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Oculus Shipping FAQ

yuanxiaoyu
Honored Guest
There are alot of people asking the same questions over and over again
I hope this thread would clear up the confusion and answer the questions

1: when will me rift arrive?
No one can give an exact estimate, not even oculus can; now that the shipping is picking up, if you are not from north america you can expect the delivery to be within your shipping estimate (ie the line saying "expected shipping in september" or whatnot)

2: how does oculus ship the rifts?
It ships primarily by region with order number being secondary queue; it seems like each "batch" sends out 1000 units.
It is unclear how each region i handled(it is normally EU then NA then others, but such pattern seems to be inconsistent)

I will elaborate how the shipping system works with a simple example
Say there are two regions (EU and NA)
There are 10 orders, with order number 1,4,5,7,9 being from NA and 2,3,6,8,10 from EU
Each batch sends out 3 units
for week 1: say the batch is going to EU, the order 2,3,6 will be shipped
for week 2: batch is going to NA, order 1,4,5 will be shipped
Side note: during week 2 order number 11 is placed for EU and number 12 is placed for NA
for week 3: EU batch, order 8,10 and 11 will be shipped
For week 4: NA batch 7,9,12 will be shipped

Note that the waiting time is not consistent: order 11 only waited for 1 week, 12 waited 2 weeks, 7&9 waited for 4 weeks etc.
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Kirenus
Explorer
It might be a bit out of date by now, but nmitchell's Logistics post still gets the general idea across.