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Apple's Online Store Down Ahead of iPhone 7 and Apple Watch Series 2 Pre-Orders
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Not to mention all the scalpers if they don't get the price they want.
Almost pulled the trigger and ordered off of best buy for local pickup. When I finally pulled the trigger it sold out... Wow people are looking for the black wherever they can find it. Good luck everyone, time for sleep, i work in ~4 hours as im sure most of you do too. Thank god its Friday because the whole "whos productive on a Friday" is going to be true for me for once.
Done! iPhone 7 plus black 128GB, Black leather case and the Series 2 42mm Gold Aluminium Case with Toasted Coffee/Caramel Woven Nylon Strap are MINE, MINE!!! well... After October 4th... damn the blurry eyes!!
Just because they are passionate about the process doesnt mean people care. I think they showed off the video to say "hey guys we did it, a black aluminum iPhone exists and the process is solid this time". The black iPhone 5 was pretty much paint / spray paint on aluminum and they didnt want to make that mistake again.
I think everyone that got screwed with the Apple Upgrade program should email Tim Cook, tcook@apple.com...I have never emailed apple for anything, but this is so disrespectful that it can not be ignored...to not allow us to reserve an iPhone through the program that was meant to actually do that, is CRAZY!!
Well interesting experience as I mentioned earlier. I got into AT&T early but after order done it was going to be end of September from start and that was it. But I got a silver 256 7 PLUS -- color does not matter did not try black nor really could care.
But the store finally came up after that which was 6 minutes after for me. So I followed the apple order and got a same phone in their upgrade program for AT&T and it comes on 16th! So I am thinking people went for lower MB numbers and or the black which were limited or there just was not as much crazy people like me who wanted the 256 model.
Well now I am trying to find how to cancel the AT&T order of course it goes to end of month before it would come so I have time to cancel LOL
But the store finally came up after that which was 6 minutes after for me. So I followed the apple order and got a same phone in their upgrade program for AT&T and it comes on 16th! So I am thinking people went for lower MB numbers and or the black which were limited or there just was not as much crazy people like me who wanted the 256 model.
Well now I am trying to find how to cancel the AT&T order of course it goes to end of month before it would come so I have time to cancel LOL
Ugh. Apparently the iPhone 6S was released on the 23rd last year, making the whole Telstra New Phone Feeling scheme useless. Have to wait until then to order.
EDIT: Never mind, sucked it up and paid out my old phone. If anyone's looking for a 64GB Rose Gold newly refurbished/replaced from Apple let me know
EDIT: Never mind, sucked it up and paid out my old phone. If anyone's looking for a 64GB Rose Gold newly refurbished/replaced from Apple let me know
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Same here. Very disappointing. Since we have to do this in store, are we supposed to check every day online?
I'm having the same results.....i was looking to get either 128 or 256 GB Jet Black 7+. No reservations anywhere to use my iPhone Upgrade Plan....
I'm having the same results.....i was looking to get either 128 or 256 GB Jet Black 7+. No reservations anywhere to use my iPhone Upgrade Plan....
What happens if for example you slide into month 13 or beyond in terms of payments before you can upgrade? The requirement is 12 months payments. Do they credit you anything beyond or is that money lost?
At the reservation page where you choose the store, it says:
"If you can't find the model you want below, choose another store to find the model you're looking for. Or you can check back beginning at 8:00am on September 17."
gave up on and ordered thru Verizon. 7+ 128gb Jet black estimated ship 10/26. This reminds me of my Space Black Apple Watch order!
The site now says "If you can’t find the model you want below, choose another store to find the model you’re looking for. Or you can check back beginning at 8:00 a.m. on September 17." So, it looks like we have to wait until Sept 17 at 8:00am.
Ordered 128GB Black 7+ through Verizon, estimated delivery 9/23. Verizon's website kept screwing up, when I would click on order it would make me log in (when I was already logged into my account) and after I would log in again it would send me to a page for pre-ordering devices, but no devices were available. After backing out and trying a few times it finally went through to where I could order the phone, but by then deliver was 9/23. Although it sounds like it may have started at 9/23 from the beginning for the black phones.
I was able to get into the Apple Store first, and had the same phone ready to order on there for 9/16 deliver but it kept asking me for my Verizon billing password. I tried every Verizon password I could think of and none of them went through. Then after a few attemps it said I was locked out for 60 minutes. Evidently I am going to have to call Verizon's customer support line and figure out what the heck that password is (I am the primary account holder).
