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No iPhone 5S Pre-Order

Atlas23

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So apparently you can't pre-order the 5S at all, and will have to wait until the 20th to either buy it online or queue up in store.

I wonder if this is genuinely down to stock concerns, or if it is just so they can have pictures of everyone queuing outside Apple stores pasted all over the news.

Is anyone here planning on getting one?

I am tempted to sell my 5 now while it still has some worth and then grab a 5S. However, iOS7 comes out next Wednesday so I feel that might give my 5 enough novelty again to put me off getting the 5S.

Thoughts/comments?

Blazin
 
Steedie said:
You can pre-order online for delivery on release day from the 13th

You can't pre-order to pick up from store, if that's what you meant
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Nope. You can pre-order the 5C from the 13th for delivery on the 20th, however you cannot do the same with the 5S.

Blazin
 
Barks said:
Again - I could understand if it was the PS4 or something sociable but it's a phone. Absolutely no one, not your friends, not your parents, not your cat, is going to give a rat's ass that you have an iPhone 5S on the day of release, if at all :p
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I guess I'm a fairly 'techy' person; my friends and work colleagues would all be interested in the new iPhone, either to play it or have a go at me because they are apple haters :D

Blazin
 
Nexus said:
I see where you are coming from.... but I don't see what is in it for Apple, they make and sell the phone and while they obviously have to work closely with the networks, they don't owe them anything, so there is no reason why they would push people towards contracts. Obviously a sale of an iPhone is a sale whoever you buy it from, but if you buy it from Apple themselves, they stand to make the most amount of profit on that sale.

As already said, they are offering the 5C for pre-order, whether you go with a contract or not, which kind of discounts you reasoning.
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I would say that they probably make more sales though phone contracts than direct from their website (as most people don't have £549+ to instantly spend on a phone) so it would be fairly important to them to keep a good relationship with the networks.

But yes, having the 5C available for pre-order does make it seem more like a stock/publicity issue.

Blazin
 
randal said:
Personally I can't see the point in upgrading from a tick to a tock hardware iteration with iOS devices anyway, the ticks normally last a further tock and a tick at least.
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Agreed. For that price I could get another GTX 780 to have in SLI :) also iOS7 should be enough to make my iPhone 5 feel like 'new' again :rolleyes:

GTA 5 will make me forget all about this lol

Blazin
 
Well I just had a look on Ebay and there are some like mine (32GB, Black, on Orange) on there at under £250 with 0 bids :( Also I worked out to get £300 actual spending money at the end, I would have to sell it for £350 or more (as Ebay + Paypal fees would cost near £50!). And seeing as how you can buy it new/refurbished and unlocked for under £380, I'd say they probably not holding that value as much now. Possibly because the 5 is disappearing completely, instead of just being pushed back one like it did to the 4S.

Maybe I will have to wait until the 6
 
RedvGreen said:
I'm sorry but the prices are ridiculous for the 5C and the 5S. Apple have even forced EE to apparently remove any potential discount offerings on Line Rental etc, so despite being a current customer available for upgrade, you get no loyalty offers at all.
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This was the same last year. Orange offered me 1 extra Magic Number as an upgrade incentive, even though I have been with them for 7+ years, and already have 5 magic numbers, only 2 of which I use (also other networks offer free calls within the network as standard!).

EE/Orange are the worst network provider I've had the misfortune of using. When my 24 months are up next year I am definitely moving. Probably to O2.
 
PaulyD said:
I have the exact opposite experience with them. Great signal everywhere I travel, rarely lose 3G and its consistently fast.

Gotta agree on the customer service though I can't say any of the providers I have been with have been outstanding in that department
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I rarely have issues with signal, however their customer service is some of the worst around.

Last year when I upgraded to iPhone 5 on Orange, I did it online in October. Then the next day I read that people who had pre-ordered the phone still hadn't received it from Orange (this was weeks after release). I did not receive a confirmation email, yet orange instantly took the £200~ out of my account for the phone. Then the next day I rang up and cancelled my upgrade, which they said would be done in a matter of hours - It was not, and I continued to receive automated texts about my upgrade..

2 months later, my contract had finished, and I finally received my £200~ back, but only after I had rang them 20+ times, had them deny that they even took the money, flat out lie to me about all of it, and then finally they asked me to fax (lol?) a copy of my bank statement to them. So I did that (using some online pdf-fax sender which I had to pay £1 for and didn't think would work) and then 2 days later £200~ mysteriously appeared back in my account.

In the end, I had bought a new contract (on Orange - epic fail on my part) from Carphone Warehouse. When I rung up Orange to talk about moving my number across, I got asked where I had purchased the iPhone. I told them it was at CW, and the woman started ranting at me about how 4G wouldn't work because I didn't get it direct from Orange blah blah.. even though it was on their bloody network!

Oh and after I had finally sorted this, I still knew of people who hadn't received their pre-ordered iPhone 5 3 months after release.

Orange are awful, and offer no incentives over other networks apart from 4G, which has bad coverage in my area and is horrendously overpriced!
 
Well I'm only half way through my 24 months so this is kind of irrelevant :( I would buy the 5S outright, swap sim over and then sell my 5.
 
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