I spent more time waiting for the freaking store to go live in the app than I did placing my order. Not even kidding, 45 seconds or less. Tap, tap, tap, tap, authenticate Apple Pay, DONE.
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This was the worst preorder in Apple's history
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It's a phone. RelaxxmanWith every other preorder in previous years, if you stayed up until 12:01 and ordered within 5-8 minutes, you were guaranteed to get your toy on launch day. This year, it was a total disaster.
Mad beyond belief.
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Same here
It seemed to be about the same for me this year. I didn't get the app store to load until about 3:05 (EST) and received an email @ 3:09 saying my order is being processed. + 128gb matte.. Kind of wish I went with 256 now.. I'm sure I'll be good with 128 though.
Placed a second order for my wife's 7 128gb matte and got the email @ 3:19 that my order is being processed.
Both say Delivery 9/16. I paid full price for both.. Gosh I miss At&t 2 year contract price and didn't want to do next.
Placed a second order for my wife's 7 128gb matte and got the email @ 3:19 that my order is being processed.
Both say Delivery 9/16. I paid full price for both.. Gosh I miss At&t 2 year contract price and didn't want to do next.
It was bad for me too. I ended up ordering through ATT's site to get the order to complete. Though at least it was on time.
I decided it wasn't worth it to get up at 2am local and mess up my sleep since I work today for the preorder. I gambled, and now my order estimate is the 23rd for the matte black 128GB model.
With every other preorder in previous years, if you stayed up until 12:01 and ordered within 5-8 minutes, you were guaranteed to get your toy on launch day. This year, it was a total disaster.
Mad beyond belief.
You obviously didn't preorder an AW. Many of those models sold out before they went on sale. Seems Apple is just copying that lame sales model again, but at least you aren't waiting over a month like I did for my AW which was preordered 4 min after the store opened.
With every other preorder in previous years, if you stayed up until 12:01 and ordered within 5-8 minutes, you were guaranteed to get your toy on launch day. This year, it was a total disaster.
Mad beyond belief.
You problem is you wanted jet black which it looks like is hard to get. My black 256 Plus order went right though for the 16th. Not a order problem, it is an inventory problem.
Reminds me of ordering the ceramic AW with ceramic link band. I wated for over a month. Glad I ordered just the black 256 Plus!
Its probably because they're launching on the same day in so many more countries than in the past. It thins out supply...
Me too! I have 3 phones on order as well. This was the worst pre-order process I've ever done and I've done a lot of iPhone pre-orders.
I have a launch day 6s with AT&T and had no problems pre-ordering (except that I waited until this morning, so my ship date is in October
). I checked my eligibility last night, and it told me that I had to make one more payment on my Next plan, so I did. Good to go this morning.
It would have been nice to know that there would be virtually no jet black 7 pluses available for 9/16 delivery. I would have started out going for a matte black one and saved time.
Every year someone who can't get what they want cries about it. And lots of other people have no issues whatsoever. App Store app makes it easy peasy.With every other preorder in previous years, if you stayed up until 12:01 and ordered within 5-8 minutes, you were guaranteed to get your toy on launch day. This year, it was a total disaster.
Mad beyond belief.
I saw that when trying to order from the Store App on my phone. I then went to the AT&T app and was able to change address when I ordered. I got a ship date of Sept. 23-30 for my 256GB Matte Black 7+.
Same. Except at 07. I was refreshing both the site and app and they were both showing down for me until then.
Fully agreed. The store didn't come up for me until :09 or :10 - 2 minutes later, even after being told initially I would get my phone on launch, I now have to wait a month.
Apple's standard of customer service has depreciated so much over the past few years. This is just another example.
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Apple's standard of customer service has depreciated so much over the past few years. This is just another example.
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Except the Apple Store app didn't start working for most people until several minutes after 12:01...... so no.
Wow really?? I'm gonna chat with Apple right now and see if I can ship it to my house. I was gonna order it from AT&T too, but I was stuck in their queue for awhile and i got the order done faster on the Apple Store app.
Was flawless for me like always.....But I prep well every year, make sure the App Store is the only store running in the background and not have a bunch of my electronics on my Wifi. Might not do anything but I have been getting Day 1 shipping since the 5 so in my head it does something.
