[ChristopherTD]

Folk in Argentina, Australia and Poland have posted recently to say that they have it.

Insight are still not showing any real delivery date for my order.

Has anyone managed to get the WM2003 upgrade in the UK yet, and if so where did they get it?

[ChristopherTD]

Folk in Argentina, Australia and Poland have posted recently to say that they have it.

Insight are still not showing any real delivery date for my order.

Has anyone managed to get the WM2003 upgrade in the UK yet, and if so where did they get it?

[Jereboam]

Also keenly interested. Let's keep this thread open...

J

[putthegundownkinkade]

i spoke to insight today and they told me that they're expecting a big order in today or tomorrow but that they only get the os in once it's been ordered, they do not carry it as stock so if you are waiting to see it in stock before you order it then you are wasting your time. I would have thought that HP would be able to get his whole thing running a bit more smoothly.

Will

[ChristopherTD]

That sounds hopeful - I placed an order several weeks ago, so it should be included in their shipment...

[Jereboam]

Is Insight the only way to order this in the UK? I have checked their site and they carry four different types and show stock availability on certain dates. Are they HP's official distributor or is this more ad-hoc....?

J

[Jereboam]

OK, I bit the bullet and ordered from Insight. Also spoke to them by telephone, they said they had stock arriving today or tomorrow, at least that's what their system showed. It would be shipped as soon as it arrived anyway. We'll see. Their page is kind of cranky...I had lots of timeouts but my order is at last showing in my account.

J

[ChristopherTD]

Their system has shown stock arriving "today" for the last 2 weeks. If that is all the information that the sales operative was quoting then it is bogus. Let us hope that they were looking at some other indicator...

[Jereboam]

That's why I hadn't bothered ordering until today...I had heard that claims of stock and shipping dates were not being adhered to...

Well they haven't charged my card yet, at least it didn't show up this afternoon.

In the absence of an alternative, other than downloading it illegally from an IRC chatroom, I wanted to get my order in. I won't be back in the UK for a few weeks so can afford to wait.

If someone comes up with anything more immediate I'll cancel this order and go elsewhere.

J

[Jereboam]

For the 5450, now showing 9 expected 12/09. I guess they just keep adjusting forward as suits.

I must echo the previous comment that HP really should have this worked out better. Why should I wait for a CD version? Why can't we just pay HP direct and download? Appalling.

J

[Chris Spera]

Originally Posted by Jereboam

Why can't we just pay HP direct and download? Appalling.

J

Don't get me started!!! :soapbox:

I've been screaming just this for about 2 months. I'm in The States and got my upgrade a week or two ago. (after it being ordered on 7-July-03)

HP could have saved themselves a lot of time, money, bad press and poor customer opinion ratings if they had just made this available for purchase and download.

It also would have saved them the embarrassment of shipping the wrong product to the wrong customers, too.


Kind Regards,


Christopher Spera