Best Buy Early Arrival?

[jeffcats]

I pre-ordered a S6 Edge from Best Buy on March 27th and I have been reading about people receiving theirs from certain carriers already. Has anyone heard if Best Buy will release their pre-ordered phones before the Friday release date? This wait is killing me!

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[Raptor007]

May not happen. I think they get their inventory from other channels, may be from Samsung, maybe from the carriers or their distribution centers. But most of all Samsung is likely going to hold firm on the 4-10 date, carriers can bend the rules since they are the carriers. Retailers can't afford to tick off any OEM. But hey it could happen and I hope it does happen for those waiting.

 

[briggy79]

I preordered from Best Buy online, not in the store, on the 27th. Just received shipping confirmation and tracking number this afternoon for the Sprint 64GB Edge. Hoping to have it tomorrow!

 

[13ringinheat]

I have mine preordered from the store as well. I hate this waiting game. I would have just gone and used att online preorder but i wanted the free charger that best buy was offering with the preorder. They said the charger is limited supply so i will be really upset if i miss out on the charger and had to wait these extra days.

 

[briggy79]

UPS already has the Edge out for delivery this morning. It does look like the charger is in limited supply as the phone shipped but the charger has not.

 

[dgravo]

Just received my email for pickup tomorrow.

 

[jdtruong]

When did you order?

 

[dgravo]

Saturday, March 28th

 

[jdtruong]

Any indication that the free charging pad will be available to pickup with the phone?

 

[jeffcats]

I just called my local Best Buy & they received a huge shipment of S6 phones a week ago & since have been sorting pre orders. The guy didn't know if the Edge would be available through which if true, pisses me off. Why pre order a phone that isn't available? I could have gone through AT&T and already had my Edge if this is indeed true. He did say I will get a call from them starting Thursday afternoon on when to come pick it up or if it's not there.

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[ctk4949]

no email
I preordered March 28th for a Verizon S6 Edge 64GB Black.

 

[jdtruong]

I preordered on the 31st and haven't seen an email yet.

 

[dgravo]

Mine is for the AT&T 64 GB

 

[gdubs2013]

Just got my confirmation email for the phone, nothing about the charger yet. But from what I've been seeing around the forums here and other places it really depends on the store. Corporate has no control of when these emails go out, they will just come when the sales person gets around to sending it out after checking inventory.

But as many have also reported, and I've been told too, they will be overstocked at nearly every store to deal with pre-orders and walk-ins. It's just the wireless chargers that are in short supply right now.

 

[ctk4949]

no email
I preordered March 28th for a Verizon S6 Edge 64GB Black.

Just got mine

 

[dgravo]

I just checked the email again and weirdly its for the charger and not for the phone. Good thing I looked at it. I just assumed it would be all together. Looks like the phone will be a separate email.

 

[13ringinheat]

This wait is killing me. No email for the charger or the phone yet. I pre-ordered mine Mar 30th. The next time i pre-order it will be directly from the service providers. I got my HTC one M7, the phone i am upgrading from, earlier when i pre ordered directly from AT&T.

 

[speed13]

Same

 

[chickweedblur]

Got my email just for the phone, then an hour later the local store called wanting to know when I was coming in to pick it up. Kinda weird but giving them the benefit of the doubt, maybe wanted to get a read on staffing or the chargers. Never thought to ask about it though. Not worth reading too much into it but when I ordered, they were all talking about setting up special lines, opening super early on Fri for activations, etc, and they aren't doing any of that. Normal store hours - not open until 10am. I may swing by tonight on my way home and see what's going on.

 

[UseYourIllusions]

I pre-ordered white 64 gig edge on March 30th. Still no email yet. I called the store earlier and the girl said that everyone would be getting emails this afternoon that the phone would be ready to pick up tomorrow, so I'm gonna call back again if I don't get an email soon.