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[Merged] iPhone 4 pre-order only available in black / not available in white
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I also didn't say legal action was justified...just that they should honor the public's wants. (by doing good business action and switching black for white for anyone that bought one thinking white would be available...at&t sent out a press release, did we see one from apple?...I don't remember seeing it.)
If marketing class was helpful in any way what-so-ever you learn to Spoonfeed the information to your potential client...never leave them with a doubt of what they will be getting.
Well.... I just ordered my black 16gb iPhone 4 BUT I'm planning on going back, hopefully when they get the white ones in stock. I have $50 worth of AT&T store credit that I couldn't use during the pre-order (understandably) and I really want the white one. I've been without my iPhone for a couple of weeks already and it's tough, but doable; however, I've never gotten anything on launch and I wanted to do it this time around.
Hopefully the scenario will be: I'll go back to AT&T, return the black iPhone 4 (probably with a 10%/$200 restocking fee), use the $50 gift card and walk out with the white one. As long as it's within 30 days :|
Hopefully the scenario will be: I'll go back to AT&T, return the black iPhone 4 (probably with a 10%/$200 restocking fee), use the $50 gift card and walk out with the white one. As long as it's within 30 days :|
There's alwys a way! Move all your apps to the top halves of the pages. Via iTunes!
Or at LEAST making an announcement of some kind as to why the white is unavailable and a projected availability date. It's just common courtesy. And even an "we're unsure at this moment as to when we'll get the white in stock" is acceptable. Ignoring it won't make all the angry folks go away.
Not having a white iPhone available for preorder on the advertised date does suck! They should of said it would be available sometime in July. 
I don't think so ... I mean if Apple themselves don't have them the secondary retailer certainly wont!
Something fishy going on....
All day yesterday, we continued to hear reports that Radioshack, Best Buy, etc were going to take preorders today. We even saw specific information on how each of these retailers were going to handle the preorders.
Then all of a sudden we hear that not only are they NOT going to take preorders, but now there isn't even a white iPhone available for preorder, even from Apple. There still has been nothing from Apple on why the white won't be available, and it was obviously their plan to have them both available or they would have mentioned this at the keynote.
Then we have this whole mess with the Apple store and AT&T.
All I have to say is...... what **** happened? Apple should have just post-ponded the whole preorder process in order to make it clear what's going on. As it stands, I wouldn't be surprised if people are waiting outside of Best Buy's right now thinking they can preorder, when it appears that they will not. And we have no explanation about the white iPhone. And Apple and AT&T ordering process is completely fried.
All day yesterday, we continued to hear reports that Radioshack, Best Buy, etc were going to take preorders today. We even saw specific information on how each of these retailers were going to handle the preorders.
Then all of a sudden we hear that not only are they NOT going to take preorders, but now there isn't even a white iPhone available for preorder, even from Apple. There still has been nothing from Apple on why the white won't be available, and it was obviously their plan to have them both available or they would have mentioned this at the keynote.
Then we have this whole mess with the Apple store and AT&T.
All I have to say is...... what **** happened? Apple should have just post-ponded the whole preorder process in order to make it clear what's going on. As it stands, I wouldn't be surprised if people are waiting outside of Best Buy's right now thinking they can preorder, when it appears that they will not. And we have no explanation about the white iPhone. And Apple and AT&T ordering process is completely fried.
I tried putting my upgrade order in through Apple (upgrading my 2nd line from non-iPhone to iPhone) and it was fine all the way to where it showed my phone choice, my existing voice plan, my data plan choice, the message choice, but then it said it could not ship my order and I would have to drive to the Albany store to get it.
On the AT&T site they said the line was eligible for the upgrade but right away put up a notice saying they could not do it online.
Well I made that trip for the first iPhone but I am not doing it again, it is 180-miles round trip to Apple store, and the novelty wore off already. I managed to talk AT&T into shipping me the upgrade on that line last year, but it took a few phone calls.
So now with this second line getting the same hassle on shipping an upgrade, I guess I will just keep my LG CU515 phone which I like well enough as a spare anyway. If AT&T does not want to pick up the $20 extra a month for data and text minimums on that line, meanwhile snagging me into a re-up to a 2-year contract for that line, so be it. Right now I could drop it and save ten bucks plus tax off my existing arrangement's bill. Very tempting thought!!
