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Att OFFICIALLY Out Of Stock!!! Now ships in 3 - 5 WEEKS!
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I'm honestly tempted to just wait a month to get this phone, and avoid all the stress altogether! Maybe I should just pre-order. I keep going back and forth! Ugh.
You could always cancel your pre-order if you find it in stores. Also some people are saying that Best Buy is doing appointments but then again, in the past, BB has said they don't know what they will have when.
Thank you for your replies; I'm relieved now. I also just asked a friend who works at Verizon if they've been notified that everything's OOS and they won't be getitng any phones in the store on the 21st and he said no. Granted it's still early, but the employees would obviously have to be kept somewhat up-to-date on that stuff, since they'll be the ones coming in early to sell them and all.
I arrived at one of my local Apple stores (there are 3 within 20 miles of each other) at 10PM the night before the iPhone 4 launch. I was 30th in a mixed line of pre-orders and not. I was 18th once they split the line. I left the store at 1 PM with the last walk-in phone. It was fun until the store opened and then it was just torture.
For in-store pick up, they got 4S shipments everyday.
and You could have them "hold" one through Apple's website to pick it up the next day via an appointment. My friend did that.
Unfortunately (and at the same time, fortunately) I live in a fairly small area and we don't have a Best Buy.
No Apple store either. On the plus side, we don't get the long lines like the bigger cities do. The downside is of course that the local Verizon store is basically the only place to buy the phone in-store. So if launch day comes and I don't get one from Verizon, I'm just out of luck until they get more in stock. I wouldn't mind waiting until the 28th at all, but I'm leaving for a trip that day. I'd have a few hours in the morning that I could spend going to the store to get one (if that even means the stores will have more on that same date?), but I wouldn't want to pre-order if that's the date it would arrive. Looks like I'm better of just waiting to see what happens in-store. If I have to wait a couple/few more weeks then so be it. *tear*
God I'm pissed that my alarm didn't wake me up! I got up 4 hours after preorders started and was stuck with the 2 week wait time from Apple. I hope I got it early enough to maybe get pushed into the first wave, or the beginning of the second wave. Then I went to AT&T who still had stock but they wouldn't let me use a CC with a different address
Maybe if I call my local AT&T and tell them that I've already preordered the phone but am on a wait time, they'd hold one for me.
No one is going to hold one for you. You can go in on launch day and as long as your order has not shipped yet you should be able to cancel it and buy one in store, assuming they have them in stock when you're there. If you order shows shipped then you will have to wait for it to be delivered.
