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Ordered on IUP with 5-6 weeks delivery but found one for pick up, can I switch?

jonfarr

jonfarr

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So I screwed up last night and didnt get to preorder until the shipping times were into December but I went ahead and ordered it on my IUP anyways and went to bed.

I woke up and found a model for pick up at a store not very close, but close enough that I could go pick it up on Friday. I was not able to change my IUP order so I reserved the phone as paid in full.

Has anybody else ever tried this and will I be able to have the phone I reserved in store switched to the IUP I have when I arrive?
 
Seattle. So close enough to go to but not close enough to go and find out it won't work out.
 
You may need to cancel the order, wait for the confirmation e-mail that it was canceled and then you can re-order and select the apple store pick up. By then you might be out of luck. Otherwise ring up apple and see what they say.
 
I say you can try cancelling the iup order and return/rebuy the reserved order when you go to pick it up next week. That's what I'd try doing.
 
jonfarr said:
So I screwed up last night and didnt get to preorder until the shipping times were into December but I went ahead and ordered it on my IUP anyways and went to bed.

I woke up and found a model for pick up at a store not very close, but close enough that I could go pick it up on Friday. I was not able to change my IUP order so I reserved the phone as paid in full.

Has anybody else ever tried this and will I be able to have the phone I reserved in store switched to the IUP I have when I arrive?
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Are you currently on IUP and this is an upgrade or did you just sign up for the first time?
 
jonfarr said:
Currently already on the IUP.
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Ok so my understanding is upgrades for current IUP members are being shipped directly to participants and are no longer processed in store. Even the trade-ins aren't done in store anymore so I don't think you'll be able to. You can give it a shot when you do your in store pickup but don't be surprised if you can't. I wouldn't cancel the IUP order until you know for sure.
 
edlex said:
Ok so my understanding is upgrades for current IUP members are being shipped directly to participants and are no longer processed in store. Even the trade-ins aren't done in store anymore so I don't think you'll be able to. You can give it a shot when you do your in store pickup but don't be surprised if you can't. I wouldn't cancel the IUP order until you know for sure.
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I think i will stop by a local apple store and ask. If they can't give me a answer I will try to see if I can do a iPhone 8 on the plan just to see if its possible. That should answer it.
 
edlex said:
Ok so my understanding is upgrades for current IUP members are being shipped directly to participants and are no longer processed in store. Even the trade-ins aren't done in store anymore so I don't think you'll be able to. You can give it a shot when you do your in store pickup but don't be surprised if you can't. I wouldn't cancel the IUP order until you know for sure.
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You can still do them in stores, you just can also do them online now as well. He just needs to start a new loan for the phone when they ask him how to pay, since even an upgrade is a new loan anyway. And then just give the rep your old phone and it closes out your old loan.
 
Lobwedgephil said:
You can still do them in stores, you just can also do them online now as well. He just needs to start a new loan for the phone when they ask him how to pay, since even an upgrade is a new loan anyway. And then just give the rep your old phone and it closes out your old loan.
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Perfect. I hope it will be this easy.
 
edlex said:
Ok so my understanding is upgrades for current IUP members are being shipped directly to participants and are no longer processed in store. Even the trade-ins aren't done in store anymore so I don't think you'll be able to. You can give it a shot when you do your in store pickup but don't be surprised if you can't. I wouldn't cancel the IUP order until you know for sure.
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Actually Upgrades for current IUP members can be processed in store if you choose the in-store pick up option. I've done this when I got the 8 Plus. I choose to do an in-store pick up and you hand in the old phone at the store as well. I'm not too sure about this for the iPhone X though.
 
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Shadowbech said:
Actually Upgrades for current IUP members can be processed in store if you choose the in-store pick up option. I've done this when I got the 8 Plus. I choose to do an in-store pick up and you hand in the old phone at the store as well. I'm not too sure about this for the iPhone X though.
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I wasn't aware. Good to know
 
MarcMller said:
how did you find out theyre available for pick up? im in the same situation and would like to try to find one on the 3rd
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I thought the pre-orders were delivery only, that you cannot pick store pickup yet? What am I missing?
 
tifa_mo said:
Same here. How do you reserve for pick-up?
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It had to have been available in your area. Like for me, at 12:10 last night, nothing in Phoenix was available for pickup launch day (based on my zipcode) except in Tucson, AZ, which is a 2+ hour drive away for me. So I had to choose delivery and got 2-3 weeks out.
 
maflynn said:
I thought the pre-orders were delivery only, that you cannot pick store pickup yet? What am I missing?
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I checked at 8 am this morning that the apple store near me showed available for pick up for the 64 GB model iphone X in space Gray Verizon model. So clearly you can set to have it store pick up. But probably no longer available now.
 
TravisPNW said:
Wow... Portland to Seattle for a phone? That's a nice trek.

Good luck with I-5 traffic... try to come on a Sunday!
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It’s actually Tacoma so not as bad and used to make that drive for work all the time.

Worth it to me to avoid waiting until the middle of December.
 
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Shadowbech said:
So clearly you can set to have it store pick up. But probably no longer available now.
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Yeah, I guess that makes sense - great for you :)

Its not something I was really checking this morning, as I wasn't on apple.com, but I thought they had turned it off, hence my question. I guess they didn't but inventory ran out fairly quickly.
 
jonfarr said:
It’s actually Tacoma so not as bad and used to make that drive for work all the time.

Worth it to me to avoid waiting until the middle of December.
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Tacoma to Seattle is nothing lol. I would probably be willing to drive further if I was desparate to have on launch.
 
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