Cutting in line at Apple Store?

[rwilliams]

I wouldn't get bent out of shape over someone cutting in line, but keep in mind, a lot of the people who would wait in line for a PHONE are fanatical. Add in being on their feet waiting around for hours, and the typical anxiety/high blood pressure that people give themselves worrying about "will I get one? will they have my model?", and it could get nasty.

 

[ANTAWNM26]

So a few friends of mine are going to the Apple Store at 12pm tomorrow hoping to be first. I don't get off work and school until 8pm. I was originally going to Verizon by my house by obviously I'll have a greater chance on getting what I want at the source.

My friends want me to meet them after I get off so it'll be around 9pm. Can I cut in line and wait with them if I get there late and there's a hundred people behind? Will people be butt hurt and start yelling or is this normal during this event?

Are you serious? I would curse your ass out and then ask you politely to get your ass to the back of the line...wow..what would make you think that it would be ok

 

[chasgooses]

I still think if OP rolls in around 8 PM tonight, the line won't be too long. If her friends let the people behind them know she's coming ahead of time they will probably be OK with it. If not, I still think OP can just get in the back of the line and see if the people around her will save her spot so she can wait with her friends further up (and I can't imagine there will be THAT many people between them). I get how people see cutting as a grave injustice, but surely it should be OK to save a space at the back of the line and then wait with friends and go back to her actual spot in line close to opening right? OP will have been waiting there for the proper amount of time, just not in the right place

 

[chrono1081]

Well its private property but the store could say you were trespassing.

I *think* what happened to the kid in my class is that they rolled it into some other charge that is a he said she said between the cop and person (like disturbing the peace or something).

 

[rhaezorblue]

So a few friends of mine are going to the Apple Store at 12pm tomorrow hoping to be first. I don't get off work and school until 8pm. I was originally going to Verizon by my house by obviously I'll have a greater chance on getting what I want at the source.

My friends want me to meet them after I get off so it'll be around 9pm. Can I cut in line and wait with them if I get there late and there's a hundred people behind? Will people be butt hurt and start yelling or is this normal during this event?

At minimum you should be prepared to get called out on it and embarassed infront of a lot of people.

 

[cornerexit]

this is exactly why I refuse to wait in line. 5 hours to store opening your 50th in line. 30 minutes to store opening your 200th in life. F That.

^ This. I'd much rather just relax about it all and get it from the UPS man. F a line for anything. I'd wait in line for a GFE night with one of the Victoria Secrets angels, and not much else, certainly not for a phone, or game console.

 

[AdamA9]

At the end of the day you could give one of the people in line money to buy the phone for you anyway, so it's not like the people behind you would have lost out due to stock levels etc.

 

[soco]

Man, this is like hearing of someone's terminal cancer.

RIP OP

 

[Zxxv]

Imagine your 11th inline, you got there 9+hrs early, you stood in the cold waiting and there are 10 people in front of you. Someone comes along and gets let in. Now your 12th. Someone else comes along and gets let in. Now your 13th. This goes on until all ten people have let someone in. Now your 21st inline and your patience has gone.
So when do you say no/stop? on the first person, 2nd, 8th...???? how do you know when it will stop? how do you know it'll only be one person?

and what if you started back further than 11th?

 

[2298754]

I would be pissed if someone did it to me. Thank god I was able to get a Pre order to go through online...

 

[BoricuaHec01]

Are you serious? I would curse your ass out and then ask you politely to get your ass to the back of the line...wow..what would make you think that it would be ok

I never said it was ok in the first place. That's why I made a thread for advice and if anyone came across this situation.

 

[ET iPhone Home]

So a few friends of mine are going to the Apple Store at 12pm tomorrow hoping to be first. I don't get off work and school until 8pm. I was originally going to Verizon by my house by obviously I'll have a greater chance on getting what I want at the source.

My friends want me to meet them after I get off so it'll be around 9pm. Can I cut in line and wait with them if I get there late and there's a hundred people behind? Will people be butt hurt and start yelling or is this normal during this event?

I see an incident report on the 630PM NBC World News.

 

[avaloncourt]

I never said it was ok in the first place. That's why I made a thread for advice and if anyone came across this situation.

You shouldn't need to start a thread about a question of morals. You should know it's wrong without asking. If the first twenty five people each let a buddy in line and you were the twenty sixth person, you would now be fifty first. How would YOU feel? What about the person who spent all that time in line who was displaced without a phone because you stepped into line?

 

[Zxxv]

I never said it was ok in the first place. That's why I made a thread for advice and if anyone came across this situation.

what did your parents say?

