I'm afraid to shut the page down. It states that I've connected successfully but it just won't move forwards. It's just timed out, does this mean I've lost my reservation?
iPhone 4S Reservations?
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I'm afraid to shut the page down. It states that I've connected successfully but it just won't move forwards. It's just timed out, does this mean I've lost my reservation?
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If you reserved successfully, you'll receive an email of your reservation showing pickup date and time which lasts only 15 minutes long
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Just reserved a 32gb black from Exeter, the 16gb ones went in seconds!
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Couldnt reserve no white one bloody useless, you would have thought a week later they would ship a ton of em...
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I gave up a couple of nights ago. I ordered an iPhone 4S on the 11th October but I wanted to see if I could get one sooner. My iPhone 4S should be here on Tuesday.
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I've given up and i'm going to stick with the iP4. I don't "buy" into all this artificial hype through stock restriction, so Apple can take a running jump this year.
LOL, comments like this always amuse me because the person writing them seems to think they're 'sticking it to the man' by declaring their intent to not buy the product in question. As much as you may like a good conspiracy theory, there is no artificial hype. Apple are selling every single iPhone 4S they can make. If they could make more of them fast enough to satisfy demand, they would. The only person being 'hurt' is you as you'll have to miss out on whatever feature it was you needed to buy the 4S for. Apple will simply sell the 4S you would have bought to someone else.
Your comment amuses me for the same reason, because you honestly believe this is as fast and as good as Apple can launch a product - well the iPhone 4 launch, where it was based on "first come first serve" rather than "rush and buy from a buggy and broken online system" proves you totally wrong.
I would "like" an iPhone 4S, but at the end of the day there are plenty of other ways I can spend that money - so if Apple are going to make it difficult to get hold of one, i'll just do that.
And, at the end of the day, a sale is a sale. Somewhere down the line they'll lose the £500 I would have spent on the phone.
Good luck in your bubble, mind.
I would "like" an iPhone 4S, but at the end of the day there are plenty of other ways I can spend that money - so if Apple are going to make it difficult to get hold of one, i'll just do that.
And, at the end of the day, a sale is a sale. Somewhere down the line they'll lose the £500 I would have spent on the phone.
Good luck in your bubble, mind.
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Your comment amuses me for the same reason, because you honestly believe this is as fast and as good as Apple can launch a product - well the iPhone 4 launch, where it was based on "first come first serve" rather than "rush and buy from a buggy and broken online system" proves you totally wrong.
I would "like" an iPhone 4S, but at the end of the day there are plenty of other ways I can spend that money - so if Apple are going to make it difficult to get hold of one, i'll just do that.
And, at the end of the day, a sale is a sale. Somewhere down the line they'll lose the £500 I would have spent on the phone.
Good luck in your bubble, mind.
If it makes you feel better to think that Apple will desperately miss your £500, go ahead and think that. Like I said, they will simply sell your 4S to another customer (clearly with more patience). Why don't you just wait until availability has improved then buy one? You've not exactly picked the best time to try and buy a 4S is you're the sort of person who is susceptible to getting annoyed at having to wait.
That's not strictly true, as there are bloody loads of the things if you don't mind going on contract in any 3 / Orange shop...
I don't think they'll "desperately" miss my money at all, given they're richer than the US Government. I just felt "on the fence" regarding the 4S in the first place and Apple have helped me decide by how they've handled the launch.
I mean, if they wanted to shift as many phones as possible, why change the reservation system from the one that worked so well last year?
Also i'm not very happy at being jerked around for a week thinking that I was waiting for a phone call. I'd expect it from some places like CPW or P4U but not Apple.
I just guess that, at the end of the day, i'm happy to wait in a fair queue for a 4S but i'm not happy to be jerked around by their reservation system. That's the difference.
I mean, if they wanted to shift as many phones as possible, why change the reservation system from the one that worked so well last year?
Also i'm not very happy at being jerked around for a week thinking that I was waiting for a phone call. I'd expect it from some places like CPW or P4U but not Apple.
I just guess that, at the end of the day, i'm happy to wait in a fair queue for a 4S but i'm not happy to be jerked around by their reservation system. That's the difference.
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My wife has just taken my old 3GS off me to use,as she wanted to give a iphone a try and was not fussed with a bleeding edge phone(4GS).She was going to sign up on a new contract with a new 3GS or 4GS.I said she might as well have my old sim free phone and we have both gone to giff gaff now.
Was going to get myself a sim free 32Gb 4GS,but i will wait for the heat to die off and get one next year.I want to walking into a store and buy one.
Have gone to the dark side and bought a Atix(for the interrim)
Was going to get myself a sim free 32Gb 4GS,but i will wait for the heat to die off and get one next year.I want to walking into a store and buy one.
Have gone to the dark side and bought a Atix(for the interrim)
tonight the reservation system failed on safari but worked (and it was late, obviously) with chrome. wtf!
anyway, I am sure there're doing this way to avoid people buying sim-free iphone massively and send them in china or arabic countries since they don't have a release date yet...the day after the release day, regents street's store has had a really long queue made 99% of arabic people, it looked like a mosque during the ramadan. This is the only reason that came to my mind to explain how badly apple is doing this thing in the u.k
anyway, I am sure there're doing this way to avoid people buying sim-free iphone massively and send them in china or arabic countries since they don't have a release date yet...the day after the release day, regents street's store has had a really long queue made 99% of arabic people, it looked like a mosque during the ramadan. This is the only reason that came to my mind to explain how badly apple is doing this thing in the u.k
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This reservation system does work.
Reserved my 64gb (was that or 16 and thats wasnt enough) on sunday night to collect from metrocentre gateshead.
If theres no stock then theres no stock you have to be quick !
End all the conspiricy theories and just keep trying, you all know how hard they are to get.
Good luck
Reserved my 64gb (was that or 16 and thats wasnt enough) on sunday night to collect from metrocentre gateshead.
If theres no stock then theres no stock you have to be quick !
End all the conspiricy theories and just keep trying, you all know how hard they are to get.
Good luck