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Apple Restricts iPhone 7 Reservations to Upgrade Program Members
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Haven't gotten my 7 plus yet (one of those waiting and waiting.....) but I will be trading in my 6 and will be around $5 a month since I'm not getting a regular 7.
I will definitely call Verizon tonight. Thanks again. Something was ill explained to me.
No fuggin' shiz. Clearly, those $ are better than our € and £ cos it's a 3 week wait in Blighty. Maybe I should offer my 6s for a crappy trade-in for preferential queue jumpin'
/Bitter /JetBlackEnvy
Many of us don't view a phone as a multi-year investment; I'll buy whatever they release next year too, it's not a big deal. But regardless, if you feel someone with a 12 month old phone (or two year or five year or ten year for that matter) is deserving of ridicule that sounds like a personal problem of your own.
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You haven't heard about Pixel being unable to root? Likely a start of a trend on the Android side of the house. I don't expect full walled garden any time soon but the days of "do whatever you want" on Android phones are numbered.
edit: I like your avatar.
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Looks like I just beat this. Reserved last week with the link and paid in full without issue.
More upgrade program mess. Look, I was an upset IUP member when the pre-order mess happened. I thought Apple should do something to make it more fair. This isn't fair. IUP and anyone else should have EQUAL access to phones. That's all anyone should expect.
That being said, I was one who called in the Monday before release and got a promise that they would try to reserve a Jet Black for me. But the new pre-order stock came out the Wednesday before release, and since it was before Apple promised me anything I pre-ordered Black. When they finally called me back on Thursday, they offered me the Jet Black for reserve as soon as possible so I told them I was no longer interested and to cancel my reservation. But lo and behold, I get an email today saying my Jet Black iPhone will be ready on Saturday.
This is amateur-hour behavior here. I'd expect this from some new company on Kickstarter, but Apple should be above this.
That being said, I was one who called in the Monday before release and got a promise that they would try to reserve a Jet Black for me. But the new pre-order stock came out the Wednesday before release, and since it was before Apple promised me anything I pre-ordered Black. When they finally called me back on Thursday, they offered me the Jet Black for reserve as soon as possible so I told them I was no longer interested and to cancel my reservation. But lo and behold, I get an email today saying my Jet Black iPhone will be ready on Saturday.
This is amateur-hour behavior here. I'd expect this from some new company on Kickstarter, but Apple should be above this.
"but many customers were able to bypass the program and pay in full or with carrier financing instead upon arriving at their local Apple retail store."
So many hopes and dreams, shattered.... in a single sentence...
Is this what they call the Apple eco-system? Perhaps Apple made a mistake...... And if they did, why were users allowed to bypass the program in the first place..
Rules can change yes, but i would argue, not when users have already set it. Apple should have done this before they announced it..
So many hopes and dreams, shattered.... in a single sentence...
Is this what they call the Apple eco-system? Perhaps Apple made a mistake...... And if they did, why were users allowed to bypass the program in the first place..
Rules can change yes, but i would argue, not when users have already set it. Apple should have done this before they announced it..
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You don't need the reservation system, you can apply online and have it drop shipped to your home. The reservation system is needed for those of us on the program now so that we can exchange our current device.
This literally is the worst launch I have ever seen with Apple.
Whomever planned this is a freaking buffoon.
Why even pretend your launch day is in September if there is no availability till late October. Just do your launch in October and avoid this type of BS.
Whomever planned this is a freaking buffoon.
Why even pretend your launch day is in September if there is no availability till late October. Just do your launch in October and avoid this type of BS.
To be fair, Samsung's unexpected "gift" showed up at the very last second, which forces Apple to deal with more demand.
Non-IUP customers seem to be bitching about this news, but Apple has already screwed existing IUP customers by severely limiting the initial stock during pre-ordering (even if it was done unintentionally).
No, IUP should get selective treatment for phones. Simple as this: the day of the unveiling a new phone, or even earlier, survey your IUP members and determine if they will upgrade or not. If not, just look up IUP #s, free up that much stock, then assume they will upgrade between Day 1 and Day 8 of the phone's release period. If not, the phone(s) go back to inventory for others to buy. I want IUP to have a separate inventory to avoid further clutter.
Geeez....I am getting tired of having ordered my phone at 6am on launch, absolutely zero movement,and people have been walking in and picking up phones. So now I stay up till 12:01 trying to order a phone at a local store. I have found a phone twice, and suddenly....poof....its gone. Now I can't reserve for pickup unless I sign up for a program I do not want? I can't bring my $900 to the store and get a phone? This has officially become annoying. I was pissed when they were not queueing on launch day.....something is starting to evaporate from this company.
Let me get this straight: This appears to mean I might as well stop looking at "istocknow" or attempt to reserve a phone for my AT&T Next account, because it's not happening anymore, and just wait for my preorder to ship. Is that right?
Are they still selling to walk-in customers?
Are they still selling to walk-in customers?
Damn yeah that does suck. Someone gave me the link to the site the other day. I went online at 12:02AM, selected multiple locations near me until I found what I wanted, reserved and picked it up 7 hours later. Great experience for me.
Hope everyone gets theirs soon.