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Carrier iPhone 7/7+ Sprint Pre-Order Thread

This preorder still doesn't hold a candle to the iPhone 6 preorder imo. Never experienced anything like that. I tried preordering the 6 for 4 hours till I received a "reservation #" which would send me a link to complete the order later on the next day.
 
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iDoChatSupport said:
If you sign in or create an account. It'll show you all the info
[doublepost=1474158446][/doublepost]I'm over it. When it comes , It comes. My daughters first cell phone, and her birthday is the 29th.
Had Jackie from sprint executive escalations tell me it was to be shipped on the 16th.
I still have the will be shipped by 9/30
I got a $100 bill credit for inconvenience from someone else from Exec Escalations.
Then she had the nerve to say "well, with that extra $100 you can log on to sprint and shop for accessories".
No b*tch. I'm not spending any more money that I have too with sprint.
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TravisGuerrero said:
That's interesting. That's my order number just about. So I'm assuming I'm one of the earlier orders? But it's still showing my shipping time as October 7th.
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My order number is the same, and about as low as you can get with those digits, and it has shown Oct. 7 since day one. In my case, they just didn't have any 256GB Jet Black Plus phones to sell.
 
jfcooley said:
They're diverting the majority of shipments to their own stores...(betcha)
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Not a bad guess. Maybe that's what's happening with the Best Buy orders thus them being the only ones offering gift cards? Figure Apple has an obligation to fulfill the providers more than Best Buy.
 
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JohnFoursquare said:
Yeah they're in order (no pun intended). So mine is oy-shso-8034274XX. It is one of the lowest numbers I've seen.
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That's just a little lower than mine. Didn't realize I was lower in order until looking at the order numbers of others on here. But I have still yet to see another person with a Plus 256gb flat black order. I really want to know if there has been a single person on here that got one.
 
jwoodard said:
My order number is the same, and about as low as you can get with those digits, and it has shown Oct. 7 since day one. In my case, they just didn't have any 256GB Jet Black Plus phones to sell.
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Doesn't matter the order number. Sprint assigned dates for each configuration before orders were even placed. 9/9 orders all had the same delivery date.

Matte Black 128 Plus was 9/30. Haven't seen anyone with a different date for that particular config.

Matte Black 256 Plus 9/23.

Tells me Sprint had a fulfillment allotment pegged to arrive from Apple. My best guess is Apple changed it up after the fact. Now Sprint is left holding the bag and at Apples mercy for fulfillment. Seems the other Carriers are in same boat.

I'd guess they preferred to fulfill IUP orders first. Why wouldn't they. Inability to fulfill it jeopardizes the program. Why would Apple really care about Carriers? We're locked in for the most part.

I'm sure the 7 wasn't an issue, seemed the majority (but not all) were scheduled for 9/16.

If I weren't locked into iPhone Forever I'd cancel and just get something else.
 
  • So it was deliberate. Apple knew samsung was having MAJOR issues.
  • In order to drive up sales, Apple canceled the Iphone pro. Went with the Iphone Plus. Didn't have enough stock and now EVERY single plus that is being made and shipped. Will be to the major US APPLE stores. Not the ones in smaller cities. I'm talking NEW YORK, CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA ETC.
  • It'll be very few and far between that sprint, verizon, at&t and tmobile will get the 7 plus.
  • AT&T unfortunately will get more because they don't sell them as quickly. So the ones that don't sell much of will then get dispensed to the closest Apple Store to that AT&T.
 
tw90 said:
  • So it was deliberate. Apple knew samsung was having MAJOR issues.
  • In order to drive up sales, Apple canceled the Iphone pro. Went with the Iphone Plus. Didn't have enough stock and now EVERY single plus that is being made and shipped. Will be to the major US APPLE stores. Not the ones in smaller cities. I'm talking NEW YORK, CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA ETC.
  • It'll be very few and far between that sprint, verizon, at&t and tmobile will get the 7 plus.
  • AT&T unfortunately will get more because they don't sell them as quickly. So the ones that don't sell much of will then get dispensed to the closest Apple Store to that AT&T.
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jwoodard said:
From what I've was told by Sprint they didn't just fail to supply enough. They failed to supply ANY Jet Black 256GB Plus models.

That's not a launch.
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Stopped by the local Apple store today to check out the Jet Black Plus Model which is what I preordered.

None. They had 1 Regular 7 model in JB but no Plus. What a **** storm.
 
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jfcooley said:
It's not too difficult to see.

Wonder why it's being ignored. No reports anywhere about anything other than "sold out"

Sure Best Buy and the like will toss out $100 cards, drop in the bucket. I'm sure Carriers would do the same if they had to, but they don't.
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I concur
 
tw90 said:
  • So it was deliberate. Apple knew samsung was having MAJOR issues.
  • In order to drive up sales, Apple canceled the Iphone pro. Went with the Iphone Plus. Didn't have enough stock and now EVERY single plus that is being made and shipped. Will be to the major US APPLE stores. Not the ones in smaller cities. I'm talking NEW YORK, CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA ETC.
  • It'll be very few and far between that sprint, verizon, at&t and tmobile will get the 7 plus.
  • AT&T unfortunately will get more because they don't sell them as quickly. So the ones that don't sell much of will then get dispensed to the closest Apple Store to that AT&T.
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So why is there such a delay on iPhone 7's as well?
 
I've been to my Apple store twice in the last two days. Both times heard reps saying they had nothing. Nada. No +s, no 7s except for one lonely Verizon 7 Gold 32G. One phone.

I love the Watch, though. That'll tide me over.
 
hpl7127 said:
So why is there such a delay on iPhone 7's as well?
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Because more people bought the 7s than was expected.
[doublepost=1474162788][/doublepost]You're not getting a regular 7 unless you shop west coast.
You're not getting a plus until apple decides to move their As*es
 

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Not to be a wet blanket, but don't be surprised if all those updated status pages get updated again...and again.

I will be really surprised if orders are filled in the current timeframe. I hold no hope to see my Plus 256 Black this month.

Add to that we will all slip beyond next years launch window for IPhone Forever upgrades without paying another month on the 7.
 
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