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OMEGA Speedmaster Speedy Tuesday Limited Edition (Arrivals)

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It's new for omega, and as such I would expect their marketing dept to follow the reaction on forums/social media etc very closely to gauge effectiveness and customer reaction/perception.

If I worked for omega and saw people posting on forums their reservation number and asking for offers I would simply cancel their order.

Equally whilst I understand the reasons for the 12GMT launch time, given the initial reaction from west coasters and Aussies they could very easily have ensured that unconfirmed orders after 24hrs were made available preferentially to these markets.
One of the advantages of social media etc is that organizations can adapt and react quickly to such feedback

Yes, would have to agree with this. On an aside, I wonder if there are people still refreshing away...? Might be time for Omega to refresh their website with some uptodate information...
 
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Equally whilst I understand the reasons for the 12GMT launch time, given the initial reaction from west coasters and Aussies

Aussies ??
No drama for me
I was online when @Robert-Jan first put the thread on here and would have been one of the first to view it , and then logged onto omega and could have picked any number. Picked 1861 ( movements are my thing ) then sat up and watched the next 4 hours of Fun unfold.
 
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It's a global market. If Omega are going to release at a given time, on first come first served, some people were always going to struggle with it being night time. Just so happened in this instance it was US west coast. Had to be someone.
 
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With all the buzz surrounding this watch I honestly feel like I won the lottery getting the pre-order. The crazy thing is being in VA we had a snow day and I was woke up by my 4 year old son cause he had to pee. I saw the notification on my phone and the rest is history. I will go on the record and say that if I somehow fall into financial ruin and cannot afford to buy it when the time comes I will ensure someone here gets a chance to get it.
Similar case. Been religious about deleting emails. Glanced at the email, deleted, and hit undo. It was right after the email landed and I'm in middle east, I tried 1977 but taken. Probably could have gotten a rather low number but chose birthday. Excited about this one!

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This complaining about the launch time has been beaten to death. Omega simply did not imagine that the watches would sell out in less than 12h. I am sure that if they repeat this online initiative they will work something out to make sure all timezones have a fair chance.
 
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Closest OB to me is in Roseville CA. I am hoping that I actually do get mine and that fine print is just a formality of sorts....

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I really believe that the fine print is exactly that: fine print, and a formality. It's there as a catch-all, most likely to protect against a rare, but genuine screw-up where a wrong LE number is sent out. And second, to also protect against the case of watches being over-allocated.

The most realistic case is wrong number shipped due to human error, but I'd expect that to be very, very unlikely. If it were to happen, I would expect that Omega would likely go as far as they could to correct the error. But if they couldn't, that catch-all is there. With regard to over-allocation, the most likely circumstance there would have been a website error at the time of bookings, where it simply accepted reservations non-stop, double, triple, 10x bookings for same LE number, and the sorts. If anything like that were to have happened, we'd likely have heard by now. Either directly from Omega, or from 100 members all saying "I got LE number 2012!!"

So I think the family on here can rest easy. 😀
 
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Can we take a moment to reflect on the biggest thing here - online reservations 😲

While I get the online link with Speedy Tuesday - online reservation for an LE is huge!
Agree in general but without a required (down-) payment I fear it will be abused...
 
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Am I the only one who went with the number I was allocated and don't care which one I get?
 
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Am I the only one who went with the number I was allocated and don't care which one I get?
The last 300-400 people probably all did too, its no big deal really what number you get just some have a slight personal preference that has meaning to them alone.
 
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Am I the only one who went with the number I was allocated and don't care which one I get?

If you have either 1975, 0404, 0402, 0204, 1118, 1811, 2007, 2009, let's talk, please 😁
 
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1149. Not, in case Omega is watching, selling...

The last two digits are only 31 days off my son's birth day... That could work 😁

(note to anyone from Omega who might be monitoring this thread: this is a joke. I swear.)
 
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Am I the only one who went with the number I was allocated and don't care which one I get?

I ended up going with a random number after trying my birthdate and birth year.

Very happy with "my" number because it is mine!


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I just got this email:
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I got that exact email from the same person. So safe to say that e-mail is computer generated to all people who got reservations.
 
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you mean, that gorgeous email from Raynald I got with his signature was computer-generated, too?!?

😬
 
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The web page now has a waiting list, so if you didnt got a watch fill your contact information

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