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X is in stock at Apple Store.
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Where are you? In NYC I feel they would laugh at someone walking in and asking this right now
And of course you shouldn’t be surprised when I tell you you can’t reserve a Verizon iPhone without a Verizon account on Apple.com. You can only get it person, which basically means you have no real way of getting it unless you sit in line before the store opens and are first in line, and the store has received their shipment before opening.Checked at 6am this morning and all configurations in the north NJ/Manhattan locations were sold out...
[doublepost=1509978322][/doublepost]Need to switch my T-Mobile version for the Verizon version because before with my iPhone 6 I had decent coverage at home with AT&T but now I can’t reliably hold LTE...
[doublepost=1509978352][/doublepost]So I am assuming it’s the new intel modem which is doing me in
It can update at anytime. Even if they receive shipments today they will update whenever. So keep checking
Columbus, Ohio area. I first called and was informed of the separate reservation and walk-in stock. If they laugh at a customer, let their supervisor know! The assistants in every Apple store I've been to are courteous and helpful.
It’s a figure of speech
And I don’t think Apple stores in NYC are doing walk in’s at the moment.
Wondering what carrier of the size phone you bought yesterday as the stock availability also depends on the carrier type.
My point was you can't check walk-in stock phones online.
It is a ATT SG 256GB X.
I’ve had every iPhone since 3GS. All Apple stores receive an unknown amount of phone per day. If you stay in line early and your lucky enough you can find one at the store.
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Because people don’t mind waiting 5-7 days for their own which they know is 100% real. Not worth the risk of buying a fake or scam off CL.
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Because people don’t mind waiting 5-7 days for their own which they know is 100% real. Not worth the risk of buying a fake or scam off CL.
Oh, you can absolutely check the Apple site all day if you like. I had another notification when I woke up. I’m up to 7 now.
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You’re asking too much?
Maybe they want the option of returning it for a refund if they don't like it?
I’m planning on going to a Apple store here in Orlando super early on Wednesday to try to get a 256gb Silver or Space gray T-Mobile. I’m hoping to have some luck.
Of course you cannot check walk-in stock. But, not everyone can spend their day over at the Apple store in the AM, you know?
I’m glad you got your phone!
It was amazing. I had a VZ preorder for Dec 1st arrival. I saw a Tweet on 9to5 mac Saturday around lunch about store availability. Sure enough my store had what I was looking for in stock. I quickly ordered that and then canceled my VZ order. 4 hours later I had my new X in hand. Next time Ill only go through apple. I'm tired of VZ being slow with deliveries etc.
I wonder if demand is just not as high as expected? We're talking a phone that costs over $1000; there's probably a lot of people who don't want to pay that much and instead hung onto their existing phone, or bought a 7 or SE.
Or, maybe you’d have gotten that email and just ordered it 10 minutes later. Most shoppers are not furiously refreshing the Apple store, scouring for phones.
That’s more of a MR member thing.
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This is pretty similar (the stock pattern) to last year’s 7 plus launch except the larger amounts at Apple on launch day. I really do think they were able to achieve that by holding stock back from carriers, pushing out delivery dates for preorders, and not giving much to stores like Best Buy, though.
Considering that Best Buy has been price-gouging, and they did last year with the 7 as well, they deserve zero stock at this point.
I'm thinking Apple's lowest expectations would still be a number that is hard to imagine anyone else shipping.
After Apple Care and local sales tax my 64gb X was $1304. That's a paycheck and I've already got a perfectly dandy iphone 7 (and I also upgraded my SS Watch last month!), so though I LOVE the new phone, I'm keeping everything handy for a refund just in case I come to my senses.
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Yeah... I don't think they're trying to make extra money. I think they were losing money selling them outright. Those upgrade contracts are worth more than the few dollars they might make from Apple to sell an iPhone outright.
You can, technically, get one from BB (when they have stock) without paying extra. You just have to sign up for payments under your provider, then go pay off the phone through your provider account to reset your "upgrade eligibility."
I did this a few weeks ago when my daughter got her 8 because I didn't feel like driving to the Apple store.
Everyday I’ve been checking online and nothing for in store. Using istocknow also shows nothing in stock. Hopefully the alerts comes soon for me to purchase. =(
For those of you who really want these and are in the USA (and I swear, I am not affiliated with iStockNow)... go to their site, choose the phone(s) you are looking for, log in for email notifications, and when one hits your inbox, go reserve your phone. Some of these are refreshing at night because it's been 24 hours and nobody picked up a reservation, so it went back to stock. Others are new shipments in the morning (usually around 5-6 am local time, per my observations of when I'm getting email notifications).
I snagged a 256GB Space Grey AT&T model for my husband on Sunday when his preorder was at Nov 17-24 and I felt terrible because mine and my son's both got launch day delivery.
I have used iStockNow for years to find iPhones and I swear, I should just give up and become a personal iPhone shopper because I could've already bought at least a half dozen extras locally without much effort.
If you are in the US, near any Apple stores, and you want one of these, you should be able to lay hands on one within the first week of launch if you are getting stock alerts.
Sidebar anecdote: Last year, I ordered a Rose Gold for launch. I'd had a Rose Gold the year before and realized I was bored with the color after I received it. I had managed to source a Jet Black within the first 2 weeks and was able to return my RG one for the JB. I'm not kidding when I say it just takes a few minutes of planning on the front end, but you can find a phone if you want one. Jet Black wasn't exactly easy to find last year, but I found one. And, I wasn't really trying that hard. I just used the tools that are out there to help me locate it.
Since I got my husband's phone reserved on Sunday, I've gotten 5 more emails for the same model of X. I could have bought all five of them and if I knew people locally who wanted one, they could have bought them. Just emails. They even have links in the emails that take you directly to the Apple Store.
TL;DR: Work smart, not hard.
I've been watching istocknow and also set up an e-mail alert. The past 2 days I've been basically manually refreshing their site just out of curiosity every half hour or hour and there has literally not been one single listing for any iPhone X 256 GB either color anywhere in Texas whatsoever at any single point over the past couple of days.