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Carrier T-Mobile 5S Shipping Thread
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Wow. When did you get the shipping notification? I ordered before you and it's just backordered with no additional information available.
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Oh, just saw this. My store pulled the same scam on me. I literally was not allowed to order without adding Jump. I had customer service remove it from my order later.
My order is still Backordered with no additional information also . My store did the same thing . So the "Jump" thing can be removed and it wouldnt cause any problems?
Correct. I talked to the online chat customer service and this was removed from my account. The representative confirmed insurance or Jump is totally optional and not a requirement to get a new iPhone 5c or 5s on the payment plan.
Insurance plans are a profit maker for the carriers, so someone is pushing these store employees to do this. I worked at Radio Shack years ago and the manager would force us to lie to customers about the service plans in order to sell them. It was really shady and unethical, and I suspect that's going on here since it wasn't an isolated incident.
The rep's logic when I asked at the store was pretty sound - she told me it's like homeowner's insurance. They're giving you a loan for an expensive item, so they're not just going to let you walk around without having the thing insured. I'm sure that convinces most people who hear it, but it's a lie in this case.
Thanks for letting me know . I just hope my two gold iPhone 5s's get shipped out soon . I ordered the 16gb and a 32 gb .
Jokes on me for ordering from Apple shortly after launch (12:31am PST). Probably won't see my phone for a couple weeks. T-Mobile's web site was quoting a much later delivery date (late October). Apple is definitely taking care of carriers first.
Ordered a 5s 32GB Space Grey on 10/1 around 10pm. Went to backordered right away as I was expecting. The delivery estimate when I ordered was for 10/14. Today I see a pending charge on my credit card so I think that means it will be shipping soon; still says backordered on T-Mobile's site. Does the credit card charge mean anything? I don't remember for sure but I thought T-Mobile said they will charge when the device has been shipped.
card was charged this past Saturday, shipped this past Monday. I didn't get the shipped notification until Tuesday, but saw the order status as shipped via the tmobile account on Monday.
When I called T-Mobile earlier today this is the same thing they told me . Hopefully they are correct with this estimate.
I just ordered an iPhone 5s 64GB Space grey via t-mobile.com yesterday 10/3/2013 and it shipped today! 10/4/2013 They sent me a tracking number as well! that was fast!
I think the delays are for the Gold and silver which is ridiculous because they should have all colors in stock
I think the delays are for the Gold and silver which is ridiculous because they should have all colors in stock
I ordered my gold 32gb 5s right at midnight on release day and it's always said back ordered with a estimated delivery date of the 7th so today I long on my tmobile and I get this thing showing me how to set up my new sim, even tho my order status is still listed as back ordered I'm wondering if this means it finally shipped seeing how when I called yesterday the lady told me the tmobile system can be a bit slow to update and my moms card would show b4 they did.
They should have everything in stock if they had intentions of launching it but I guess they thought it wasn't going to sell .
They KNEW it was gonna sell, it's just apple didn't make as many of the white colors, same thing happened with the 4-5 just not to this extent
I ordered on the 20th and I still didnt get any updates . So imagine how I feel .
I finally see the last "pending" charge to my credit card. Not sure if this means anything but it does seem to coincide with the shipping dates posted here for the gold 16 GB iphones.
I ordered 4 phones on 9/22, a space gray 16GB, a gold 16GB, and two non feature phones.
The pending charges for the non feature phones and family plan posted as "pending" about a week ago.
The charges for my space gray 16GB posted 2 days ago.
The charges for my wife's gold 16GB posted today.
All charges still say "pending" and order status is still says backordered.
I ordered 4 phones on 9/22, a space gray 16GB, a gold 16GB, and two non feature phones.
The pending charges for the non feature phones and family plan posted as "pending" about a week ago.
The charges for my space gray 16GB posted 2 days ago.
The charges for my wife's gold 16GB posted today.
All charges still say "pending" and order status is still says backordered.
I imagine that means the phone should be shipping soon. Hopefully that means we finally start seeing some gold ones moving.