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Carrier AT&T 2018 iPhone Pre-Order Thread
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Yeah, mine said 3pm this morning and then changed to 8pm by this afternoon.
Ya this is’nt a big release for sure and it’ll be interesting to see how Apple spins it because they’re used to big release day numbers. Most of the time if you wait 4 days to order you’d be outta luck. The S models always lack in release day numbers but I have a feeling this years will be exceptional. People are satisfied with their current X models and some are waiting for the Xr I’m sure. Along with that the release of iOS 12 has brought amazing new life to phones as old as the iPhone 5’s.
My AT&T story,
Stayed up to preorder my devices, got in early and placed my order before 2:59 am. Ordered a 256 Gold Xs Max and a 44mm S4 watch of course received launch day delivery time. Around 10:30 am on 9/14 received an email saying there is a balance due on the account and it needed to be corrected before they ship or cancel my order.
I immediately called them to figure out the problem as I had a zero balance on the account. Spent over an hour on the phone trying to get that resolved. Finally, she said that there is no balance and the order was fine to go through. Still keeping my delivery date of 9/21 on both items. Well my phone shipped out this morning and on track for delivery tomorrow. The bad news is that I just received an email from AT&T saying my watch ship date has changed from 9/20 to 9/21-9/25 meaning I may not get my watch until middle of next week! It sucks since earlier this week the exact same watch still had a delivery date of 9/21.
Has anyone else received this email also?
Stayed up to preorder my devices, got in early and placed my order before 2:59 am. Ordered a 256 Gold Xs Max and a 44mm S4 watch of course received launch day delivery time. Around 10:30 am on 9/14 received an email saying there is a balance due on the account and it needed to be corrected before they ship or cancel my order.
I immediately called them to figure out the problem as I had a zero balance on the account. Spent over an hour on the phone trying to get that resolved. Finally, she said that there is no balance and the order was fine to go through. Still keeping my delivery date of 9/21 on both items. Well my phone shipped out this morning and on track for delivery tomorrow. The bad news is that I just received an email from AT&T saying my watch ship date has changed from 9/20 to 9/21-9/25 meaning I may not get my watch until middle of next week! It sucks since earlier this week the exact same watch still had a delivery date of 9/21.
Has anyone else received this email also?
How is this possible? I just ordered the iPhone XS Max an hour ago and I just got a shipment notification that it will be delivered tomorrow for launch!!!
synonys should totally send their phone to UneElle, and then UneElle should send their phone to synonys when they receive it.
It’s only fair!
I just received that email as well. It does suck. My phone is coming tomorrow... who knows when the watch will be here.
I'm so torn right now. My apartment office doesn't accept packages. The only option would be to have them leave it at the front door, but that's $2600 that I wouldn't be able to get back if it's stolen. Times like this, I wish I had waited that extra 10 minutes for the Apple app to work.
I don’t even understand the logic behind these restrictions. How would this prevent fraud? Pretty sure if someone somehow managed to gain access to my account to order a phone, I would be alerted when the email comes. Or definitely when the bill comes.
Even Apple doesn’t impose the same restrictions. So weird. Should have got it sent to my job but hopefully it comes in early enough I can still make it to work.
This is my first FedEx delivery since we moved. I've never seen a truck in our complex so I have no idea what time they usually come. My husband works 2 minutes away and was supposed to be around to get the phones, but he volunteered to do some demos at a gym that's 30 minutes away.
Last winter i had 10 seperate incidents of the fedex driver not even attempting my package and delaying it til at least the next day.
This resulted in 9 free months of prime and 1 $60 refund on an order.
That order was scanned as “attempted” in the fedex parking lot. Got the dispatch manager to tell me that.
And if it matters, i do *not* live in the city. Im in a rural area. My ups driver lives a mile from me, and he has the same issue with fedex here. And every “attempted” scan i get is right around 5 pm.
