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Tonight 1am order online for in store pickup Saturday
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Finally got the green availability for the 6 plus
I was able to place the other for the 6 PLUS 64G!!!! YEAHHHH BABY!!!
Could not even believe when i saw the green box for the Silver, 64g PLUS.....Now just need to wait for the confirmation e-mail i guess!
I was able to place the other for the 6 PLUS 64G!!!! YEAHHHH BABY!!!
Could not even believe when i saw the green box for the Silver, 64g PLUS.....Now just need to wait for the confirmation e-mail i guess!
Yes! Ordered one too! Space 128 6+!!!! Waiting on email too.
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They are showing up!
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They are showing up!
Wow so this is really a joke of a situation. I will definitely dispute any upgrade fees and raise HECK, to put it nicely, over any contract agreement. This is definitely a bad way to do business when the system can be refined to prevent this. I almost want to return my unicorn of a phone before the two weeks is up lol.
How long ago did you order your phone through the personal pick up?
Have any fees or changes got posted to your Verizon account?
The full retail phone was picked up 10/2. My bill has already been generated for October so I would have to wait until the end of the month to see if any charges from this purchase are added. I CAN say that my preorder upgrade didn't add any charges bc I inserted the SIM card from my 5S to keep my unlimited plan. All that did was extend my contract two years, but I have since then returned my 6 and my account has not returned to month to month and my upgrade eligibility is still gone. They keep telling me to wait and I have waited. I will call tomorrow to get my account sorted so I can sort this new situation out and see what will come of it. For full retail I will not be paying any fees or extending my contract.
I truly don't think my contract will be extended from a full retail purchase, but as you can see in the pictures I posted earlier, it says I agreed to a 2 year commitment. Verizon very well could play the bad guy and say I agreed to it and it will be enforced. Tomorrow will allow me to sort a lot of these questions out with Verizon and Apple. I know I will post any updates in this thread just for anyone who will be interested.
I truly don't think my contract will be extended from a full retail purchase, but as you can see in the pictures I posted earlier, it says I agreed to a 2 year commitment. Verizon very well could play the bad guy and say I agreed to it and it will be enforced. Tomorrow will allow me to sort a lot of these questions out with Verizon and Apple. I know I will post any updates in this thread just for anyone who will be interested.
I think your plan and contract date would have changed automatically if it recognized the "amendments" you agreed to when purchasing the full price phone from Apple.
Here's something from the verizon site that I think proves we should not be charged an upgrade fee:
What is the upgrade fee?
The $30 upgrade fee applies any time you purchase a new device at a discount, with a contract extension, to replace an old device. This fee is in addition to the cost of the new device and applicable taxes. The upgrade fee does not apply when a new device is purchased at the full retail price.
http://www.verizonwireless.com/support/faqs/WirelessService/upgradefee.html
For the phone you picked up at full price from the personal pick up at the apple store, do they make you open or activate the new phone? If not I plan on just keeping it sealed until I get 100% confirmation from Verizon no fees or changes are made to my agreement. If not I will just return the phone.
Here's something from the verizon site that I think proves we should not be charged an upgrade fee:
What is the upgrade fee?
The $30 upgrade fee applies any time you purchase a new device at a discount, with a contract extension, to replace an old device. This fee is in addition to the cost of the new device and applicable taxes. The upgrade fee does not apply when a new device is purchased at the full retail price.
http://www.verizonwireless.com/support/faqs/WirelessService/upgradefee.html
For the phone you picked up at full price from the personal pick up at the apple store, do they make you open or activate the new phone? If not I plan on just keeping it sealed until I get 100% confirmation from Verizon no fees or changes are made to my agreement. If not I will just return the phone.
When you pick it up from the Apple Store they scan the phone and the sim in the phone became active immediately. I tried to make a call on my 5s and the sim was already inactive so I had to open up the new phone and take the sim out and insert it in my current phone just to have service.
We can easily dispute the upgrade fee, if we get charged, and have it nullified. They can't charge that fee on full retail as you pointed out, per their own wording. I'm just very curious with contract extension and how that plays out. I don't know if my contract is still extended from my preorder upgrade with the 6 or if it is related to the plus I picked up in store.
In short, when you pick up your phone it will be active and ready to go bc they do a "scan activation" in store. I did not know this until I walked back in and asked them why my phone no longer had service. The Apple employee told me bc it was a "contract" purchase. She said there was off contract purchase and contract purchase. I'm pretty literate with this stuff, but I am lost within this mess.
