Other UK iPhone (2018) XS/XS Max/XR Pre-Orders and Dispatch Thread

[nathan3007]

Hi Guys! This thread started earlier than expected I gave last year a miss due to the upgrade not being worth it in my opinion, but I think I shall be going XS+ this year, hoping for a 128gb option, probably just go for the “grey” option, unsure if I want to go through iUP or just outright purchase.

 

[Mikey86uk]

Did my standard upgrade with EE the other day.

Went with SIM only and ended up with Unlimited calls/texts and 40GB of data for £20 a month for 12months. Im happy with that.

All set for pre order day now

 

[Kiimora]

Did my standard upgrade with EE the other day.

Went with SIM only and ended up with Unlimited calls/texts and 40GB of data for £20 a month for 12months. Im happy with that.

All set for pre order day now

Wow that’s a lot for your buck I’d say ; I got that amount for 30GB during their last Black Friday sim only promotion, including a £100 reward pre-paid card. Not that I need that much data but will take that if on offer when I renew

 

[mrandyyu]

Unusual question for those in the know...

My wife has now come around to the idea of the Upgrade Programme, but being a teacher means she can't get the time off on launch day to sign-up in person.

Regardless, I'll be reserving two phones for us, with me already on the Upgrade Programme and my question is this:

Would I be able to sign up for two different credit agreements on the day from the same/different bank accounts? Would one set of ID suffice for both sign-ups, so my driving licence and a bank statement, or would I need two different sets of ID, so throw in my passport and a credit card bill for the second sign-up?

Funds would be coming from mine and my wife's joint account, or alternatively one payment from my personal account and the other from the joint account.

 

[paulopadopa]

Unusual question for those in the know...

My wife has now come around to the idea of the Upgrade Programme, but being a teacher means she can't get the time off on launch day to sign-up in person.

Regardless, I'll be reserving two phones for us, with me already on the Upgrade Programme and my question is this:

Would I be able to sign up for two different credit agreements on the day from the same/different bank accounts? Would one set of ID suffice for both sign-ups, so my driving licence and a bank statement, or would I need two different sets of ID, so throw in my passport and a credit card bill for the second sign-up?

Funds would be coming from mine and my wife's joint account, or alternatively one payment from my personal account and the other from the joint account.

What’s your sales pitch for iup? I’m
Considering it but leaning towards John Lewis and their included 2 year warranty.

 

[mrandyyu]

What’s your sales pitch for iup? I’m
Considering it but leaning towards John Lewis and their included 2 year warranty.

For my wife and I, a couple of reasons why I'm already enrolled and she's considering the Upgrade Programme:

• Interest free over the period
• Eligibility to upgrade after 11 payments
• Ease of returning the handset and not having to work out where to sell it etc

Whilst we could pay for the handsets outright, that's a helluva lot of cash to suddenly disappear in one chunk for us. I bought my 7 Plus outright a few years ago and that stung for a while. Of course, we could sign up for an interest free credit card and simply divide the payments over the same period as the Upgrade Programme as one alternative, though we don't need any more credit cards in our household.

I don't always upgrade every year, but I did go from the 6 to 7 Plus, to 8 Plus. It's nice to have that flexibility to upgrade or not if the hardware is compelling enough. My wife is generally every 2 years, but doesn't want to rule herself out. My understanding is if there's no desire to upgrade every year, the iPhone Payments option (interest free over 20 months, no AppleCare) is the better deal - this in effect is no different to paying with an interest free credit card.

Finally, not having to source a buyer for our old handsets - I just give the old handset back upon upgrade in the store. I have £463 remaining on my 8 Plus Upgrade Programme balance if I want to pay it off entirely. Checking Music Magpie (thanks to the poster for that recommendation), I would currently get £550 for it before next week's announcements. It'll probably lose up to £100 by the time the new handsets launch, so any opportunity to make that £87 needs to happen now, which isn't worth the effort of selling and not having a spare phone to fall back on for a few weeks.

 

[ensee]

I've had a sim only MAX plan from EE for over a year now. All the discounts on that contract have started to elapse and I can't get a similar deal from them with expanded roaming rights, etc. I had been combining that with an iPhone X (256GB) on the upgrade programme but this has cost me about £80 for the last couple of months. Not ideal.

