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Premier People DOOMED? What happened last year?
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It's on its way to me now. Shipped last night. My email confirmation is below.
I ordered it off of Apple.com on 6/15. I have a FAN account (ATT Premier). I pay the bill myself.
See thats fine, my dilemma: I dont have a premier online account. My fail of a mother didnt set one up. I had to resort to using the Apple Store app, and am now concerned about not getting a phone.
Ordered through premier site at 1:15am on 6/15, orderstatus showd /15. now i get this
wooooooooo
See all the people who are having it shipped are fine. Im wondering about preorder and reserve people.
Why would preorder (pickup at Apple store) and reserve be any different than those of us who ordered on Apple.com and had it shipped? They access the same data base when determining eligibility (ATT Premier)
However, I used the Apple Store App which somehow magically let me Reserve a phone even thought I entered the same info as I did on apple.com
I also have a FAN account and did my reserve at Apple.com at about 4:45 am PDT. I got the e-mail confirmation about a half hour later. The reservation is still showing up on the Apple store app. I am confident that I will get my phone on Thursday. I have no concerns that my having a FAN discount is going to mess me up.
I agree. The same crap happened last year where the Premier people's information didn't get updated in the system as fast so everyone started panicking. I received mine on release day and I assume everyone else did because the b*tching stopped as soon as release day came. I've already said this same exact thing in many threads and yet no one wants to listen. I think they enjoy panicking for a couple weeks instead.
oredering through apple.com is the only way. att is a complete clusterfluck. I have a fan # and ordered through apple, my phone is shipped already, I have a tracking number and it will arrive thursday. I've been upgrading to new iphones since the original on launch day. the only snag was 2 years ago with the 3g apple couldn't access fan accounts but they still got me out of the store with a phone. (had to drop my fan# for a bit)
Nah, I've been reading your posts, and was pretty much assured by them I would get my phone release day. Sure enough it shows shipped now so any day now.
It has to do with people who don't know things like that idiot who just say
"uhhhh I have a tip you can't order from premier" mess that sends people into panic/rage mode. I'm still in backordered and people with tracking numbers are upset. I'm trying my best to say away from here as way too many people are just flying off the handle for no reason other than what someone thought they knew, me included.
Myself also. Premier customer here, ordered through Apple on the 15th and my i4 is in transit right now. Why anyone would have ordered through AT&T's site is beyond me. I guess it was all of the trolls warning every premier customer that the sky would fall if they attempted to order from Apple.
No, not untrue. It all depends on the type of Premier account you have and what kind of FAN is attached to it.
If you are able to check your eligibility through Apple, you can order through them. If you get this error message:
then you cannot order through Apple and you must order through AT&T.
Simply go to Apple.com and begin the normal ordering process to see if you are eligible for an upgrade. If you are put through to placing your order, don't worry about going to Apple store on launch day because you should be fine - Apple has access to your account. If you're like me and get the error message, then you have to order through AT&T as Apple has no authorization to access your account.
This information has been confirmed by two AT&T reps as well as an Apple customer service rep and my local in-store manager.
I ordered mine within 30 minutes of the iPhone 4 becoming available on my AT&T Premier site. I'm the account admin for my company's corporate FAN, so I'm one of 3 people that can actually place orders. Anyhow, mine is showing a FedEx tracking number, but isn't shipped yet. My guess is they labeled and packed my box, but FedEx hasn't picked it up yet.
As for last year with the 3GS, I got mine on Launch Day, and the same for the iPhone 3G two years ago. As long as you got your order in within the first few hours before the ordering system meltdown, you should be good.
As for last year with the 3GS, I got mine on Launch Day, and the same for the iPhone 3G two years ago. As long as you got your order in within the first few hours before the ordering system meltdown, you should be good.
Really? It's beyond you?
How about because at 5:40 a.m and for an hour or so following Apple's website was crashing and not allowing me to order, I even tried ordering throughout the day for the hell of it and couldn't get a damn order in on Apple. It took me 5 minutes to order from AT&T and my order has shipped so....
I would say this must be the case. I have a Premier account (with a FAN number) and I preordered through Apple last year and did again this year. My phone currently has a FedEx tracking number.
As for reserving and preordering, I did both. I reserved first in case I couldn't get a preorder through and I was still able to place my preorder (at 4:21PM ET)