How to track your gold copy!

[FISKER_Q]

Just found out of this:

Go to Fedex's homepage http://www.fedex.com

Go to the tracking service, use alternate reference

You should be presented with something like this:

Reference: (Put in "Valve")
Date: (Put in 8th november 2004)
Country: (Put in your country)
Postal/Zip (Put in your zip or postal code).

Then it should give you a list of packages in that area for the gold edition, and also list the estimated delivery, mine is 10th november 2004 11:59PM.

Edit: Just forgot country.

[Harryz]

Thanks for link.

[iamaelephant]

Heh, cool.

[czrsink]

I wish I would have upgraded now :(

Someone in the UK, be kind enough to let us know when you receive your Gold package?

[silverstealth89]

lol listen it will come when it comes

[RoyaleWithCheese]

w00t thanks! mine will arrive tomorrow!

[Razor]

I wish I would have upgraded now :(

Someone in the UK, be kind enough to let us know when you receive your Gold package?


It says that i get mine tomorrow at dinnertime.

[Feath]

Mine doesn't appear to be listed. Although I did order on the 18th, so it was a bit later than everyone else.

[feylya]

Doesn't seem to be working for Ireland :(

[T.H.C.138]

ordered mine 10 minutes into the madness and nothing is listed for my area..

[FISKER_Q]

Might not be listed if there's too many results,i will try to find a way to limit it.

[deltron zero]

I ordered on day one, no results for my area. unless it's been delivered already :-O

[AcousticToad]

Cool, tomorrow at 8pm for me, UK time. Cheers for the link.

[FISKER_Q]

It will still show up if delivered.

The problem will either be different curriers or being blocked the results because of too many.

I know that the first digits of the tracking number will be 6635564 however that leaves 99999 possible combinations for the rest.

[Eternal_Oz]

woohoo at 6 this evening (GMT) my pack arrived in Standsted Airport UK with an estimate of tomorrow!!!!!!

to be honest id forgotten until today about it! so im hyped!

[feylya]

Someone give me a UK post code. I just want to check if I'm using this thing right cos I'm still not getting results.

[WhiteZero]

Didnt work for me

[Eternal_Oz]

hi go search by "Reference" on the right type VALVE then dest country etc.

it worked for me

[T.H.C.138]

did anyone get the "shipping confirmation" from VALVe? e-mail I think it was supposed to be...

[feylya]

Nope, didn't work. You try it for Ireland.

Keeps saying Unique match not found.

[Eternal_Oz]

ah ok, i didnt get that confirmation either

ill post a snap of my experience

[Malfunction]

Ugh, I entered all of the information, but it isn't bringing back any results. I even tried changing the date slightly, but nothing. ;(

[WhiteZero]

Do you put nothing for the Account #?

[Eternal_Oz]

damn it didnt work but anyway the fedex thing worked for em and i live in Cramlington UK

[feylya]

what's your post code?

[Eternal_Oz]

yeah put nothing for the account no.

i put the 8th of november and it found back history of my shipment

[SCoomby]

I followed the instructions given by the first poster and left the account blank. It's showing my package will arive tomorrow at 8pm (which is probably midday UK time). Excellent :)

[Eternal_Oz]

Great mines the same 8:00PM but it does show it in GMT m8 so it may be the next day

[feylya]

Done, cheers.

[Eternal_Oz]

work for ya?

[Camon_Draconis]

is this only for uk peeps, cause im in usa and it cant find mine at all.

[Alec_85]

I can't get it to work. It says my info is invalid ;( Can anyone else try?
Valve
8th november 2004
Sweden
58666 (or 586 66 which is how to type it here in Sweden).

Also, is 11:59PM local time or U.S.? Having someone knocking my door at midnight wouldn't be that great :)

Edit: I like the disguised devil sign of my postal code. Agreed? :)

[feylya]

Aye, I saw two packages for your post code so maybe Ireland is special...

[frusion]

meh.. doesnt work

[Eternal_Oz]

i seriously doubt they will deliver 2morrow, whenever you wait for something in the UK its always late

[frusion]

didnt work heres my stuff



Valve

November 8th 2004


USA


21108

[Eternal_Oz]

hmm well my pack was scanned through Standsted UK at 6:41PM GMT so maye they will be on the next fedex flight?

[Eternal_Oz]

this is becasue perhaps ive had mine orderd since the start of ordering and henceforth mine was at the front of the queue?

[kaf11]

about how much does shipping and handling come to? i havent ordered yet.

[CyberPitz]

It's not working for me, could someone do the values, and for the USA could you put zip code 64801...it is telling me something wrong about Valve

[Ranadok]

Mine's about an hour and a half drive away from my house (I'm in Canada)... how exciting. I might get it today.

[Eternal_Oz]

my shipping for the UK was a little OTT at $29.95

[Fender357]

ordered mine 10 minutes into the madness and nothing is listed for my area..

Me too...Valve must not like California.

[feylya]

this is becasue perhaps ive had mine orderd since the start of ordering and henceforth mine was at the front of the queue?

I ordered mine about 10 minutes after it was available on Steam :(

[CyberPitz]

Me too...Valve must not like California.
ahhh, maybe that's my problem, they hate Missouri!! :(

[Spaz_McNasty]

lol they must hate arkansas too...

Not found
No information for the following shipments has been received by our system yet. Please try again later or contactCustomer Service.

gots to get mine!

