I got an email from Best Buy this morning that said they would take pre-orders in store for availability Sept 21st. That may be an option for some assuming Best Buy has a reserve of devices.
I just sat down at 5 am PST and my order on the Apple site went through in record time, which actually worried me. But then the last screen would not let me punch the radio button to pick up at my local ATT retailer which I thought was a glitch. Abandoned the Apple site, went to ATT and it took less than 5 minutes. 32G Black.
I'm actually relieved as a shareholder to see the stats so far.
I had no issues- ordered from Apple on my iPad at 3:20am. Order still showing 9/21 as deliver date. I did not get another email saying my shipping date has changed. Has that been common for anyone else? Fingers crossed...
I placed my order at 3:50 this morning and was given a 2 week shipping time. If you recently placed your order I think you're out of luck for a launch day delivery (unless Apple pulls a bunch of iPhones out of their DVD drive).
I know. I just couldn't stay up or get up at 2 AM my time when I'll be up until at least that late with work tonight. It's been almost 2 hours since I got my order through and my order is still being processed.
In Germany they started selling the unlocked phones on the Apple Store website at 9:15am this morning. Not a minute before.
I managed to place an order soon after for a black 16GB version. My order luckily says 9/21 delivery.
Now the delivery times are gone to 2-3 weeks for the black 16GB, and 2 weeks for all the other models.
A line was added that no more than 2 devices per order can be bought. (I highlighted that in yellow)
Yes, 679€ is what we pay it here (about 100€ is the 19% VAT). If you factor that out, Apple is ripping us off compared to the 649$ price in the US (even considereing a 8.25% Salex Tax, for say e.g., California).
I had trouble ordering through the Apple Store app on my iPad. Checkout kept loading and loading and loading and loading... You get the idea. So, I switched over to my iMac and the order went through immediately. I got my confirmation email at 3:20 (east coast time) and my delivery date is 9/21. I guess I should consider myself lucky.
When I got online at 3:10 am ET, the Apple Store page said it was doing maintenance. I hit the reload button about 5 times and the store came up. Ordering the iPhone was done in five minutes. I also ordered an iPod Touch for the grandkid sent to a different address. The Touch will be delivered in October, the iPhone on September 21, the adapters in October.
I am. I thought I would be able to order at 5am PT and still get first run for the 21st. I'm an American goddammit! Give me one that is going to one of the other countries! They took 'er iPhones!
I decided to cancel my order and brave the store next week for a Verizon white 32GB model.
AT&T totally unprepared to handle the onslaught of hungry iPhone 5 customers, AGAIN! They don't even show any Apple products for sale on their Premier Business Site! It boggles the mind...
I am. I thought I would be able to order at 5am PT and still get first run for the 21st. I'm an American goddammit! Give me one that is going to one of the other countries! They took 'er iPhones!
I decided to cancel my order and brave the store next week for a Verizon white 32GB model.
Why not just preorder from Verizon, they have it listed as the 21st still, and confirmed that on facebook this morning too.
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I ordered 2 phones around 5:30am central time directly from Verizon. They both said shipping by 9/21. So happy to be done with AT&T.
I just sat down at 5 am PST and my order on the Apple site went through in record time, which actually worried me. But then the last screen would not let me punch the radio button to pick up at my local ATT retailer which I thought was a glitch. Abandoned the Apple site, went to ATT and it took less than 5 minutes. 32G Black.
I'm actually relieved as a shareholder to see the stats so far.
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Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum
Shit!
I couldn't stay awake, and ordered 2 iP5s and 1 iP4S. The iP5s show 2 weeks, the iP4S is 2 days.
Well... AAPL will probably be over $700 before we get the iP5s.
How strange, usually aapl drops badly after a product introduction.
Something must be wrong with the iP5. ;-)
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Originally Posted by mulrich
I placed my order at 3:50 this morning and was given a 2 week shipping time. If you recently placed your order I think you're out of luck for a launch day delivery (unless Apple pulls a bunch of iPhones out of their DVD drive).
I know. I just couldn't stay up or get up at 2 AM my time when I'll be up until at least that late with work tonight. It's been almost 2 hours since I got my order through and my order is still being processed.
In Germany they started selling the unlocked phones on the Apple Store website at 9:15am this morning. Not a minute before.
I managed to place an order soon after for a black 16GB version. My order luckily says 9/21 delivery.
Now the delivery times are gone to 2-3 weeks for the black 16GB, and 2 weeks for all the other models.
A line was added that no more than 2 devices per order can be bought. (I highlighted that in yellow)
Yes, 679€ is what we pay it here (about 100€ is the 19% VAT). If you factor that out, Apple is ripping us off compared to the 649$ price in the US (even considereing a 8.25% Salex Tax, for say e.g., California).
Order an iphone5 at 5:30 AM CT, indicated Sept delivery in email. I've been with ATT a long time. I don't know if that makes a difference.
Sept 21, sorry
So, I switched over to my iMac and the order went through immediately. I got my confirmation email at 3:20 (east coast time) and my delivery date is 9/21. I guess I should consider myself lucky.
I am. I thought I would be able to order at 5am PT and still get first run for the 21st. I'm an American goddammit! Give me one that is going to one of the other countries! They took 'er iPhones!
I decided to cancel my order and brave the store next week for a Verizon white 32GB model.
I preordered from the Verizon website this morning and it says it will be delivered by the 21st.
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Originally Posted by IQatEdo
My carrier doesn't accept pre-orders but has said that they will have plenty in stores on the 21st... will test their claim at 9:00 AM that day lol.
You will 50th in line at 9am
AT&T totally unprepared to handle the onslaught of hungry iPhone 5 customers, AGAIN! They don't even show any Apple products for sale on their Premier Business Site! It boggles the mind...
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Originally Posted by SolipsismX
I am. I thought I would be able to order at 5am PT and still get first run for the 21st. I'm an American goddammit! Give me one that is going to one of the other countries! They took 'er iPhones!
I decided to cancel my order and brave the store next week for a Verizon white 32GB model.
Why not just preorder from Verizon, they have it listed as the 21st still, and confirmed that on facebook this morning too.
a. Apple is artificially constraining supply to make it look like there's more demand than there really is.
b. It's just all the Apple sheep who have to run out and buy immediately and demand will fall off quickly.
c. Apple is restricting US supplies so that they can provide more for Germany as a payoff for the German courts siding with Apple against Motorola.
d. Apple is lying about the numbers.
e. Obviously, Apple has supply problems.
I wonder what the real reason is? After all, we know that it can't be high demand since it's obvious that this phone is nothing more than a spec bump.
Maybe they ran out of launch day phones so fast because Apple's servers could actually handle the demand this time, even if AT&T's couldn't.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/14/iphone-5-pre-order-sells-out-20x-faster-than-4-and-4s-further-highlighting-apples-dominance/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)
[QUOTE]it took 22 hours for the iPhone 4S and about 20 hours for the iPhone 4 to sell out of its pre-order, launch-day stock.
The iPhone 5 took just about 60 minutes. [/QUOTE]