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iPhone 4 Sold Out for Launch Day at AT&T and At Least Parts of Europe

You know the whole RESERVE ONE at the Apple Store message I saw all day after so many failed attempts at ordering. I almost put my name down for one just so I could get one on the 24th... but then I thought... I don't want to wait in line for 8 hours to get it on the 24th. I did that on the iPhone 1.0. I'll wait if I need too, for a chance to get one... but really don't want to wait just to get what should have been shipped to me.

But... I held out and got one ordered and all is well in the world.

:apple:
 
any of you have $1.00 charge to your CC account for apple if you preordered from apple? it mystically showed up in mine though i never got to confirm my order this morning and i never received a confirmation email. any ideas?
 
patsfan83 said:
Same here. Apple store seems to working fine now. At least it remembers your shopping cart if it craps out before confirming your order.

How long do you think apple stores will be sold out of phones for?
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Yeah, I read also when I tried to reserve on in the store that "At this time, no more reservations are available". You can only now wait for it to be shipped to your home or do it first come, first serve at the store.
 
Apple said:
Make a reservation.

We were unable to complete set up online.
To finish creating your account, you’ll need to visit an Apple Retail Store where we can help you in person.
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Been getting this all day. And now I have no chance of getting one on the 24th? WTF, Apple?

You know, I may just keep my old decrepit EDGE iPhone a little while longer. (Not that Apple cares, since they get a cut of the monthly subscription EDGE iPhone owners pay to AT&T.)
 
hmm

ordered 3 of them this afternoon and the confirmations all said the 24th. i haven't gotten the email version of it yet. hope its not different :confused:
 
Got mine pre-ordered lastnight not even 5 minutes after pre-orders went live.

Called the store half an hour ago and the girl confirmed my order in the system and said I'm all set for pickup on the 24th.
 
I started trying to order at midnight,over and over at apple...nothing,att's website was down for maintenance until 4:58 am i finally got on and my order went through i got the confirmation# but never got confirmation email,i have been on and off the phone all day with att but nobody even knows if it went through,so i went ahead and tried through apple on the camino browser and was ordered in a matter of minutes,no email confirmation as of yet,att is so screwed up right now,i am on the ph with them again and they can still find nothing,right now they seem so unreliable,should i keep the order with apple and tell them i want to cancel if and when they find it and another thing i am talking to att and they asked me if apple let me go through at the upgrade then he thinks it may not have went through,he still can't find it,he just told me to keep both orders open and if by chance it does go through to cancel it then,should i keep the apple order open on the off chance it didn't go through?
 
finally

talked to apple... talked to at&t..... at&t swore my FAN had nothing to do with it.... been trying all day.... nothing.... asked him to remove the FAN he said it wouldn't do any good and i was wasting my time.. i asked him to just do it... then once i was able to log in to my at&t account and verify FAN was removed... refreshed Apple page.. and the order went through and let me pay for it and received an order number.... i will now have the FAN re added to my account.... why can't AT&T be honest and straight up with people... he told me i wouldn't get the order to go through....
 

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patsfan83 said:
Same here. Apple store seems to working fine now. At least it remembers your shopping cart if it craps out before confirming your order.

How long do you think apple stores will be sold out of phones for?
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Honestly seeing how crazy the response to this is, I'd say worse than the iPad. This may be worse than the Wii.
 
After trying all day, all I was able to get was a reservation. Does anybody know if they actually hold the phone until the end of the day like it says in my email? I don't want to go to the Apple Store only to find out they sold the phone I reserved.

Pickup Date and Time
June 24 starting at 7:00 a.m.
Please note that your reservation will be held until close of business on June 24.

There is no reservation number. Is there any way to check on the reservation?
 
Best Buy FTW!!!

Not only were they smart of enough not to advertise their pre-order online to avoid massive ordering issues like AT&T and Apple Store had, they also made the White iPhone model available. They also set up pick-up time appointments for customers on the launch day. They learned well from the HTC EVO launch appearently. Kudos to Best Buy for their excellent service today.
 
Can you not order more than 1 iPhone per order? Trying to get one for me and my parent, we're both on the same family plan. Do I have to do 2 separate transactions? Hmm...
 
I'm seeing the same as other posters: no reservations left and July 2nd delivery for pre-order.

I've reserved (not pre-ordered) 3 times and all I got was a page stating that "We'll see you in the store" with a list of ID to bring - but never got an email from any of the 3 reserves.

Anyone else experiencing this? Ddd the reservation actually go through?
 
Rserved spot to pick up at the local store using the iPhone App earlier today - it wouldn't let me order one.

