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DavidAndy

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Mar 10, 2012
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Hi

I’ve been thinking of using the iPhone Upgrade Program to get the iPhone 8 when it launches in the UK. I haven’t joined the scheme before, is there any way to give Apple my details for the finance agreement before the madness of launch day?

Also does anyone have any experience of getting the iPhone 7 on or near launch day using the upgrade program as a new customer? Are you given less priority than those buying the devices outright?
 
Oh wow. How do you preorder? Online? Do you pay a deposit?
Substitute the word “preorder” for “reserve” and you’re right on track.

Basically, last year you couldn’t preorder the phone for the iUP, you had to reserve one online on release morning for store pickup, then be at store for your time slot.

As painless as it was, it effectively means that what little iPhone 8 stock their is this year will disappear on preorder day for the people willing to pay in full, and the rest of us looking to go iUP will have to check local stock for weeks on end until we get one.

Maybe people already on iUP will have first pick, but everyone else will be fighting tooth and nail for their iPhone.
 
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