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How I scored an iPhone 6 Plus on 9/20

I did the exact same thing but got a T-Mobile 6+ 64gb Space Gray.
Except I didnt keep refreshing for hours.
I logged in, checked stock, was available. Took 5 minutes.

Then I went to Apple Store at like 7pm the same day 9/20 and stepped in the reservation line for online orders (I was the only one), took me 5 minutes.

Its pretty hilarious that people had to wait outside for days or whatever to get this phone. People need to smarten up or have a little patience.
 
bhags8 said:
I did the exact same thing but got a T-Mobile 6+ 64gb Space Gray.
Except I didnt keep refreshing for hours.
I logged in, checked stock, was available. Took 5 minutes.

Then I went to Apple Store at like 7pm the same day 9/20 and stepped in the reservation line for online orders (I was the only one), took me 5 minutes.

Its pretty hilarious that people had to wait outside for days or whatever to get this phone. People need to smarten up or have a little patience.
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Congrats! The cards just seemed to be in your favor. How are you liking your new toy?
 
tgi said:
Congrats! The cards just seemed to be in your favor. How are you liking your new toy?
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Absolutely love it. I like you, saw that thread and went to Apples site I guess right at the perfect time. They had almost all colors and size available. The phone is incredible though! Hope we can do this each year lol.

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now Im just trying to find a good case for this beast. I dont think Im gonna bring it to work until I get a good case because I love it so much lol.

Side note : I think if someone got a gold one that the brown leather case would look fantastic with it.
 
bhags8 said:
I did the exact same thing but got a T-Mobile 6+ 64gb Space Gray.
Except I didnt keep refreshing for hours.
I logged in, checked stock, was available. Took 5 minutes.

Then I went to Apple Store at like 7pm the same day 9/20 and stepped in the reservation line for online orders (I was the only one), took me 5 minutes.

Its pretty hilarious that people had to wait outside for days or whatever to get this phone. People need to smarten up or have a little patience.
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To be honest, I'd just say you got lucky. Which is great, but to say that others need to smarten up when the stock of 6+ is obviously very low, well that's just probably a bit of an exaggeration.
 
bhags8 said:
now Im just trying to find a good case for this beast. I dont think Im gonna bring it to work until I get a good case because I love it so much lol.

Side note : I think if someone got a gold one that the brown leather case would look fantastic with it.
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Picked this up today at my local Best Buy, not bad for $15. It's good enough to the point where I might not look for another case. Originally wanted to go with a Spigen case but heard about button issues with their Neo Hybrid cases and I needed something now. Definitely worth checking out.

http://m.bestbuy.com/m/e/product/detail.jsp?skuId=8451236&pid=1219334913176&pcatId=abcat0811002
 
tgi said:
First of all, I consider myself incredibly lucky to be able to find the exact color/capacity iPhone 6 Plus that I wanted the day after launch. None of this would have happened if I didn’t find this thread right here https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1784178/.

11:00 PM - I began checking Apple.com (using Safari on my iPhone) to see if a 64GB iPhone 6 plus Space Grey AT&T is available to pickup on 9/20 around the SF Bay Area. No stores in had any available (not surprised). I repeated this process for the next hour.

12:05 AM - Inventory on Apple.com seems to be updated as there are now 3 stores within a 30 minute drive of me that have the iPhone I want, available for pickup 9/20. I proceed to place an order at the closest Apple store to me and for some reason when I reach the final stages of checking out, it would show unavailable for pickup. So I would reload Apple.com and the same store will show available again, so I keep trying. After failing again, I refreshed Apple.com and tried the same thing but selecting a different Apple store. Same problem, still not showing availability for pickup. I repeat this for 30 minutes until I decide to try using the Apple Store App.

12:35 AM - I try ordering again at the Apple store closest to me, but using the Apple Store app this time around. Order goes through on the first try. I had to choose contract upgrade as they don’t allow AT&T Next and customer pickup for some reason. Still trying to figure out why.

