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Not likely. Rumors are hardly any will be available in store. My local store said they are already preparing for unhappy people who waited because they got so few, especially the black ones. I have a feeling the apple store will have a much better quantity, but from what I am seeing it looks like its not a marketing ploy by apple. They really don't have enough to meet demand (not that they ever seem to at launch, but REALLY more so this time.

My local store has 82 In stock for tomorrow. Getting 20 more on friday or sat. Not bad for a smaller market.
 
ORDERED AT 9AM CST IN-STORE AND STILL PROCESSING AND BACKORDERED!! So pissed at AT&T! So many people ordered AFTER me already showed progress! Anyone in the same boat?

HAHA!

Dude, I ordered at 3:10am EST no friday 14 and I still on backorder, all three of my orders.

I ordered another one at 9:20am EST and for that one I have a tracking number and should be with me tomorrow!

ATT is unpredictable
 
Not likely. Rumors are hardly any will be available in store. My local store said they are already preparing for unhappy people who waited because they got so few, especially the black ones. I have a feeling the apple store will have a much better quantity, but from what I am seeing it looks like its not a marketing ploy by apple. They really don't have enough to meet demand (not that they ever seem to at launch, but REALLY more so this time.

Is this at an Apple Store?

No AT&T store
 
I can't even pick up an otter box without preordering one. It may be a while for a case. I had to be on a waiting list just to get a otterbox defender for my iPhone 4 when it came out. My general rule is I will only pull out the iPhone 5 if I'm standing over carpet.

me too....I'm on my 3rd iPhone 4 (with the otterbox defender).....
 
Not likely. Rumors are hardly any will be available in store. My local store said they are already preparing for unhappy people who waited because they got so few, especially the black ones. I have a feeling the apple store will have a much better quantity, but from what I am seeing it looks like its not a marketing ploy by apple. They really don't have enough to meet demand (not that they ever seem to at launch, but REALLY more so this time.

So... how are they going to manage this:

September 21: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States


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Liars! Or poor uninformed lemmings in customer service being led off the cliff...

e-mail from AT&T minutes after placing the order on SATURDAY:


e-mail from UPS yesterday:


Apparently someone at the AT&T warehouse messed up and they are processing orders as "last in, first out"...

I honestly don't think it went by when they were placed but when they were processed. I did get mine shipped but i did mine online. Not in the store. You may have had placed an order at a certain time, but it may have had been processed at a later date far after everyone else. Which they failed to tell everyone. And really it is a crap shoot, whether you camp out, or try to preorder. You are taking a chance you may be one of the lucky few. But i agree they need a better system.
 
If you heard that from AT&T, it's probably a lie.:p

My wife is the manager I think the are trained on Lying. We ordered two are only getting one she told me I could have it. Since then she has reneged on that deal. Fight is on prob won't be getting any sex for 14-21 days :):D
 
Anyone from the Atlanta area have phones that shipped via FedEx from Dallas, but still don't say "in transit"? Mine still just says picked up.
Yes. 4 tracking numbers for 4 orders, all still show pickup - Ft. Worth, TX at 6:00 am.
 
Any in-store preorder people see any changes at all this evening?

I just find it really odd that the ton of people who preordered at the store (which amounts for a lot, just a lot of them probably don't visit sites like this one online), that 99.9% of them have seen zero progress.

Still have a little faith that in-store preorders (if early enough) will receive their phones tomorrow and that there was just never any updates to their orders. Or maybe I'm just in denial? :cool:

I think 99.9% might be a bit (or quite a bit) of exaggeration. I ordered two phones, both 64GB one white and one black, at my local AT&T store at 9 am EDT when they opened. I was worried because I had heard nothing until about 3 this afternoon. But then the order status page listed tracking info and around 7 pm the tracking went live on FEDEX from Dallas.

I spoke to my rep at the store and he said most of his made it but a few didn't. Lucky for me I did.
 
My wife is the manager I think the are trained on Lying. We ordered two are only getting one she told me I could have it. Since then she has reneged on that deal. Fight is on prob won't be getting any sex for 14-21 days :):D

Your post makes no sense.
 
Liars! Or poor uninformed lemmings in customer service being led off the cliff...

e-mail from AT&T minutes after placing the order on SATURDAY:


e-mail from UPS yesterday:


Apparently someone at the AT&T warehouse messed up and they are processing orders as "last in, first out"...



WOW! That's f'd up. Good for you though.

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Apple store will have a UPS hub full of them. Well, part of a UPS hub anyways.


As long as UPS gets mine out of the hub and onto the truck.....
 
So, I walk by an apple store on my way to work...does anyone know what time they are opening tomorrow? I want to try and sneak in and grab a case while everyone else is in line for the phone....
 
My local store has 82 In stock for tomorrow. Getting 20 more on friday or sat. Not bad for a smaller market.

If you heard that from AT&T, it's probably a lie.:p

My wife is the manager I think the are trained on Lying. We ordered two are only getting one she told me I could have it. Since then she has reneged on that deal. Fight is on prob won't be getting any sex for 14-21 days :):D

Made perfect sense to me. I'm still busting a gut. :p

Thank you thank you so true quiet night on the couch for me tonight.
 
in store order..one of the first last friday.

backordered and store rep told me "he didn't see any come in."

tried to cancel but wouldn't let me. oh well. worst part is that they had my account name wrong (extra letter in my last name) so when i said my email began with "first initial and last name," the email was thus spelled wrong. So when they send an arrived email, I'll never get it. :(
 
Yes. 4 tracking numbers for 4 orders, all still show pickup - Ft. Worth, TX at 6:00 am.

There's been plenty of flights from Dallas to Memphis and from Memphis to Atlanta, (which is usually how things from Texas would ship) an I don't know if the tracking just hasn't updated, or if it missed getting on a plane somewhere. Haha
 
Thought I'd check the status of my order one last time for the night. Crossed my fingers. And the results...are the same. :( It's a long shot but, I remain hopeful to discover good news when I check tomorrow. Or maybe, just maybe, the FedEX or UPS truck will pull up unexpectedly. I can dream. :cool:
 
Looks like mine shipped or going top ship soon (still says In Progress) but WTF is KAQT? :confused:

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