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Carrier iPhone 7/7+ Sprint Pre-Order Thread
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I got the 3rd email as well sad face got too exitEveryone got tracking an I got another It's coming EmailI wanna cry that's the 3rd email so far
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I'm on my 3rd email so be prepared
Was this eastern time
Tracking means your order is packaged, a shipping label has been printed and tracking number has been issued but UPS hasn't picked up the packaged yet or it hasn't made it's first scan in by UPS yet. But if you have a tracking number, rest assure, it's boxed up and ready to be picked up for shipment by UPS.
Oh man I order little earlier than you haven't gotten email I'm crossing my fingers I get it soon then that's so awesome congratulations
Hey guys, Sprint has started to ship the 7+ 128gb MB ordered after 13th. I just got tracking.
I dont even think sprint shipping by those estimates i ordered same phone but at 1pm and got last week on monday
Thanks!, It may be a month later but it seems well worth the wait!
So, I got my 7+ RG 32G on Sunday. Here's a summary of my experience upgrading to the 7+. TL;DR version: It was a sh*tshow but for the most part it wasn't Sprint's fault. I blame Apple for totally botching the release and UPS for being a bunch of freaking dumb*sses.
1. Decide I want a + rather than a 6s.
2. After two calls to Sprint confirm I can get a 7+ 32G Rose Gold for $5 a month after the discount, plus knock $20 off my monthly bill.
3. Order phone late in the evening on 9/10. Also order an Apple Watch to be delivered to the store on release day.
4. Join MacRumors forum where I am assured by people (who turned out to be TOTALLY WRONG) that we would all have our phones on release day.
5. Get estimate from Sprint that phone will ship before 9/30. This is a problem because I'm leaving the country on 9/24 and will be gone for two weeks.
6. Obsessively check order status and call Sprint for updates. As my departure date approaches, start calling to figure out how to handle the package if there's no one home for 10 days.
7. Sprint tells me they can change the delivery address. JOY REIGNS IN THE LAND! (This turns out not to be true.)
8. Just in case, set up MyUPS. Apply a "vacation hold" to my address so all packages will be held. Feel confident that I have managed all mischief possible. Start obsessively checking the app for updates.
9. Release day! Get Apple Watch. Stroke it while muttering "my preciousssss, my precioussssss".
10. Spend the next week checking order status, UPS, etc, etc. Call Sprint several times, where everyone is as helpful as they can be given the hysteria, high call volume, and total lack of information available. (Except for one call, during which I am transferred three times to people who are obviously in call centers on other continents, the last time to someone who misunderstands and thinks I ordered over the phone and tells me the order hasn't been processed until I complete an electronic signature. I then say something that embarrasses me totally: "I'd like to speak to someone whose first language is English, please." I'm not like that most of the time, I swear, but by this time I was so totally done with this BS.) Am transferred to South Carolina, where I get a rep who's from the Bronx, knows his Sprint plans and the whole ordering process like the back of his hand, and explains everything.
11. Leave for England. Spend five days visiting gardens and Arthurian sites. Yay Tintagel! Obsessively check order status and MyUPS using Sprint's free international plan (3G in England, slow but fast enough to use Google maps. Yay Sprint!)
12. Get email indicating order has shipped. Hurrah!
13. Next email is from UPS indicating vacation hold can't be applied due to restrictions from the sender. F*CK!
14. Use Skype to call both Sprint (who can do nothing) and UPS, who says they can do something - make sure phone will be diverted to a UPS facility where my FIL can pick it up. Make careful arrangements to have phone diverted. Receive email indicating phone will be diverted. Call my FIL and ask him to drive 30 mins to facility to get diverted phone (because UPS only gives me 5 days to get it and I won't be back for 8). Mischief once again managed. Go to bed early to get up REALLY early to be at Stonehenge to walk among the stones while the sun rises.
15. Alarm goes off. Check email. Open email indicating that, despite all of my careful planning and numerous phone calls, THE UPS DRIVER LEFT MY $800 PHONE ON MY FRONT PORCH WHERE NO ONE IS HOME AND WON'T BE HOME FOR A WEEK.
16. Freak right the f*ck out. Calm down by realizing that nothing can be done, it's UPS's fault if the package has been stolen, and I've left a call and paper trail a mile wide. Text friend in the neighborhood asking her to pretty please go get my phone when she wakes up, 6 hrs from now.
