The 6 just landed in Anchorage. Looking on time for Thursday 10/23 
Sooner than the original ETA of 10/27.
Sooner than the original ETA of 10/27.
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The "I just bought/ordered/shipped/received my new iPhone 6/6 Plus" thread
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Ugh, just saw this on UPS....it made it to Louisville and then...
"Louisville, KY, United States 10/21/2014 5:23 A.M. Arrival Scan
10/21/2014 3:07 A.M. A mechanical failure has delayed delivery. We're adjusting plans to deliver your package as quickly as possible. / Your delivery has been rescheduled for the next business day."
I got the same message my expected delivery date was thursday now it says maybe a one day delay. I ordered my 6+ space gray 64gb att on 09/22. My opinion is it'll sit in kentucky for a day or so, hopefully they'll get it back up fast.
Delivery date for me is Thursday, 10/23.
Louisville, KY, United States 10/21/2014 12:36 A.M. Departure Scan
Scheduled Delivery:
Thursday, 10/23/2014, By End of Day
Last Location:
Departed - Louisville, KY, United States, Tuesday, 10/21/2014
Then I received another email this morning saying my payment has been processed.
Louisville, KY, United States 10/21/2014 12:36 A.M. Departure Scan
Scheduled Delivery:
Thursday, 10/23/2014, By End of Day
Last Location:
Departed - Louisville, KY, United States, Tuesday, 10/21/2014
Then I received another email this morning saying my payment has been processed.
I've been reading these threads waiting for iphones the last couple weeks and decided to join.
I use a regional cell carrier and haven't been able to pre-order. I was able to be put on a wait list on 9/26 when the phone was available with our carrier. I want a 6 64gb space gray and my husband a 6 64gb silver. The 16 seems pretty easy to get but that's it. When I ask about it I've been told twice they expect shipments "next week". I'm kinda jealous of the people that can track their orders.
The store I'm on a list with gets their phones in around 1:00 from UPS each day. So I can figure out if I don't get a call by 2:00 I'm pretty sure my phone didn't come that day. I was told they don't even know what they are getting until they open the boxes. I have no time frame at all.
I use a regional cell carrier and haven't been able to pre-order. I was able to be put on a wait list on 9/26 when the phone was available with our carrier. I want a 6 64gb space gray and my husband a 6 64gb silver. The 16 seems pretty easy to get but that's it. When I ask about it I've been told twice they expect shipments "next week". I'm kinda jealous of the people that can track their orders.
The store I'm on a list with gets their phones in around 1:00 from UPS each day. So I can figure out if I don't get a call by 2:00 I'm pretty sure my phone didn't come that day. I was told they don't even know what they are getting until they open the boxes. I have no time frame at all.
i know this has been mentioned in the forum several times but i wanna reiterate that for those waiting for phones to ship still if purchasing from apple is and option for you you would save yourself a lot of time by cancelling and doing the personal pickup through apple.com at your local store i used istocknow.com to monitor stock in my area and was able to get 2 6 pluses att on 2 separate occasions this way and there are some pluses available now. stock usually updates around 4am and again around 2:30pm...
Question: How do you do this if you want to pay full price, no contract for any carrier other than T-Mobile?
Answer: You can't. The Apple Store site won't let you reserve anything off-contract other than the unicorn T-Mobile phones for in-store pickup. Good luck finding a T-Mobile phone in any model/config in the entire state of Florida.
In addition, I'm not taking a credit ding or risking the Apple Store clerk not wanting to play ball by reserving a phone on contract and then cancelling the contract, letting them return the phone to stock temporarily, and then paying full price for the phone. I don't know what lies in store for my future in the next two years and I don't want a crappy credit report due to a cell phone tying my hands (plus I don't trust the Apple Store employees to actually let me do this).
The fact that the Apple Store website, in addition to iStockNow, said that a local Apple Store had the exact phone I wanted in-stock on two separate occasions this last weekend WHILE I was talking to an Apple Store employee who was telling me that they did not have the phone in-stock does not boost my confidence in either website's inventory tracking capabilities. It's a bit frustrating that I'm ready to pay the full price in cash to get this phone today and Apple still can't seem to get it together.