12:40 AM - E-mail confirmation received from Apple.
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8:03 AM - E-mail confirmation that iPhone is ready for pickup.
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10:30 - Arrived at Apple Store, waited in the Reservation line.

10:45 - iPhone 6 Plus in hand and out the door.



tl;dr

*Bought iPhone 6 plus day after launch without preordering or waiting in line.
*Online inventory refreshed at midnight local time.
*AT&T Next and customer pickup did not work for me.
*Used the Apple Store app, as Safari was not letting me place the order on my iPhone.

Hope this thread can help someone snag an iPhone 6 plus early than they are shipping them! Good luck!

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Are you in eastern time? central time? or pacific time?
 
Sith Vol said:
What's the other form of ID needed? I'm assuming a Driver's License and the credit card used to purchase would be fine?
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Yes license and CC is sufficient. They didn't ask for my card though. Just my license.

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hughiee said:
Early upgrade so add $250 to the $399 price.
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This. Upgraded my line when the 5S was released so I exactly one year into my contract.
 
I've been trying this but was unsure of what time PST this would happen. Thanks for the details. ;)
 
Oh yea same exact thing happened to me. I was set to get my phone (ordered through the ATT Store) by November! :mad: After I called Apple, she told me how to look online to check store availability. On Saturday, there was the IP6+ located in Colorado and I was going to get it and have it mailed to me. I couldn't because that phone that I ordered through ATT, yeeeaa that phone had to be cancelled out of the system for that was taking up my 2yr contract subsidized price. By the time I cancelled it through the ATT store from which I ordered, the phone I was going to get was gone! :mad:

So I tried again this morning and low-n-behold, hot *****, they had my model right here in my town, 20min away. Locked it in and tonight I keep looking at it like it's diamond.
 
Yup exact same situation for me. My preorder was suppose to ship on Oct 14-21, read that thread on Friday night and decided to take a chance and canceled the preorder. Was able to snag one on my first try a little after midnight and picked up my new 6+ the next morning.
 
I must have been lucky because I went to my local apple store on launch day at 1:40 pm. I stood in line and was told there was no 6+ at the time. But I made a reservation pass for the 6 anyways and stood in line. One hour later, Apple guy asked if anyone wanted to change their reservation for the 6+ as some have become available. So I lucked out and changed my reservation from 6 to a 6+ in Gold. Come 5PM it was my turn, and walked out with the 6+ in my hand :D.

Of course it's possible that someone previously reserved it but changed their mind and wanted the 6 instead. Who knows, but I'm glad I got the one I wanted. Although I wanted silver, but I'm happy with Gold as well.
 
did the same on Friday night....got the site to show avail at my local store at 3:58 am, purchased and email received at 4:10, and then email "ready for pickup" at 7:29am - Went to store at 9:25 and 6+ in my hand by 9:45....

my initial order on apple.com was ship oct 13-20....this works if you are flexible and can take diff colors or GB's...
 
Well been trying since 3AM EST and nothing yet. :(

4:30 am - Still no updates....
5:15 am - Nothing

So I have been trying since 3 AM EST and I haven't seen any changes in several stores too. Not sure because it was a weekend.
 
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I am pretty sure from years past that Sunday nights are pretty dead for trying to do this. No shipping companies deliver on Sunday, so makes sense. Tonight will hopefully be better, but I bet the next major amounts the stores will get will be towards the end of the week again in prep for the weekend.
 
I just saw! Damn Apple, why they want to make it so hard for us to buy their crap!! :)

"Sorry Everyone!

It has come to my host's attention that Apple has been sending DMCA notices to people hosting services like this. I've gotta shut this thing down, but if anybody has any questions/interest in how I wrote it, send me a message on reddit."
 
Absolutely no luck with inventory changes anywhere. I have been up last night as well (3am EST) and nothing ever changes. 6+ Has pretty much become impossible to order for pick up. No one has inventory anywhere.
 
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