Best Buy and RS gets EVO Inventory EARLY?

[gabbott]

but they are pre-sales - ie already sold.

Shrug, you make a very good point

 

[jedisrus]

I don't see them releasing them early. It causes problems for other stores within the company for one to release the product early and others not.

 

[Yourdogsdead]

Would the phones activate if they were sold early? If Sprint didn't want a phone on their network, they would just refuse to activate it.

 

[chrgnthru]

If I remember correctly it only launched 4 days early. Hopefully the Best Buy in Palm Desert makes the same mistake the Mission Viejo Best Buy did and calls for pick up as soon as they get them.

19 days and counting.

Maybe I'll see ya there. I'll be picking mine up at the same store if Sprint store doesn't have any left for me.

 

[tojoe616]

You wont see them sold until the 4th at the store i work for. It is a streetdate and usually the POS (point of sale) system wont package or ring out until the 4th. Usually they will set something like a game console release with a 9999.99 price in the system until its date so its not accidentally sold.

 

[Eguy]

If I remember correctly it only launched 4 days early. Hopefully the Best Buy in Palm Desert makes the same mistake the Mission Viejo Best Buy did and calls for pick up as soon as they get them.

19 days and counting.

I hate that Best Buy with a passion. Go to Radio Shack instead .

 

[Gekko]

I hate that Best Buy with a passion. Go to Radio Shack instead .

what did they do to you?

 

[Ky1e.YC]

According to I heard, RS or BB will get phones earlier than June 4th, but they wont release until 4th morning, or they will be sued.

 

[PhantomPhreak53]

The Best Buy I preordered from actually said they'd give me a call and set up an appointment to get me all set up as soon as they get the phones in. Apparently they got a bunch of preorders and receive a lot of questions about the EVO, so I was told they want to help those who preordered to avoid the lines and madness.

I hope they stick to this plan, though if I already waited 3 months for this phone, what more is a day or two...right?

Yeah the Best Buy I pre-ordered at said the same thing. They will call me about a week before the release date and setup an appointment for me to come in and pick it up. He said if you don't have an appointment, you can't pick it up till the following day.

 

[Tyler Durden]

Yeah the Best Buy I pre-ordered at said the same thing. They will call me about a week before the release date and setup an appointment for me to come in and pick it up. He said if you don't have an appointment, you can't pick it up till the following day.

no appointment at the BB I pre ordered at, they just said show up on the 4th and pick up your phone.
I'll be there at 10:00 when they open!

"If" by some chance they do call with an appointment, I would expect to be the very first appointment they have, because I was the first to pre order at this Best buy.

 

[gstill4]

The BB i pre ordered from said they will call me when they get the phones in..maybe they will do a midnight release on june 4th like they did with avatar so technically it will be june 4th.

 

[PhantomPhreak53]

no appointment at the BB I pre ordered at, they just said show up on the 4th and pick up your phone.
I'll be there at 10:00 when they open!

"If" by some chance they do call with an appointment, I would expect to be the very first appointment they have, because I was the first to pre order at this Best buy.

I think it depends on how many pre-orders the store gets. I was there on the first day they announced you could pre-order and I was the 31st person to reserve one.

 

[bdizzel1982]

so they will probably get these phones in a few days early. it's not like they're going to drop shipment on June 4.

what are our chances of us getting our phones a little EARLY? will the "system" allow them to be run up early?

Best Buy can not sell the phone early if they do they risk losing there ability to sell sprint products in the future not to mention any type of legal ramification since they are in a legal binding agreement with sprint. Now this has obviously happened in the past I actually worked for a store where something similar happened and the Manager of that dept along with the employee who put the product out were both fired on the spot for doing so. Since this phone has a fairly big following and people are obviously eager to get there hands on it there will be a lot of people watching to make sure this doesn't go out the door early. Also as previously stated Sprint will not activate the phone until June 4th so even if they let us have the phone a day or two early its just a paper wait at that point.

 

[Gekko]

Best Buy can not sell the phone early if they do they risk losing there ability to sell sprint products in the future not to mention any type of legal ramification since they are in a legal binding agreement with sprint. Now this has obviously happened in the past I actually worked for a store where something similar happened and the Manager of that dept along with the employee who put the product out were both fired on the spot for doing so. Since this phone has a fairly big following and people are obviously eager to get there hands on it there will be a lot of people watching to make sure this doesn't go out the door early. Also as previously stated Sprint will not activate the phone until June 4th so even if they let us have the phone a day or two early its just a paper wait at that point.

i don't believe it. the EVO is not a new Wii or XBOX 360 etc.

 

[lembowski]

I was the 1st to Pre-Order at the BB in San Diego and they said they would call me a week before to set up an appointment. I did the same thing with the Droid when Verizon released it however I just went in the morning of the release date and picked the phone up prior to my appointment later that day. I plan on doing that for the EVO as I will be busy that afternoon at work and will need to pick it up right at 10am when they open.

 

[bdizzel1982]

i don't believe it. the EVO is not a new Wii or XBOX 360 etc.

You don't have to believe it but reality is you will not get your phone early you will just have to wait like the rest of us.

 

[fraz]

BB mobile guy told me theres a great chance they get the phones in earlier than the 4th, like the 3rd but cant activate them until the store opens on the 4th.

 

[WatermelonSlim]

FYI Best Buy is selling a Virgin Mobile Backberry early right now:
Best Buy Selling Virgin Mobile BlackBerry Curve Early | PhoneNews.com

So who knows, might get lucky and get the Evo early too. But Radio Shack is the one giving out the $20 coupon, so that's something to consider too.

 

[tojoe616]

Basically we are going to call the people in order from our list at my store and set up appointment times on the 4th that they can come in and have their phone activated and setup. This allows us to spread out the rush and make sure each customer is taken care of how they should be and not rushed through everything. I highly doubt you will find any store selling the phone before the 4th either due to sprint not allowing activation, or Best Buy not allowing it to be packaged out or sold in the POS terminals.

 

[Kevin_G_Sanchez]

BB mobile guy told me theres a great chance they get the phones in earlier than the 4th, like the 3rd but cant activate them until the store opens on the 4th.

You wont see them sold until the 4th at the store i work for. It is a streetdate and usually the POS (point of sale) system wont package or ring out until the 4th. Usually they will set something like a game console release with a 9999.99 price in the system until its date so its not accidentally sold.

I am a Best Buy employee. When we get new products, we always recieve them around 2-3 days earlier then the street date. The reason we can't sell them is the same reason why tojoe616 said. The price on the system will come out ridiculously high.