Your loss then. Others have been successful doing this, so if you choose not to that's certainly your choice.
Just curious - how bad is your credit that a cell phone contract credit inquiry would have any noticeable impact? I understand being cautious if you're just about to apply for a home loan in the next week or two and have no credit history to speak of, but outside that I think your concern is exaggerated.
yeah you have to go in store if you want to pay full price on non t-mobile phones. as far as the credit thing i dont mind from what i know and i have credit monitoring it doesnt have a great impact. as far as the reliability of istocknow it has been 100% accurate for me with apple stores im usually on the apple site at the same time as istocknow so i can see that its accurate although the information for non apple stores ive found to be inaccurate i actully wasted a whole day driving due to the target inventory being incorrect.
Is there a credit inquiry made if you're just upgrading a line? I was under the impression that there was only a credit inquiry if you were adding a line, but I could be wrong.
me too
"vanilla" is a good way to describe Verizon's order status page, funny. page comes up as unavailable.
"vanilla" is a good way to describe Verizon's order status page, funny. page comes up as unavailable.
Just bought my new 6. Upgraded from the 5. Loving it!
Should I just restore from the backup or set it as new? Suggestions, please.
Should I just restore from the backup or set it as new? Suggestions, please.
In all probability you'd be perfectly fine to restore from backup.
If it's not a huge deal to do a new install, then I'd do it just to ensure that if you have any weird issues such as battery drain you'll know it wasn't from something "left over" from the restore.
Hmm. Ok. Valid point.
I'll follow your recommendation and do a new install. Thanks a lot for your help!
One caveat -- the as-new won't keep text message conversations or your photo roll. I think there are third party tools to pull these off a backup. I don't keep text conversations though and regularly import my photos to Aperture so I've never concerned myself with keeping these and thus can't recommend anything. Google search should help though.
DO perform a final backup of the old phone to your iTunes computer and keep it for a while, also be sure to name the new phone differently to avoid overwriting the backup.
DO perform a final backup of the old phone to your iTunes computer and keep it for a while, also be sure to name the new phone differently to avoid overwriting the backup.
Just received my iphone 6+ and the screen is perfectly flat.
It took about 1 month to arrive.
It took about 1 month to arrive.
I'm just being cautious. Without going into specifics, my credit score is fine. I just don't like the idea that I should/might/however-you-wish-to-phrase-it take a ding, big or small, in order to get a phone that I don't intend to purchase on credit. It's the principle of the matter, nothing more.
As I stated before, it made me a bit frustrated over the weekend when the Apple Store website claimed stock was available for multiple hours on both days but the local Apple Store employees claimed otherwise. I'm grounded enough in reality that it's not the end of the world for me or anything.
Fair enough. I honestly don't believe an upgrade with the same carrier shows up. In the past three months I've done both a full refinance and a HELOC and did two full ugrades last September. From a credit history aspect I've (figuratively speaking) had my pants around my ankles and did both the turn-my-head-and-cough as well as that other exam men get after 40... If my AT&T upgrades didn't show up for that, I'm not concerned about a same-carrier upgrade.
Ordering brand new service though would be a hard-pull. Doing it once every year or two I personally think would be a non-issue since who doesn't have a cellphone. Others may feel differently.
Yep, there's a lot of frustration to go 'round.
I'm enjoying the chase, but I also ordered a full-price TMO 6 that I'll cancel if I run across something local on TMO or AT&T.
I feel like giving up. I stopped into the store we are on the wait list at. They have not received even one 64gb phone. They've been getting the 16's and a few 128's but no 64.
We are out of contract but I like them as a carrier and don't want to switch just to get a phone sooner. When I've talked to Cellcom they keep telling me "one more week". Maybe it's a good thing I can't track an order online. I'd drive myself nuts if there wasn't any movement.
We are out of contract but I like them as a carrier and don't want to switch just to get a phone sooner. When I've talked to Cellcom they keep telling me "one more week". Maybe it's a good thing I can't track an order online. I'd drive myself nuts if there wasn't any movement.