I just cancelled the AppleCare+ on the iPhone upgrade programme so I can buy out the Barclays finance agreement for about £520 now, sell my phone for >£650, and start somewhere else. I'm thinking of O2 with their new design-your-own bundles since I can get that to about £55/mo, plus some cash back from Quidco.

It'll be interesting to see if the Xs is going to be around $100 cheaper than last year and whether that is reflected in the UK price. I won't hold me breath...

 

[JamesHP]

God that new watch is gorgeous. Definitely time to upgrade my SS S2 I reckon.

 

[numberfour]

What’s your sales pitch for iup? I’m
Considering it but leaning towards John Lewis and their included 2 year warranty.

Do you know if John Lewis take preorders?

 

[johnyslats]

Do you know if John Lewis take preorders?

Pretty sure no preorders from JL the last couple of years. Think they went live at 8 am on release date for next day delivery/collect in store

 

[paulopadopa]

Pretty sure no preorders from JL the last couple of years. Think they went live at 8 am on release date for next day delivery/collect in store

Interesting. Do you know if they sell out very quickly? I might still chance it because I’m not going to be able to get the phone until a few days after anyway.

 

[Lyn2012]

Interesting. Do you know if they sell out very quickly? I might still chance it because I’m not going to be able to get the phone until a few days after anyway.

If I remember correctly, they usually go very quickly, but often get more stock in later at seemingly random days & times.

 

[The Game 161]

Do you know if John Lewis take preorders?

Very.co.uk do for all new products.
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Interesting. Do you know if they sell out very quickly? I might still chance it because I’m not going to be able to get the phone until a few days after anyway.

Yeah normally goes very quickly. But they do get stock each day so you might be in luck.

 

[Jinjin]

Can’t remember how Very did but Argos were shambolic bordering on downright unethical in the way they handled orders for the X.

John Lewis have never done pre orders and you typically buy on the morning of release. I’m pretty sure the folks at istocknow (something like that) had a good stock tracker with notifications.

I managed to bag and X from them before Apple delivered my order. I never opened it as I wanted to go onto IUP so it was torture looking at it in its box!

Remember JL provide a 2 year guarantee which does not cover things like a broken screen or back glass (not that Apple care does without the subsidised repair costs).

JL’s accidental cover is £215 for 2 years. I know I’d prefer any repairs to be carried out only by Apple and in most cases I’ve used my cover, the phone has always been a white box swap out.

 

[ItsLeigh]

Can’t remember how Very did but Argos were shambolic bordering on downright unethical in the way they handled orders for the X.

John Lewis have never done pre orders and you typically buy on the morning of release. I’m pretty sure the folks at istocknow (something like that) had a good stock tracker with notifications.

I managed to bag and X from them before Apple delivered my order. I never opened it as I wanted to go onto IUP so it was torture looking at it in its box!

Remember JL provide a 2 year guarantee which does not cover things like a broken screen or back glass (not that Apple care does without the subsidised repair costs).

JL’s accidental cover is £215 for 2 years. I know I’d prefer any repairs to be carried out only by Apple and in most cases I’ve used my cover, the phone has always been a white box swap out.

Why was Argos so bad? I’m interested in the IUP but my other half wants to use a Argos credit card

 

[The Game 161]

Can’t remember how Very did but Argos were shambolic bordering on downright unethical in the way they handled orders for the X.

John Lewis have never done pre orders and you typically buy on the morning of release. I’m pretty sure the folks at istocknow (something like that) had a good stock tracker with notifications.

I managed to bag and X from them before Apple delivered my order. I never opened it as I wanted to go onto IUP so it was torture looking at it in its box!

Remember JL provide a 2 year guarantee which does not cover things like a broken screen or back glass (not that Apple care does without the subsidised repair costs).

JL’s accidental cover is £215 for 2 years. I know I’d prefer any repairs to be carried out only by Apple and in most cases I’ve used my cover, the phone has always been a white box swap out.

Can’t speak for the iPhones but other Apple products very have been spot on.

