Why Does Best Buy Have Better Delivery Dates for iPhone X?

[csilvia]

So...

I was one of the many that woke up early this morning, 3am EST, to preorder my iPhone X. I ordered a 256gb Silver At&t iPhone X with 2 to 3 weeks shipping, putting the delivery between November 17th and 24th.

I woke up about an hour ago, went on Best Buy, and they have the same configuration available for in-store pick-up on November 10th, so I ordered that one too and plan to cancel my Apple store order.

Why does this happen? Best Buy had better delivery dates when I purchased my iPhone 7+ too! I was told it was because it was a big box chain store, and they had better deal with suppliers, but is that really it?

 

[daydayvol]

More people order from Apple is my guess.

 

[ZipZap]

The have their own supply chain agreement with Apple. I have observed many times where Apple is out and BestBuy has stock.

 

[nfl46]

Not sure. It was showing November 3rd nearly 2 hours after preorders opened. I guess the $100 markup turned people away. Of course you can get that fixed.

 

[dmontopoli]

So...

I was one of the many that woke up early this morning, 3am EST, to preorder my iPhone X. I ordered a 256gb Silver At&t iPhone X with 2 to 3 weeks shipping, putting the delivery between November 17th and 24th.

I woke up about an hour ago, went on Best Buy, and they have the same configuration available for in-store pick-up on November 10th, so I ordered that one too and plan to cancel my Apple store order.

Why does this happen? Best Buy had better delivery dates when I purchased my iPhone 7+ too! I was told it was because it was a big box chain store, and they had better deal with suppliers, but is that really it?

Best Buy shipping dates have been known to slip after orders have been placed:
https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/14/best...ries-2-release-date-to-september-28-for-most/

 

[Michael Scrip]

Not sure. It was showing November 3rd nearly 2 hours after preorders opened. I guess the $100 markup turned people away. Of course you can get that fixed.

Yeah... what a strange thing to do.

Maybe Best Buy is thinking "people will pay $100 extra to get the phone a few weeks earlier than everyone else..."

I wonder how that will work out for 'em...

 

[Technarchy]

They have their own inventory system not linked to Apple.

 

[DDustiNN]

I wonder how that will work out for 'em...

They will sell them all.

 

[skimcpip]

Not sure. It was showing November 3rd nearly 2 hours after preorders opened. I guess the $100 markup turned people away. Of course you can get that fixed.

How do you get it fixed?

 

[csilvia]

Best Buy shipping dates have been known to slip after orders have been placed:
https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/14/best...ries-2-release-date-to-september-28-for-most/

Thanks for this! It makes sense that they do push orders back, and clearly $50 doesn't matter to them!

I think I'm just going to keep both of my orders open until I see movement on one, and then I'll just cancel the other.

 

[madgalaxy]

The $100 markup is only if you buy outright. Carrier financed is the same price as Apple. BB has always down this with alot of their phones, but sure why.

I had a terrible time ordering from the Apple App, so I had to revert to Apple.com and my Black/64gb ship date is Nov 17-24. I was mad because I will be out of town that week, so I looked at BB and they had the Silver/64gb in stock for Nov 3, so I ordered there too. I am going to chew on it for a couple days and cancel one of them. I would rather have black, but I usually always have a case/dbrand on it.

 

[csilvia]

The $100 markup is only if you buy outright. Carrier financed is the same price as Apple. BB has always down this with alot of their phones, but sure why.

I had a terrible time ordering from the Apple App, so I had to revert to Apple.com and my Black/64gb ship date is Nov 17-24. I was mad because I will be out of town that week, so I looked at BB and they had the Silver/64gb in stock for Nov 3, so I ordered there too. I am going to chew on it for a couple days and cancel one of them. I would rather have black, but I usually always have a case/dbrand on it.

But the $100 mark up can be fixed at the time of pick up if you ask for price matching - I'm sure they assume that many people are going to do this!

 

[ssl0408]

I'm trying to order from Best Buy but it's telling me that Verizon is declining my upgrade! There are no issues with my account so I don't understand what's going on...

 

[arggg14]

I ordered from Best Buy at full retail price and my order says model MQA52LL/A, but is that model A1865 or A1901? My AT&T line is paid by my employer, but I own the device. Is this phone going to come SIM free? Do I just put in my AT&T sim before booting?

 

[madgalaxy]

But the $100 mark up can be fixed at the time of pick up if you ask for price matching - I'm sure they assume that many people are going to do this!

True! BB is pretty good about price matching stuff.

 

[psnick]

So...

I was one of the many that woke up early this morning, 3am EST, to preorder my iPhone X. I ordered a 256gb Silver At&t iPhone X with 2 to 3 weeks shipping, putting the delivery between November 17th and 24th.

I woke up about an hour ago, went on Best Buy, and they have the same configuration available for in-store pick-up on November 10th, so I ordered that one too and plan to cancel my Apple store order.

Why does this happen? Best Buy had better delivery dates when I purchased my iPhone 7+ too! I was told it was because it was a big box chain store, and they had better deal with suppliers, but is that really it?

Thanks for the tip! Just ordered 256GB Silver (AT&T), and estimated date for in-store pickup is showing as November 10.

 

[csilvia]

Thanks for the tip! Just ordered 256GB Silver (AT&T), and estimated date for in-store pickup is showing as November 10.

Glad it worked out!

I figure, even if Best Buy pushes the date back a week, I will get a $50 credit, and will still get my phone before Apple plans on shipping it from the factory - it's essentially a win-win!