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Apple Allowing iPhone Upgrade Program Customers to Get a 'Head Start' on iPhone X Upgrade
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I’m not sure what will happen obviously, but I have hope since that’s what the 8 shows when I order.
I’ll just wait since no one knows for sure.
We will all know soon only a couple days til the fun begins ;-)
I did count up in two main threads the number of folks who said they successfully were preapproved in about 800 messages and two threads just for the heck of it and to keep my mind off waiting ;-). There were (as I could count them) 75 or so people who said they were successful and maybe a third as many who were having issues (mostly Verizon interestingly). Don't know statistically what that points out but was not as big a sampling as the two threads of 800 messages would imply ;-)
Hi Callum.
Just do what I did last year.
Buy the iPhone X outright on a credit card.
Then, at any time within 14 days take the phone to an Apple store, get a refund made to your card and buy it through the upgrade program.
Simples!
But the 8 is already shipping. I don’t know if ship dates were given when it was still only available to pre-order, but I do know that I didn’t get a ship date for my pre/ordered iPhone X.
I’m referring to when it was available to preorder. The dates were given prior to finishing the application.
Apple may have changed the way they do Apple upgrade due to the complaints last year.
Since we're on T-Mobile, that is my plan for our second line that isn't currently on the program since you can't enroll online. My line is currently on the program so I'm glad at least my upgrade doesn't require the extra jumping through hoops.
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I understand what you mean but the question you need answered is if that date is actually locked in or just a reference until you finalize the order. It's hard to know with the 8--even from the experience of those who ordered last month on day one--because the times didn't slip very fast or at all in some cases. I think we all expect the X dates to slip extremely fast.
good point... ill just remain hopeful. either way application should take long for apple care anyway and i bet most will be using it or the X as its a 1000 dollar phone.
I'm currently on the iUP and have AT&T. I want to switch to Sprint. I can't go through the pre-approval process because it doesn't give me the option to choose Sprint as my carrier, it only lets me insert my AT&T account information. What would be the best way to preorder the X but it be compatible with Sprint?
Order a full price sprint phone. Don’t open it and go to the store and return it and have them use it as the IUP replacement for your current phone.
I only got charges from Apple. Citizens One sent an email that said I would get charged when my iPhone ships
And you exposure yourself to someone else storing/leaking your SSN. Hard credit hit. You are a slave to some random idiot lender.
No. Financing a commodity factory mass produced tech widgets is abysmally terrible financially.
Its absolutely stupid. $1000 earns too insignificant amount to matter and expose to risk and inconvenience.
1. Should I not cross the street tomorrow because I might get hit by a truck? If you want to live life in fear that’s your choice of course. Or you could freeze your credit when not applying for things and stop worrying about it.
2. If I have great credit one hit is absolutely insignificant. If I have only decent credit it doesn’t really matter unless I’m about to buy a house in the next couple months. If you have terrible enough credit that you’re worried about a single hard pull then maybe you shouldn’t be buying a $1000 phone in the first place.
3. If I’m doing something my way that makes sense to me, I’m not a slave to anyone.
Abysmally financial. Really. Random idiot lender, as if when I pulled the trigger the system actually chose a lender at random, rather than the one that Apple has chosen to work with that already has my information from last year. No guarantee that they won't experience a breach, but that's the same with many other FIs I deal with. And I use the IUP because I find it more convenient, and I'm willing to live with its drawbacks.