HTC Vive to cost $799?

[Cosimo]

Have they given a shipping date?

 

[Rilot]

Supposed to be from the 5th April. Nothing in the order confirmation though.

 

[VincentHanna]

I'm on Holiday for 3 weeks in April, so hoping my Oculus Rift comes before then.

 

[Princey]

I'm guessing this is simple to cancel before it ships?

 

[Ghosteh]

No way would there be that much difference between 2 options, and I doubt they would ship a product like this via any other method anyway.

I'm fully expecting a drone to deliver my Vive

I'm fully expecting it to be a lie on Reddit, who'd have thunk it lol.

Either way £50 odd for shipping is steep no matter how you look at it. And people were up in arms over Oculus's shipping charge lol.

 

[ryryryan]

Got my order in a couple minutes after it opened.

Now I just gotta convince my girlfriend to switch the Study and 2nd Bedroom around so I can have permanent large VR space! Would give me a 9x9 ft space. Current is more like 4x6

Wasn't impressed with the proper shafting I got from the postage costs. Oh well.

 

[pantbash]

I'm guessing this is simple to cancel before it ships?

The cancellation policy on the HTC site looked UK standard. Ie 14 days after shipping, no questions asked return.

I assume it's the same if you use PayPal, I used CreditCard

 

[Captain_Bosh]

Yep I checked the drop down also. No other option but Express.

Hopefully that's some kind of mistake. I'll happily take slow over express if it brings the price down.

Yeah same here, I've sent them a Support Ticket just to query if standard shipping was supposed to be available or not.

 

[VincentHanna]

My friend said he paid £4.50 for shipping.

 

[hyperseven]

Just convinced myself to buy one and saying 'sold out', oh well must be fate.

Sold Out - Sorry this item has sold out - please check back in a little while and we'll have more.
RETURN TO VIVE STORE

 

[Captain_Bosh]

Just convinced myself to buy one and saying 'sold out', oh well must be fate.

Apparently they are not sold out and you just need to refresh the page a bit (according to Reddit anyway)

 

[Skynet5]

Urgg forgot about this. 50 for shipping. That's just wrong.

Having ago at ordering..
Page at check out just hangs.

 

[Skynet5]

I might just keep with my rift. It'll be fun...and cheaper.

 

[Milky1]

Got my pre-order in although it took an hour for the site to allow me to get to check out!

 

[Chevens]

Well I now have a pre order for both, just have to work out which one to cancel.
I love the sound of room scale, just wondering I will actually spend any time using it. It all comes down to software and I'm guessing 90% of the VR titles I play will be from a seat. May be a different story 12 months from now. We may be waiting for PSVR games to be ported :S

 

[Telecaster]

Was 50/50, but that shipping....

No thanks, will wait.

 

[spikerules]

Do people the shipping for Oculus was around the same price with less stuff in the package and likely a lot lighter? Why all the hate now for Vive?

 

[Skynet5]

Preorderd. Struggled on the phone. Seems to not like phones...setting request desktop site worked.

5 hrs in no idea when my order will be turning up. Gonna think long and hard for a couple of weeks and cancel one...maybe both.

 

[Ghosteh]

UK order page still showing April, but some places are now showing May, so maybe they've pre-allocated stock to countries already. So fingers crossed we should be in the first(ish) batch .

 

[Cavallino]

Cant believe shipping is $30 in US.

I mean at least if it was the same digits but in £....