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Carrier iPhone 7/7+ AT&T Pre-Order Thread
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6 UPS flights from Louisville to DFW today. 3 already landed and 3 more will be in Dallas by 6:15 tonight if all go as scheduled.
I truly believe we will see a good deal of movement today.
I truly believe we will see a good deal of movement today.
Yeah, they had a lot of MB 7+s including the one I wanted, but my stupid-self didn't reserve it last night.
Anyone know if you can "purchase" full-price online and then switch to AT&T next when I pick it up?
You can't blame this one on AT&T or any of the carriers honestly. This one is all on Apple. They simply didn't make enough- for whatever reason. They don't even have sufficient stock for their own stores. They sold out within a couple of minutes of opening pre-orders. (I was finally able to place my order 15 minutes into the pre-order and the shipping for the 7 Plus had already slipped to 9/23.
I honestly think there was an issue discovered with the 7 Plus that they didn't get resolved in time to get launch day stock to sufficient levels- probably something to do with the camera or that extra gig of RAM they added to help with the image processing sensor.
For the people who have received their iPhone from UPS/FedEx/USPS what is the reference number that is posted on the shipping label?
TIA
Order date: 09/09/2016 at 3:20:11 a.m. ET
Order status:
Preparing to ship
We're getting your order ready to ship. Expect your items to ship during the dates we gave you.
Thank you for placing your order with us.
Estimated ship dates:
September 23, 2016 - September 30, 2016
Apple iPhone 7 Plus Matte Black
TIA
Order date: 09/09/2016 at 3:20:11 a.m. ET
Order status:
Preparing to ship
We're getting your order ready to ship. Expect your items to ship during the dates we gave you.
Thank you for placing your order with us.
Estimated ship dates:
September 23, 2016 - September 30, 2016
Apple iPhone 7 Plus Matte Black
Here's the challenge. Take a look at the fine print of the IUP. If I recall correctly when I read it (I was once considering using this same plan), you have to first establish credit with Apple's third-party loan processor. Then, I think you have to make so many payments (maybe even just one) before you can fully pay for the phone on this plan.
More fundamental question. Why don't you simply pay full price outside of any plan, and then you can upgrade whenever you want to? I'm not seeing the benefit of trying to get on an iPhone Upgrade Plan but yet pay full price for the phone.
EDIT: I think your first line says it all. You originally ordered the phone via IUP. Apparently that has to be cancelled first and then you could go on, assuming that it's cancellable.
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So crazy day on my end yesterday.
Started off at Midnight with me reserving a 256g matte black 7+ With Apple at a an Apple Store 2 1/2 hours from my house.
I woke up in the morning and canceled my AT&T preorder. And hit the road and called AT&T to have them reinstate my upgrade eligibility. I ended up being on the phone with them for 2 1/2 hours and it was worth every second.
In the end they said they couldn't do anything about my eligibility and I had to wait 24hrs for that to be fixed. But they did reverse my next plan payments for what I still owed.
Essentially they wiped the 6 months I still owed clean allowing me to get my phone via the Apple upgrade program.
So I was able to pick up my phone and I'm now month to month with AT&T. Then to top it off last night I noticed that my att/directv bill went from me owing them $339 to them owing me $109..
So this morning I called and asked about it. Apparently when they reversed my installments they credited my acct what I still owed on my phone.. and the best part is that it is staying that way. They called it a one time credit.. I've called back 6 different times to confirm this.. lol
Oh and they don't want my 6s back and Apple didn't make me give it to them so I just sold it to Gazelle for $272..
So my impatience for once really benefited me!
-I got my 7+ 256g matte black
-$440 credited to my AT&T acct which fully paid this months bill and about 1/3 of next months bill.
- I get to sell my old phone $272
- I'm not under contract with AT&T. So I can switch whenever I want (but I still owe Apple for this phone so I'll stick around for at least a year until I get my next iPhone)
I'd say it's been a good 2 days!
Started off at Midnight with me reserving a 256g matte black 7+ With Apple at a an Apple Store 2 1/2 hours from my house.
I woke up in the morning and canceled my AT&T preorder. And hit the road and called AT&T to have them reinstate my upgrade eligibility. I ended up being on the phone with them for 2 1/2 hours and it was worth every second.
In the end they said they couldn't do anything about my eligibility and I had to wait 24hrs for that to be fixed. But they did reverse my next plan payments for what I still owed.
Essentially they wiped the 6 months I still owed clean allowing me to get my phone via the Apple upgrade program.
So I was able to pick up my phone and I'm now month to month with AT&T. Then to top it off last night I noticed that my att/directv bill went from me owing them $339 to them owing me $109..
So this morning I called and asked about it. Apparently when they reversed my installments they credited my acct what I still owed on my phone.. and the best part is that it is staying that way. They called it a one time credit.. I've called back 6 different times to confirm this.. lol
Oh and they don't want my 6s back and Apple didn't make me give it to them so I just sold it to Gazelle for $272..
So my impatience for once really benefited me!
-I got my 7+ 256g matte black
-$440 credited to my AT&T acct which fully paid this months bill and about 1/3 of next months bill.
- I get to sell my old phone $272
- I'm not under contract with AT&T. So I can switch whenever I want (but I still owe Apple for this phone so I'll stick around for at least a year until I get my next iPhone)
I'd say it's been a good 2 days!
Dallas is AT&T's fulfillment hub. Louisville is UPS' main hub I believe. You can track planes coming from China to Alaska and then on to Louisville.
www.flightaware.com
Yes you can use the carrier identifiers to see planes in the air. You can also search by airport.
As someone sitting in one of the UPS facilities at the Louisville airport, I can confirm that Louisville is our main air hub, Worldport. Can't confirm any other information since A - I don't have it and B - I like my job.
I'm beginning to think it actually might be all the way until my estimated shipping delivery before I see my phone. I just can't imagine that. But it's sort of seeming that way. There's been absolutely zero communication between AT&T and me since pre-order night other than my confirmation order. Absolutely unimaginable.
so this is how crazy att is, a family member of mine just ordered the 7+ rose gold 256 last night at 9pm(est) and it was just picked up and getting shipped for delivery tomorrow. How is that possible???
Well you definitely got taken care of in my situation I canceled my preorder and then immediately wanted to re-order and my eligibility wasn't showing online so I called on the phone and he was able to reorder the phone and reinstate the upgrade eligibility or what not and ever since then the order that I have has been in progress and Saturday with no movement I'm wondering if he had an issue with reinstating as well since you were told 24 hours and mine was supposedly done in minutes...and of course I'm told to wait until tomorrow night....wait wait wait
I'm not entirely sure, but I believe Sprint is in Kansas. Not sure about Tmobile or Verizon.
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and I believe Apple ships right from China to Alaska and then out to the regions.
It's not just AT&T phones. Just iPhones in general. I have a friend who her mom works for UPS, coordinating planes and she said they're getting tons of iPhones and having planes fly out with nothing but phones on them. She also said though that they don't have enough planes coming through for the amount of phones that are being shipped. So maybe just that many people ordered phones.
Easy to understand. Rose gold is the least popular color this year. They have plenty of supply of it. Even my local AT&T store has plenty of silver and rose gold 7+ this week.
Thing is, this is EXACTLY what happened to my 6+ 128GB order 2 years ago. Had a ship date of early October after the pre order. Excuse after excuse, and I didn't get my ****ing phone until December 19th.
Everything screams that exact same situation.
I'd get that color if it didn't have the white face. I guess I could skin it.