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To those that pre ordered Feb 9
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That is what I did. I thought the lines would be obscene. I drove down and there was literally NO ONE in the store. I was in and out with mine and my wife's in less than 30 minutes. They even cancelled my order that was to ship out for me. I've had mine for 4 hours now and it is as amazing as I had hoped it would be. I can't wait to get home and sync it up.
I cancelled my early morning Feb 9th order at 2am last night and headed down to the store. Was #4 in line and walked out with my iPhone first. I loved it when everyone was giving me the death stare as I walked out. I took the risk of canceling and I guess got lucky.
Argh... I feel everyone's pain. I ordered Wednesday morning and feel a bit shafted.
I did post agarcia34's advice on my website for anyone else who's a bit disappointed.
http://erictric.com/2011/02/10/why-are-verizon-iphone-4-orders-being-handled-this-way/
Let's hope things get expedited.
I did post agarcia34's advice on my website for anyone else who's a bit disappointed.
http://erictric.com/2011/02/10/why-are-verizon-iphone-4-orders-being-handled-this-way/
Let's hope things get expedited.
canceled the order I placed @ 2:45am ET since it hasn't shipped yet....
My wife is at Verizon right now getting our iPhones. she said they have plenty in stock (made sure before I canceled my online order)
way to drop the ball Verizon. there is no reason that those of us that stayed up till 3am should not have iPhones in our hand by tomorrow at the latest while there is an excess of stock at your local stores.
My wife is at Verizon right now getting our iPhones. she said they have plenty in stock (made sure before I canceled my online order)
way to drop the ball Verizon. there is no reason that those of us that stayed up till 3am should not have iPhones in our hand by tomorrow at the latest while there is an excess of stock at your local stores.
i have my phone. glad to see everyone here is doing the same thing. no need to wait for it when it's already at the store.
so easy. make sure they have one first. Then using one of their netbooks on display, cancel your order and pay for your phone in the store. why wait?
so glad I did it. Love this phone. The 3g speeds are good enough for me.
so easy. make sure they have one first. Then using one of their netbooks on display, cancel your order and pay for your phone in the store. why wait?
so glad I did it. Love this phone. The 3g speeds are good enough for me.
I ordered mine at 11:52p on 2/8 (PST) from Verizon. Received the initial email and have tracked the status numerous times.
I finally gave up, cancelled the order and went to Best Buy at lunch. I had to wait about 15 minutes, but walked out with two iPhones.
I finally gave up, cancelled the order and went to Best Buy at lunch. I had to wait about 15 minutes, but walked out with two iPhones.
Well, I took advice from this thread and decided to just go to a Verizon store at 3pm PST to buy my iPhone and cancel my previous Feb.9th iPhone order, since I still had no shipping confirmation date (only estimate) and my credit card still was not billed.
I had to go to 2 Verizon stores as the closer one to me is a tiny store and only got 16 of them, but I went to the bigger store in town and they had plenty. They expected a bigger turnout, so they had lots of store reps and lots of iPhone in stock. I asked the store reps how many and they just said "a lot."
The lady who helped me said I could cancel my previous online order, but she called customer service on the phone first to see if it was OK, and they said yes, but the confusion came over how to cancel it. We first logged into my Verizon account, through the web browser on the store rep's computer, but there was no cancellation button available. I told her that we had to go the iPhone order status page that was given to my in my confirmation email, which is:http://verizonwireless.com/iphoneorder
Once we used that link and I entered my order number and last name, we then saw the cancel button. We hit cancel, entered the last four digit of my social, and then it was cancelled for good.
I then payed for my iPhone at the counter, and walked out with a new iPhone. She even transfered my old contacts off my ancient Samsung phone over to the iPhone for me, too.
Pretty nice customer service. So anyway, call your Verizon stores and they may have plenty in stock like mine. You may have to try a couple stores like I did.
I originally came in thinking that I was going to only try the iPhone and just return it to get the 4G Thunderbolt coming out next month, but despite already also owning an iPad, I am really impressed with the iPhone. I've used some older Androids from friends for testing apps, but iPhone 4 is really a nice phone. I may just stick with it after all.
I had to go to 2 Verizon stores as the closer one to me is a tiny store and only got 16 of them, but I went to the bigger store in town and they had plenty. They expected a bigger turnout, so they had lots of store reps and lots of iPhone in stock. I asked the store reps how many and they just said "a lot."
The lady who helped me said I could cancel my previous online order, but she called customer service on the phone first to see if it was OK, and they said yes, but the confusion came over how to cancel it. We first logged into my Verizon account, through the web browser on the store rep's computer, but there was no cancellation button available. I told her that we had to go the iPhone order status page that was given to my in my confirmation email, which is:http://verizonwireless.com/iphoneorder
Once we used that link and I entered my order number and last name, we then saw the cancel button. We hit cancel, entered the last four digit of my social, and then it was cancelled for good.
I then payed for my iPhone at the counter, and walked out with a new iPhone. She even transfered my old contacts off my ancient Samsung phone over to the iPhone for me, too.
Pretty nice customer service. So anyway, call your Verizon stores and they may have plenty in stock like mine. You may have to try a couple stores like I did.
I originally came in thinking that I was going to only try the iPhone and just return it to get the 4G Thunderbolt coming out next month, but despite already also owning an iPad, I am really impressed with the iPhone. I've used some older Androids from friends for testing apps, but iPhone 4 is really a nice phone. I may just stick with it after all.
I just came back from the store trying to do the same thing! Tried to cancel, but the clerk was being a douche and making excuses about why they can't cancel my online order and do it in store, and he wouldnt look up my order reference number so I could do it on the laptops there. Kept saying I'd have to go home and do it and come back. Anyway by the time I got home, I saw its been shipped, so now I guess I'm probably looking forward to a Monday delivery..