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Do you plan on ordering the new iPhone 13 (2021) this September?

  • Yes

    Votes: 1,180 80.1%
  • No

    Votes: 178 12.1%
  • Not sure/Maybe

    Votes: 116 7.9%

  • Total voters
    1,474
I should have saved the order number but I’ll wait until email later.
I kept getting an error

the bf is getting something about citizens one loan
 
Got in at 8:03 delivery date of 9/24. Likely going to have it held at my UPS CC and pick it up from there per usual. Are we tracking planes this year 😂?
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It's stupid. Every year Verizon charges $20 and every year I have to chat with support and complain about it until they refund me lol. Used to be you could swap sim card from old phone before powering on new phone, but not sure how that will work this year with phones having eSIM preinstalled instead of physical
Yeah...$35??
Not happening, I get this in refund or a bill credit every time. The "activation fee" is a joke.

And I seem to be getting eSIM?? No idea, I didn't see an option not to get that.
Was just going to swap my current 5G sim to this one...

Dont know, not gonna stress over that.
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Mine is doing the same.
I can’t remember from previous years, can anyone see their orders in the Apple Store app? That is where I placed the orders, but under ”orders” it says I have none. I did receive emails with my order numbers

Took 20-25 minutes for mine to show up! Edit: I just refreshed the screen and it says it can't display orders. I think order volume is causing display problems. I'm not concerned because I saw it a few minutes ago. But other people are probably going to see the same.
 
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Order for my phone was completed and placed by 8:01 for pick up next Friday.
Then I persuaded someone else I know to upgrade their 11 PM to a 13 PM. That order was completed and placed by 8:06 for pick up next Friday.
 
If you are IUP you needed to prequalify then no card info is needed. You just bought on you AMEX
Apple Card was failing, seems many people had the same issue on iUP. It was making iUP orders on Apple Card re-enter the number, and then it wasn’t going through anyway. Had to switch to another card.
 
BTW the $1000 from ATT and others only gets you full amount if you keep phone for ENTIRE 36 month contract since its taken out of each months payments.

I wish the listings written about would show the best deals for the short term not being forced to hang onto phone for entire contract for that $$$.
 
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What the holy hell. I was pre-approved, like normal, for the two phones I have on the iUP on Tuesday. I get through my first order fairly easily. For some reason I had to go copy my Apple Card number from the wallet, but w/e. I next go on to my partner’s phone, go through all the same steps and it tells me there is an issue with my card number...I had just pasted it in the previous order. I went back to the wallet and copied it again, just to be sure. It was kicked back again. After the third time, it came up with a message telling me I wasn’t approved for the iUP order…I was so confused. I have great credit and have been with the program for 3 years. I went back to “For you” page on the app and my pre-order was sitting there “Complete your pre-order.” I ran through it, used a different card, and it was completed with release day shipping. I don’t know why my Apple Card gave me an issue; I barely carry a balance. I can’t imagine it had anything to do with already having an iUP payment on it because I‘ve had both phones on my Apple Card this past year. Anyone have any ideas? Think it was just a glitch?
Same happened to me, definitely a glitch!
 
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Iphone Upgrade Program... Managed to get a 13 Pro 256 Graphite and a 13 Pro 128 Sliver. Both deliver next Friday. take my Apple Card so I had to use another one. Super frustrating!
 
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Did we have an upgrade fee in years past? I don’t recall seeing that before but maybe I missed it. (iPhone upgrade program). Mine is $61.16 for my iPhone 13 Pro Max 512GB. So with that + tax + 1st month it’s a hefty initial charge.
 
Best I can tell the Apple Card issues are 1 of two things. Either you don’t have enough available credit on the card (you must have more available than the purchase price even if doing installments) or you have your billing address wrong.
It's still weird though. You'd think the preorder would catch that and it would all be a snap. Sounds like there may have been some bad communication between the preorder app and Goldman.
 
Best I can tell the Apple Card issues are 1 of two things. Either you don’t have enough available credit on the card (you must have more available than the purchase price even if doing installments) or you have your billing address wrong.

Plenty of credit on mine and the address was indeed correct and I got nothing but errors. Surely all the folks in here having the same issue didn't have enough credit and/or had their address wrong lol.
 
It took a while to go through bough received order confirmation for 256gb Pro Max Graphite. Email Confirmation at 20 minutes after pre-order.
 
Best I can tell the Apple Card issues are 1 of two things. Either you don’t have enough available credit on the card (you must have more available than the purchase price even if doing installments) or you have your billing address wrong.
Yeah that isn’t why mine was declined. Both of those things weren’t an issue for me. I have a high limit that’s not being used and my billing address has been the same forever.

Can’t believe Apple messed up on taking their own card. So much for that 3% 😡
 
That was an infuriating process. As others reported, Apple Card would not work, despite being my payment method for the upgrade program the last year. Also received the loan denied message at one point. At first, it wouldn’t take the second payment method. The “fill out the red areas” message kept appearing despite all red areas already filled in. After 20 minutes, it went through with the other payment method. Not really sure what the point is of the Apple Card if it can’t be used at the Apple Store.
 
both orders are in for 9/24.

still really frustrated that both of our orders made us enter our card info and security # again at check out. Can’t figure out why that is.
Yes, ditto. It’s the same card that’s on file in my Apple account, already populated during pre-order setup. Ridiculous.
 
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