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Apple.com preorder thread - iPhone 6/6 Plus
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Same here. If I don't start seeing some movement tomorrow night I'm going to start worrying.
YMMV but what I have learned from all of this is I will never pre-order a device again. I could have bought the devices I "pre-ordered" in both apple stores and my carrier stores with zero line days after the launch. Matter of fact to date I still could. But since I pre-ordered, I cannot simply just buy the ones at those stores. Info I wish I knew beforehand.
Sorry just felt like i needed to rant on that subject.
Sorry just felt like i needed to rant on that subject.
If you could have bought it days after launch, you should have and then cancelled your pre-order. Or, if you couldn't, Apple has free returns.
woulda coulda shoulda
Good luck everybody with your pre-order, I was able to cancel mine this afternoon! I have been studying the patterns of store shipments all week and every day at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. local time if any stores in the area do get a shipment in they will update the stock for online pickup and today at 2:00 p.m. I was able to see that four apple stores within an hour of my house showed available online and I had enough time to log online and cancel my pre-order, then wait for my eligibility to reset which took between 3-5 minutes, and then I still had time to place my order for pickup. Processing only took exactly 20 minutes and the phone was ready for pickup before I could even get to the apple store. You can find iphones without having to wait 3-4 weeks it just takes time and research and I never gave up until I found exactly what I was looking for even after passing up on some other configurations that were already available. I just wanted to share my success story because I myself was so very frustrated and it got to the point that it was personal. So to everyone out there frustrated don't give up it is possible to get the phone you want before November.
Not so easy - canceling the order does not enable one to immediately buy the other phones. It is all about when apple syncs the info from their servers that the order was cancelled and then send it to my carrier then for my carrier to update that info and show my lines are not tied to any new upgrades.
Which according to apple and my carrier can take upwards of 3 to 5 days.
I even was unable to just buy them outright as there were no "unlocked" versions @ apple nor does my carrier offer outright purchases any longer.
So woulda coulda shoulda - crap
For all of you complain about your shipments, at least you guys have a ship date. Mine is still processing!
Maybe because we ordered it way early, most of the 6 pluses that have been shipped were order on the 12th, if u also ordered it on the same date, I'm pretty sure it should be shipped by now. And for the 6, it doesnt really matter, because I have seen people ordering on the 22nd and shipped already.
From what I've been reading online, it's been taking 3-5 minutes for an upgrade to go back on an account once the phone is cancelled.
Man, WIsh i would of known that before. Was just too nervous to cancel it then it take the time they said to show up and miss out on the phones in store and have nothing on order as well.
Im usually a big gambler but i wouldnt take the chance on that. Oh well.
I think part of all this was my interpretation of what pre-ordering really meant vs the reality of it.
There's another aspect is that if you use AT&T's NEXT or Verizon's EDGE programs, you can't do Apple Purchase and Pick-Up.
i'm right with you man...
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Oh, you'll get an update, alright. Your arrival date will be moved to 10/10.
HAHA. Funny guy I am.
Location Date Local Time Activity
ZhengZhou, China 09/26/2014 11:31 P.M. Arrival Scan
09/26/2014 10:54 P.M. Location Scan
09/26/2014 4:00 P.M. Origin Scan
China 09/27/2014 7:38 P.M. Order Processed: Ready for Ups
Scheduled for 10/2 delivery
Anyone else's order processed have a later date than arrival scan in zz?
ZhengZhou, China 09/26/2014 11:31 P.M. Arrival Scan
09/26/2014 10:54 P.M. Location Scan
09/26/2014 4:00 P.M. Origin Scan
China 09/27/2014 7:38 P.M. Order Processed: Ready for Ups
Scheduled for 10/2 delivery
Anyone else's order processed have a later date than arrival scan in zz?
I pre-ordered on the 12th as most did except I did it around 4:30pm, I still have a shipping date of 11/9-11/27. I ordered in a. ATT store and every Rep I speak to still says mine is scheduled for November, should I cancel and take my chances at a retailer??
6+ SG 64GB
6+ SG 64GB
I think mine is with yours. 11:10p zz scan, 10/2 delivery that is looking less and less likely.
Well, it actually takes only two days to ship to ur house from when it takes off, so the chances of getting to ur place on the 2nd is still great, don't worry to much. if it moves tomorrow night, by also considering the time difference, it would only take about 12 hours(actually 24) to arrive, so it would be in the states on the morning of the 1st, then it would just go through the network during the day and night, at last, on the morning of 2nd, it would be out for delivery.
Thats about the same time I ordered my tmob sg 128gb iphone 6+ . I got mine last Wednesday. Sorry you had to wait so long did you buy it outright or on a contract? I bought mine outright.