Pre order **MAY BEGIN** arriving on May 18th?!?

[gikim1118]

Me too.

Thanks for pre-ordering. You are one step closer to getting your phone. Keep an eye out for a shipping email with your tracking information. We will do our best to get it to you before others get a glimpse on Friday, May 18. For questions, visit sprint.com/preorder.

 

[six8]

mine says: Thanks for preordering sucker. We really don't have a clue when your shiny new HTC EVO 4G LTE will ship

 

[Mikey47]

mine says: Thanks for preordering sucker. We really don't have a clue when your shiny new HTC EVO 4G LTE will ship

That would be fine by me, at least they would be being honest. ;-)

I would love to say there will be hell to pay if I don't have it before May 18th, but what the heck would that mean? They have us by the short hairs...

Fool me once, shame on your Sprint, fool me twice shame on me. Last pre-order I make. :-(

 

[icenija]

Ok Ok we are all excited and anxious to get our new phones, myself included but I can say that I went through this exact same thing with the 3D and I got mine before you could get it in the store and I bet the same will happen here. Every company has to put out the CYA wording in case sh*t happens. If something goes wrong and you don't get your phone on before the 18th call them up, without an attitude, and see what kind of credit you can get and I'm sure they will oblige. Sprint is trying to get new customers and keep the ones they have. Just my .02

Ice

 

[Mikey47]

Every company has to put out the CYA wording in case sh*t happens.

Well, they didn't (still don't) have a problem saying "get it before others get a glimpse" on their pre-order splash ad on the front of sprint.com. Now their status say "We will do our best to get it to you before others get a glimpse...". Definitely CYA.

 

[rajamahal]

Well, they didn't (still don't) have a problem saying "get it before others get a glimpse" on their pre-order splash ad on the front of sprint.com. Now their status say "We will do our best to get it to you before others get a glimpse...". Definitely CYA.

It's probably an intern updating the status, yep an intern

 

[nathy321]

My order status just changed to this (3rd time the status changes today)

Thanks for pre-ordering. You are one step closer to getting your phone. Keep an eye out for a shipping email with your tracking information. We will do our best to get it to you before others get a glimpse on Friday, May 18. For questions, visit sprint.com/preorder.

So I guess we will have it before the 18 : )

 

[kellyrx8]

just talked to my friend at the corp store on the campus and she said this to me

"Pre-order gets you out of the hassle in the store and waiting. That's about it."

damn, well guess ill just hope it comes in sooner than later.

 

[Mikey47]

So I guess we will have it before the 18 : )

Not necessarily, that's why they changed it to say "We will do our best...".

 

[jcthorne#AC]

Well, If the 18th rolls around and I still don't have the phone nor still in the shipper's hands with tracking showing delivery for that day, I'll head to Sprint or Best Buy and pick one up on Friday and just refuse shipment of the preorder. Let Sprint pay to get it back.

Hopefully, it will be in my hands days before available OTC.

 

[pteezay]

I'm lucky I live right around the corner from a Sprint store. I knew there was a reason I pre ordered it in the store for pick up on the 18th.

 

[cr33p]

I pre ordered mine through Best Buy just a little bit ago and talked to a rep on the phone who told me to disregard their expected delivery dates and that they wouldn't be able to ship it until the release date. Although, yesterday when i talked to a rep about the pre order and asked them if they were actually allowed to ship the phones before sprints release date, they stated that they'd be shipped as soon as they receive them. Still not sure what to believe :/ Anyone else have any info from/about best buy pre orders and shipments?

My local best buy told me when the original Evo 4G dropped they had them in the stores for 2 weeks before they could sell them, I wonder if Best Buy will get them early, and then call us on the 18th for pick up?

 

[TraderGary]

Sprint has said that the only way to get it before it is available in stores is to preorder online. This would include even Sprint stores and of course all other second party stores such as Best Buy, Wirefly, etc.

 

[imranmali3]

At least you guys even have a status message, mine is blank and I feel like they are screwing with me now. First they double charged me, and then none of them give me proper information about why my status is not updating.

This is my first ever android (been on blackberry for the past 5 years) and I can't wait, but I have to wait any longer I am going to die. Well not die, but live on life support.

 

[iamliko22]

This is what mine says....

HTC EVO 4G LTE 1 2012-05-07
Status: Thanks for pre-ordering. You are one step closer to getting your phone. Keep an eye out for a shipping email with your tracking information. We will do our best to get it to you before others get a glimpse on Friday, May 18. For questions, visit sprint.com/preorder.

 

[crow11ad]

Maybe all these changes are a good thing. Maybe just maybe.

 

[rpmorri#CB]

At least you guys even have a status message, mine is blank

Mine still is, and I ordered right at 8am Monday. When I think of the debacle with the original Evo...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

 

[Quis89]

So, my order status now changed to:



That is complete B.S.!! So, I payed my $199 to "get dibs early" (their words, not mine), and now we find out that I could have waited and possibly picked it up in the store before my pre-order will arrive?!?!?

Seriously Sprint? If this is true, you just KILLED whatever chance you had of anyone ever placing a pre-order again!

$199 is the same exact price you would have paid had you walked into a store to get it. Its not like you paid any more than anyone who opted not to pre-order...so I dont get your point. You're pre-order GUARANTEES you a device in the event the stores sell out on day 1. It doesnt guarantee you will get a device before everyone else. Is there a possibility of that? Sure...but lets not act like you paid extra for the device to arrive early...

 

[s1moore]

$199 is the same exact price you would have paid had you walked into a store to get it. Its not like you paid any more than anyone who opted not to pre-order...so I dont get your point. You're pre-order GUARANTEES you a device in the event the stores sell out on day 1. It doesnt guarantee you will get a device before everyone else. Is there a possibility of that? Sure...but lets not act like you paid extra for the device to arrive early...

I think what he means is that he ordered from Sprint for the $199 instead of Best Buy or Wirefly where he could have received a discount but waited until the 18th or later.

 

[Hurleygm]

just talked to my friend at the corp store on the campus and she said this to me

"Pre-order gets you out of the hassle in the store and waiting. That's about it."

damn, well guess ill just hope it comes in sooner than later.

That's what I've been thinking the whole time! Pre-order is just a guarantee we won't wait to weeks like I did for my OG EVO