We can easily dispute the upgrade fee, if we get charged, and have it nullified. They can't charge that fee on full retail as you pointed out, per their own wording. I'm just very curious with contract extension and how that plays out. I don't know if my contract is still extended from my preorder upgrade with the 6 or if it is related to the plus I picked up in store.
In short, when you pick up your phone it will be active and ready to go bc they do a "scan activation" in store. I did not know this until I walked back in and asked them why my phone no longer had service. The Apple employee told me bc it was a "contract" purchase. She said there was off contract purchase and contract purchase. I'm pretty literate with this stuff, but I am lost within this mess.
If you log into your online account you can see your contract end date, that should adjust immediately I believe if they do actually try to tack on an extra two years to our agreement. I had a suspended line on my account and when I reactivated they had me sign something acknowledging the new end date and I immediately got the notification email that my account had changed.
However, I am not sure why it was a "contract" purchase though if you paid the full price for the phone. I just placed my order but will try I guess to have them not scan activate as I don't want verizon trying to change the "upgrade fee" to an "activation fee".
Maybe they will just let me cancel the online "contract purchase" and buy the phone "off contract" in store. It's the same $850 to them either way..
Man didn't realize spending money was so hard...
Tonight 1am order online for in store pickup Saturday
What I would do in your case is make a return and repurchase it for full retail in the store. This will reverse any "contract" stuff we did online and avoid any upgrade fees, that shouldn't be paid anyways.
My contract date is still extended through 2016 after my return of the upgraded 6. She told me to wait another day, so if it hasn't changed by the time I noon rolls around I'll be calling and demanding them to force the reversal through as others have done. If it shows the extension is attached to the 6+ then I have another problem to deal with. Definitely try to cancel the purchase in store and then rebuy that same phone "off contract". Saves you the trouble of what some of us others are going through. This has been WAY too complicated and unnecessary.
What I would do in your case is make a return and repurchase it for full retail in the store. This will reverse any "contract" stuff we did online and avoid any upgrade fees, that shouldn't be paid anyways.
My contract date is still extended through 2016 after my return of the upgraded 6. She told me to wait another day, so if it hasn't changed by the time I noon rolls around I'll be calling and demanding them to force the reversal through as others have done. If it shows the extension is attached to the 6+ then I have another problem to deal with. Definitely try to cancel the purchase in store and then rebuy that same phone "off contract". Saves you the trouble of what some of us others are going through. This has been WAY too complicated and unnecessary.
I appreciate your help and sorry I have so many questions but do I go through with picking it up if I need to return and repurchase or just ask to cancel the preorder and buy the phone while in the store?
Im not too sure of the specifics of that, but I would simply ask if you could cancel the order and then repurchase in store and go from there. This is a workaround and surely they have had to deal with it as I've seen a few people on here say they have done it. If I was smarter at the time, I would have done the return/rebuy method. Let us know how it goes and what they say about the fees and contract stuff, if you ask.
Yeah I will definitely report back. Not sure exactly how to articulate what I want them to do but hopefully I get a savvy genius that knows what I want to do.
My search is OVER. This morning finally acquired my T-mobile 6 plus--the rarest of Iphones due to lack of 3rd party retailers [Best Buy, Target, Walmart, Radioshack], T-mobile Stores' inability to acquire ANY stock, and the omnipresent foreigners--ahem, I mean non-domestic overseas Iphone relocators' unrepentant gorging of the "unlocked no contract" one.
Although I ended up getting my phone the old fashioned way: in line at the crack of dawn, MAJOR kudos to Istocknow and all the effort he/she/they have put into helping people get their phones--a service that was FREE. Lord knows i spent many nights frenetically and fruitlessly attempting to add a phone to the cart after that magic icon went green.
Looks like today was a great day for Plus seekers as it sounds like many of us got ours. I'm going to go ahead and guess that most if not ALL of the people who were able to get their plus phones via apple.com's store pickup option were not located in the Los Angeles area.
I've received a few alert emails from istock, and in two of those occasions I just happen to be at a computer with a browser open when I hear the notification for my email (which is delivered in real time). In both those cases I could not even select a store as all of them were still "unavailable." Sure theoretically there could be someone out there who types faster than the Flash, but I think that for 6 plus phones, Apple would register their stock then immediately set them aside (thereby removing from online buyable inventory) for walk in customers. In that split second is when Istock would see and acknowledge the new stock and flip the icon green.
