UK iPhone 5s and 5c Thread

[JaJaWa]

7-10 days is for dispatch (from China)

 

[MuGeN PoWeR]

7-10 days is for dispatch (from China)

ohhhk.

 

[tom.]

London Covent Garden store is out of stock of all Gold iPhone 5S and all 16GB Silver.

 

[Loopy65]

Gold online date slipped

First to go - now showing 'dispatched October' - could be the END of next month even for dispatch!

 

[judethat]

Gold 5s shipping time has gone now to 'dispatched October' others still 7-10 business days.

 

[saidtezel]

Honestly this looks more like a pre-order event than a regular launch.

 

[dermike]

My original midnight-order got cancelled...don't know why.
My newly placed order (1 hour ago) shows delivery 8 Oct - 11 Oct - compared to 7 - 10 Oct for the midnight orders.

Processing Items Dispatched: 7- 10 business days
Delivery: 08 Oct, 2013 - 11 Oct, 2013 by Standard Shipping

iPhone 5s 64GB space grey

Noticed the same thing for me... cancelled, without notification. Could it be automatic cancelling of Borderlinx orders perhaps?

 

[oVerboost]

I've sent my parents to the Plymouth Vodafone store, and they are number 3 in the line and only got there at 7am! The store told me they will be getting stock, so fingers crossed.

 

[Arni99]

Noticed the same thing for me... cancelled, without notification. Could it be automatic cancelling of Borderlinx orders perhaps?

Could be - I used Borderlinx as address.
My 2nd order placed 2 hours ago is still "Processing"....
Borderlinx ...."UNIT 7".... got cancelled.
Used "UNIT 1" in my 2nd order which was proposed by Apple's address verification system.

 

[CamiMR]

Around 100 people in the Norwich Apple Store, we've just been told they ran out of the Gold 16G at the front of the queue... Not a lot of those it seems, hopefully Space Gray 32 won't sell out before my turn...

 

[OVERTASK]

Could be - I used Borderlinx as address.
My 2nd order placed 2 hours ago is still "Processing"....
Borderlinx ...."UNIT 7".... got cancelled.
Used "UNIT 1" in my 2nd order which was proposed by Apple's address verification system.

Just to clarify what is a Borderlinx address?

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Around 100 people in the Norwich Apple Store, we've just been told they ran out of the Gold 16G at the front of the queue... Not a lot of those it seems, hopefully Space Gray 32 won't sell out before my turn...

Black seems to be in quite a large supply so I wouldn't worry.

 

[dermike]

Just to clarify what is a Borderlinx address?

Freight forwarding company.. borderlinx.com

 

[saidtezel]

Freight forwarding company.. borderlinx.com

Out of curiosity, where do you have it shipped? Also, why didn't you go for US store instead, given that it's cheaper there?

 

[steve-p]

Three Just announced their prices. Glad I bought direct.

64Gb model:

on contract for 24 months:

£51 per month, £99 upfront = £1,323

or via Apple direct on £15 ONE plan:

£15 per month, £709 upfront = £1,067

Same service, lower price!

Even cheaper with their £12.90 SIM only plan with unlimited data. As long as you don't need more than 200 mins/5000 texts the ONE plan isn't necessary

 

[Arni99]

Out of curiosity, where do you have it shipped? Also, why didn't you go for US store instead, given that it's cheaper there?

Austria.
It's cheaper in the US but importing to EU would make it more expensive besides the LTE-frequency hassle due to different bands.

 

[dermike]

Out of curiosity, where do you have it shipped? Also, why didn't you go for US store instead, given that it's cheaper there?

Since I'm in Sweden it wouldn't be cheaper because of the toll fees from USA. No toll from UK since it's EU.

 

[OVERTASK]

Austria.
It's cheaper in the US but importing to EU would make it more expensive besides the LTE-frequency hassle due to different bands.

Why not Germany? I would assume it would get there quicker to you.

 

[Pagemakers]

At Trafford Centre Manchester. I'd say about 400-500 queuing. Massive groups of non-English speaking Asians here buying as much as they can. Guess they'll be on eBay for £2000 in a few hours!

Anyway: only grey in stock now. Looks like all those in the queue will get a phone. Apple are giving tickets out. Got mine about 10 mins ago.

 

[OVERTASK]

Even cheaper with their £12.90 SIM only plan with unlimited data. As long as you don't need more than 200 mins/5000 texts the ONE plan isn't necessary

One Plan includes tethering, which is why I use it.

 

[dermike]

Why not Germany? I would assume it would get there quicker to you.

Don't know of any forwarding service there. Borderlinx has worked flawlessly last two years.

 

[OVERTASK]

At Trafford Centre Manchester. I'd say about 400-500 queuing. Massive groups of non-English speaking Asians here buying as much as they can. Guess they'll be on eBay for £2000 in a few hours!

Anyway: only gray in stock now. Looks like all those in the queue will get a phone. Apple are giving tickets out. Got mine about 10 mins ago.

Limit of two normally, I'v checked ebay and the 16gb black is on average 700£.

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Don't know of any forwarding service there. Borderlinx has worked flawlessly last two years.

That's fair enough, as the yanks say 'if it ain't broke don't fix it'.

 

[steve-p]

I went a bit mad and ordered on my iPhone.

I forgot to get the £15 Three sim for both phones, there was no option on the phone that I saw.

How can I get this offer is it online only?

http://store.three.co.uk/SIM_Only/V...includedInternetAllowanceInMB=All-you-can-eat

 

[roken]

Queued at Westfield London from 12am onwards, Gold sold out in first 2 minutes, hardly any stock. Silver followed suit 15mins later.

80% of the queue were scalpers/resellers. Disaster.

 

[steve-p]

Hmm... just noticed something weird...

I ordered two phones. Order numbers are:
W4245xxxxx
W4965xxxxx

Did apple really have 72,000,000 orders in the space of 15 seconds??

No. Some time ago Apple changed the system so that order numbers are not sequential, to stop people working out how many orders they had taken and guessing at numbers sold.

 

[john316]

Don't even bother thinking of checking the Liverpool Store if you weren't queueing from around 5am. 5S stock seems to be very low but no worries if you want a 5C. The Apple Guy who was ticketing said he had barely given out a single ticket for a 5C!

God knows when my online order at around 7:30 will turn up