I just called my local Best Buy asking if I could expect a Friday pick up. She looked up my order and confirmed that yes it's expected for Friday. I'm thrilled to have taken the chance. Good luck to you!!
I'm wondering whether I should do the same. I'd think you would have to set it up at some store, unless you can read the ICEI number to them over the phone—I don't think there's a website where you could enter that info.
Not necessarily part of the plan, but it does help. Apple is a lean, mean marketing machine. Apple doesn't actually care whether or not they have enough phones manufactured to fulfill pre-orders, although I'm sure they do try. They're more concerned with how many they sell that first weekend. This is marketing 101. "Record sales" is the number one goal and this is the number that matters most. If they can only have 2 million of a particular model/configuration manufactured on time, they will continue to sell 4 million of them on the first weekend in pre-orders. Whether or not those are delivered on time is of no consequence to Apple. They're sold and they count toward the "pre-order sales record". That's what matters.
Well yes it is no guarantee but normally when doing a pre order right when the site goes live should indicate you get the product on launch day or at least soon after. It's just a bit annoying but I'm not going to lose sleep over it. The only sleep I lost was the night of the pre order .
Yup, I made sure to call this morning, and I am honestly going to call tonight just to talk to another worker to see fi they tell me the exact same thing..But she said they open 8am friday and it is there waiting for me
Depending on where i check my order status, one say "in progress" (from my confirmation email) and from the AT&T order status look up by phone number, it says "preparing to ship" I honestly believe we will receive our devices a lot sooner than they are estimating. I've mentioned this before in this thread (so all you h8rs can bypass this before becoming salty with me about repeating myself) I ordered my 6+ last year via AT&T and ordered an hour after they went live for preorders due to the heavy website traffic. This year,l ordered mine 10 minutes before the preorders were suppoesed to go live (& i'm still getting a 10/16 ship datE). My estimated delivery date was very very similar to what we're all seeing now. About 1 day before the phone was launched i received notice that my phone had shipped. I received my phone the day after launch. At that time, it was estimated that I would receive it in october, as we are all seeing now. But i have high hopes that we should have our devices long before their projected shipment dates!
Honestly I'd put the blame on AT&T more than Apple. AT&T is the one forcing you to purchase from them to get the discounted pricing. If they had just let you order through Apple then you'd get the device on time without the worrying. I think in past years Apple has generally done preorders more reliably than AT&T, and I always recommended people order from Apple when that option is available.
A-FRIGGEN-MEN!I just popped in to share my story and vent a bit... enjoy or move along!
I have been with AT&T as my mobile carrier for over a decade, and I've owned several iPhone models starting with the original and upgrading every year or two. I've never pre-ordered before; I always tried to tell myself I wasn't in a hurry, but then I tended to monitor the stock of the nearest Apple Stores (there are two within 45 minutes of me) and try to get there in time to claim one when they had what I wanted. I wanted to make it easier on myself this time around.
Unfortunately in order to upgrade my phone I needed to do a shared upgrade and use my wife's eligibility (she used mine last year), which I could not do through Apple's site, so I had to order through AT&T. I stayed up late on the 11th so I could log in and get it taken care of as soon as it was available. At about 10 minutes to midnight I opened the AT&T page and got a message that due to high demand, the page was unavailable, but it said to stay on the page and eventually it would open - so basically I was waiting in line.
While waiting, I was poking around Twitter and noticed that several people had been able to get theirs ordered already, even though it was before midnight. And here I was stuck in line waiting just to log in. On a whim, I decided to see if I could log in through the AT&T App on my phone, and surprisingly enough, I got right in. I got through the entire ordering process (128gb 6S Plus in Space Gray) and got my confirmation email stating my order had been placed at 2:02:33 CDT. The AT&T page on my computer opened about a minute later.
But yeah, that email... Oct 16-23... I thought, that's impossible, they can't have sold out that quickly! The only thing I could figure was that they obviously didn't have any in the warehouse yet, so their system automatically picked a date that would give them plenty of time to fulfill the order. I hoped, at least.