I say this because as i was standing first (and only person) in line in front my local store i received an email alert around 8:20 or so saying they had my T-mobile phone in stock....at the very same store I was waiting at. In my mind definitely a good sign. For s**ts and giggles I tried adding to my cart from my phone but was "unavailable." Ten minutes later the apple employee came out and asked what I wanted.
"T-mobile Iphone plus."
"We don't have any for T-mobile...oh wait...."
(looks down at his inventory phone thing and clicks a few things)
"Looks like we have gold and silver 128."
This leads me to believe that when he first came in he probably checked inventory and made a mental note which is why he initially told me there were none. In the time I was waiting out there, they received stock for which he was completely unaware of...which most likely immediately was set aside for walk-ins.
In the end glad I can finally get rid of my 4S. Good luck everyone.
Although I ended up getting my phone the old fashioned way: in line at the crack of dawn, MAJOR kudos to Istocknow and all the effort he/she/they have put into helping people get their phones--a service that was FREE. Lord knows i spent many nights frenetically and fruitlessly attempting to add a phone to the cart after that magic icon went green.
Looks like today was a great day for Plus seekers as it sounds like many of us got ours. I'm going to go ahead and guess that most if not ALL of the people who were able to get their plus phones via apple.com's store pickup option were not located in the Los Angeles area.
I've received a few alert emails from istock, and in two of those occasions I just happen to be at a computer with a browser open when I hear the notification for my email (which is delivered in real time). In both those cases I could not even select a store as all of them were still "unavailable." Sure theoretically there could be someone out there who types faster than the Flash, but I think that for 6 plus phones, Apple would register their stock then immediately set them aside (thereby removing from online buyable inventory) for walk in customers. In that split second is when Istock would see and acknowledge the new stock and flip the icon green.
I say this because as i was standing first (and only person) in line in front my local store i received an email alert around 8:20 or so saying they had my T-mobile phone in stock....at the very same store I was waiting at. In my mind definitely a good sign. For s**ts and giggles I tried adding to my cart from my phone but was "unavailable." Ten minutes later the apple employee came out and asked what I wanted.
"T-mobile Iphone plus."
"We don't have any for T-mobile...oh wait...."
(looks down at his inventory phone thing and clicks a few things)
"Looks like we have gold and silver 128."
This leads me to believe that when he first came in he probably checked inventory and made a mental note which is why he initially told me there were none. In the time I was waiting out there, they received stock for which he was completely unaware of...which most likely immediately was set aside for walk-ins.
In the end glad I can finally get rid of my 4S. Good luck everyone.
iStockNow - question about alerts
I have an alert enabled for a space gray 6 128GB on at&t. I have been getting emails that say iPhone 6 Grey / 128 Go is available at ATT. Does this mean the device I want is in stock at at&t, or that it is available to order online?
I have an alert enabled for a space gray 6 128GB on at&t. I have been getting emails that say iPhone 6 Grey / 128 Go is available at ATT. Does this mean the device I want is in stock at at&t, or that it is available to order online?
I guess they will give me a UK GSM model which would be fine. I'm rather hoping I don't need to worry about it. Only needed one exchange so far out of having one from each generation.
We just pushed a map upgrade :
- Filters fix on Firefox / Windows
- Now can select "non gold" and "non 16gb"
- Mobile is being fixed too, geolocation has been added, store popup window is in the works (hard to use at the moment).
Feel free to make suggestions,
- Filters fix on Firefox / Windows
- Now can select "non gold" and "non 16gb"
- Mobile is being fixed too, geolocation has been added, store popup window is in the works (hard to use at the moment).
Feel free to make suggestions,
The funny thing is the 2nd to last one says l6 which is referring to an inline 6 cylinder Chevy engine. I'm into antique trucks.
I love how there's FINALLY a restock of T-Mobile 6 Pluses in California, a perfect time to go get there early in line, and I'm even off work, but I'm stuck taking the wife to an appointment that'll last 3 hours this morning. Of all the days. Seriously fate, why do you do me this way?
Another restock of T-Mobile phones anytime soon? Yeah, sure...
Another restock of T-Mobile phones anytime soon? Yeah, sure...
