FINALLY got a preorder thru apple.com

[magpie maniac]

I finally got an order through a few minutes ago.

BUT, why am I being charged 24% sales tax? The phone was $299, but the final order was $368. WTF? I live in California, but even we don't pay sales tax that high.

Hey, somebody's gotta pay for Obamacare.

 

[martin1000]

Just got through on apple and ordered. Clear your cache, it worked for me right after I did that.

 

[iphone1105]

I finally got an order through a few minutes ago.

BUT, why am I being charged 24% sales tax? The phone was $299, but the final order was $368. WTF? I live in California, but even we don't pay sales tax that high.

Actually we do, we have hight tax....where you been living?

 

[Runt888]

Just got through a couple of minutes ago, after trying since 2:30 this morning. I'm shocked...

 

[Love Juice]

mine just went through. it was only letting me do a reservation before, but gave it another chance and it let me order )

 

[fishkorp]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7E18 Safari/528.16)

I finally got an order through a few minutes ago.

BUT, why am I being charged 24% sales tax? The phone was $299, but the final order was $368. WTF? I live in California, but even we don't pay sales tax that high.

California charges tax on the full unsubsidized price of the phone.

 

[cmChimera]

Finally got through. Still says June 24. Hope it makes it. I was about to kill something.

 

[demiurgical]

I finally got an order through a few minutes ago.

BUT, why am I being charged 24% sales tax? The phone was $299, but the final order was $368. WTF? I live in California, but even we don't pay sales tax that high.

You're being taxed on the full unsubsidized price of the phone (In CA, MA, and RI).

At least your order went through, still trying and trying... T_T...

 

[pyrodex]

Just got my second one in... now I am DONE.

 

[Protokoll]

Read your confirmation e-mail.

*In CA, MA and RI sales tax is collected on the unbundled price of the iPhone.

For some reason you pay tax on full, unsubsidized price of the phone because our governments are money grubbing cesspools.

 

[monksealpup]

Just banged on the site for the past 20 minutes. Typical timeout etc. stuff, then suddenly it just worked, and really quickly, as if few other people were on the system. Glad I got in before Apple sold out!

Been at it since 1 am Pacific. Only got like 5 hours of sleep in all of that time :\

 

[bahamallama]

for the second time today I selected data plans, lets hope it doesn't crash on it.....

 

[SDLSteve]

Yep, it worked. I finally got one ordered. I did reset Safari though (don't know if that was it or just a coincidence)

 

[badlydrawnboy]

Read your confirmation e-mail.

*In CA, MA and RI sales tax is collected on the unbundled price of the iPhone.

For some reason you pay tax on full, unsubsidized price of the phone because our governments are money grubbing cesspools.

Well, I haven't received the confirmation email yet. But thanks for clarifying.

Had I known, I might have gone for the 16 GB. Oh well.

 

[cmbarclay]

At what point in the pre-order process did you open all of the windows?

I just keep trying to get Apple to contact ATT servers one window at a time until I opened about 10 windows then keep checking each one to see if one went through. As soon as I had a connection to ATT I quickly closed all the others... it worked.

Good luck.

 

[rmatthewware]

Finally got my two iPhones ordered (about five minutes ago). Yes, I had to order them separately. I haven't gotten the confirmation email yet, but you can go into your Apple account and view your orders. Both say they'll deliver by June 24th.

I also ordered two docks, saying they'll deliver July 3-7th. The orange bumper said it'll deliver July 3-7th, the green one said July 17-21st.

Hope this helps!

 

[bniu]

success finally!!! 12 hours later, iPhone's on the way!

too bad it'll ship to my parent's house in Texas, at least i'll be there 5 days later to play with it!

 

[gforce216]

Got through just now. Just waiting for my e-mail too but I at least printed out the confirmation page.

 

[Young Turk]

Just got through on apple and ordered. Clear your cache, it worked for me right after I did that.

Same here. Cleared cache after trying literally all day long. I don't know if it helped, but it sure didn't hurt, because about 5 times after I cleared the cache, the order for delivery went through with Apple.com.

I ordered my wife's earlier this morning through AT&T with no problem, as she's got the upgrade price; me, I'm paying full price. Both 16gb will be delivered June 24.

YoungTurk

 

[badlydrawnboy]

How long did it take you to get your confirmation email? It's been 10 minutes and I haven't gotten it yet. Kinda nervous considering what kind of day it's been.

 

[cu2010]

Why doesn't Apple let me choose a delivery option? Is it because we have 3 stores in the vicinity and is cutting postage costs?

 

[bahamallama]

Got my wife's now trying to get mine....


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[rmatthewware]

Yep, it worked. I finally got one ordered. I did reset Safari though (don't know if that was it or just a coincidence)

I did this too. I don't know if it was coincidence or not. I used Internet Explorer (at work) though.

 

[jfk3674]

Finally got through on appple.com. 12 bloody hours I wanted a white one, but if I can guarantee getting one I'll take black. And I got a screen capture just in case.

Is anyone thinking it's going to be a royal mess on the 24th at the stores?

 

[oldschooldude]

Completed pre-order process (home delivery) at 9:30am CST after trying since midnight.

It is now 6:18pm CST and I JUST RECEIVED AN ORDER CONFRMATION EMAIL FROM APPLE. THANK GOD, THIS PART OF THE PROCESS TO GET A NEW iPHONE 4 IS OVER!!!!!!!!!