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U.S. Shipping Estimates for iPhone 4 Pre-Orders Through Apple Slip Again to July 14th
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call att in two days and use your order status info to check if you are being/have been processed/shipped.
You're wrong. You don't have to activate it at the store if you pre-ordered it and it is delivered to your doorstep.
Gotta pre-order....why anybody "reserves" one is beyond me.
It will blow people away... it's basically an iPad mini that can make phone calls too. And since the iPad did a pretty good job of blowing people away when it came out... the iPhone4 should do the same.
Fine print
Mine said this:
Pre-authorization does not guarantee iPhone availability at an Apple Retail Store. iPhone is sold on a first-come, first-served basis.
Your reservation is valid for pickup only at the Apple Retail Store that you selected.
If you do not collect your selected item(s) by the designated date and time, your reservation will be canceled.
All sales are subject to the Apple Retail Store Purchase Policies.
Apple reserves the right to refuse, limit, or cancel a reservation if Apple determines that a customer has provided misleading or fraudulent information and/or abused or disrupted the reservation system.
TM and copyright © 2010 Apple Inc. 1 Infinite Loop, MS 83-DM, Cupertino, CA 95014.
All Rights Reserved / Keep Informed / Privacy Policy / My Info
Mine said this:
Pre-authorization does not guarantee iPhone availability at an Apple Retail Store. iPhone is sold on a first-come, first-served basis.
Your reservation is valid for pickup only at the Apple Retail Store that you selected.
If you do not collect your selected item(s) by the designated date and time, your reservation will be canceled.
All sales are subject to the Apple Retail Store Purchase Policies.
Apple reserves the right to refuse, limit, or cancel a reservation if Apple determines that a customer has provided misleading or fraudulent information and/or abused or disrupted the reservation system.
TM and copyright © 2010 Apple Inc. 1 Infinite Loop, MS 83-DM, Cupertino, CA 95014.
All Rights Reserved / Keep Informed / Privacy Policy / My Info
Read the FAQ. You MUST be activated through AT&T no matter how you get the phone.
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone?mco=OTY2ODA2OQ
Phones aren't shipped 'activated.' You have to plug it into iTunes first. AT&T will have no idea where those magical iphones they shipped to me end up.
Because my local FedEx/UPS guy comes at his or her discretion and may or may not decide to make the effort to bring my package to my door. You cannot imagine how many times i've sat in my house waiting on a package and then I get a status update saying "RESCHEDULED:NOBODY HOME". I've called dispatch a few times and had the driver turn around and try again but sometimes they don't.
so i'd rather just camp out at the applestore and buy my couple of accessories then hightail it out there.
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It doesn't really say anything. Which is why I just had one shipped to my house
DimeTech said:
It doesn't really say anything. Which is why I just had one shipped to my house
That, my friend, is because you reserved, not pre-ordered. My bank account has already been charged.
You don't have to activate the phone!!!! You can have it sit in a box for 10 years!!! AT&T doesn't come and chase you down if you don't activate it right after Fed Ex drops it off.
Silly people.
This the same tactic. It was around 3:00 ish EST I was able to get in back to back. For 2. But I sat at work the entire day refreshing. I even had my coworker refreshing for me while I was in a meeting. I worked for those phones
I went to the ATT store yesterday when the computers were dead and got nowhere, but I went back today around 10am and got my "pre-order" in. Which I guess is really more of a reservation. I got an email from ATT saying this:
I don't have my hopes set very high, and I thought it was strange as the guy told me mine would ship by July 5th, but this makes me think I'll get it during the first week at hopefully. Better than July 2 or 14, that's for sure.
I don't have my hopes set very high, and I thought it was strange as the guy told me mine would ship by July 5th, but this makes me think I'll get it during the first week at hopefully. Better than July 2 or 14, that's for sure.
I would check the order status in the AT&T site Wed evening to see if the order status had changed to "shipped."
I'll give you that....but time is money my friend. If it were a Saturday, I'd think differently.
Unfortunately, that only represented sixty thousand people clicking 'Submit' a hundred times...
Close on the heels of Apple's announcement that it received over 600,000 pre-orders for iPhone 4 yesterday...
Because without a credit card, they owe nothing to you. If they really wanted to, they can not give you a phone and make up any kind of excuse.
thats preorders, not reserves... before they click submit or process, they give them their card info..
From above mentioned link:
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Does my iPhone come ready to use?
Yes. Your new iPhone arrives ready to start using it. All you have to do is set it up in iTunes. Theres no need to call or visit a store to get started.
FedEx offers exceptions if you're not home. Contact fedex or go to their website. Find where they can drop it off without needing a signature. A bit risky, but much more easier.