And you completely missed the part where it was scanned as "attempted" That right there is all they need to "show" they didn't just bring it back..
My old house the fedex guy was shown on the camera driving past my house at the same time an "attempted" scan was logged. He scanned as he drove right past my house, 2 cameras in the neighborhood shown he didn't even bother to slow down. (thats when I was even outside mowing the lawn like I said earlier)
With Fedex, it's either first thing in the morning... or not at all here. It's why I have just switched to pickup at the fedex store 5 miles from me, but this time I can't. (AT&T requirements)
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I’m kind of happy I ordered with AT&T. Have you guys checked out the apple pre order thread? Some people who were scheduled for delivery tomorrow are getting delayed until Monday 
AT&T is not good with providing shipping updates pre order week but you can’t really blame them. They receive stock from Apple, hold it all week and then overnight the day before delivery. So they give what they can give you. However if you have a delivery date confirmed by them, then it’s almost a 100% guarantee you’ll get it that day.
Can’t believe there’s people in this thread who are just now getting tracking for their watches with a confined delivery by launch day still. Amazing.
AT&T is not good with providing shipping updates pre order week but you can’t really blame them. They receive stock from Apple, hold it all week and then overnight the day before delivery. So they give what they can give you. However if you have a delivery date confirmed by them, then it’s almost a 100% guarantee you’ll get it that day.
Can’t believe there’s people in this thread who are just now getting tracking for their watches with a confined delivery by launch day still. Amazing.
I’m kind of happy I ordered with AT&T. Have you guys checked out the apple pre order thread? Some people who were scheduled for delivery tomorrow are getting delayed until Monday
AT&T is not good with providing shipping updates pre order week but you can’t really blame them. They receive stock from Apple, hold it all week and then overnight the day before delivery. So they give what they can give you. However if you have a delivery date confirmed by them, then it’s almost a 100% guarantee you’ll get it that day.
Can’t believe there’s people in this thread who are just now getting tracking for their watches with a confined delivery by launch day still. Amazing.
You may want to delete your number @CjonesHouston
Lol thats true, has there ever been a year they have not said that lol?
Got my tracking number via email at 11:28pm here in Puerto Rico. Preordered the IPhone XS Max right when preorders went live 
Usually when I preorder phones from ATT here in PR they usually ship via USPS which takes awhile to arrive, so I was surprised to see they used FedEx this time. Cant wait to get my phone since the last iphone I used before switching to android was the IPhone 5.
Usually when I preorder phones from ATT here in PR they usually ship via USPS which takes awhile to arrive, so I was surprised to see they used FedEx this time. Cant wait to get my phone since the last iphone I used before switching to android was the IPhone 5.Attachments
Still showing Irving tx. I know it’s coming and will be here tomorrow but I want to see movement!!!!!!!!
I’m so impatient
I’m so impatient
I’m kind of happy I ordered with AT&T. Have you guys checked out the apple pre order thread? Some people who were scheduled for delivery tomorrow are getting delayed until Monday
AT&T is not good with providing shipping updates pre order week but you can’t really blame them. They receive stock from Apple, hold it all week and then overnight the day before delivery. So they give what they can give you. However if you have a delivery date confirmed by them, then it’s almost a 100% guarantee you’ll get it that day.
Can’t believe there’s people in this thread who are just now getting tracking for their watches with a confined delivery by launch day still. Amazing.
I got burned with the 7+ and decided to never order from Apple again. AT&T did well last year and everything is on schedule so far this year. Even the Best Buy crew that ordered today are picking up tomorrow!
Still showing Irving tx. I know it’s coming and will be here tomorrow but I want to see movement!!!!!!!!
I’m so impatient
Me too!!!
I normally order from apple, never had any issues.
Twice ive done though AT&T, they had to have changed something because the first time i ordered for store pickup and also had no issue. No issue this time, but couldnt do store pickup like i wanted. So i took the day off. Lol