SyrOrange
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Other Verizon iPhone 15 / 15 Plus /15 Pro / 15 Pro Max, Pre-order & Status / Delivery Thread
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MattNetherlands
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That’s how I look at it. All those who bought the models on launch day were the guinea pigs for us who got ours at a later date, lol.
DcGamer05
macrumors 6502
And it will mostly likely come with the update pre installed. My best friend who happened to be my cat died this year and he was all white. That’s why I chose white this year as sort of a weird remembrance of him. Otherwise I would’ve gotten blue or black but the one year I do choose white it’s impossible to find. Verizon gave you the run around so that’s sent you to the back of the line a few times. Not a good year at all.
SyrOrange
macrumors regular
Yeah, it was either order online or wear a bulletproof vest to the Apple Store at the mall. You figure out which one I wanted to do in the end. They had to redo my preorder four times because they kept screwing up what I was asking for. Over the phone we had to explain to them carefully that I wanted 256gb Blue Titanium over and over again and again. They were like "Our bad." The fourth time? "Failed payment." The crazy part? It wasn't through Apple Pay or Card. It was through a regular credit card. I'm not joking here.
Claudia P
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This phone is supposed to be my gift to me for surviving the year I've just had, Christmas Eve last year I coded, Had I not been in the hospital I wouldn't have made it. I spent 7 weeks in the hospital and rehab facility combined, and no one thought I'd ever come home. I have a defibrillator in my chest now but I'm doing pretty well most days. The phone was something I wanted and decided I was getting it come hell or high water. It wasn't even Covid that got me it was AFib and Congestive heart failure. I underwent a procedure that was supposed to fix the AFib. Well it took a long time but apparently it actually did fix the AFib. My last Dr visit they found no further sign of AFib and according to the device in my chest I have had no AFib episodes in the last 6 months. Of course at 75 I don't have an awful lot of time left but I want to enjoy what time there is.
I canceled mine as soon as the email hit that my order from 9/19 with ETA of 10/6 was pushed back to 10/27. I'm now swiping like crazy on the apple store app trying to see if I can pick up locally. my order was PM NTi 256.
tharitm
macrumors 6502a
DcGamer05
macrumors 6502
At this point. I’m really starting to blame Verizon for over selling their stock in hopes they would get enough incremental refreshes of stock. Apple dropped the ball too. How could they not foresee the pro max being so popular. You give it an exclusive feature (5x lens) then wonder why everyone wants that one? Seems like poor planning no business in their right mind would shoot themselves in the foot like this. I’ll patiently wait for updates. But Verizon really needs to get on the ball. They’re losing post paid customers every quarter and now I can see why. They’re not organized and efficient like they used to be.
DcGamer05
macrumors 6502
So some Pros are moving in white but no pro maxes it looks like. Glad you got your phone in a timely manner! Hopefully some of these pro maxes in any color start moving at Verizon.
SyrOrange
macrumors regular
It's their fault (Apple and Verizon) for not being prepared to handle the surge of people signing up for that 3-year promotion. They didn't think that many people would be willing to commit to a 3-year contract. This caused so many system glitches (Happened to my order) and so many failed payments. They should have invested into more servers and making sure enough shipments of iPhones was available at launch.
DcGamer05
macrumors 6502
Yeah you would think a business would make sure their payment system works properly. Don’t they want money? 🤔
SyrOrange
macrumors regular
I mean, Apple is a great company; Verizon on the other hand is a mixed bag company. They should have known that people would want to own a 15PM at $11 bucks per month for 3 years. They should have known given that most Americans are either Middle Class or just below the poverty line but no they just figured their promotion would have worked flawlessly. And The reason the 15 PM isn't moving much for some people (like us) is because Apple decided to lock the 5x Periscope camera and several other features to only the PM and leaving the other 3 iPhone models in the dark. That forced people to buy the PM more than the regular pro phone.
tharitm
macrumors 6502a
I randomly checked my order on the account and saw it was put on hold (paid with Apple Pay) so probably the temporary transaction fell off. Just paid things and hope it’ll arrive on 13th Oct.
DcGamer05
macrumors 6502
Oh jeez. Was it Apple Card or another card? I used Apple Pay and Apple Card. Keep checking my order but it says everything is in order. The transaction fell off my Apple Card last Monday and not a peep since. Thanks for the info.
tharitm
macrumors 6502a
Nope, it was an Amex paid with Apple Pay. I recommend calling them and checking on the order because on the screen it said to complete the payment before October 5th, but this showed up just on October 7th.
MattNetherlands
macrumors member
Had it for a day and a half now, definitely happy I went with the blue, it’s gorgeous. You can definitely tell the weight difference compared to the stainless steel, it’s significant. This phone is way bigger and feels significantly lighter than my 13 pro I traded in, and that’s with a heavy duty case on. The battery life is top notch as well, only charged it once for about 20 minutes total so far, and still at 52% the following day. Even with heavy usage it will easily last you a day plus. I hope you all get yours soon, but it will be worth the wait. It’s a very impressive device.
SyrOrange
macrumors regular
Told you it's not just Apple Card. Remember the part about "system glitches" that I was alluding to? Well, there you go. People signing up for the 3-year contract overloaded the systems.
SyrOrange
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DcGamer05
macrumors 6502
The only card I heard worked was Apple Card. From the Verizon forums on Reddit. One person had theirs go through and they used Apple Card. Everyone else had different CCs that failed. Either way that payment option should just be completely removed for preorders
SyrOrange
macrumors regular
Correct. My CC was from one of the big banks and it still failed to go through. You know both Apple and Verizon won't disable that payment option because 1) People rely on CC or Debit Cards for their online shopping 2) the 3-year monthly plan is their most successful promotion in a long time and they aren't going to abandon both for next year's iPhone models.
tharitm
macrumors 6502a
On launch day, I remember I had an online order, but my store had stock. Even after cancelling the order, the cancellation before shipment didn’t clear the trade in offer slot for my account. So even though it would show $830 trade in credit for me online, it didn’t let me complete the transaction to pay taxes with multiple cards. In store, when the rep checked, he mentioned the elevated trade in offer wasn’t showing for that line. So they created a new line to get it and cancelled the old one.
I felt the payment failed online is a blanked error message that hides some other errors in the order from the consumer.
SyrOrange
macrumors regular
Nah it has more to do with errors in their systems. The last rep we talked with on the fifth try straight up admitted that they have errors in their systems.