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Lucky shoppers pick up Verizon Galaxy Nexus early at Best Buy -- Engadget

Don't underestimate Verizon. xD If things aren't the way they want them, then they won't release. However from what I've been told, (which should be taken with a grain of salt) it's very likely that it'll release this week. I'm just as excited to get this phone as anyone in here, but if I hold...

Quite possibly, I can't say what their reasons were, I just know the rules. I know that if I sold the Nexus today, I'd be fired as soon as it was found out. No questions, no appeals, just gone. There might not be a media blow up over this as we geeks are the only ones who truely care about this...

No, no, they were right. That store may lose it's ability to sell future Verizon phones. And it's very likely that people will get fired. That wasn't supposed to happen, there were even several employee news posts telling us that we DO NOT have a date, and we can not disclose inventory or etc to...

Yeah, for some reason our buyer's guides say the Galaxy Nexus Prime, which strikes me as odd since our employee news posts tend to just say Galaxy Nexus. I've heard that the name Galaxy Nexus Prime is supposed to be the Verizon version, but the boxes don't say prime on them... Perhaps they just...

When the customer is your number one priority, you follow the vendor contracts so that you have something to sell to the customers. ;)

I work for Best Buy and I can tell you that it is NOT in our point of sale (register) systems. We physically can NOT sell it because there is no price or way to ring it up. Even if it activates (which it most likely will) it can't be rung through. Save yourselves some time and effort and stop...