Just wanted to share my fun little adventure when I got my 5 today. I used another lines Upgrade on my plan for the phone. I'm using Verizon Wireless and when I received it I tried to activate it on the line without turning the phone on, but the SIM card got locked to the wrong number anyways. Well, I headed out to my closest VZW Corp store and he said they got 6 extra SIM's, all sold out.
I then partake on a journey visiting three more close stores in quick succession, all who didn't have them. Called all stores within a 50 mile radius, no dice. One employee in a store tried telling me the iPhone 5 has a built in SIM that's un removable, so I pulled it out of my pocket and popped the card out for him. He didn't even mention what just happened, and said nah we don't have any of those.
Finally at a last ditch effort with Customer Care, Overnight-ting the card for a Sat delivery would be $30. She then noticed a Note on the site that mentioned Apple having the cards, and the delay for the carriers having them was Apple not sending them out.
Finally I call my closest Apple Store, confirm they have them, and then arrive at 15 minutes prior to closing. I then activate my SIM card and phone on Verizon Wireless web site using the 27 inch iMac demo LOL.
Anyways, just wanted to see if anyone had trouble finding a replacement SIM as well.
I then partake on a journey visiting three more close stores in quick succession, all who didn't have them. Called all stores within a 50 mile radius, no dice. One employee in a store tried telling me the iPhone 5 has a built in SIM that's un removable, so I pulled it out of my pocket and popped the card out for him. He didn't even mention what just happened, and said nah we don't have any of those.
Finally at a last ditch effort with Customer Care, Overnight-ting the card for a Sat delivery would be $30. She then noticed a Note on the site that mentioned Apple having the cards, and the delay for the carriers having them was Apple not sending them out.
Finally I call my closest Apple Store, confirm they have them, and then arrive at 15 minutes prior to closing. I then activate my SIM card and phone on Verizon Wireless web site using the 27 inch iMac demo LOL.
Anyways, just wanted to see if anyone had trouble finding a replacement SIM as well.
They do have the IMEI info correct though. The other amusing thing is that the numbers required to activate the sim are tiny....I had to take a high res macro shot to read them. The information on the credit card mount actually tells you to do this...Fine, but what if you don;t own a decent camera?