Tonight, it said I could order one, and delivery would be the 24th.. however... I kept getting kicked out on the payment screen, until finally it accepted payment and changed shipping (not deliv) to July 2nd.

And now the Account Status feature is "down for planned service" and I can't cancel the order for July 2nd.
 
New Ship Date

Finally got through and ordered one. Ship date is July 2 to be received on the 6th or 7th....that sucks
 
bluboi917 said:
Not only were they smart of enough not to advertise their pre-order online to avoid massive ordering issues like AT&T and Apple Store had, they also made the White iPhone model available. They also set up pick-up time appointments for customers on the launch day. They learned well from the HTC EVO launch appearently. Kudos to Best Buy for their excellent service today.
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Best Buy had to call all of the white iPhone pre-orderers and tell them.. OOPS.
 
segfaultdotorg said:
Been getting this all day. And now I have no chance of getting one on the 24th? WTF, Apple?

You know, I may just keep my old decrepit EDGE iPhone a little while longer. (Not that Apple cares, since they get a cut of the monthly subscription EDGE iPhone owners pay to AT&T.)
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Well.... give this a try in case you have a PO Box listed on your ATT account info. It sucks cause I have both my PO Box and street address listed on my apple store account but it made no difference. I went on ATT's site and changed it to my street address and then went back to Apple and tried the order again and it went through. What a bunch of BS, I understand not sending to a PO Box but lots of people have PO Boxes you would think as long as you have a shipping address as well everything would be fine. Anyway, maybe this will help you. Oh and yes, WTF! My order comes up that it will ship by July 2nd even though the store says the 24th when you start the order. Hope everyone else gets their orders in, what a pain in the ass.
 
I feel bad for everyone who couldn't get through until now, and they are to receive it July 2nd.

I received my conformation email, but I can't log into Apple's website to check on the order. Anyone else having this issue?
 
Just Pre-Ordered 2 Black 32gb iPhones (seperate transactions)

I just pre-ordered (not reserved) two 32gb iPhone 4's on two separate transactions for two different accounts on Apple.com. It took several tries to get them added to the separate carts (used two different browsers) and even a few more tries to checkout, but now I have two order confirmation numbers with delivery dates for June 24th.

Here is the screen you want to see...

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I was successful earlier today with AT&T. Never could get the apple site to work.

My problem is I was connected to works VPN and had the confirmation page up to print. However, with the VPN connected I couldn't print. I closed the VPN and it closed all my browser windows!!! I didn't write the confirmation number down either! :(

Now, I am not totally sure if I have a preorder. The order status page doesn't see it yet. They didn't send out email confirmation. My buddy got his preordered and it shows up on the order status page. He didn't get an email confirmation either.

Went through Apple tonight and it says June 24th delivery, but at the checkout it says ships by July 2nd...

I hope it shows up tomorrow on the AT&T order status page.
 
That's odd

jmerz said:
Finally got through and ordered one. Ship date is July 2 to be received on the 6th or 7th....that sucks
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That is strange, I ordered mine at 11:18 and it still says shipping to be delivered on June 24th... Maybe because I reserved mine through the Apple Store earlier with the Apple Store App?

I am just glad I finally know I won't be waiting in some giant line waiting to get my phone activated by a bunch of hipsters who don't really know anything about the computers outside of their "specs". :rolleyes:
 
pre-ordered and left with ?'s...

i got my order into att.com, first try, at about 5:35 eastern time US.

i got a confirmation email at 5:40 eastern time US (P.M. btw both).

but when i try to put my order number in on att's order status page, it tells me that it's not recognized by their system.

any word on when i can expect to get more information? i just want to make sure it's at least ordered and coming, even if not on june 24th exactly.

thanks.

note: i ordered 2 16gb black iphone 4's, on a new family talk plan.
thanks again.
 
i cant get the check order status to work either. been trying since i placed my order over an hour ago. still no confirmation from AT&T which i ordered from at 6pmEST and i reordered one from Apple at 10. I also made a reservation around 12pmEST before i got through on orders, and i instantly got the reservation email from them
 
Psiklops said:
I'm seeing the same as other posters: no reservations left and July 2nd delivery for pre-order.

I've reserved (not pre-ordered) 3 times and all I got was a page stating that "We'll see you in the store" with a list of ID to bring - but never got an email from any of the 3 reserves.

Anyone else experiencing this? Ddd the reservation actually go through?
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Mine did - I got a confirming email (finally, after chewing my fingernails off).

Another possible way to check is to use the Apple Store App on the iPhone and to navigate to the store where you have it reserved. Once at that store you'll see your reservation.

Note, I did see that someone had an email confirmation but the Store App hadn't updated yet, so if you don't see it, it may still be coming.
 
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