But I know better than to act when I am hot under the collar so I will wait and maybe get a white iPhone upgrade later on. I wanted black with orange, but maybe white with orange or green would be fun too.
Yeah, and driving the 180 miles to get the thing... fun, not. Damn! This is all about living in a zip code not served by AT&T... or by any other damn thing, apparently including water this morning. I think our village well pump to the reservoir died again.
WTF did one's address of residence EVER logically have to do with the use of a mobile device. Mobile = take it somewhere else to use it, doh!
The 2002 law they reference when I complain should be amended so your billing address zipcode or any zipcode where you use the phone can be used as your taxation address for the device, since that's all the damn 2002 law is about anyway, picking a place for telecom-related taxation on mobile devices. I should not have to drive 180 miles once a year to upgrade a goshdarned piece of plastic with an antenna in/on it just because my taxation address is not in their turf. The law even says it (the law) is not related to determining one's eligibility for a line.
Sheeeeeet I knew this would happen and that I would be annoyed, and yet I hoped somehow I would not run into this usual roadblock yet again. Oh well. I am too old to be this naive, really. But here I am, eternal optimist, disappointed again! I'll get over it. Have a wonderful pre-order day and good luck w/ your upgrades!
On the AT&T site they said the line was eligible for the upgrade but right away put up a notice saying they could not do it online.
Well I made that trip for the first iPhone but I am not doing it again, it is 180-miles round trip to Apple store, and the novelty wore off already. I managed to talk AT&T into shipping me the upgrade on that line last year, but it took a few phone calls.
So now with this second line getting the same hassle on shipping an upgrade, I guess I will just keep my LG CU515 phone which I like well enough as a spare anyway. If AT&T does not want to pick up the $20 extra a month for data and text minimums on that line, meanwhile snagging me into a re-up to a 2-year contract for that line, so be it. Right now I could drop it and save ten bucks plus tax off my existing arrangement's bill. Very tempting thought!!
But I know better than to act when I am hot under the collar so I will wait and maybe get a white iPhone upgrade later on. I wanted black with orange, but maybe white with orange or green would be fun too.
Yeah, and driving the 180 miles to get the thing... fun, not. Damn! This is all about living in a zip code not served by AT&T... or by any other damn thing, apparently including water this morning. I think our village well pump to the reservoir died again.
WTF did one's address of residence EVER logically have to do with the use of a mobile device. Mobile = take it somewhere else to use it, doh!
The 2002 law they reference when I complain should be amended so your billing address zipcode or any zipcode where you use the phone can be used as your taxation address for the device, since that's all the damn 2002 law is about anyway, picking a place for telecom-related taxation on mobile devices. I should not have to drive 180 miles once a year to upgrade a goshdarned piece of plastic with an antenna in/on it just because my taxation address is not in their turf. The law even says it (the law) is not related to determining one's eligibility for a line.
Sheeeeeet I knew this would happen and that I would be annoyed, and yet I hoped somehow I would not run into this usual roadblock yet again. Oh well. I am too old to be this naive, really. But here I am, eternal optimist, disappointed again! I'll get over it. Have a wonderful pre-order day and good luck w/ your
upgrades!I was just at best buy to preorder and they have the option to reserve any of the 4 SKU's. I aske the guy if they were sure they would has the white ones and told him Apple would not be selling them. He said he knew they would have then and I told him I highly doubted it. Even though I want white, I preordered black because I am pretty certain whn the day comes, those people with white preorders will go in to be informed that theirs hadn't arrived. I didn't want to be stuck in that boat.
It was just hilarious because I then asked him, "so you think you guys will have the white iPhone even though Apple themselves won't be selling them?" and he said yeah. So I just said wow and laughed.
It was just hilarious because I then asked him, "so you think you guys will have the white iPhone even though Apple themselves won't be selling them?" and he said yeah. So I just said wow and laughed.
But then who's to say white won't be avilable next week? Or that white won't be shipped to the stores for the release date but they're not available for preorder?
It's all a guessing game right now.
I believe they have reserved the white phones for the winning gold tickets you can find in 1 of 1000 Wonka Bars.
that could be true as well...i dont see why apple would do that...but there are a lot of things apple does that are up for question