yup, just like he said, and everyone already knows. you have to activate your phone.
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yup, just like he said, and everyone already knows. you have to activate your phone.
Oh yea its ssssooooo cheap then - i will get two - And the monthly pay out will be about 45 quid to get a reasonable tariff - are you all brainwashed or something??!!
Well I only wanted to spend my hard earned money on one, but with the system glitches I was charged 299+tax from att for one and 299+tax from apple for one and both for a single linethey have already charged my card
Exactly what I did. And guess what, the glitch is still in place. You can keep ordering.
Stop mixing up PREORDERS and RESERVATIONS.
These are two completely different things entirely.
You don't have to activate it before you sell it again. Nobody forces you to activate a phone! What about the people that are waiting for a birthday? Or if I bought one just to sell and I plan on keeping my 3GS?
You do NOT have to activate the phone if you have it shipped to your house. You can give it away. Sell it to a friend. Whatever you want. BUT, you will still be in your two year contract paying for the phone!
That's just moronic. Put away your tin foil hat.
Companies only do that when they don't have confidence in their product.
That is NOT the case with Apple and the iPhone 4.
Sure, they'll send him 3 "upgrade" phones for his single line... but it will be for a 6-year contract with 3x the ETF.
Such hostility. Yikes! I thought I'd share my good fortune with everyone, but I will keep it to myself.
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Hi, my name is Nicole J. Welcome to Apple!
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Hello!
How may I assist you today?
Yesterday I reserved an iPhone 4 and received an email confirming my pickup time is June 24 starting at 7:00 a.m.
but the bottom of the email says this
"Pre-authorization does not guarantee iPhone availability at an Apple Retail Store. iPhone is sold on a first-come, first-served basis."
Okay.
What does that mean exactly?
I'm happy to assist with that.
That means that pre-authorization does not guarantee you will receive an iPhone on the 25th. It is on a first come, first serve basis.
Is pre-authorization the same thing as making a reservation?
It still says that my reservation will be held until the close of business on June 24.
Yes.
But, if they are out of stock when you arrive you will not be able to receive an iPhone on that day.
So why did Apple accept reservations at all then. I've never heard of a business holding a reservation for a day that the product or service may not be available. Could you imagine reserving a table at a restaurant just to arrive and have them tell you that they won't have a table available the entire day?
The reservations are held for people so you get your iPhone before the general public without a reservations, but it is still on a first come first serve basis.
Okay. Well thanks for your clarification.
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You are chatting with Nicole J, an Apple Expert
Hi, my name is Nicole J. Welcome to Apple!
Hi!
Hello!
How may I assist you today?
Yesterday I reserved an iPhone 4 and received an email confirming my pickup time is June 24 starting at 7:00 a.m.
but the bottom of the email says this
"Pre-authorization does not guarantee iPhone availability at an Apple Retail Store. iPhone is sold on a first-come, first-served basis."
Okay.
What does that mean exactly?
I'm happy to assist with that.
That means that pre-authorization does not guarantee you will receive an iPhone on the 25th. It is on a first come, first serve basis.
Is pre-authorization the same thing as making a reservation?
It still says that my reservation will be held until the close of business on June 24.
Yes.
But, if they are out of stock when you arrive you will not be able to receive an iPhone on that day.
So why did Apple accept reservations at all then. I've never heard of a business holding a reservation for a day that the product or service may not be available. Could you imagine reserving a table at a restaurant just to arrive and have them tell you that they won't have a table available the entire day?
The reservations are held for people so you get your iPhone before the general public without a reservations, but it is still on a first come first serve basis.
Okay. Well thanks for your clarification.
Have a good day!
Thank you for visiting the Apple Store. We appreciate your business. If you would like more help, please chat with us again.
The funniest thing is that if you guys think the pre-order / reservation stuff has been a nightmare, just wait until we get to the activations. If it's anything like the original iPhone launch, it will take at least a day to get activated.
Your "good fortune" is 1) ripping off AT&T and 2) preventing other users from getting an iPhone at the upgrade price when they want it. That's why people consider you an ass.
But it doesn't matter: Apple/AT&T have a week to figure out which people have multiple orders on a single line and cancel all except the first one. That's surely what they will do. If we're lucky, they'll cancel all of your orders.
I think I may wait to activate it. I'll just look at it all weekend and activate it once the crush is over
I swear there are people who would see that as an evil Apple conspiracy... that Apple should of, oh, invented a new word to name the phone so that people wouldn't get confused.
Imagine the audacity of using the number 4 in the iPhone's name! Even though it is, um, the 4th gen phone.
Suicide humor. Always a riot. Not.When word of this gets back to Foxconn, the world will shift off it's axis as the collective thud of the workers hit the ground simultaneously!
Just finish my 3 before you head up the stairs to the roof please
Sounds bad.
They were kind enough to "lose" my DVR last year, while claiming it was left on the steps. My wife was home, I was home part of the day. DirecTV was good about it, sent another out right away and filed a claim with FedEx. I never did hear what happened to it.
I ordered my iPhones this morning around 11:50AM CST and got the July 2nd shipping estimate. I must have gotten some of the very last few units in that section!
Not quite, lets see:
1.) Better position of the antenna should give better reception
2.) Noise cancelling mic good for the streets of NYC
3.) Better battery life
4.) Better screen (not that the old one was bad but...)
and did I mention beter battery life...?
What I know is I pre-ordered a phone yesterday on the launch day. Then I went back to the apple.com website today and pre-ordered another i-phone 4 today and it said I was "upgrade" eligible on the same plan. So I will get two subsidized i-phone 4 phones one (1 account). Everytime you buy a new phone, you are restarting your contract. So I restarted my contract yesterday and then today I added one day to my contract.
I may order another i-phone later today and have three for one line and sell two. That way, I have more than paid for my penalty if I decide to cancel my At&t contract as soon as this phone gets on another carrier. I will then also be able to get whatever plan I want with the next carrier and save money on a better network. This is where the smart money is at...
I would be really concerned if I just had a reservation. I have a feeling there will be a lot of people unhappy on the 24th. As they have stated, reservation does not guarantee availability. That's why I pre-ordered. Make sure you are at the very front of that line on launch date
I'm assuming at this point that my order fell through the cracks... no email confirmation and nothing on 'order status', despite confirmation at the time of pre-order.
But the fact is that while it would have been fun to get on day 1, its hardly the end of the world. My 3GS is a great phone and I'd be picking it up while on the road anyway.
Actually, (as sour grapes as this may sound), I have a feeling that the lines are going to be horrendous, even for pre-orders. There is an activation process after all, and with so many being upgrades, premature or not, I hardly see it going flawlessly.
I would like to find out, however, whether I should even show up at the Ann Arbor store, because even finding out is likely to take a looooooong time in lines.