17. Wander among the stones, watch a beautiful sunrise, feel beatific.
18. Get text from friend: "I've got it!" Heave sigh of relief, text FIL to stand down, and go to cathedral to celebrate.
19. Enjoy another week in England.
20. Get home, jet-lagged as hell, get phone from friend, take to Sprint store to activate and switch my son's phone number to my old phone.
21. Enjoy phone.
THE END.
PS - The Apple Watch totally rocks. I was able to scan boarding passes and pay for just about everything using the contactless Wallet function, like Inspector Gadget. It was a great conversation starter.
1. Decide I want a + rather than a 6s.
2. After two calls to Sprint confirm I can get a 7+ 32G Rose Gold for $5 a month after the discount, plus knock $20 off my monthly bill.
3. Order phone late in the evening on 9/10. Also order an Apple Watch to be delivered to the store on release day.
4. Join MacRumors forum where I am assured by people (who turned out to be TOTALLY WRONG) that we would all have our phones on release day.
5. Get estimate from Sprint that phone will ship before 9/30. This is a problem because I'm leaving the country on 9/24 and will be gone for two weeks.
6. Obsessively check order status and call Sprint for updates. As my departure date approaches, start calling to figure out how to handle the package if there's no one home for 10 days.
7. Sprint tells me they can change the delivery address. JOY REIGNS IN THE LAND! (This turns out not to be true.)
8. Just in case, set up MyUPS. Apply a "vacation hold" to my address so all packages will be held. Feel confident that I have managed all mischief possible. Start obsessively checking the app for updates.
9. Release day! Get Apple Watch. Stroke it while muttering "my preciousssss, my precioussssss".
10. Spend the next week checking order status, UPS, etc, etc. Call Sprint several times, where everyone is as helpful as they can be given the hysteria, high call volume, and total lack of information available. (Except for one call, during which I am transferred three times to people who are obviously in call centers on other continents, the last time to someone who misunderstands and thinks I ordered over the phone and tells me the order hasn't been processed until I complete an electronic signature. I then say something that embarrasses me totally: "I'd like to speak to someone whose first language is English, please." I'm not like that most of the time, I swear, but by this time I was so totally done with this BS.) Am transferred to South Carolina, where I get a rep who's from the Bronx, knows his Sprint plans and the whole ordering process like the back of his hand, and explains everything.
11. Leave for England. Spend five days visiting gardens and Arthurian sites. Yay Tintagel! Obsessively check order status and MyUPS using Sprint's free international plan (3G in England, slow but fast enough to use Google maps. Yay Sprint!)
12. Get email indicating order has shipped. Hurrah!
13. Next email is from UPS indicating vacation hold can't be applied due to restrictions from the sender. F*CK!
14. Use Skype to call both Sprint (who can do nothing) and UPS, who says they can do something - make sure phone will be diverted to a UPS facility where my FIL can pick it up. Make careful arrangements to have phone diverted. Receive email indicating phone will be diverted. Call my FIL and ask him to drive 30 mins to facility to get diverted phone (because UPS only gives me 5 days to get it and I won't be back for 8). Mischief once again managed. Go to bed early to get up REALLY early to be at Stonehenge to walk among the stones while the sun rises.
15. Alarm goes off. Check email. Open email indicating that, despite all of my careful planning and numerous phone calls, THE UPS DRIVER LEFT MY $800 PHONE ON MY FRONT PORCH WHERE NO ONE IS HOME AND WON'T BE HOME FOR A WEEK.
16. Freak right the f*ck out. Calm down by realizing that nothing can be done, it's UPS's fault if the package has been stolen, and I've left a call and paper trail a mile wide. Text friend in the neighborhood asking her to pretty please go get my phone when she wakes up, 6 hrs from now.
17. Wander among the stones, watch a beautiful sunrise, feel beatific.
18. Get text from friend: "I've got it!
" Heave sigh of relief, text FIL to stand down, and go to cathedral to celebrate.19. Enjoy another week in England.
20. Get home, jet-lagged as hell, get phone from friend, take to Sprint store to activate and switch my son's phone number to my old phone.
21. Enjoy phone.
THE END.