Now, I'm not sure. It seems really unlikely that the Apple Store, every other carrier, and a handful of retail stores would have access to stock that AT&T does not have access to. I've read about the different model numbers and such, but I have to admit I'll be really irked if people are able to walk in to a brick-and-mortar store on Friday and walk out with a brand-new 6S Plus while I'm waiting four more weeks for the order I placed two weeks ago.
But what bugs me even more than that is AT&T's lack of communication about all of it. And if AT&T is the only carrier facing these kinds of problems, I'm surprised it hasn't been more widely reported. There are far more questions than answers, and that's incredibly frustrating.
Maybe all of us will be surprised on Friday and all of our angst will be for nothing, and I hope so. One thing is for sure though, next time I'm going back to just trying to get lucky at an Apple Store.
I just popped in to share my story and vent a bit... enjoy or move along!
I have been with AT&T as my mobile carrier for over a decade, and I've owned several iPhone models starting with the original and upgrading every year or two. I've never pre-ordered before; I always tried to tell myself I wasn't in a hurry, but then I tended to monitor the stock of the nearest Apple Stores (there are two within 45 minutes of me) and try to get there in time to claim one when they had what I wanted. I wanted to make it easier on myself this time around.
Unfortunately in order to upgrade my phone I needed to do a shared upgrade and use my wife's eligibility (she used mine last year), which I could not do through Apple's site, so I had to order through AT&T. I stayed up late on the 11th so I could log in and get it taken care of as soon as it was available. At about 10 minutes to midnight I opened the AT&T page and got a message that due to high demand, the page was unavailable, but it said to stay on the page and eventually it would open - so basically I was waiting in line.
While waiting, I was poking around Twitter and noticed that several people had been able to get theirs ordered already, even though it was before midnight. And here I was stuck in line waiting just to log in. On a whim, I decided to see if I could log in through the AT&T App on my phone, and surprisingly enough, I got right in. I got through the entire ordering process (128gb 6S Plus in Space Gray) and got my confirmation email stating my order had been placed at 2:02:33 CDT. The AT&T page on my computer opened about a minute later.
But yeah, that email... Oct 16-23... I thought, that's impossible, they can't have sold out that quickly! The only thing I could figure was that they obviously didn't have any in the warehouse yet, so their system automatically picked a date that would give them plenty of time to fulfill the order. I hoped, at least.
Now, I'm not sure. It seems really unlikely that the Apple Store, every other carrier, and a handful of retail stores would have access to stock that AT&T does not have access to. I've read about the different model numbers and such, but I have to admit I'll be really irked if people are able to walk in to a brick-and-mortar store on Friday and walk out with a brand-new 6S Plus while I'm waiting four more weeks for the order I placed two weeks ago.
But what bugs me even more than that is AT&T's lack of communication about all of it. And if AT&T is the only carrier facing these kinds of problems, I'm surprised it hasn't been more widely reported. There are far more questions than answers, and that's incredibly frustrating.
Maybe all of us will be surprised on Friday and all of our angst will be for nothing, and I hope so. One thing is for sure though, next time I'm going back to just trying to get lucky at an Apple Store.
I would hope that if AT&T was having issues where they won't be getting any phones until late October that they would have told people thisI just popped in to share my story and vent a bit... enjoy or move along!
I have been with AT&T as my mobile carrier for over a decade, and I've owned several iPhone models starting with the original and upgrading every year or two. I've never pre-ordered before; I always tried to tell myself I wasn't in a hurry, but then I tended to monitor the stock of the nearest Apple Stores (there are two within 45 minutes of me) and try to get there in time to claim one when they had what I wanted. I wanted to make it easier on myself this time around.
Unfortunately in order to upgrade my phone I needed to do a shared upgrade and use my wife's eligibility (she used mine last year), which I could not do through Apple's site, so I had to order through AT&T. I stayed up late on the 11th so I could log in and get it taken care of as soon as it was available. At about 10 minutes to midnight I opened the AT&T page and got a message that due to high demand, the page was unavailable, but it said to stay on the page and eventually it would open - so basically I was waiting in line.