WHY MUST YOU MOCK US UNMARKED ONE!?!

[01000101]

Didn't work for me.


On another note.
FedEx > UPS.

I ordered Halo2 through EBGames.com with one day shipping. I should be playing Halo2 right now, but UPS screwed my order up and so now, I won't be receiving it 'til late tomorrow.

I HATE UPS!

I always get my stuff late with UPS, FedEx is on time, everytime.

I have one day shipping with HL2, UPS better not screw that up too.

I did call EBGames though, they refunded my ten dollars shipping. So that was nice of 'em.

[Dr0ndeh]

works fine for me, im in the UK tho..

Estimated delivery
Nov 10, 2004 8:00 PM

[Alec_85]

I bet some of us can't find their 'cause they're not sent out yet. Only those who ordered the first day has gotten their stuff shipped according to Cliffe. What about today's shipment?

[MadLog1c]

Estimated delivery: Nov 9, 2004 5:00 PM

Looks like I could be getting it tonight. It weighs 4.0 lbs. Hoorah.

[deltron zero]

I bet some of us can't find their 'cause they're not sent out yet. Only those who ordered the first day has gotten their stuff shipped according to Cliffe. What about today's shipment?

I ordered on day one and apparently it didn't ship yet

USA
18018

[FISKER_Q]

Remember there might be other reasons for why Fedex doesn't have your listings:

Either different curriers(Could be plausible since you are in the US)
Or too many hits(Like 10 or something ordering from the same area)

I wish Cliffe would confirm though.

[cspencer]

Hey I ordered mine on the first day, but mine hasn't been sent out yet either.

[L337_Assasain]

The reason it won't list some peoples (Read the message it gives you) is because it will only give UNIQUE delivery info, thus if more than one person in the same area ordered on the same day, it can't give info. Now all i have to do is find these people, and pay them a "visit", hehe.

[capitalq]

Bought Gold package 5 minutes after availability and Not found
No information for the following shipments has been received by our system yet. Please try again later or contactCustomer Service.
Argh. I'm guessing they don't like New York either?

[cmulder]

yipee mine is at STANSTED and will be here tomorrow 8pm :cheers:

[Spiffae]

they don't seem to like NY orders. *waiting* :rolleyes:

[Harald Blåtand]

hi all..
just had to join when I saw these threads..

apparently they don't like some Danes as well

[kelerain]

On the page it pretty explicitly states

"Only unique matches will be displayed when searching without an account number"

Otherwise someone could type in some common shippers info (amazon.com for example) and know exactly which porches to rip off.

I called them, and with my address and the info that it was valve software shipping to my address on the 8th of november, they told me that it was scheduled for delivery 'tomorrow'. They cannot give the recipient a tracking number, only the shipper can get (and give) that information.

I live in Portland, Oregon, USA, less than half a state away from valve, so I would imagine most of the US will be waiting a day or two, international of course, will take longer.

For the US: http://www.fedex.com/us/customersupport/express/phonemenu.html

Dial 1.800.463.3339 and press 0 for an operator

Internationally:
1.800.247.4747 and probably the same phone menu

TDD:
1.800.238.4461

[Dramavian]

Estimated delivery Nov 15, 2004 5:00 PM

To Western Australia.

If thats EST its roughly 25 hours before HL2s global release..though im such a delivery noob I have no idea what to make of the last comment in the tracking info (dated the 8th): Package data transmitted to FedEx; package not in FedEx possession

[JimmehH]

It's in Stansted.
12:00pm tomorrow. Wooooo!

I love living just off a fairly major train route sometimes.

[Alec_85]

I ordered on day one and apparently it didn't ship yet

USA
18018
Strange. Anyone know if the FedEx delivery time is local or not? I've never seen FedEx in Sweden though. So maybe the local post offices screwes things up :) Mine shouldn't ship for a couple of days if they only send those who ordered that day. 2-3 days from now for me if so.

[Black-Falcon]

Well since almost everyone else is getting their stuff about now, i'm going to assume that my stuff will be here shortly aswell. (Mesa Az here. Didnt show up on the page and im too skurred to call them)

[Hazar]

Didn't find mine.

use this (http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/zipdecode/) to try another zip code near yours ;)

[zencat]

wow, well nothing showed up for me on website so i tried callling and they still did not find anything shipping to my address. im in chicago and i ordered gold package seconds after it became available. ;(

[frusion]

it seems like everyone cept the uk is getting listed

[zencat]

it seems like everyone cept the uk is getting listed

edit: yep

[skatevans]

this shit doesnt work

[kakagar]

can't get it to work for me Argentina they might be asking where the f*ck is that country?heh goddam third-world country

[serum.157]

mine worked but the tracking looks a little messed up...

my package is coming to edmonton, and for some reason this is what is shown on the tracking page...

memphis, TN? wtf?

[[]D | |V| []D]

w0w i didnt expect it to arrive so soon, it say s nov. 11 at 8pm so i should get it on friday

[JamesPicard_007]

I ordered my gold package on day one, but Fedex says there's nothing coming to my town. I'm sad. ;_;

[Abix]

I just called up FedEx and talked to a rep, gave the rep my info, and was told it was FedEx ground, shipped yesterday and expected to be here on the 13th. Just for reference, Im located on the Florida Panhandle.

[MiccyNarc]

they don't seem to like NY orders. *waiting* :rolleyes:
Same here............