Go to UPS.com > Tracking Tab at top > Track By Reference Tab (on the left side of the page) > Plug your sprint account # into the "Shipment Reference Box" >
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iPhone 6 & 6 Plus Sprint Pre-Order Thread!
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Go to UPS.com > Tracking Tab at top > Track By Reference Tab (on the left side of the page) > Plug your sprint account # into the "Shipment Reference Box" >
I think it is just a label has been created and it may sit there 2 weeks before i see it change. This evening is the first time ive gotten a hit. Under ups.com and tracking, go to track by reference and check mail innovations. Then were the reference number is put in your sprint account number or your order number with the hyphens minus the last two digits or your sprint cell number with the hyphens as well. Then put in your zip code.
lol well what does that say about those that don't even have a label created yet.
We going to be waiting 6 weeks?I jest. But I think having a label created is a good sign. I don't see why a label would be created if they don't have your product ready to ship soon. I would imagine, they wouldn't just sit on it. Plus others that have had labels created with UPS (using the tracking reference method), had their orders shipped shortly after. I would say it's a very good sign for you.
It's better then what I have, which is nothing.
I think Apple and maybe Sprint including other carriers should do some type of press to indicate what their having a shortage in. Many people can and will accept that their phone is on backorder. Not saying anything and telling everyone 4-6 weeks is not reassuring when many are getting theirs before. This is definitely poor leadership and marketing and I fault both companies.
Sprint has done a very poorly job with in store reps and customer service with training. I have called and chatted with them at least 15 times and I still got a different answer from each individual. I don't need you to sugar coat anything by telling me it might arrive before 4-6 weeks and don't. My lesson going forward I will never ever pre order or order a phone when its first released ever again. You charge my credit card but can't tell me when my ish will be delivered. What kind of mess is that. They should have charged for a deposit and then remaining when the phone is actually shipping. Not charge me for my good and don't have anything to show for it. Hell you charging my card and I have to pay a bill before I get it. Its not right or fair to consumers.
Sprint has done a very poorly job with in store reps and customer service with training. I have called and chatted with them at least 15 times and I still got a different answer from each individual. I don't need you to sugar coat anything by telling me it might arrive before 4-6 weeks and don't. My lesson going forward I will never ever pre order or order a phone when its first released ever again. You charge my credit card but can't tell me when my ish will be delivered. What kind of mess is that. They should have charged for a deposit and then remaining when the phone is actually shipping. Not charge me for my good and don't have anything to show for it. Hell you charging my card and I have to pay a bill before I get it. Its not right or fair to consumers.
Well i dont wanna get my hopes up yet i just wanted to pass it along on what i see. Ive been following this forum from the beginning and relied on the info to help check on my order. Ill keep you posted if i get anymore updates. Good luck everyone! !
i just wanted to pass it along on what i see. Ive been following this forum from the beginning and relied on the info to help check on my order. Ill keep you posted if i get anymore updates. Good luck everyone! !
I would be very frustrated as well. If it ends up being more than a month, I would call the credit card company and dispute the charge. You can always go pick one up in person a little later on, if need be.
I just wish they wouldn't have charged us the full amount. I would have been cool with a pending charge, but charging your customers the full amount for a product...you don't actually have, and you can't tell them when you will actually being getting it, is ********. This wouldn't be acceptable in any other industry.
On Apple's end, I think it was a very poor showing from them, to launch their phone without having anywhere close to the # needed to fill pre-orders. There is something ass backwards about having pre-orders, when they still have supply in their stores. What I mean is, you have a bunch of people being locked into these deals (paying in advance), and then being stuck in limbo. All while the average Joe can just walk into various stores and pick their phone up.
What was even the point of pre-ordering. I will not do this again in the future. Not again. It seems like you actually got punished for pre-ordering. I think the other frustrating aspect about this, is just how poor Sprint has been in communicating. I get that they are getting swamped, but like you said, they could have done a press release, or done a better job letting people know. HELL they should have had a press release up before pre-orders went live, letting people know that they didn't have the supply (and they should have indicated which specific models they didn't have any supply for, or were very low supply on. I sure as hell wouldn't have went for a 16gb SG + model, if I knew it was the one model that they didn't get any of it in). But the fact is, they just wanted our money. They didn't care about any of that, they didn't want to let customers know ahead of time that they would be waiting a long ass time. OR that certain models wouldn't even have supply. They wanted you to get that pre-order in, so they could take your money and lock your ass in.
Again, something wrong when people that ordered 10 min after pre-orders went up, still don't have their phone because they didn't get any supply for that specific model.
Well i dont wanna get my hopes up yet
Out of curiosity, in your account panel on the sprint site, if you click "activate new device" does your new phone show up yet?
My second phone is suppose to be here tomorrow. It was the process and how they handled this including many on this site. I called Amex last week and they stated if I didn't have my goods in another week I can cancel my order and they will reverse the charge. Some on here stating their card show pending but both phones stated posted. I didn't go to work that Friday dealing with preorders because Apple and Sprint sytems was ********* up. It becomes exhausting when I'm paying you for your product. Never again will I do this.
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Exactly, you held my credit card hostage. One of my co workers is going through this same thing and they won't cancel her order. She had to call her cc and cancel the order today because she is due to close on a home next Wednesday and she doesn't want any charges pending on her account. She wanted to pay if off once she received the phone.
