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So they aren't shipping iPhone plus at all this month?

forza69 said:
How do you know that the rep you spoke to isn't making **** up?
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Because it was an executive customer service rep that really knows her !@#$ and she made it clear that these "other reps" are being informed to "under promise" and quote dates from here on out, not for people who got their order in high in their Q and got conf. emails stating delivery on 9/19...
 
I talked a verizon rep a half hour ago who said to go by your confirmation email. I think they know more than some people on here. They have a count of what they are going to get from Apple. As someone said above you can't send a confirmation that doesn't confirm. My says 9/19 and I'm going with that until it's 9/19 and it's not here. If the units weren't ready for 9/19 it would have been known from the announcement.
 
I was up at 3am, got through with my iPad app at around 3:40. Online store was still not open yet. It did take entering the info about a dozen times before my purchase of a 6 plus 64 GB space grey was completed. I got the confirmation email shortly thereafter. Delivery is scheduled for next Friday the 19th.

I followed up with the tracking link this afternoon and it shows order is being processed for delivery on the 19th. I also see authorization for the transaction on my credit card. With this info I am very confident that Apple will deliver as they have done so in the past.

I don't trust the carriers with delivery dates because they are just middlemen and can't promise anything without confirmation from Apple. This is where the confusion stems from.

So, yes it's pretty much a guarantee that I, and many others with delivery dates showing the 19th from Apple will receive their 6 Plus next Friday, or at the latest Monday.

Anyone who doubts this can come back to this thread next week for confirmation. :)
 
hNicolas said:
I was up at 3am, got through with my iPad app at around 3:40. Online store was still not open yet. It did take entering the info about a dozen times before my purchase of a 6 plus 64 GB space grey was completed. I got the confirmation email shortly thereafter. Delivery is scheduled for next Friday the 19th.

I followed up with the tracking link this afternoon and it shows order is being processed for delivery on the 19th. I also see authorization for the transaction on my credit card. With this info I am very confident that Apple will deliver as they have done so in the past.

I don't trust the carriers with delivery dates because they are just middlemen and can't promise anything without confirmation from Apple. This is where the confusion stems from.

So, yes it's pretty much a guarantee that I, and many others with delivery dates showing the 19th from Apple will receive their 6 Plus next Friday, or at the latest Monday.

Anyone who doubts this can come back to this thread next week for confirmation. :)
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I'm really praying you're right. Because that means folks like me, with a late October ship date, have a chance to get one much sooner and cancel our pre-orders.
 
roland.g said:
I have to disagree with you. That's the launch day weekend game. Some people wait in lines, for the fun of it, or because they want to pay cash, or whatever the reason and some people pre-order, mostly in the hopes of avoiding all the lines and waiting and not being sure if after all that they will get the color and storage (and now size) configuration that they want.

But Apple has historically set it up this way. You can pre-order or wait. If they filled all pre-orders first, then by next Friday there would be nothing left in the supply channels for any sort of launch day and the people who want to wait in line would cry about being forced to pre-order or wait. So they split it up, though I would have to think it is skewed towards the pre-orders. And the carriers do this to. It is good for foot traffic and publicity but there is also something logistically sound about getting stock out through pre-orders to mitigate some of that foot traffic and to deliver product to people who don't have Apple or carrier stores as easily accessible.

You can cancel your pre-order if you are dissatisfied with the wait and join the launch day crowds and try that route. But you can't have it both ways. If you don't cancel your pre-order you won't have eligibility on launch day.
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you are wrong here.

i have already been charged the full amount of what i owed. for someone who has not even indicated they want the phone to have their product before me is absolutely asinine.
 
sakau2007 said:
you are wrong here.

i have already been charged the full amount of what i owed. for someone who has not even indicated they want the phone to have their product before me is absolutely asinine.
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What about the people who have been waiting in line?
 
Lobwedgephil said:
What about the people who have been waiting in line?
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what do you mean? in the physical retail stores? my debit card has been charged the full amount i owe days before they even show up to the store. why on earth should they be served before me?
 
Its just the way it works, they allocate a certain number of phones for preorders and a certain number of phones for Release day in stores.
 
Lobwedgephil said:
Its just the way it works, they allocate a certain number of phones for preorders and a certain number of phones for Release day in stores.
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Exactly, preorders have absolutely nothing to do with the quantities that have been allocated to each store for walk-in customers.

