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Anyone able to grab a gold phone in the NYC/LI area since launch?
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I'm not buying one, but there are people around the office who are talking about getting one and there are none to be found. I'm located on Wall St though. They have visited all the local stores, not Grand Central though.
I work across the street from the Grand Central store - I guess it might be my best chance to see if they have any around 8am when I get in. Might get lucky at a LI store if people dont bother to check thinking they dont have any hah...
i would go to the manhasset store first. seems to be the quietest apple store i have ever seen. might try the staten island store as well
You'd have to get there before 8AM. This morning at Grand Central, around 7:20AM, the line was about 100 people long.
Yeah I figured.. Do they still line up outside grand central? Wonder if Apple stores get shipments in the middle of the day and start selling them or if they just wait for the next morning. Manhasset and Smithhaven seem to be the quietest stores in the area. I saw both stores had silver in stock when the online reservation system was still up.
I don't know anything about NYC stores. But I do know my local store has been getting midday shipments. Sometimes at like 11 am. My silver came from a shipment that arrived at 6pm.
Purchased at 7:30 pm on Monday. And it was a fairly big shipment too. Phones were flying out the door like crazy!
The people in the morning were lined up inside grand central terminal. The line was quite long and blocked the entrance to the little convenience store below the apple store, so the lined curved.
I believe they get their shipment during the night or perhaps the day before, but they only sell the stock they have that morning.
I was one of those on line at the Grand Central store. I got there a little after 6AM and managed to get an AT&T 32GB silver and AT&T 16GB space grey. They had Verizon 64GBs only by the time they got to me. T-Mobiles were also out of stock when they got to me but that's irrelevant really. The Chinese people at the front of the line ate up a lot of the 16GBs.
I tried waiting at Manhasset on Monday morning. I got there at opening with a modest line of people in front of me. We waited for 3.5 hours before an employee finally came out to tell us that they had no stock and were not expecting any for the day. After that experience, I will never go to a small store like Manhasset for a release.
Grand Central seems to be the best bet. Get there early enough and you'll pretty much walk away with a phone. The employee who I checked out with said they get at least 100+ phone shipments everyday. By the looks of people waiting on line with the cards, it seemed like they had 250+ for today. Just be careful with all of the sneaky people trying to cut the line and bum rush the bottom of the stairs. A lot of people were very passive aggressive and let people cut without saying anything.
I tried waiting at Manhasset on Monday morning. I got there at opening with a modest line of people in front of me. We waited for 3.5 hours before an employee finally came out to tell us that they had no stock and were not expecting any for the day. After that experience, I will never go to a small store like Manhasset for a release.
Grand Central seems to be the best bet. Get there early enough and you'll pretty much walk away with a phone. The employee who I checked out with said they get at least 100+ phone shipments everyday. By the looks of people waiting on line with the cards, it seemed like they had 250+ for today. Just be careful with all of the sneaky people trying to cut the line and bum rush the bottom of the stairs. A lot of people were very passive aggressive and let people cut without saying anything.
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