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Apple Online Store Now Offering iPhone 3G for Direct Shipment to New AT&T Customers
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You didn't have to sign a two year contract to purchase the phone...only if you activated it with ATT.
Obviously clearing inventory here (understandable), and I know there are millions of us out there - but you'd have to be a moron to buy an iPhone 3G right now. Right?
Or, do I take for granted how many people don't spend every day in these forums?
It will be interesting to see if this is policy carries over to future gen iPhone transactions. I suppose we'll know a lot more in a month.
Or, do I take for granted how many people don't spend every day in these forums?
It will be interesting to see if this is policy carries over to future gen iPhone transactions. I suppose we'll know a lot more in a month.
Obviously clearing inventory here (understandable), and I know there are millions of us out there - but you'd have to be a moron to buy an iPhone 3G right now. Right?
Or, do I take for granted how many people don't spend every day in these forums?
It will be interesting to see if this is policy carries over to future gen iPhone transactions. I suppose we'll know a lot more in a month.
Have to be a moron ? or RISKTAKER.
The people who bought an iphone 1st gen JUST before the 3G release got a cheap iphone then got the subsidized price for the 3G without much of a contract length increase. Then they were able to sell their 1st gen for quite a bit of cash.
Question is, will this process work this time round or not.
in the UK store too. dunno if it has always been there but it is there now!
It's only the PAYG iPhone, it's been in the UK store for a few months.
From what I was told they just exchanged their phones with the new ones...They had already signed up for a two year contract anyways.
It was a loss for them because they paid what $400 for a 16 gig 1st gen phone?
Is the data portion PAYG as well? I'd be so for PAYG with AT&T since I only use about 40 to 50% of my minutes each month. That being on the lowest plan available.
I wonder if this about clearing out existing iPhone 3G inventory or, instead, putting in place a better procedure to buy the next iPhone later this summer? Hmmmm...
Perhaps it serves both purposes
I just order the white 16GB model today and it says it ships May 26, it says its custom configured -- why is this? I'm sure they have stock piles of this model...
just out of curiosity, why would you order one now knowing that in less than a month there is a good chance a newer one will be out? and when it does, the excess inventory of current gen iPhones will probably see some price reduction if the new one comes in anywhere near the same price as the current gen.
if we're lucky it'll be even cheaper due to manufacturing cost reductions or greater subsidies. then you really would have paid too much for that weeks old iPhone.
not knocking you down or trying to criticize, just curious is all
When I bought my wife's refurbed 3G iPhone I got it in the mail and had to activate the number switch through AT&T first online and then plugged it into iTunes for the rest of the activation. Better than when the 3G first came out but still not clearly as perfect as the original iPhone's activation.
Let's hope with the next update to the iPhone Apple and AT&T go back to the original purchase and activation policy.
AT&T and Apple's sales policy for the iPhone 3G was a step backwards.
Let me buy online on launch day and activate from home if I want to! I don't want AT&T and Apple Store reps opening my box or trying to up-sell me accessories and plan changes. Let us get in and get out or flat out buy online.
You can thank the people who unlocked their first-gen phones for that.
I know.
However, AT&T and Apple can require a credit card as collateral for new customers and charge a penalty to existing customers accounts if the iPhone is not activated within a certain period of time.Hell. Most people didn't get to activate in-store on the iPhone 3G's launch day anyway due to activation server outages.
The 3G launch was a mess compared to the original launch.