And just because the 6 Plus has been sold out through October for preorder and online customers, it doesn't mean that the retail stores won't have 6 Pluses for sale on launch day.
 
sakau2007 said:
i understand and you are partially right. i will be extremely upset with at&t if anyone who didn't preorder gets it by just walking in on launch day if i have to wait. there is no way the units shipped to retail stores shouldn't be going to people who preordered it.
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It works this way in every country. I'm in Canada and there are people who will walk into the stores who will get their phones before people who reserve. But you know what? Going to the stores is a shot in the dark. There's no guarantee that you will get your phone that day and that means that they could go home empty handed, have to check the store every day, and have to wait even longer.

So some people who go to the store will get lucky, but others will not. But Apple just can't allocate *all* their orders to go to people who preorder, because those who love going to the store on launch day deserve some stock availability.
 
Will be here on the 19th

I ordered a silver 64gig 6 plus with apple app at about 330am. Got confirmation email about 1 minute later. Stating delivers 9/19. Credit card was charged 423.00. So I do believe that it will be her on launch day. No reason it shouldn't be.
 
Don't see how they could say the phone would be released on 9/19 if it isn't. The supply may be small but they have to have some going out on 9/19.
 
I ordered mine at 5am est in New Jersey.... From sprint...it says mine could take up to 3 weeks..and that it's in the warehouse
 
Mine is coming on 9/19.

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Isn't it proper business practice to place the charge on the card only when the order is actually about to be shipped? If, say, they aren't shipping for 3 weeks or so then really they oughtn't be putting the charge on your card for another 3 weeks? Are there any laws covering this or perhaps just Better Business Bureau guidelines?
 
hNicolas said:
Exactly, preorders have absolutely nothing to do with the quantities that have been allocated to each store for walk-in customers.

And just because the 6 Plus has been sold out through October for preorder and online customers, it doesn't mean that the retail stores won't have 6 Pluses for sale on launch day.
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Aren't all preorders shipped directly from china?
So the preorders have nothing to do with shipments already in Illinois . They are meant for the stores in the US
 
Zetaprime said:
Isn't it proper business practice to place the charge on the card only when the order is actually about to be shipped? If, say, they aren't shipping for 3 weeks or so then really they oughtn't be putting the charge on your card for another 3 weeks? Are there any laws covering this or perhaps just Better Business Bureau guidelines?
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They didn't really charge my card, they put a temporary charge on there. I'm guessing they do this to make sure the funds are there. It'll probably drop off eventually and then post when it's ready to ship.

However, most of the time they ship these from China, so for all you know your phone may already be in transit.
 
this sounds like EXTREMELY sour grapes to me

people are upset websites didn't work etc

I've NEVER had verizon confirm a ship date for me and miss it

i ordered a 6plus 128gb at about 258am on verizon site and it is still confirmed 9/19

update: I can't find a report that says ALL iPhone 6 plus are delayed.. all the news links that say "iphone 6 plus delayed" are about people WHO DIDNT GET IN ON THE FIRST SHIPMENT LIKE PEOPLE LIKE ME DID!

People who are angry don't read carefully.

You guys have a legitimate gripe about apple.com being down and apple completely botching the launch. Call them and let loose, maybe you can get a gift card or something. Seriously, they try to keep the customer happy.
 
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cornerexit said:
Oh the horror. Life is gonna end for you. :D
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I know you're being sarcastic, in a condescending way, but in the event that you are serious, no, life is not going to end for me, but I am disappointed that I stayed up until midnight having been up since 5am, working until 6pm. I was dead tired but I wanted/need a new phone and I've wanted a bigger iPhone for a long time. Having started the process of preordering at 12:01am and finishing before 12:10am, I am disappointed that as of now, I will be receiving the phone in 2 months. What was the point of staying up and preordering when people that will walk into the store on the 19th will probably get the chance to walk out of the store with new phone in hand.

"I'm not mad, I'm disappointed, AT&T."
 
It seems to me that the main issue in here is the fairness of the ordering process more than the waiting time itself? In other words if you were trying to order the moment sales were to begin you should be at the head of the line. Many of us were cheated out of this by the various technical problems with the apps and websites so that even though we tried in good faith to place our orders we were unable to do so. Also there was a randomness to the way some people were able to get in an others not with no apparent pattern. At the time I was trying last night I was reading posts from people who claimed that had gotten their orders in. Personally, the beef I had is that I stayed up very late for the express purpose of placing an order and was denied the chance to do so at that time, thereby having lost hours of sleep for nothing. If I had known that I had no chance of making the 9/19 ship date I would have gone to bed at the normal hour and placed my order in the morning as I ended up doing. That's just wrong. And I'm sure millions of others experienced the same thing. Apple owes us all for that wasted time.

As far as having to wait an extra 3 weeks, that's the least of it. If only there was fairness in the way it worked out.
 
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