I ordered mine the day after the cut-off but couldn't wait. I went at the launch and the canceled my online order.
Nah. Screw that. I did that for the first three iPhones. Never again. One, the closest Apple store is 2 hours away east or west, and to the north its four hours. Second, waiting in line knowing that inventory will run out and you could be with out, screw that. Some people lie to their employers and tell them their sick and all these excuses to do that crap.
It is not worth it. I will wait for it to come through UPS or FedEx before I go stand in a line for hours or even days. There is nothing wrong with wanting something but you have to ask yourself how "sane" some of these people really are.
I told my employees if I ever find out they called in sick and lied to me to go stand in line for a damn phone, a game system, or anything else that I would fire them. Do that crap on your own time.
I will say that I think it is kind of crappy that they create so much hype around their products that it creates more demand than supply can meet and then you find yourself waiting for so long for something. And a lot of the people are only buying them to turn around and sell overseas anyway and that is creating a shortage also, like that one guy that bought like eight or nine of them and was told he could never buy an iPad from the Apple store again and he was all upset, claiming that he was merely purchasing them for his friends overseas but the cost he was paying was inflated so much that it was obvious what he was really doing.
I just hope that the bulk of us that are in prepared to ship gets shipped this afternoon, its like afternoon in China right now. (tonight here)
