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iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Pre-Order Shipping Estimates Begin Slipping
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Best part is the system will never change, it's like that every year.
Yeah, you mention that because of the unique pattern of scratches on each phone... right? It's going to be fun reading the first reviews on how easy it is to get scratches which will lead to a nice case that... ooops... covers the 'fashion' item
All I can say to people with shipping dates far away is that Apple has a history of being much faster than the projected dates. I usually get lucky and get the release date delivery, but with the 6+ got an estimate of a few weeks out and my phone showed up about a week after release. I highly doubt anyone with a November delivery will still be waiting for their phone then.
I don't understand why AT&Ts site gave these dates from the very beginning. I ordered the same phone from Apple and got a sept 16 date.ATT website won't take my order, been trying since 3:03 eastern. Every time i hit submit order it goes to the top of the page like there is something I forgot to check-but there isn't. Im either getting 500 of them or 0 from hitting the submit button for an hour!
Well it went through-iphone 7 jet black 128 gb ships Oct 14-21
That even i thought earlier, but if you had a company you had make these iPhone, how many would you make? 1 million, 2, 10 million, if you could make 100 million, would you? Its a huge risk for any company to make that much and stock. what if any manufacturing defects comes out, it would be catastrophic to control/recall fix that huge number. Apple is playing safe and very very good.
Hey I'll take the 12.9 iPad Pro over the MacBook / MacBook Air any day. And I have both a MacBook and MacBook Air so I really mean it. I never use them anymore.
Just sold one of my 128 gB jet black I ordered on eBay with overnight delivery to someone for 1400$ + shipping.
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Well how else can they inspect it first and then tell us hmm there's a scratch here Or it's damaged and not allow you to upgrade.
Adding insult to injury, Apple sent me an email at 3:30 am Eastern, 29 minutes after Apple stopped taking reservations, letting me know it's time to upgrade and to make a reservation now. 
Boy, ordering direct from T-Mobile is a disaster.
Their website is dog-slow and throwing errors on every other page load, the online system that's supposed to give you $650 for a trade-in 6 or 6s and $400 for a trade-in 5 or 5s isn't working at all (it offered me $58! yay!), trying to pre-order a 7 using the "upgrade" button as an existing customer takes you to an upgrade page that only lists Android models (or, occasionally at random, only 4G hotspots), the "when will my phone actually ship" link takes you to a page listing only Samsung phones, and it ended up being literally impossible, as an existing customer, to pre order an iPhone 7.
After going around in circles for a half hour I gave up and resorted to the phone line, which resulted in a cheerful operator calling me back an hour later, and then telling me that their upgrade system is broken so the best he could do is put me down and call me back at 10am to complete the order when it was back up.
He also claimed I could get in line for a jet black to ship on launch day, which I'm highly skeptical of given how quickly it sold out at Apple.com. If it's all the same, I'd take the jet black for the heck of it, but I'd rather have a regular black before I leave for a trip that weekend than get the flashy one.
Apple's site, of course, is working fine, but since $399 is way more than I'd get for a 5s on eBay I kind of don't have a choice but to go through them.
C'mon, T-mobile. You knew that half your customers were going to rush your online storefront at 12:01am, don't you think you could have put a little more effort into having it not be completely broken?
Their website is dog-slow and throwing errors on every other page load, the online system that's supposed to give you $650 for a trade-in 6 or 6s and $400 for a trade-in 5 or 5s isn't working at all (it offered me $58! yay!), trying to pre-order a 7 using the "upgrade" button as an existing customer takes you to an upgrade page that only lists Android models (or, occasionally at random, only 4G hotspots), the "when will my phone actually ship" link takes you to a page listing only Samsung phones, and it ended up being literally impossible, as an existing customer, to pre order an iPhone 7.
After going around in circles for a half hour I gave up and resorted to the phone line, which resulted in a cheerful operator calling me back an hour later, and then telling me that their upgrade system is broken so the best he could do is put me down and call me back at 10am to complete the order when it was back up.
He also claimed I could get in line for a jet black to ship on launch day, which I'm highly skeptical of given how quickly it sold out at Apple.com. If it's all the same, I'd take the jet black for the heck of it, but I'd rather have a regular black before I leave for a trip that weekend than get the flashy one.
Apple's site, of course, is working fine, but since $399 is way more than I'd get for a 5s on eBay I kind of don't have a choice but to go through them.
C'mon, T-mobile. You knew that half your customers were going to rush your online storefront at 12:01am, don't you think you could have put a little more effort into having it not be completely broken?
Last few years it's been much smoother. I've been pre ordering every iPhone that was available to pre order in the past, but I really didn't have this much trouble with my orders since iPhone 5.
iPhone 6s PreOrder was so much easier for me, at least the Store worked in time!
I spent the first 6 minutes trying to get Apple Store to work, multiple devices and connections
My 7 Plus wont ship before Oct 4
I spent the first 6 minutes trying to get Apple Store to work, multiple devices and connections
My 7 Plus wont ship before Oct 4
yeah, I guess the pluses are really gone. The 256gb jet black 7 and the matte black 7 are still available either sept 16 delivery or 6-8 days wait.
Yeah, you mention that because of the unique pattern of scratches on each phone... right? It's going to be fun reading the first reviews on how easy it is to get scratches which will lead to a nice case that... ooops... covers the 'fashion' item
Nope, I mention that because it will be (it already is) the most coveted phone, scratches be damned.
Not many in production, gives a false impression lots flew out of the Jet Black iPhone 6 Series 3.
Same exact thing happened to me. I ordered not knowing when the phones are gonna ship. It's a disaster. I'll eat my words if they actually ship on time before orders on Apple.com