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QUOTE=Just1BadApple;5828819]Gee, I was wondering...

If everytime you check your AT&T order status you cause a database record lock on your order for the duration. Then along comes the order fullfillment process looking for the next order in the queue to allocate this nice iPhone the warehouse just received. It finds your order, but, oh, too bad, the record is locked.:eek: No problem, the fullfillment process just goes down the list to find the next one that isn't locked. :p

... it wouldn't really work like that would it?!!? :confused:[/QUOTE]

Your over analyzing, ATT just sucks. That's the issue.

10:30 AM White 16 gig, still back ordered. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
Went in my local store at lunch. FedEx truck out front, lots of cars... 'maybe I'll get lucky'. Yeah right. Looked at accessories, they didn't have docks and the rep still thinks the phone comes with a dock.

Ended up playing with a demo unit for about 20 minutes. Sweeet Torture!!

Ordered 8gig on Friday morning (canceled)
Ordered 16gig on Monday morning.

I feel like the Billy Crystal/Christopher Guest act where they're shoving potato peelers up their noses and complain "I hate when that happens".
 
Well, my phone is waiting at the store for me. Assuming no problems with the phone, I guess I can stop thinking about it and start enjoying it. :)
 
Just to give some more reference points for shipping...

My White 16GB iPhone just got changed to shipping. I ordered it Friday at 2:49PM EST. I didn't pay for any shipping, it was marked freight, and it's coming overnight from fort worth, texas.

Good luck to everyone!
 
i STILL have not even received an effing email confirmation from att. this royally sucks balls:mad:
I ordered saturday. got confirmation email this morning, but here's the wierd thing. it was time stamped SUNDAY EVENING. yet i only got it this morning?? Really wierd but maybe thats what happened to you..
 
Just to give some more reference points for shipping...

My White 16GB iPhone just got changed to shipping. I ordered it Friday at 2:49PM EST. I didn't pay for any shipping, it was marked freight, and it's coming overnight from fort worth, texas.

Good luck to everyone!

I think the orders that shipped to the store I ordered from are coming from Ft Worth when Memphis is closer. I wonder how they are doing the fulfillments. Any warehouse to any store or certain warehouses to certain parts of the country.
 
Went through all the orders that were placed at my ATT store on Friday.

They sold 53, 3 of which were canceled, 5 of which arrived tuesday, and 4 of which will arrive tomorrow.

that being said, i just checked my status and my black 8gig iphone was shipped this morning and will be there tomorrow.

:D
 
Just to give some more reference points for shipping...

My White 16GB iPhone just got changed to shipping. I ordered it Friday at 2:49PM EST. I didn't pay for any shipping, it was marked freight, and it's coming overnight from fort worth, texas.

Good luck to everyone!

Curious...what is the SKU# for a white 16GB printed on your receipt from ATT? The rep assured me its a white one, but it does not say that in the description. It just says: PHO APPLE IPHONE 16 GB $299.00
 
https://www.wireless.att.com/order_status/

now seems to be down. Either it crashed due to hundreds of thousands of impatient 3G buyers hitting refresh every 10 seconds to see if their phone shipped, or AT&T realized that everyone is looking at everyone else's orders and took the system offline.

Congrats, now there's no status at all. :rolleyes:
 
I can't even pick up my 8GB black iPhone right now - both people I spoke to at my AT&T store insisted on processing my order first before picking it up. What difference does it make? It's a box with my name on it.

They said you'll be lucky if we get through them by 6p closing time, argh!
 
Does the backorder status relate to which phone you ordered?

I just used the att order status trick and saw that 2 people who ordered after me have had their phones shipped yet I ordered on the 11th and have still not gotten mine shipped.

:mad:
 
Just spoke to ATT CSR

I just got off the phone with an csr. She told me that she got an email today saying that if the iphone was ordered on fri or sat that it will ship on the 15th. If the phone was ordered on the sunday or later that there is a 10 to 14 day wait. I ordered on sunday am.... dam
 
I just got off the phone with an csr. She told me that she got an email today saying that if the iphone was ordered on fri or sat that it will ship on the 15th. If the phone was ordered on the sunday or later that there is a 10 to 14 day wait. I ordered on sunday am.... dam

Today is the 15th. I'll tell you tomorrow if I get a shipping notification for the one I ordered Friday (it is still backordered at the moment).
 
I just got off the phone with an csr. She told me that she got an email today saying that if the iphone was ordered on fri or sat that it will ship on the 15th. If the phone was ordered on the sunday or later that there is a 10 to 14 day wait. I ordered on sunday am.... dam

I'm sorry to hear that you ordered on Sunday, but that sounds like great news to me and several others here. Of course, I'm not sure I trust any CSR... and the AT&T site is down for checking orders.

I'll keep my fingers crossed. :)
 
I just got off the phone with an csr. She told me that she got an email today saying that if the iphone was ordered on fri or sat that it will ship on the 15th. If the phone was ordered on the sunday or later that there is a 10 to 14 day wait. I ordered on sunday am.... dam

Haha, I think this is the 3rd variation of the same thing with different dates I've read on here!
 
It seems like all the CSRs have different answers to questions about the iphone...it is very frustrating.
 
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