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Carrier Non-Premier AT&T iPhone 6 Plus Pre-order Status (Only)

BigHonkingDeal said:
So do we have to go to Finland to get a phone? :D

Still no news in the USA......
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Apple is speaking volumes with this move. I hope next time everyone orders directly from them so they can reap the ***** they've sown.

I am not one who gets a new phone unless mine needs replaced. The 4S has served me well for over 3 years & I'll be spending the life of the 6+ looking at alternatives to Apple.
 
It seems you're taking this a little personally. First of all, it's my feeling that it's AT&T that has screwed up this situation more than anything. But you also have to understand that it's incredibly complicated to coordinate a rollout in dozens of countries. While it's galling to see other countries apparently getting phones earlier than people who preordered here, I imagine there are contracts and agreements in place that determine things like minimum quantities allocated for a certain country that were signed before launch. It's not like they can just flip a switch and have a phone destined for Finland go to fulfill your preorder.
 
mightyjabba said:
It seems you're taking this a little personally. First of all, it's my feeling that it's AT&T that has screwed up this situation more than anything. But you also have to understand that it's incredibly complicated to coordinate a rollout in dozens of countries. While it's galling to see other countries apparently getting phones earlier than people who preordered here, I imagine there are contracts and agreements in place that determine things like minimum quantities allocated for a certain country that were signed before launch. It's not like they can just flip a switch and have a phone destined for Finland go to fulfill your preorder.
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I understand that AT&T can't ship to us what Apple doesn't ship to them.

Granted, AT&T seems not to be shipping first come first serve but Apple needs to ship what was pre-sold for them while they slept in late on the 12th before rolling out elsewhere.
 
I am amazed Apple did not have enough phones ready for those early orders. Like they started with zero inventory and the back orders swelled from there. They missed the mark badly. But with most Apple customers, all will be forgiven in about 2-3 months. Then Apple will do this again with the iPhone 6s.
 
I'm sure you are correct, there were things set in place there ahead of time, and by the time Apple was able to learn thru their mistakes in the initial rollout, it was easy peasy smooth for that one. My beef with AT&T is that they prioritized the distribution of the iPhones they received to Premier members, I think it was enough they were given the opportunity to go online before the rollout officially began to place their orders, I don't believe customers placing orders 6-12 hours after early non-premier orders should receive their phone first! But ultimately the fault lies with Apple, their website being down for 3 hours, no attempt to rectify this by filling all the orders that by necessity went to the carriers before sending phones elsewhere. They set the dates, if they weren't ready, move them back, none but the insiders would be the wiser.

I've purchased iPhones for as long as they've been out there, sung the praises of Apple to the mountaintops, and slowly filled my home with Macbook, iMac, multiple iPads and iPods, not to mention spent $1000s in music in iTunes...and there's the rub, it's because I've been such a loyal customer, accustomed to wonderful and rapid service, that this botched rollout has raised my ire, this is not what I'm accustomed to with Apple, and galling is a great description of my feelings at present.
 
CrimsonGT said:
Ironically, going to Finland maybe faster#
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You may be right :)

I am getting very close to move our entire family to T-Mobile just out of spite....

I can't believe that AT&T has not shipped any volumes for about 6 days now, every night I just keep thinking they must ship something tonight and then there's nothing again.
 
CrimsonGT said:
Ironically, going to Finland maybe faster#
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Haha too true! I looked at another AT&T thread, and it looks like there's no movement of any kind on 128 gold or SG, I found ONE gold delivered period. Not that this makes any kind of logical difference, but I don't know if I could've taken seeing those models rain down on premier orders without so much as a trickle to us riffraff, though reading on there where several people cancelled original orders still in limbo, placed new orders as premiers, and now have shipping for basically the same phone wasn't too pleasant to see.
 
So after some careful deliberation, I went ahead and cancelled my 128 GB Gold Plus and picked up a 128 Space Gray iPhone 6 at my local best buy and let me tell you people... it's the perfect size to get. The lady that helped me was kind enough to let me hold her 6 plus and she confessed that the big screen gets quite old really fast. I'm very satisfied with this decision. Then I purchased a Zagg Glass and an Apple leather case in red to go with it and boom, I just got me some sexy a** phone.

PS, before I headed to best buy I called apple and found out that they don't know what kind of iPhones they get until they open the UPS box they're shipped in. I mean, WTH? Who knew. And as for AT&T... well I never bothered to contact them. They're the worst.
 
This thread has gotten progressively less active.... Perhaps people are become more resigned?

I haven't seen shipping info on any thread in a day or two. So much for big shipment on the 3rd huh?
 
If they go past the stupid late shipping range we are already sitting in, I'm canceling my order. No clue what I'll do at that point, but I'll likely be fed up enough I won't want an iPhone, and I'm contract free from AT&T as of today if I don't get the new phone.
 
Hope some good news is flowing out to the rest of you this evening, we've all been put thru the wringer over this darn phone! FYI because it's the first thing I wanted to know, my order was placed within the first hour of sales, email received at 2:55AM CDT. Was so shocked to hear something except "the item you ordered is currently on backorder," I almost dropped the phone! Good luck vibes to all, want to see some more happy faces!
 
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