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Other UK iPhone (2017) X(Ten)/8/8+ Pre-Orders and Dispatch Thread
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Is there anyway to trade in your old phone for credit at the same time?
Just make sure your apple pay profile for the card has the correct address and name! When I ordered my 7 it just had my name and the street as that's what apple maps had decided to fill in for my home address, no house number. Luckily the UPS guy recognised the name and brought it up. Crazy how the order even got through with so little detail on it.
If your phone is delivered via DPD why don’t you pay to upgrade the delivery to pre 1030 (advised by CS as it could be up to an hour late due to demand) meaning it will be in your hands prior to 1200. This costs £10
Apparently according to KGI there’s only 2-3 million units ready for launch weekend, spread over 50 countries-that’s going to be fun!!
An absolute joke. They either need to delay the launch or delay rolling it out to a number of countries.
Any suggestions as to which countries should miss out? Everyone except the U.K. perhaps?
No, he's using all the iPhone numbers as a launch countdownFixed that for you
Ridiculous. How can the biggest company in the world get it so obviously wrong. Why not have a staggered release with the top 5 countries on 3/11 and some more a few weeks later.
They shouldn’t have committed to a set launch date at the keynote when they weren’t confident they would have a reasonable amount of stock, they should have just said ‘coming this fall’.
Rant over!
40 million to 30 million to 25 million to 2 to 3 million, next report will be it's stopped and Apple have given up!
We probably wouldn't be saying that if we were one of the countries not in the top 5 and getting a staggered release! Then again at least it might
Slightly OT but I heard a story on the radio this morning that more than a third of people stay on the same mobile tariff after they have paid for the phone e.g. after their 2 year deal has come to an end and they are eligible to upgrade. I bet there is no one on this thread that does that!! Either because we buy direct from Apple or pay for early upgrades
There is a call to make carriers reduce monthly payments automatically once the phone is paid for. Even before iPhones I was always researching what phone I was going to upgrade to every 11 months. Admittedly am a gadget freak but I don't understand why people don't even upgrade for a free handset and no change in monthly tariff.......
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/n...aying-46-a-month-for-a-phone-they-already-own
well of course they might not need to announce such negative news. Just quietly make all devices '4-6 weeks' as soon as preorders start..
Yes you can. You can then switch to the iUP or payment plan without Apple Care providing you pass the necessary credit checks
Sorry about that, didn't see the thread yesterday. It's all a bit too clever for my simple intellect anyway.
There only has to be 1 handset available in a country for Apple to say it was on sale there. That way they don't have to make any embarrassing statements about dropping countries.
I dont think its dropping worldwide at the same time as South Africa only started accepting Iphone 8 preorders last week and Iphone X retail prices havnt been announced there.
Apple said it's launching in 55 countries at the same time, perhaps it doesnt include SA.
Sorry if this has already been covered but thought I’d share.
Heard the process for those getting an X who are already on the iPhone Upgrade programme will be much smoother.
Stores will giver priority to IUP users and you’ll be able to place a ‘reservation’ to upgrade even if they’re not in stock at the store and when they become available, you’ll be contacted to come into store and upgrade. This would save having to check store stock daily to make an appointment.
Not sure what this means for getting one on day 1 and if we’ll get priory for that but does seem easier overall.
Apple employees in the store have had training for this.
Heard the process for those getting an X who are already on the iPhone Upgrade programme will be much smoother.
Stores will giver priority to IUP users and you’ll be able to place a ‘reservation’ to upgrade even if they’re not in stock at the store and when they become available, you’ll be contacted to come into store and upgrade. This would save having to check store stock daily to make an appointment.
Not sure what this means for getting one on day 1 and if we’ll get priory for that but does seem easier overall.
Apple employees in the store have had training for this.