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What is Your March 11th Game Plan?
- Thread starter Braindead360
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Friday the 11th.
Get up.
Make my sons lunch.
Go to work.
Come home.
Kick the dog.
Talk to son about day tell him how proud I am he is such a great boy.
Make dinner fast.
Drop son off at school for a play performance he is in.
Come home.
Go back to school to pick son up from play.
Sleep.
Miss iPad launch.
J/k on the dog. Love him too.
Get up.
Make my sons lunch.
Go to work.
Come home.
Kick the dog.
Talk to son about day tell him how proud I am he is such a great boy.
Make dinner fast.
Drop son off at school for a play performance he is in.
Come home.
Go back to school to pick son up from play.
Sleep.
Miss iPad launch.
J/k on the dog. Love him too.
Maybe I'm naive but I really don't see any problems with lines or such. They don't need to activate the device in stores and knowing Apple they will have plenty of stock. What ever lines do exist will go by pretty fast.
I hope there will be plenty of stock so I can go to the Apple store Saturday morning and get one. The closest Apple store is in another state which has no sales tax. If I order one online, I will have to pay sales tax, which would amount to the cost of an accessory, such as cover or camera connection kit.
If they are out of the model I want, I will order at the store and then pick it up when it comes in. I don't mind waiting, but I am eager to get it.
On the other hand, it might be exciting to stand in line at the Apple store on Friday night.
I took work off gonna go drop off my old ipad to the person that bought it grab the cash and drive to NH around noon to stand in line. then walk out with a GSM white ipad 32gb. and leather smart cover (dunno what color yet). I think around 4 hours early will be good enough. worse comes to worse ill get the 64gb if the 32 is sold out.
Im guessing the lines will be roughly the same as the first iPad.
For the first one, I showed up to the Apple store around 3:30-4:00pm, and managed to get one no problem. Granted, this was the brand new Apple store in Arizona (and so they had a TON of stock), and I wanted the most expensive model (they will sell out of 32gb way faster than 64gb).
Still... No need to camp out or anything silly like that. Apple always has an insane amount of supply on launch days. Plus... More retailers are having it day one this time around too.
You'd better find out ahead of time whether or not the Apple store will accept cash for this purchase....they may not, due to wanting to avoid problems with people who go in there and buy up a bunch of iPads in order to sell them somewhere else (eBay, another country, etc.).
I don't have any store besides Best Buy near me and I'm a university student w/o a car, so I'm stuck with that or order online.
Buying: 16GB Wifi, Black
My plan -- call Best Buy the morning or day before launch and ask what time they start selling, what their stock looks like, if I can have them put one aside for me
If it looks like there won't be much of a wait, buy it at Best Buy. Otherwise, order it online
Buying: 16GB Wifi, Black
My plan -- call Best Buy the morning or day before launch and ask what time they start selling, what their stock looks like, if I can have them put one aside for me
If it looks like there won't be much of a wait, buy it at Best Buy. Otherwise, order it online
yeah last year when I bought my ipad I paid half cash and half credit. they had to ok it with a manager. ill probably do the same thing this year. ill call earlier in the week.
This varies by store. My store handed out Smart Water during the 3GS launch but as to the iPad and iPhone 4 launches, there wasn't anything provided. Sometimes it really comes down to how crazy the lines are and management deciding to get something locally for all the people waiting. It's really a case-by-case situation...
Nice. Sounds like my work day too
There's the action plan! But I'm sure many are already doing that.
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let's see. if target has ipad 2 in stock, i'll hop around there just before 5 pm, and pick up one. i doubt they will sell out and/or have a long line, seeing that there's an apple store, best buy and wal-mart within a 10 minute drive of said target.
if they don't, i wait. simple as that.
if they don't, i wait. simple as that.
Sadly, I'm stuck ordering my black 16gb wifi ipad online. I have a walmart but, I hate dealing with them.
Good luck with getting them to put one aside for you
My Best Buy representative offered to hold an iPad 1 for me.
Me and my friend have decided we don't want to get online until there's about 100 people on line, so we're going to go at Noon and go back every half hour or so after that until the line is that long, and if it ever gets that long we'll get on. If not we'll just walk in at 5 and pick it right up. We both want 64GB so I expect they won't run out of those too quick.
From my experience, the iPad launch is nothing like the iPhone launch. I don't have a local Apple store, so I picked mine up at Best Buy. On launch day I rolled in at 6 PM, asked for a 32 GB, & they said they had one. According to the man who gave it to me they hadn't sold a ton. I can't speak for Apple stores.
Hope that helps some!
Im not sure if the first iPad launch is a great gage for this launch, the first iPad had huge skepticism as to weather or not it would be a success. I had people at the Best Buy store clapping and patting my back when I bought mine people were flocked around the display units. Now its more in demand people were waiting for a camera on it before the iphone even had a camera. I don't think the lines will be as phenomenal as the iPhone launches but i suspect this years will be a better indicator of future releases.
Threads like this are what make this forum tedious and nauseating. Your question is like a seven year old asking, "what should I wear on my first day of school?" Why do you need to ask people their game plan? YOU EITHER ORDER FROM APPLE.COM, GO TO AN APPLE STORE, OR TRY TO FIND IT AT A THIRD-PARTY RETAILER.
PS; it's not on sale til 5pm. Hope that helps.
PS; it's not on sale til 5pm. Hope that helps.
From my experience last year, iPad launches are a lot more tame than iPhone launches. I'm waiting a week regardless to make a decision.