Re: Uh-Oh......Delivery Delays!
I called T-Mobile to ask if it would delay my phone if I cancel the order for blue and changed it to silver. He said it might, and he said what's more, even if I leave the order as is, the 18th that was currently showing for my phone might be "delayed due to high demand for this phone." He said this date of the 18th is no longer set in stone....It just depends on how many phones Samsung can get out by that date. I then asked "Well what about in-store? If I just wait and buy it in-store, do we know for sure that my T-Mobile will have them on the 19th?" He said "Without a doubt. They are committed at this point to have the Note 7 in-store on that date." Then I asked him "Are you saying I'll have a better chance of getting the phone on time if I cancel my order and just go in store?" then he started talking as though he was reading from a script: "I am unable to confirm estimated times for delivery of phones, since it depends on a variety of factors...." I interrupted him, "but you did just say it's possible that phones that are showing a delivery date of 18th-19th might be delayed, right?" "Yes." "And you did just say that the store down the street will have them on the 19th?" "Definitely."
Just thought I would share with you guys. Personally, I cancelled my order and will walk in the store when they open on the 19th.
Do you have a really good TMO location near you? This was my experience with the N5 and finding a White 64 gb.
The stores start getting the inventory in about a week before release and even up until the night before release.
The managers here were very happy to tell me "we haven't gotten any 64 gb white" or "we are getting good 64 gb white daily". There was even one store that oddly got two 32 gb gold. I was wanting gold but the 64 so white was my second choice. It's a store that the manager knows me, has known me from another store for years, but this was an employee and over. The phone. She offered to put one of those gold aside for me.
I was good with that but decided finally I wanted the 64 gb more than the gold so I called her and told her not to hold it.
Find a couple good stores close, drop in discuss the issue with the manager. You have 14 days to return the phone. If you want the blue, find the store that will have them, be there on release date and return your silver.
Or of the inventory is high for the blue they are getting, you can wait until release day.
I picked a smaller, less popular store that had a high inventory of the white 64 gb. It was not a store I had ever done business with. I got there at 8:45, I was first, I had my phone by 9:30 and was on my way home. There were lines at the really big stores. By lunch that small store was covered up with people trying to get the 64 gb white.
Now I called about 6 different stores in this area the days before release checking the inventory. I always tried to call early in the am or late in the evening when it wasn't busy and every single person was glad to check what they got in, every time and tell me they either got a lot or didn't get any that day and to call them back the next.
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