I got mine just over a week ago and as I was about to be on holiday for over a week when I received the notification that it had been released from customs and was available at the local depot, I called to confirm that I will be able to collect at the same time as pay the VAT+fee… I then picked it up on the way to my holidays… Got fortunate that I didn’t have the spinning wheel issue. Works as expected for me (including the expected non-functional call functionality as SMARTY/Three have basically turned off 3g…).
If there’s a get together somewhere reasonably close to Oxford (few hours drive…) I’m all up for meeting up 