 

[Jinjin]

Why was Argos so bad? I’m interested in the IUP but my other half wants to use a Argos credit card

The website claiming they had stock for delivery, people then being charged the full amount and then them coming out and admitting they had no real idea when they’d have phones in. Followed up by grovelling apologies to customers leaving them high and dry with no phone, card charged and potential missed opportunity ordering from else here

 

[Lyn2012]

Why was Argos so bad? I’m interested in the IUP but my other half wants to use a Argos credit card

I seem to remember that once Argos had taken payment, then eventually confessed to not having the phones, they then took ages to issue a refund which made it difficult for some people to then purchase elsewhere.

 

[Jinjin]

I do think this year won’t have the usual constraints of stock we’ve seen in the past. There no ‘new’ technology so issues like the production yields with the TrueDepth camera seen last year around shouldn’t exist.

Even with the so called issues for the X last year (ok the launch was later than the 8) I missed the initial release day delivery on the 2-nd Nov and got the dispatches 1-2 weeks slot. I still had my phone delivered and in my hands on the 9th.

IMHO if you’re proactive on the release morning you’ll have a handset secured in or close to release day.

Usually plenty of noise by now if there were issues or delays. Only murmurings of issues were with the 6.1 LCD.. and no one here is going to be buying that are they?!
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Usually plenty of noise by now if there were issues or delays. Only murmurings of issues were with the 6.1 LCD.. and no one here is going to be buying that are they?!

oh, 5 people are according to the vote

 

[ItsLeigh]

I seem to remember that once Argos had taken payment, then eventually confessed to not having the phones, they then took ages to issue a refund which made it difficult for some people to then purchase elsewhere.

I just read something about that after googling it, What’s really bad. do you think very is better? Just seen they have a 12 month interest free too

 

[Jinjin]

Unusual question for those in the know...

My wife has now come around to the idea of the Upgrade Programme, but being a teacher means she can't get the time off on launch day to sign-up in person.

Regardless, I'll be reserving two phones for us, with me already on the Upgrade Programme and my question is this:

Would I be able to sign up for two different credit agreements on the day from the same/different bank accounts? Would one set of ID suffice for both sign-ups, so my driving licence and a bank statement, or would I need two different sets of ID, so throw in my passport and a credit card bill for the second sign-up?

Funds would be coming from mine and my wife's joint account, or alternatively one payment from my personal account and the other from the joint account.

the principle of this is fine but Barclays seem to be pretty strict on their credit agreements based on the issues some have had. If you've got a good credit history etc I can't see why not.

try the apple chat support (or pop into a store) see what they say?

 

[mrandyyu]

the principle of this is fine but Barclays seem to be pretty strict on their credit agreements based on the issues some have had. If you've got a good credit history etc I can't see why not.

try the apple chat support (or pop into a store) see what they say?

Thanks Jinjin.

Actually just popped by an Apple Store on my way home from the office.

The chap I spoke to said exactly what you have above. If my credit rating is good enough (it scored highly a few months ago via Experian), he said I could in theory put as many as I wanted through the Upgrade Programme - the example he gave was small business owners signing up multiple handsets for staff to use. Would only need one set of ID, too, so proof of identity and address.

My only concern, as you've mentioned above, is potentially what Barclays could do to my credit rating if the second application fails...

 

[Jinjin]

slow news day given its Labor day in the states. I was hoping there'd have been more juicy pics of the XS and watch S4 following the initial leaks last week!

 

[johnyslats]

slow news day given its Labor day in the states. I was hoping there'd have been more juicy pics of the XS and watch S4 following the initial leaks last week!

Current mood...

 

[Jinjin]

Current mood...
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haha indeed.. 8 more days i don't usually watch the keynote until the replay is available later in the evening so I'll be absent from anything online on the 12th come 6pm!

anyone going case less for the X,XS,XS+? Given i'm on IUP i have a little cover in case of breakages etc but still find it one slippery bugger!

Also, for those going to the XS+, any worries about the weight? the X is noticeably heavier than and 8 and I found the 7+ I had previously to be hefty too. I can only image the XS+ will be a few ounces more! one hand use really seems limited for me on the plus model this year.