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Best Buy Delays iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Up to 28 Days, Walmart and Sam's Club Also Seeing Delays

I preordered mine Friday the 14th and am 1st on the list at my local Best Buy for the at&t black 32gb model. Still don't have my phone and call daily only to be let down. This means my local Best Buy has NOT gotten 1 single shipment after their initial delivery.

I talked to the manager and was told they got 0 64gb models, 0 Sprint models, 0 at&t black 32gb models. He said they had 160+ preorders prior to launch and said they got only a small fraction of that number.

I'm getting pissed and am tired of waiting. By the time I get my iPhone 5 the iPhone 5S will be released!
 
I pre-orded one 16GB Black ATT and one 16GB White ATT. I got my black on launch day, but no white ATT phones came it. It has been over a week and still not shipments since the inital one. My store had over 70 pre-orders and only got 40 phones. Plus my Black 16GB does not go into vibrate mode so it will need to be replaced.
 
I was the 1st to pre order the at&t black 32gb one on the 14th. I pre ordered my wife a at&t white 32gb one from at&t directly on the 19th. I still haven't got mine but, hers will be delivered tomorrow by 3:00 via FedEx overnight.

What gives?
 
NutFlush920 said:
I was the 1st to pre order the at&t black 32gb one on the 14th. I pre ordered my wife a at&t white 32gb one from at&t directly on the 19th. I still haven't got mine but, hers will be delivered tomorrow by 3:00 via FedEx overnight.

What gives?
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thats where the problem is. The inventory for black GSM models seems to be extremely low or tight.
 
Is anyone else still in a holding pattern from Best Buy? I use the online inventory checker daily to see if the model I “pre-ordered” – white 32GB Sprint – is available at any of my metro area stores, but I haven’t seen it available once. I “pre-ordered” the very first morning and was number 16 overall at my store (who knows how many of the 15 before me ordered the exact same variant) but I am more frustrated as I read articles elsewhere indicating the Sprint variant of the iPhone as a whole seems to be the most readily available (at least through Apple and/or Sprint).

I chose Best Buy specifically because they offered me the most for the trade-in of my 3-year-old Blackberry, and now adding to the frustration the trade-in value of my Blackberry has decreased in the 19 days since I “pre-ordered” – so my wait is becoming less and less worthwhile (though the current Best Buy trade-in value still eclipses anything Sprint or Apple has offered).

My friends who pre-ordered from Apple days after I placed my order have already been enjoying their phones for nearly a week… I don’t know that I want to continue this wait for too much longer!
 
I still haven't got my 32gb black at&t iPhone from Best Buy yet. Still playing the waiting game.

On a side note, my wife got her 32gb white at&t iPhone from at&t yesterday and I learned we now have LTE in Green Bay, WI. Was getting 20.70 - 23.26mbps down and 15.51 - 19.13mbps up on the speed tests I ran. on HSPA+ I got 11.12 - 11.63mbps down and 3.58 - 3.66mbps up.

Love the speeds. Oh, and the phone is amazing too at how much faster it is.
 
Best Buy called me at 4:28pm CT today to let me know my iPhone 5 is in. Just got home with my new toy!
 
Finally!!!!

BB emailed around 6:00PM today and then called about 15 minutes later...I was there 30 minutes later to pick my 32GB Black AT&T phone up. Now just waiting for my 32GB White AT&T phone to show up...GF is not too happy with me right now because she has to wait for hers :D
 
NutFlush920 said:
Best Buy called me at 4:28pm CT today to let me know my iPhone 5 is in. Just got home with my new toy!
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nachotaco said:
BB emailed around 6:00PM today and then called about 15 minutes later...I was there 30 minutes later to pick my 32GB Black AT&T phone up. Now just waiting for my 32GB White AT&T phone to show up...GF is not too happy with me right now because she has to wait for hers :D
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Which location are you guys from?
 
nachotaco said:
BB emailed around 6:00PM today and then called about 15 minutes later...I was there 30 minutes later to pick my 32GB Black AT&T phone up. Now just waiting for my 32GB White AT&T phone to show up...GF is not too happy with me right now because she has to wait for hers :D
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Just received my email for the white phone! Going to pick up tonight!
 
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