iPad shipment dates extend to 2-3 weeks

Has anyone who ordered an engraved ipad2 received a shipping confirmation?

My iPad, which was bought at 4AM EST is now prepared for shipment now. As for my Smart Cover still not ready for shipment :(

Set the alarm for 4am, placed my order only to find out 3 hours later that my CC was declined even though I had called my CC 2 days earlier warning them to not restrict my CC that i was making a purchase through the apple store with date and time and amount ill be spending and still they marked it as suspicious activity when the order was placed. What point is it to have a CC if one cant use it. Too much security on CC and now it cost me about another week in receiving b/c i had to place the order again around 7am. Very frustrating!

Pretty much the same, 64gb black wifi iPad with a stamp of 12:45am PST (I'm on the east coast, so that'd be 3:45am) and a black leather smart cover
Neither have shipped yet

iPad is saying 3-5 business days with 3/18-3/25 and the cover is 1-2 business days with 3/16 - 3/21 delivery

Same for me, my order confirmation is stamped at 12:56AM PST, 3G 64GB Black, no engraving, and shipping is in 3-5 days with delivery is btwn 3/18 and 3/25. The cover I bought with it already shipped (of course). Are there really people whose iPad portion of their orders have already shipped?

@Kevin - I live in LA, don't feel shafted at all. I was prepared to stay up until 1AM and luckily it was available before then. I'd rather stay up until 1AM than have to get up at 4AM on the East Coast. P.S. It's "woe is me", not "whoa is me", unless you're a horse.

It is likely that no order was processed before 1:02am. I placed mine at 12:30am pst and my confirmation says it was processed at 1:02. See below:


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Product   Qty.
IPAD WI-FI 3G 64GB BLACK - PRSN-USA
Engraved
Ships: 3 - 5 business days
Delivers: Mar 18 - Mar 25
  1
IPAD SMART COVER GREEN-USA
Ships: 1-2 Business days
Delivers: Mar 15 - Mar 18
  1

Even though there are no Education discounts, ordering online from an Education-section of the Apple Store will get you first priority shipping.

Just got off the phone with Apple, they said my order shipped about an hour ago..hopefully it will be nice and quick..

Sorry for the double post, I messed something up.

All of us on the west coast got SHAFTED on this!! I cannot believe that Apple opened the store at 1:00am..normal people like myself, with a job are NOT UP AT 1:00AM...when I woke up at 6:00am to buy my new iPad2, I was shocked to see that I have to wait 2 TO 3 WEEKS...ARE YOU KIDDING ME, what a total joke!

Why did Apple not wait until there was a fair playing ground for all people, not just the east coast to get the new iPad with 3 to 5 Bus days??

I guess I will just have to live with my old, slow, heavy, thick legacy iPad for another 3 weeks...whoa is me..!!

I was able to start my order about 3 minutes before 1:00am ( time according to web )..and my estimated delivery date is Thursday or Friday..my receipt said 3-5 days, I assume business days, so that seems about right. Got my confirmation email just about an hour later. There was a limit of 2 per purchase so I ordered 2 more with another account. These will be my first Ipads, so I did not go through the ordering process with the first one..
smooth so far, lets see if the deliver on time.