Horrible iPhone Business Practices!

madfresh

macrumors regular
It seems as if the Apple stores, at least the ones in Stonestown (san francisco) and the Burlingame location, don't sell the iPhones unless there is a line outside. I went to the stonestown location 2 times, and they told me to come tomorrow and wait in line early in the morning for their next shipment (didn't do that and it was an obvious lie because the website showed they were fully stocked). The same thing happened at the Burlingame location, except they would flat out lie. I went here twice, hoping for a better experience than the stonestown location, and this location is worse. They flat out lie and say they're sold out when there is no line outside; however, when you check the online site at 9PM, it shows they're full stocked. Riiiiight, like they got in a shipment at around 7-8PM today on a saturday.

They're just doing this to raise the hype for the phone, and it's disgusting. I'm contemplating not even buying one now. They shouldn't be allowed to do this.
 
Not to burst your bubble, but the online checker is very often wrong. It shows my local stores with 100% full stock and they're actually clean out.
 
Stuff like this always cracks me up. It is like saying Nintendo is artificially creating a "shortage" of Wii systems in order to hype demand.

Unsold product is a bad thing no matter how it is sliced. If Apple can sell a million 3G iPhones in a week (for argument sake), they aren't going to hold back 250K of them in hopes it will lead 3 million people to want them in the following month.
 
It seems as if the Apple stores, at least the ones in Stonestown (san francisco) and the Burlingame location, don't sell the iPhones unless there is a line outside. I went to the stonestown location 2 times, and they told me to come tomorrow and wait in line early in the morning for their next shipment (didn't do that and it was an obvious lie because the website showed they were fully stocked). The same thing happened at the Burlingame location, except they would flat out lie. I went here twice, hoping for a better experience than the stonestown location, and this location is worse. They flat out lie and say they're sold out when there is no line outside; however, when you check the online site at 9PM, it shows they're full stocked. Riiiiight, like they got in a shipment at around 7-8PM today on a saturday.

They're just doing this to raise the hype for the phone, and it's disgusting. I'm contemplating not even buying one now. They shouldn't be allowed to do this.

:apple: has a goal of 10 million sold by the end of the year. I highly doubt they would refuse to sell to someone who's willing to pay.
 
the other thing to consider is out of fairness to everyone they may only sell today's shipment tomorrow. i.e., instead of making knuckleheads like you run around town looking for iphones at all hours of the day, the sell them only in the morning at opening. it makes it much simpler on the customers and the sales guys... that way they can focus on other non-iphone customers later in the day.
 
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