Ill admit, Im guilty. Might be wrong but hoping next year can get a bit more for the gold phone. Im waiting on a 64g ATT from apple store. On the 7 to 10 day shipping period group. I know when I ordered last night could have been in the 1 to 3 days if chosen different color. So any one else waiting because wouldnt take another color and was willing to wait? I have an HTC one that I will be using till then, so not in dire need of the phone.
Waiting on 32GB AT&T. Same, no hurry, I just want to get one in time for the next jailbreak. Sent from my iPhone 5.
Same boat. I ordered my 32GB Gold from Verizon at 3am, should be here by 9/24 Waiting an extra 4 days is completely worth having a rarer and appealing color.
If rumors are true, Apple is shifting its resources to up supply on Gold iPhone 5S. So if you're looking at it from a investment point of view, I wouldn't. There will be more black 5S's in a year from now, but I bet there will be plenty Gold ones as well.
I don't think it will affect price very much - the gold is limited right now, but a year from now I bet things will be evened out. There may even be more gold phones because of the initial shortage - people want what they can't have... But I will say the gold did look really nice in the store.