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Who ordered from BestBuy ?
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Exactly. Best Buy is notorious for not having enough devices. And with the X they will have even less than expected and people will be mad as can be. With this phone Best Buy is the last place I’d order this time.
If I’m having my order be shipped to me when should I expect an update on my status?
Might not update still Thursday, honestly. I have the new Kindle preordered from Best Buy. It’s going to be here tomorrow (release date October 31). It just went into “preparing” status.
If only sprint didn’t screw up and I was able to order my phone on their website I wouldn’t have this problem and now worrying if I’ll get a phone on launch day
If BestBuy prepare accurate schedule i will preorder same way next yrs with bestbuy .....
apple is too busy and crowd on preorder day = estimate 1-10 minutes
bestbuy less busy and not crowd on preorder day = estimate 1-30 minutes
bestbuy is better choice after result , the only problem is they must improve their system preaparing and accurate schedule .
apple is too busy and crowd on preorder day = estimate 1-10 minutes
bestbuy less busy and not crowd on preorder day = estimate 1-30 minutes
bestbuy is better choice after result , the only problem is they must improve their system preaparing and accurate schedule .
The day before sometimes it ships which is very frustrating
One year I called and said it 5pm the day before I'm sopposed to recieve it at my house and the agent said well it says here you'll have it tommorrow so don't worry. I had it in a week
I'm guessing it depends on where the phones are shipping from. Usually, when I've ordered them from Apple, they are coming from China, so it needs to ship on Monday to get it on Friday. I'm not sure if Best Buy gets the phones at one of their warehouses and then ships them out to customers.
From the Bestbuy Forum iPhone X Preorder Forum posted by a BB Rep FYI:
iPhones are shipped to our stores directly from Apple. The route it takes to get there would depend on the location of the Apple warehouse shipping it and the location of the Best Buy store it is being shipped to. Instore pickup won't update until much later this week
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My assumption as I don't work for BB would be mid week sometime after Wednesday or late Wednesday I would think since it goes Apple to BB to you
iPhones are shipped to our stores directly from Apple. The route it takes to get there would depend on the location of the Apple warehouse shipping it and the location of the Best Buy store it is being shipped to. Instore pickup won't update until much later this week
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My assumption as I don't work for BB would be mid week sometime after Wednesday or late Wednesday I would think since it goes Apple to BB to you
Hi Everyone-
I did find a nice way to triple check your BB preorder of the Iphone X will be avliable if your slated for the 11/3 shipping or instore pickup. I was able to login and find the active upgrade order BB triggered when I ordered the Iphone X on launch day at 106am MDT. I then got on Verizon chat and was able to confirm using the Verizon Wireless order number the Iphone X is slated to complete its processing and be ready for use on 11/3 YAYA it doesnt remove the human element being your Iphone goes MIA etc etc however it is a nice indicator to see if your truely set for shipping or pickup later this week
I did find a nice way to triple check your BB preorder of the Iphone X will be avliable if your slated for the 11/3 shipping or instore pickup. I was able to login and find the active upgrade order BB triggered when I ordered the Iphone X on launch day at 106am MDT. I then got on Verizon chat and was able to confirm using the Verizon Wireless order number the Iphone X is slated to complete its processing and be ready for use on 11/3 YAYA it doesnt remove the human element being your Iphone goes MIA etc etc however it is a nice indicator to see if your truely set for shipping or pickup later this week
Saw some posts on the B.B. forums they are starting to charge and ship X models now FYI
Cool! I ordered from BB as well for delivery by the 10th ... are these forums on BB's website or on here?
The original email order confirmation from Best Buy has the verbiage in it referenced in the BB Forum post. I don't think what that person wrote is any indication at all of shipping. Likely he/she just has a hold on the funds and was not actually charged.
http://forums.bestbuy.com/t5/Android-iOS-Mobile-Phones/iPhone-X-FAQ/m-p/1088605#M30010
Mine still says 12/15 lol nothing like paying $100 more for all that “flexibility”
you could be right Ive been trying to monitor that forum but there is also allot of trolls on their so ..... I could be wrong and I also have Instore pickup so unfortunately most of my blabbing is only around Instore and Verizon as a carrier for an upgrade nothing purchased outright with shipping. I was able to confirm tho I do 90% sure have an X on Friday at BB as the Verizon upgrade side is slated to complete processing by Friday and was told by Verizon that means phones ready ... allegedly
and if Im wrong Friday I have no issues owning it Im only going off of a few prior experiences this year for hard to acquire preorders with BBThe charge falling off means nothing unless you have an actual cancellation email. The way it works with best buy and most of the carriers is the same way your card is charged when you dine out. Your card is charged a pre-authorization then at the end of the night tips are added in if they exist and a final authorization is made on the charge. You don't usually see 2 separate charges since it happens within the same day, but in the case of pre-orders where the item doesn't actually ship right away, usually the time that pre-authorization is held expires before your product ships so you might assume it cancelled but It hasn't. The initial authorization is just giving them permission to charge x amount of dollars to your card so even if it falls off before shipment they have the right and permission to charge that amount again when they are ready. I've had companies authorize my card and then take 2 weeks to ship something so the charge falls off and then I've even had instances where I wasn't actually charged for the purchase until it had been delivered. They can take all the time they want in charging it but for these more expensive items you can usually bet that you will have the charge go back through again when it ships and its only the pre-authorization expiring because they can only hold your money for so long without finalizing the charge and not an actual cancellation of your order. So.... the charge falling off means nothing. If the charge pops up again after it had disappeared then THAT might actually mean you've shipped and the transaction is being finalized. Hope that clears up some confusion I've seen on here with this.
Thanks. Several reports in other threads of people getting cancellation emails, and BB apparently told one person that Apple is making them cancel all the full priced orders because of the $100 blow back. Paranoia setting in.
I did see on twitter where they are not selling any more full priced devices, but I find it hard to believe that they would further infuriate those who were gouged the extra 100 by also cancelling the order. In these cases I think something else must be going on or in removing the option for the full priced device maybe the system cancelled orders and they didn't realize it would cause this to happen. Then some poor CSR came up with a brilliant excuse to say "Apple made us do it" I doubt Apple cares too much about them charging the extra $100 but it has been a PR nightmare for them so I see why they would end it. I really think they just screwed up when they took that option out of the system so with the orders in the que being pre-orders and not fulfilled, taking away that product like it no longer exists could have sent the system a message to cancel the orders since the product isn't available. Some dumb@ss probably didn't think it would hurt current orders and would just prevent future ones... but really a pre-order is just a place in line for a product once it's available, you haven't really purchased anything even if you have a "pre-auth" until it arrives. The order # we have is just a promise by them to fulfill the order "if they can barring unforeseen circumstance" and the pre-auth is our promise to pay for it.
[doublepost=1509456973][/doublepost]This is what I saw on twitter from Bestbuy .... (meaning no more full priced $100 marked up phones will be sold)