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Tonight 1am order online for in store pickup Saturday
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Hi Everyone,
Anyone from LA? Was anyone lucky by going to the store(Grove, Beverley or Century City) i.e. Walk-in? What is the best suggestion? I was not lucky enough for online order. Missing it at the checkout daily
What are you looking for ? I'm from LA, Westside.
I have a 128 GB Gold Plus looking to sell, want the regular 6 instead/
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Tonight 1am order online for in store pickup Saturday
Trust me, from the LV Apple Store to the KOP Apple Store its a good hour of driving. Leaving the LV Mall parking lot is a 10 minute deal alone LOL. And it's 40 minutes from my house to the LV store. I'm not driving ~3 hours round trip and paying tolls and everything else for a phone. Maybe if mine was broken or something...
Trust me, from the LV Apple Store to the KOP Apple Store its a good hour of driving. Leaving the LV Mall parking lot is a 10 minute deal alone LOL. And it's 40 minutes from my house to the LV store. I'm not driving ~3 hours round trip and paying tolls and everything else for a phone. Maybe if mine was broken or something...
If you are buying a phone full price, you most likely are not on contract or out of contract. This means you can up and leave the network at a moments notice. Yes you are paying the phone company to use their network, but to the phone company, you aren't a guaranteed source because you can leave anytime you want.
They want customer who are under contract, because then those customers are a guaranteed cash flow for the next two years, and if they do decide to leave before then, an ETF will have to be paid. If they decide to skip out or not pay at all, the phone company can come after them through debt collection and/or court.
So it's in the phone companies best interest to push the subsidized phones and make them easier to purchase, so they can get more people under contract.
Also, when you buy a phone, the profits of the phone goes to the phone manufacturer, in this case Apple. The phone company gets it's profits from the plan you have that allows you to use the phone on their network.
I'm sitting outside my local Apple Store (Tulsa) waiting for them to open in 20min. I was first one here wanting a new phone. I know Sunday prob isn't the best day to try to get a 6 Plus but it was easy for me to come by today. I'll let yall know.
None for ATT... Sounded like they had a Plus 16gb on another carrier for the guy behind me. I'll try monday and Tuesday and then I'll just order one and wait it out.
Guess this guy was right. Doesn't look like any inventory updates for LV NV. At least not for Apple stores. Other retailers might have gotten some.
When does the apple website update? has anyone actually refreshed it and saw inventory changes vs just going off of what people are saying.
I drove a mile over to BestBuy and they have a Plus silver 16gb left over from a preorder no one picked up. Guy in front of me is trying to decide if he wants it, I'll take it if he doesn't!
To everyone debating that Apple should allow customers to buy full-priced phones for pick-up, realize that this would also make it MUCH easier for scalpers. You think your having issues getting the phone now, if scalpers could buy phones full-price online you'd have no chance. You'd have so many more people fighting over the same phone online and they would probably write an automated bot to grab the phone the second it becomes available online. I've been screwed by scalpers in store so I know it would be 10x worse if they could buy the unsubsidized phones online. At least in store they have a limit of two before they have to go back to the end of the line.
With that said, I agree with you that after the demand simmers down a little bit and inventory levels out that Apple should allow you to pay full-price online; however, at that point you would be able to just walk in-store to buy it because inventory would catch up with the demand.
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Probably a little late for people who asked this question but I'm pretty sure the allocate some of their Saturday stock to Sunday walk-ins. Last Sunday I waited outside a store and they had a decent supply of popular models that people were looking for.
As for Monday, everyone on this forum seems to agree that it is a waste since there were no Sunday shipments but they will get their daytime shipments on Monday still.
With that said, I agree with you that after the demand simmers down a little bit and inventory levels out that Apple should allow you to pay full-price online; however, at that point you would be able to just walk in-store to buy it because inventory would catch up with the demand.
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Probably a little late for people who asked this question but I'm pretty sure the allocate some of their Saturday stock to Sunday walk-ins. Last Sunday I waited outside a store and they had a decent supply of popular models that people were looking for.
As for Monday, everyone on this forum seems to agree that it is a waste since there were no Sunday shipments but they will get their daytime shipments on Monday still.
Ok thanks for the heads up. I'll just skip Monday morning and go Tuesday morning instead.
Take into account, many scalpers don't want to use credit card in fear of
- being flagged as too rich to receive welfare payments
- tracking of non-payment of taxes when they flip
- undocumented alien scalpers
- pain the ass for them to wait for the UPS/Fedex guy if they live in the city
Well I suspect by that time many of us including myself will have moved on to the Note 4. You can defend Apple but at the end of the day they should have waited to release until the had a good amount of inventory. My guess is they were trying to rush to market to snuff of Samsung and Android but failed.
Thank you, plus Apple could of more easily tracked individuals trying to buy more than one phone by tracking their name and address. They could of even not allowed prepaid cards only bank debit or credit cards.
I scored the silver 16gb! Loving it so far but I'll return it in about ten days for a gray 64gb. I hope somehow Apple loses a lil money on returns! If they don't have a gray 64 in stock I guess I'll just use my old 5 till I find one. I'm sure the stock in stores will be better in the following weeks.
And for info, this phone was a preorder no one picked up, that's the only reason best buy had it. Employee called another store in town for another customer and they had the Plus he wanted, same preorder not picked up. It wasn't entered in inventory yet, BB gives 48hrs for u to pick up preorder. Those desperate for a Plus could call BB and make sure to ask if there's any preorders about to go past the 48hrs.
Are you kidding? You think welfare is tracking personal credit card transactions to decide if welfare recipients are eligible to receive benefits?
You really have no idea what you're talking about and are incredibly close minded.
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Man, there was practically no movement of supply at all today. I really thought about lining up but guess there would've been no point anyway. I'll have to go out Tuesday. Tuesday will finally be my day.
I really think you'll have a good shot Tuesday! Get there as early as u can, at least an hour before they open. Just bring your iPad and use their wifi!
^^This!
I was on the hunt for a Silver plus 128. Each day last week, the stock improved each afternoon between 2:00 - 4:00. That's when I was able to get mine. Ordered under contract and then converted the purchase to device only the next day when I picked it up in the store. YMMV though. This is the pattern I have noticed in No CA at least.