tripp: I tried to talk to someone today at jbhifi also found no phone number or email address for web orders only a online form. Their NZ Twitter and Facebook accounts have not been used for a long time. I ended up talking to jbhifi in AU via twitter who then looked up my ordered and contacted the Albany store in Auckland. Got a reply that the store will contact me. Only got the message back from jbhifi in AU at 5pm however.

i'm on day 2 of waiting for a reply from JB about my online order,, i used their contact form,  of the 2 echo dots for 99,  for which the payment failed ( completely my fault), when i attempt to update my card, the order goes from the invoiced 99 dollars, to wanting the now 178 dollars. Which is my query with them if i will be charged the higher price, if i don't hear back from them tomorrow, ill be visiting the Wairau Park Store, which im sure a person in that store told me is where all their online orders are shipped from, so ill try and settle the matter in store and collect.

tripp:

 

I am not really going to leave $250 dollars worth of stuff at the front door with little weather cover.  

 

Given the choice I wouldn't either, but unfortunately the courier doesn't always give you the option. As I suspected my signature required delivery was signed with the couriers ID and left to soak in the rain. Luckily the two Echo Dot packages were well wrapped in plastic inside the soggy cardboard box they were shipped in.

I only got the shipped notification at about 1:30 pm today. Hopeless for a pre order, again JB Hifi stuff up the experience.

Still waiting..... I did a re-direct and it still says "waiting for a courier" Will give it to lunch time, will go to the albany store after work and have a chat to them.

fearandloathing:

JEDENZED: What date did you place your order if you don’t mind me asking?

23 Jan

Never pre-ordering anything from JB again.

Ordered 2 Dots 19 Jan, shipping confirmation yesterday 4.30pm, delivered today about 8.30 - or they would have been if I'd been there, but not left on the doorstep after the courier didn't sign for them and I presume on a tour of the locality before I pick up from the Post Office later today or tomorrow.

Still no idea what I'm going to do with them.

rb99:

 

Still no idea what I'm going to do with them.

 

I am keen to swap with one of the Echo Dot with Google Home Mini if you are interested. I missed the boat on pre-ordering the Dot's.

The local JB HiFi in Hamilton had Echos and Dots in store at lunchtime today.

No Echo plus units, though.

They also seem to have started stocking Hue bulbs to go with them. Including the newer gen colour bulbs (screw fixing only) and the white bulbs that can change from warm white to daylight. Neither of which I've seen in NZ before. 

maxeon:

 

rb99:

 

Still no idea what I'm going to do with them.

 

 

I am keen to swap with one of the Echo Dot with Google Home Mini if you are interested. I missed the boat on pre-ordering the Dot's.

 

Thanks, but should be able to find a use for them, hopefully at least as an intercom. As I mentioned somewhere here, yelling 'you're dinners ready' through closed bedroom doors on a different floor gets a bit boring after a while...