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Called my AT&T store today about stock for Friday..
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He is probably talking out of his ***, or worse yet, lying.
He has a financial benefit to get customers coming to his store. If he tells you the truth "I'm not really sure how many we are getting" or "We might not get that many on launch day" then he knows you will simply go to an apple store and his store will lose out on a potential sale. It's much easier for him to say "Oh yeah, we are getting ALOT on launch day" and deal with the consequences later.
Lying about levels of inventory to your (probably few) customers who care enough about the product you sell to call about inventory days in advance probably produces similarly negative consequences.
I could accept that he is merely speculating, possibly based on faulty information, but I think it unlikely that he would intentionally lie unless he is extremely short-sighted in regards to his business. Lying about things like this would only hurt in the long-run.
I'm always skeptical about about things like this... I wonder what his idea of "A LOT" is because that can vary SO much from one person to another!!
Either way the main point is that you cannot trust when a salesman tells you what you wan't to hear, has a financial incentive to do so, and what he is telling you goes against common knowledge.
Even though I'd argue that iPhone inventory levels are not at all common knowledge (virtually nobody knows what they'll be like; it's all speculation right now) and that an average salesman has very little financial incentive to intentionally lie to potential customers (it's not like they're working on commission), points taken.
my local at&t store told me the exact same thing that should not be a problem getting a 5S on Friday
I just got home from my Verizon store, the guy also said they would probably have enough stock for people to come in SATURDAY morning
And this guy was a fellow "geek", I always ask them technical questions to see if they are knowledgeable or just workers, I asked this guy what the RAM did in the iPhone 5s and he answered perfectly, so this guy knows what he's talking about, he was also a manager
"My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who" said you can get one Friday, no problem.
Correct. But you are under the impression that these att store guys are logical. These are 9 dollar an hour employees who want one thing, sales. They don't think as far as you did.
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My brothers sisters cousin bf knows a co worker who is friends with his sisters brother and their cousin met a guy in New York over the weekend who had a mom that knew his sisters dad and that person said she heard from some guy that you can get it Friday in store.
no offense but I find it hard to believe that they know what stock will be. Hope that it is true.
I spoke with a verizon rep and he said there will only be a handful, he wouldnt specify with configs they had in stock but that it would be very limited and reccomended waiting very early in the AM.
The apple store in our area had at least 1000 last year. I would guess 1500+ was more like the number.
This year even though there are limited supplies, they did not do preorders. So i would guess there store stock will be double or even triple than what they had last year.
This year even though there are limited supplies, they did not do preorders. So i would guess there store stock will be double or even triple than what they had last year.