I was able to get into the Apple Store first, and had the same phone ready to order on there for 9/16 deliver but it kept asking me for my Verizon billing password. I tried every Verizon password I could think of and none of them went through. Then after a few attemps it said I was locked out for 60 minutes. Evidently I am going to have to call Verizon's customer support line and figure out what the heck that password is (I am the primary account holder).
Same thing was happening to me on the Verizon site, seems like the 7 is still good in supply than the 7+. Almost got the 7 in jet black because its a month before the 7+. But I really want the camera on the + so hopefully its worth the wait.
Did anyone have any success with the Upgrade Program in the UK? The link for making a reservation was broken (directed to the US Apple home page) until about 8:40am, and as soon as it was up every store was sold out of 7 Plus except Rose Gold or Gold...
Insanely frustrating...
Insanely frustrating...
Nope, store pickup isn't a deliver to store thing on iPhone launches, it's a reservation for store stock.
**** everything about how they handled it this year. I was there from 11:55 -> 12:05 and everything was still down. I go off for a few mins, come back. 5.5" silver 128 sold out everywhere for reservation around me. So much for the ****** upgrade plan I signed onto thinking it would make this thing easy.
Apple Store UK. Ordered an iPhone 7 128GB Black (Got a 6S Plus now and it's way way way too big... couldn't wait to move to normal size iPhone). Jet Black will be a bitch to keep pristine... To be delivered on the 16th. Easy peasy as always. Had a nice coffee while waiting for the site to be up and bingo! Done and dusted Was expecting the Apple Store app to work on my iPad or iPhone but it showed as not being up while the web site worked... Last year was the exact opposite!
Ordered an Apple Watch Series 2, 42mm Space Grey Aluminium Case with Black Sport Band an hour ago and this will be delivered on the 30th.
All in all a good morning of business
Was expecting the Apple Store app to work on my iPad or iPhone but it showed as not being up while the web site worked... Last year was the exact opposite!Ordered an Apple Watch Series 2, 42mm Space Grey Aluminium Case with Black Sport Band an hour ago and this will be delivered on the 30th.
All in all a good morning of business
Good morning. Yawnnnn. It's going to be a long morning checking out on all the excitement I missed.
I gotta get breakfast on and everyone out the door and the dog walked, but I need to wake up first. I had just the iPhone 6S Plus until around May. Sort of. My iPhone 6Plus was supposed to go back to AT&T for the Next trade in. But they kept forgetting to send whatever it was we needed to ship the phones out. And my husband just decided to keep our 6Pluses as backup. Nobody else in the family wanted them.
Months passed. I had my fill of lugging my 6S Plus around on me. Which I had to do so my Apple Watch would work. There was a hiking trip planned in May. Summer was coming and I decided I wasn't cramming that big ol' phone in my pockets to go out hiking or for walking (or biking). I Did that last year and it was a literal pain in the butt. So I went to the Apple Store to trade in the old 6Plus for $250 off on the SE. The old phone was a glitchy mess so I wasn't going to sell it and make someone else miserable.
I love the SE and it is my daily driver. But I found I was still using my 6Splus as a pocket computer. It has the storage my SE lacks, so I don't feel constrained loading apps. It travels well in my purse. My iPad mini4 doesn't always travel well. It was splash resistant enough to use as an iPod by the pool.
But I wanted pen functionality. I have long had my eye on the Samsung Note series. My big 50th birthday arrived and I asked for the Note7. We got a great deal from AT&T so that my husband and I could both have Note7's, Gear S2 watches with independent phone functionality--plus my hubby redid our accounts so somehow we end up saving $150 a month even though he and I now have two phone numbers apiece.
Life was good for a week and a half and then the recall hit.
AT&T has given me a Galaxy S7 to take the place of my Note7 for awhile. I didn't need it, but it is IPhone 6/7 sized so I wanted to try it. It's nice. Fits ok in the pockets...not perfectly like the SE. I may trade my 6Splus in for it. Then switch the sim between my SE and the S7 back and forth according to my mood. But I'm not sure I want to deal with two androids when my Note7 gets back. I like Android better in many ways but it can be persnickety to a newbie like me. So I kind of wandered into being able to have three phones. But I do have only two lines going at one time, same as you.
I know this was TL/DR but I typed it to help me wake up while the coffee kicks in.
I'm already enjoying my Nexus 6P as primary smartphone, my iPhone 6S Plus as secondary. Taking a wait and see approach regarding a future iPhone is easy.