PS - The Apple Watch totally rocks. I was able to scan boarding passes and pay for just about everything using the contactless Wallet function, like Inspector Gadget. It was a great conversation starter.
they not shipping by those dates. all they doing is reading off a piece of paper and its annoying me. im going out of town as well and all they can say is the dates. i hate them
Omg that was intense I'm so glad your friend was able to get a hold off that package before anyone else did congratsSo, I got my 7+ RG 32G on Sunday. Here's a summary of my experience upgrading to the 7+. TL;DR version: It was a sh*tshow but for the most part it wasn't Sprint's fault. I blame Apple for totally botching the release and UPS for being a bunch of freaking dumb*sses.
1. Decide I want a + rather than a 6s.
2. After two calls to Sprint confirm I can get a 7+ 32G Rose Gold for $5 a month after the discount, plus knock $20 off my monthly bill.
3. Order phone late in the evening on 9/10. Also order an Apple Watch to be delivered to the store on release day.
4. Join MacRumors forum where I am assured by people (who turned out to be TOTALLY WRONG) that we would all have our phones on release day.
5. Get estimate from Sprint that phone will ship before 9/30. This is a problem because I'm leaving the country on 9/24 and will be gone for two weeks.
6. Obsessively check order status and call Sprint for updates. As my departure date approaches, start calling to figure out how to handle the package if there's no one home for 10 days.
7. Sprint tells me they can change the delivery address. JOY REIGNS IN THE LAND! (This turns out not to be true.)
8. Just in case, set up MyUPS. Apply a "vacation hold" to my address so all packages will be held. Feel confident that I have managed all mischief possible. Start obsessively checking the app for updates.
9. Release day! Get Apple Watch. Stroke it while muttering "my preciousssss, my precioussssss".
10. Spend the next week checking order status, UPS, etc, etc. Call Sprint several times, where everyone is as helpful as they can be given the hysteria, high call volume, and total lack of information available. (Except for one call, during which I am transferred three times to people who are obviously in call centers on other continents, the last time to someone who misunderstands and thinks I ordered over the phone and tells me the order hasn't been processed until I complete an electronic signature. I then say something that embarrasses me totally: "I'd like to speak to someone whose first language is English, please." I'm not like that most of the time, I swear, but by this time I was so totally done with this BS.) Am transferred to South Carolina, where I get a rep who's from the Bronx, knows his Sprint plans and the whole ordering process like the back of his hand, and explains everything.
11. Leave for England. Spend five days visiting gardens and Arthurian sites. Yay Tintagel! Obsessively check order status and MyUPS using Sprint's free international plan (3G in England, slow but fast enough to use Google maps. Yay Sprint!)
12. Get email indicating order has shipped. Hurrah!
13. Next email is from UPS indicating vacation hold can't be applied due to restrictions from the sender. F*CK!
14. Use Skype to call both Sprint (who can do nothing) and UPS, who says they can do something - make sure phone will be diverted to a UPS facility where my FIL can pick it up. Make careful arrangements to have phone diverted. Receive email indicating phone will be diverted. Call my FIL and ask him to drive 30 mins to facility to get diverted phone (because UPS only gives me 5 days to get it and I won't be back for 8). Mischief once again managed. Go to bed early to get up REALLY early to be at Stonehenge to walk among the stones while the sun rises.
15. Alarm goes off. Check email. Open email indicating that, despite all of my careful planning and numerous phone calls, THE UPS DRIVER LEFT MY $800 PHONE ON MY FRONT PORCH WHERE NO ONE IS HOME AND WON'T BE HOME FOR A WEEK.
16. Freak right the f*ck out. Calm down by realizing that nothing can be done, it's UPS's fault if the package has been stolen, and I've left a call and paper trail a mile wide. Text friend in the neighborhood asking her to pretty please go get my phone when she wakes up, 6 hrs from now.
17. Wander among the stones, watch a beautiful sunrise, feel beatific.
18. Get text from friend: "I've got it!
19. Enjoy another week in England.
20. Get home, jet-lagged as hell, get phone from friend, take to Sprint store to activate and switch my son's phone number to my old phone.
21. Enjoy phone.
THE END.
PS - The Apple Watch totally rocks. I was able to scan boarding passes and pay for just about everything using the contactless Wallet function, like Inspector Gadget. It was a great conversation starter.
That is really annoying I see so many people getting tracking and they so close to my time or past my time I was really hoping to get email today is really frustrating
