK) uses a set of letters and numbers (X0X 0X0 for example) which is blocked or rejected. They also list the states in a drop down list, so you can't enter the province you're in. This means the order will get rejected by the credit card company since you cannot enter an address that matches the one on your card account info.
Most also restrict your shipping address in a similar way. That's why mail receivers and freight forwarders came into being - they give you an address inside the US to which you can send a package and either collect it yourself (mail receivers) or have them repackage it and ship it to you in your home country (freight forwarders).
Just to put the icing on the cake, it's commonplace for American branches of multinational companies (like ASUS, Samsung, Toshiba, Google, HP, LG, Acer. Dell...etc) to open a Canadian branch and then enter into a reciprocal 'no-compete' agreement with themselves. So Samsung US, for example, will not allow an American retailer to sell their products to a Canadian, and Samsung Canada won't let a Canadian retailer sell their products to an American. This would be fine, except - Canada has 1/10th the population of the US and so we get a tiny subset of the range of products sold by the US version of the same company. Case in point, for the longest time, Samsung didn't sell ANY of their computer hardware in Canada - just phones and appliances... and we couldn't buy them from the US other than going down and buying in person.
Again, in Europe, this would be illegal. It would be illegal if Samsung and say ASUS did the same thing *within* Canada. But since it's across a border, it's allowed.
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Order from Best Buy on ebay, pay with PayPal. They shipped right to my mail receiver as usual.
Best Buy is selling the ZenWatch via eBay? The paying part wasn't the difficult part - I have a US credit card with my mail receiver as the billing address. It was bouncing the shipping address...
PS: If Best Buy does this - it makes their 'international order' policy even more inane.
Yep, every morning around the same time they put a few up for sale on ebay. It's easier than Worst Buy's own site and ebay is aggressive about forcing everybody take paypal. In the end BB can't shut out your mail receiver if PayPal okays it.Best Buy is selling the ZenWatch via eBay? The paying part wasn't the difficult part - I have a US credit card with my mail receiver as the billing address. It was bouncing the shipping address...
PS: If Best Buy does this - it makes their 'international order' policy even more inane.
I'm not sure that's actually how it works. The payment supplier (Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, etc) can't dictate to the seller where they can and can't ship to - although some sellers claim they can't ship to a different address than the billing address (which I think is suspect since with other sellers, using the same credit card, they accept a different shipping address).
In truth, it seems more likely that Best Buy is intentionally bypassing their own rules for the things they sell on eBay. The bigger question is: why are they selling things on eBay? Also, I did a search on eBay for anything sold by 'Best Buy' and couldn't find anything. Lots of ZenWatches, but they were all being sold by individuals (and at rather inflated prices for the most part).
Still, definitely worth checking it out tomorrow. Don't need a ZenWatch now - but I may need something else in the future. And of course, none of this negates anything I've said - using eBay to get around BB is kind of a 'hack'... We should be able to just buy directly - where it gets sent within the US shouldn't be their (or the credit card company's) concern as long as I pay my bill.
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