While waiting, I was poking around Twitter and noticed that several people had been able to get theirs ordered already, even though it was before midnight. And here I was stuck in line waiting just to log in. On a whim, I decided to see if I could log in through the AT&T App on my phone, and surprisingly enough, I got right in. I got through the entire ordering process (128gb 6S Plus in Space Gray) and got my confirmation email stating my order had been placed at 2:02:33 CDT. The AT&T page on my computer opened about a minute later.
But yeah, that email... Oct 16-23... I thought, that's impossible, they can't have sold out that quickly! The only thing I could figure was that they obviously didn't have any in the warehouse yet, so their system automatically picked a date that would give them plenty of time to fulfill the order. I hoped, at least.
Now, I'm not sure. It seems really unlikely that the Apple Store, every other carrier, and a handful of retail stores would have access to stock that AT&T does not have access to. I've read about the different model numbers and such, but I have to admit I'll be really irked if people are able to walk in to a brick-and-mortar store on Friday and walk out with a brand-new 6S Plus while I'm waiting four more weeks for the order I placed two weeks ago.
But what bugs me even more than that is AT&T's lack of communication about all of it. And if AT&T is the only carrier facing these kinds of problems, I'm surprised it hasn't been more widely reported. There are far more questions than answers, and that's incredibly frustrating.
Maybe all of us will be surprised on Friday and all of our angst will be for nothing, and I hope so. One thing is for sure though, next time I'm going back to just trying to get lucky at an Apple Store.
Thats how AT&T has been for years, everyone you ask gives you a different answer.
I just popped in to share my story and vent a bit... enjoy or move along!
I have been with AT&T as my mobile carrier for over a decade, and I've owned several iPhone models starting with the original and upgrading every year or two. I've never pre-ordered before; I always tried to tell myself I wasn't in a hurry, but then I tended to monitor the stock of the nearest Apple Stores (there are two within 45 minutes of me) and try to get there in time to claim one when they had what I wanted. I wanted to make it easier on myself this time around.
Unfortunately in order to upgrade my phone I needed to do a shared upgrade and use my wife's eligibility (she used mine last year), which I could not do through Apple's site, so I had to order through AT&T. I stayed up late on the 11th so I could log in and get it taken care of as soon as it was available. At about 10 minutes to midnight I opened the AT&T page and got a message that due to high demand, the page was unavailable, but it said to stay on the page and eventually it would open - so basically I was waiting in line.
While waiting, I was poking around Twitter and noticed that several people had been able to get theirs ordered already, even though it was before midnight. And here I was stuck in line waiting just to log in. On a whim, I decided to see if I could log in through the AT&T App on my phone, and surprisingly enough, I got right in. I got through the entire ordering process (128gb 6S Plus in Space Gray) and got my confirmation email stating my order had been placed at 2:02:33 CDT. The AT&T page on my computer opened about a minute later.
But yeah, that email... Oct 16-23... I thought, that's impossible, they can't have sold out that quickly! The only thing I could figure was that they obviously didn't have any in the warehouse yet, so their system automatically picked a date that would give them plenty of time to fulfill the order. I hoped, at least.
Now, I'm not sure. It seems really unlikely that the Apple Store, every other carrier, and a handful of retail stores would have access to stock that AT&T does not have access to. I've read about the different model numbers and such, but I have to admit I'll be really irked if people are able to walk in to a brick-and-mortar store on Friday and walk out with a brand-new 6S Plus while I'm waiting four more weeks for the order I placed two weeks ago.
But what bugs me even more than that is AT&T's lack of communication about all of it. And if AT&T is the only carrier facing these kinds of problems, I'm surprised it hasn't been more widely reported. There are far more questions than answers, and that's incredibly frustrating.
Maybe all of us will be surprised on Friday and all of our angst will be for nothing, and I hope so. One thing is for sure though, next time I'm going back to just trying to get lucky at an Apple Store.