Weird situation.
Was helping my folks upgrade their iPhone 3G's (bought Oct 08) but due to my father's phone being stolen 2 months ago (switched to contract free candy bar phone sans data plan for last two months) he is ineligible for the full discount till June 28, four days after launch. Since I was able to get my mother a launch day phone delivered from Apple, she didn't want him left out and said just pay the $200 extra for his. I was unable to do that for his phone until delivery times had changed to "ships by July 14th" for his. My crazy (but with lots of disposable income) mother wants to keep his order in place as by June 28 orders may well have pushed out to August BUT....
Will Apple see that when the phone actually ships in July that he is eligible for the cheapest price and correct the order or is the fact he placed the order prior to his eligibility date damning to his case? It just burns me to have them pay an extra $200 to get the phone weeks AFTER he is eligible to NOT pay the extra fee.
PS: What makes me feel better is my wife's and my iPhone 4 showing delivery dates of June 24!
Was helping my folks upgrade their iPhone 3G's (bought Oct 08) but due to my father's phone being stolen 2 months ago (switched to contract free candy bar phone sans data plan for last two months) he is ineligible for the full discount till June 28, four days after launch. Since I was able to get my mother a launch day phone delivered from Apple, she didn't want him left out and said just pay the $200 extra for his. I was unable to do that for his phone until delivery times had changed to "ships by July 14th" for his. My crazy (but with lots of disposable income) mother wants to keep his order in place as by June 28 orders may well have pushed out to August BUT....
Will Apple see that when the phone actually ships in July that he is eligible for the cheapest price and correct the order or is the fact he placed the order prior to his eligibility date damning to his case? It just burns me to have them pay an extra $200 to get the phone weeks AFTER he is eligible to NOT pay the extra fee.
PS: What makes me feel better is my wife's and my iPhone 4 showing delivery dates of June 24!