I have basically the same experience as you but with a 7+ Silver 256gb. Preordered on 9/9, estimate 9/19-9/26, charged Saturday morning, label created Sunday with delivery estimate tomorrow.
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Carrier T-Mobile iPhone 7+ Pre-Order Shipped Yet? (Black and JB mostly)
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I have basically the same experience as you but with a 7+ Silver 256gb. Preordered on 9/9, estimate 9/19-9/26, charged Saturday morning, label created Sunday with delivery estimate tomorrow.
Sucks they didn't hit all estimates in time. Does not bode well for us with later dates. I guess the extra launches around the world are slowing things down. I really didn't think it would actually take until November to get my phone but it seems quite possible now.
My JB iPhone 7+ is actually coming in October of 2017. Around the same time other people are getting their iPhone 7s+. I wonder if I can preorder whatever is coming out next year? Here's $900 T-Mobile. Put me on the pre-order list so I can get it in October of 2018 when the iPhone 8 is coming out. What a bunch of crap. Announce a release date and people that pre-order 15 minutes late won't get it for a whole three months. Might as well of just said we'll release the iPhone 7 sometime in early 2017.
Apple doesn't have much 7+ stock either (and it gets snatched quickly). I've been checking and I actually haven't been able to see a JB plus pop up at all. It's worse that we ordered through T-Mobile but it's the price we pay for cheaper carrier fees and trade-in deals.
My friend works at an Apple Store in Richmond, Virginia and she said that they have a bunch of Chinese people that camp out in front of the store to buy iPhone 7+s as soon as they open up in the morning. That's why they never have stock.
I'm not going to lie, if my jet black plus came early it would probably go on eBay too. You can also reserve them online at midnight at your local Apple store. Either way, plus stock is minimal even at bigger Apple Stores (I'm in Los Angeles).
Well I got a text from TMobile today - at first I was all excited! But then I read it: "We expect your order to ship Nov 1 to Nov 30th" (same as its been since I ordered it on launch day). Not sure why they would text me the same info Ive known for a good while....
(128mb JB+)
(128mb JB+)
Lol. I got the same one! It's worse because I have a jailbreak tweak that scrolls through the whole text body and I was really excited until it got to the Nov 1 part…
I ordered my Jet Black 128GB 7+ and had the EIP signed no later than 12:10am PST 9/9/16, and got a window of 9/27/16 to 10/24/16 as my shipping date. Never moved up early or anything unlike when I preordered my 6 Plus.
Gave up on it today when I saw my Apple Store here had a 7+ 256GB matte black for Verizon, so I picked it up and canceled my T-Mobile order. Honestly the jet black didn't wow me in person nearly enough to keep waiting up to another month. And being that the Verizon model is unlocked and works on more bands/networks it's doing perfectly fine on T-Mobile!
Gave up on it today when I saw my Apple Store here had a 7+ 256GB matte black for Verizon, so I picked it up and canceled my T-Mobile order. Honestly the jet black didn't wow me in person nearly enough to keep waiting up to another month. And being that the Verizon model is unlocked and works on more bands/networks it's doing perfectly fine on T-Mobile!
I want to do this as well but too bad I'm on JOD. Guess it's just more waiting for me.
I have been told by both a district manager for T-Mobile and an Apple manager that Apple is controlling the supply chain to keep the buzz going and make it seem demand is higher than it really is. Seems logical, keep the buzz and people will keep coming to the stores. T-Mobile is unhappy with the way Apple is dealing with things, but Apple is just controlling it. I was also told that Apple is really not pushing the phones to T-Mobile due to T-Mobile pulling out of allowing Apple in store carrier financing for T-Mobile. Don't know if there is any truth to it.
Can you do EIP in an Apple Store now? Don't think you could before. Isn't the only way to finance one in store is through apples upgrade program? I don't see the conflict there.
I complained on twitter to John Legere and when a Verified twitter account agreed with my post he IGNORED my original post and helped her. She got her iPhone 7 PLUS just days after that. I just realized it was for an iPhone 7 Plus... i thought it was just a regular iPhone 7 so i never posted... I'm extra mad now lol...Notice how SHE got her phone just DAYS after that...
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got charged for my order about an hour ago:
128gb 7+ Jet black
32gb 7+ Matte black
ETA: 11/1-11/30
Ordered: 9/9 ~8am PST
128gb 7+ Jet black
32gb 7+ Matte black
ETA: 11/1-11/30
Ordered: 9/9 ~8am PST
Got charged for my 256gb jet black too. Reorder on 9/19 because t mobile screw up my order.
Usually ships a couple days after the charge. I'm guessing we'll get them some time mid next week. Just happy it's a lot earlier than November.