If you preordered your phone not one store or Apple customer should have received their product until pre orders were closed. I don't understand why they didn't have pre orders for a specific time and date when you know the stock was limited from the beginning. People were still pre ordering the night before it went on sale. Why did you allow that when people who was going to stand in line will get theirs first before pre orders.
I agree with you. I preordered the 4s back when and had to wait a month, if I remember right. All the while, people were able to walk into Atlanta stores (when they could find stock) and buy one and walk out, while I had to wait. Last year when I got the iPhone 5, I walked into the store. I vowed never to do the pre-order crap again. Apple screws over those ordering online every year. And every year, there is more demand than there is product. I think this year it may even be worse.
Good stuff. Well not good, it'd be better if it showed you were assigned a device, but it's cool to see that sprint isn't completely neglecting their status page. If it showed up in the benched devices dashboard, that'd be kind of pathetic.
Thanks again for looking and updating us.
Take this for what it's worth.
Retweet wasn't to me; I chewed them out hours ago and didn't get a response.
Retweet wasn't to me; I chewed them out hours ago and didn't get a response.
They've been copy/pasting that statement since Friday. It's all over the iPhone 6 area of their forums
I don't read their forums because I usually don't it's complete rubbish; I just speak to people (also rubbish, I know) that have been saying either the 4-6 week thing OR "if you preordered you should see it by Friday."
Honestly I don't know what's worse. At least "we're going as fast as we can" sounds better than the other two things, whether or not it's true.
Well ****. With all the reports of the iPhone 6 + bending I'm thinking of canceling my order and getting a regular 6. Even though I have a purse, I like using my pocket from time to time. Then again I'm pretty skinny and my jeans are tight so maybe getting a 6+ was a bad idea anyways.
cancelled my ****ing order. Apple store has a bunch of phones I'll be checking this week. good luck to everyone, it was fun following this thread lol. oh and for anyone who wants to know, the cancellation reverted my upgrade eligibility back to what it was in about an hour or so.
I feel your pain. We are in the same boat. I pre ordered on 9/12... 16GB Space Grey.. but here at a corp. sprint store in LA... and I've played with both phones at Best Buy and now I'm actually considering the regular 6 too. I still want Space Grey.. but at least I know I'll have it in 7,10 days and then just get the 64 GB one.
I feel that if you have not received a tracking number or any sort of hint that indicates your phone getting to you, you should cancel your order. I checked out my local apple store at a mall near me and I saw how they had plenty of 6+ and 6's in stock. My phone is scheduled to arrive by Friday. If you don't have a number I would wait for evidence, or be pleasantly surprised on Friday with my phone arriving unannounced without a tracking number or any sort of clue of the device being shipped. I am sure that if you preordered prior to 9/15 (Monday), you will get it by Friday, whether or not there is small online clues indicating your order has shipped. Good luck everyone.
I'm excited for you
One would think even if Sprint doesn't update squat UPS My Choice would show a scheduled delivery - not the case for me yet but of course I'm at 7 days, 11 hours since ordering as of the writing of this post so all of you have a couple days on me at least.
I'm watching the flights, haha, and hoping that maybe my phone will be on the flight heading to my local hub departing in 10 or so minutes, heh, but I doubt it.
I'm excited for you
One would think even if Sprint doesn't update squat UPS My Choice would show a scheduled delivery - not the case for me yet but of course I'm at 7 days, 11 hours since ordering as of the writing of this post so all of you have a couple days on me at least.
I'm watching the flights, haha, and hoping that maybe my phone will be on the flight heading to my local hub departing in 10 or so minutes, heh, but I doubt it.
how do you track the flights? link? I am anxious to get the phone! I am probably more anxious now waiting to receive my phone then I was waiting for a tracking number lol
iPhone 6 & 6 Plus Sprint Pre-Order Thread!
This will get you info to Louisville:
http://flightaware.com/live/iphone
If you go to all UPS flights if you've gotten a departure scan you can match it up with the flight headed to your local hub. If you haven't yet, then that's where you'll get to see it once the status changes.
If you know what airport packages go to in your closest major metro (if there are more than one airport, I mean - usually it's the international airport), you can find it in the live flight tracker tab, too.
Although since it's Wednesday it probably won't depart Louisville until tomorrow night / wee hours of Friday morning, so you may not be able to see much.
This will get you info to Louisville:
http://flightaware.com/live/iphone
If you go to all UPS flights if you've gotten a departure scan you can match it up with the flight headed to your local hub. If you haven't yet, then that's where you'll get to see it once the status changes.
If you know what airport packages go to in your closest major metro (if there are more than one airport, I mean - usually it's the international airport), you can find it in the live flight tracker tab, too.
Although since it's Wednesday it probably won't depart Louisville until tomorrow night / wee hours of Friday morning, so you may not be able to see much.
I still have no tracking or anything from sprint order page. I ordered 9-12 730mst 64gb silver 6+. I have been on this thread for awhile now and as anxious as everyone else. I have been randomly checking the apple site for local pick up on a silver or gold 6+ and just now saw that apple stores in Albuquerque NM and in El Paso TX are showing 6+ in stock which I have checked these same stores for a week and they have never showed anything in 6+, hoping this May be a glimmer of hope. Ppl on eBay are still trying to get $1,300+