 

[popeye88]

Or is it easier for me because people can identify and understand a husband/wife situation easier than just "some guy joining the line?"

Sorry, being married doesn't give you special cut the line privileges. If you are entitled to two iPhones, then buy two, but don't expect the folks behind you to be understanding if your wife cuts the line in front of them after they waited.

 

[Paul S]

It's probably already been said, but cutting violates the very concept of forming a line. If I saw you sneaking in, you bet I would throw the biggest grown-man temper tantrum.

 

[Phone Junky]

Isn't the whole point of being in line is that you are actually there in line. The line becomes meaningless if someone can come along later, after the fact and join into the line any place other than the back. Being in the line shows in what order the people in the line showed up. There is no justification to getting in the line anywhere but the back when you show up.

 

[kilcher]

No way I'd do it.

Why not just ask one of your friends to try and get an extra phone for you? That way you don't have to cut and still (maybe) get your phone.

 

[HeyGreggie]

Okay I have a question.. Would you guys get upset at someone who paid someone to stand in line for them, and then around 5am, came to join the line and sit for the other 3 hours? Now the person (placeholder) would be leaving completely, just holding your spot for a few hours.

 

[Big Dookie]

The amount of anger to someone cutting in line is going to be directly proportional to a number of variables:

1. How far up in the line the person is cutting in.
2. How long the line is currently.
3. How long the people behind the cutter have been waiting already.
4. How many people have already cut in.

Example: If you're #5 in a line of 10 or so, and #3 lets a buddy in, and that's the only person who's allowed someone to cut for the entire four hours you've been standing in line, most people aren't going to get to worked up.

If you started as #5 in a line of 10, and seven hours later you are now #30 in a line of 50, and someone near the front just let two more buddies jump in line with them ten minutes before opening the doors... yeah, you're about to see some pissed off people.

There's a line (figurative, not literal) that is going to be crossed at some point. It's usually around the time the first person gets upset at someone else for allowing a buddy to cut in front of them. When that time comes is anyone's guess, and is all based on the most unknowable variable of all - the human variable. But once the line is crossed, there's no going back.

 

[GRANTCKING]

Okay I have a question.. Would you guys get upset at someone who paid someone to stand in line for them, and then around 5am, came to join the line and sit for the other 3 hours? Now the person (placeholder) would be leaving completely, just holding your spot for a few hours.

cant see anyone getting annoyed in this situation as your swapping one person for another and so not increasing the amount of phones that can be bought

 

[JRoDDz]

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[Small White Car]

Sorry, being married doesn't give you special cut the line privileges. If you are entitled to two iPhones, then buy two, but don't expect the folks behind you to be understanding if your wife cuts the line in front of them after they waited.

How close can she stand? Is 10 feet far enough away? If we're close enough to yell to each other is that too close?

I'm just really trying to figure out the rules here. Will people be mad if she stands 30 feet away and watches me?

Because absolutely none of this changes how many phones we're buying, so I'm trying to figure out what's ok and what's not ok, appearance-wise.

 

[Fattytail]

The amount of anger to someone cutting in line is going to be directly proportional to a number of variables:

1. How far up in the line the person is cutting in.
2. How long the line is currently.
3. How long the people behind the cutter have been waiting already.
4. How many people have already cut in.

Example: If you're #5 in a line of 10 or so, and #3 lets a buddy in, and that's the only person who's allowed someone to cut for the entire four hours you've been standing in line, most people aren't going to get to worked up.

If you started as #5 in a line of 10, and seven hours later you are now #30 in a line of 50, and someone near the front just let two more buddies jump in line with them ten minutes before opening the doors... yeah, you're about to see some pissed off people.

There's a line (figurative, not literal) that is going to be crossed at some point. It's usually around the time the first person gets upset at someone else for allowing a buddy to cut in front of them. When that time comes is anyone's guess, and is all based on the most unknowable variable of all - the human variable. But once the line is crossed, there's no going back.

Hilarious and spot on.

If you're going to get, better do it early on and make up some lame excuse. Otherwise, prepare to be confronted in the morning.

Apple MUST be arranging for security. In some parts of the country, this could lead to some seriously bad publicity.

 

[JRoDDz]

How close can she stand? Is 10 feet far enough away? If we're close enough to yell to each other is that too close?

I'm just really trying to figure out the rules here. Will people be mad if she stands 30 feet away and watches me?

Because absolutely none of this changes how many phones we're buying, so I'm trying to figure out what's ok and what's not ok, appearance-wise.

Just be prepared to fight. That's all I'm saying.