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First person to get the iphone
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About nil, considering quite a few insiders and close friends of people in high places will have theirs out in the wild a few days earlier at least...
Discounting all of them, your chances are about 1 in 200,000
All the Apple stores closest to me (2 in Orlando; 1 in Tampa) are located inside malls. So.....where does one camp out at a mall since there are multiple entrances.
-Shelly
The entrance closest to the store, or the one they unlock first
How to get one early...for certain.
I talked to an apple store employee here in Colorado and he said he cant wait either and that if I wanted a for sure way of getting a phone I should book an appointment. He then gave me a personal shopper card and told me that I can book an appointment up to 14 days in advance and for an hour, thus allowing me to have my own employee waiting for me say at like store opening on June 29th. I can then buy the phone, skip the line and get out.
It's an idea, so someone out there should try it. I personnally can't because I am on tmobile and will not be switching, now if I find an unlocked one then yes I will have an iPhone. But here is hoping that Tmobile becomes the European iPhone carrier this XMAS!
I talked to an apple store employee here in Colorado and he said he cant wait either and that if I wanted a for sure way of getting a phone I should book an appointment. He then gave me a personal shopper card and told me that I can book an appointment up to 14 days in advance and for an hour, thus allowing me to have my own employee waiting for me say at like store opening on June 29th. I can then buy the phone, skip the line and get out.
It's an idea, so someone out there should try it. I personnally can't because I am on tmobile and will not be switching, now if I find an unlocked one then yes I will have an iPhone. But here is hoping that Tmobile becomes the European iPhone carrier this XMAS!
Interesting. That would be sweet if that were true. I'll be going to an AT&T store myself.
by the way, i think the need to camp out is getting way overblown. Unless you are in a market where there are tons of people, like NYC or SF, or in a market where there are very few apple stores like some place in the midwest, but otherwise I think you should be fine getting one if you just get there that morning.
"what you think i'm gonna just grind my feet into someone else's couch?"wow, I am not sure these two statements can be reconciled....
"yeah i remember grinding my feet into his couch"