Droid X Shipping on August 23!

[slcbtf]

I'm in the same boat Wilson... The storm has been quite the ride, and I'll be glad when it's over.

<please Verizon...overnight that phone!>

 

[wilsoni91]

I'm in the same boat Wilson... The storm has been quite the ride, and I'll be glad when it's over.

<please Verizon...overnight that phone!>

I never had any problems with my until I had to do a insurance claim. Since then I have had nothing but major problems with it.

 

[Jussumguy88]

ordered on the 15th..still no word..I'm just hoping and praying. it'll come in before the 31st..i don't want to wait until monday..

 

[jzuchowski]

Finally ordered mine yesterday with the expectation of a ship date of Sept. 8th. Really hoping that I get it earlier than that. Storm2 wasn't as bad of an experience for me besides having to hard sync my work exchange stuff being on BIS. Anyone else waiting on the ship daste of the 8th?

 

[Jigmeister]

My latest date is the 7th. Good luck!

 

[increditim]

My latest date is the 7th. Good luck!

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i can't believe you have such a good attitude. they should give you a second phone free after that.

 

[Xtgirl]

I ordered one for my husband on on Friday the 20th... It's coming tomorrow so just 7 days..the status said it would ship on the 8th so I was very surprised... He's ak new customer and it's shipping from the PA warehouse so that may have something to do with it.

 

[draftpeppin]

I put my name on a wait list at a store that carries Verizon products, but is not an actual Verizon-operated store. Did that on 8/22. They said there were four people ahead of me and that they've been getting 1 or 2 of these per week, but no guarantees. I guess I'll just have to wait and see if it was a bad idea to go through them. I guess the good part is that when I get the call that it's here, it's really here and I won't have to wait another day or two for shipping.

Hopefully I'll get it before 1) I go crazy, or 2) my Storm 1 completely stops working. Just did my second restart for the day on the Storm due to low memory with only 5 apps. 3 of the 4 buttons don't work half the time on the first push, and the send button hardly works at all!

 

[thisisbenji]

Ordered mine as an exchange on the 20th, haven't received an email conformation or anything yet. Just a credit card bill, that kind of worries me. I would at least like to be able to check the status of the order at my Verizon.

 

[increditim]

Ordered mine as an exchange on the 20th, haven't received an email conformation or anything yet. Just a credit card bill, that kind of worries me. I would at least like to be able to check the status of the order at my Verizon.

i hear you but the verizon website just gives you a drop dead that your phone is supposed to ship by. critical word 'supposed' because i'm starting to fear that they'll delay even longer.

 

[increditim]

does anyone else think that this is not an issue with motorola supplying phones to verizon but is really just verizon having phones in warehouses and either not wanting to hire anough people to process them for shipping or just not caring when customers get delivery because they already have the money? what if we did that with our bill? i will pay you by august 31, or i might pay you earlier, or i might pay you later...wouldn't that be fun?

 

[increditim]

ok, just made my daily call to cs. i got nothing useful. at least i didn't pay for overnight so i won't be more upset if they ship tomorrow and i have to wait through the weekend. i'll be upset about waiting, but at least i didnt pay!!! why don't they just ship us our phones so we don't have to bug them?

 

[Topweasel]

does anyone else think that this is not an issue with motorola supplying phones to verizon but is really just verizon having phones in warehouses and either not wanting to hire anough people to process them for shipping or just not caring when customers get delivery because they already have the money? what if we did that with our bill? i will pay you by august 31, or i might pay you earlier, or i might pay you later...wouldn't that be fun?

No. Its a two prong attack Motorola ships Verizon the phones. They go to the big distribution hubs. Those Hubs ship to the various Warehouses and those warehouse ship to the stores and to customers. Maybe in a few wharehouses they could use a couple extra guys, but what happens when Verizon goes 3 or 4 months without having a phone selling 400k-500k units? You want these wharehouses to start hiring guys just to lay them off in a couple of months?

Its the same reason stock is low in the first place. Even if they can predict ahead of time, demand. They can only account for so much of it during production. To hit intial demand they either A.) Have to hold the phones longer before release to build up stock to ship. B.) Hire and build lines to keep up with initial demand. C.) Hire people for extra shifts. With A everyone waits longer for the phone to be released. B you end up with enormous amounts of extra stock if demand doesn't stay constant throughout production, making the phone a disappointment and decreasing the chance of a similar type of release. C. You end up with the same issue as Verizon you basically are hiring and training people costing 10's of thousands of dollars per hire just to lay them off in a couple months.

Or you can deal with the fact that you are on the cutting edge of technology for your Carrier and they have 2 week back order on stock. My friend still had to wait 3 weeks for his Pre-order he put in a week before the Jesus phone 4 release. That was a production that due to its status had the closest production capacity to match demand out of any general electronic device.

 

[dubge]

I personally think they are doing what nintendo did and held back supply to create more demand and buzz about them. I also think we are going to see this more and more in the future. I dont think this is the case everytime but I am starting to think it more often.

 

[increditim]

No. Its a two prong attack Motorola ships Verizon the phones. They go to the big distribution hubs. Those Hubs ship to the various Warehouses and those warehouse ship to the stores and to customers. Maybe in a few wharehouses they could use a couple extra guys, but what happens when Verizon goes 3 or 4 months without having a phone selling 400k-500k units? You want these wharehouses to start hiring guys just to lay them off in a couple of months?

Its the same reason stock is low in the first place. Even if they can predict ahead of time, demand. They can only account for so much of it during production. To hit intial demand they either A.) Have to hold the phones longer before release to build up stock to ship. B.) Hire and build lines to keep up with initial demand. C.) Hire people for extra shifts. With A everyone waits longer for the phone to be released. B you end up with enormous amounts of extra stock if demand doesn't stay constant throughout production, making the phone a disappointment and decreasing the chance of a similar type of release. C. You end up with the same issue as Verizon you basically are hiring and training people costing 10's of thousands of dollars per hire just to lay them off in a couple months.

Or you can deal with the fact that you are on the cutting edge of technology for your Carrier and they have 2 week back order on stock. My friend still had to wait 3 weeks for his Pre-order he put in a week before the Jesus phone 4 release. That was a production that due to its status had the closest production capacity to match demand out of any general electronic device.

ok, thanks i understand. i'm just frustrated. i will be happy if i get my phone earlier than 8/31 even if i get it on monday. it will suck on the other hand if they suddenly can't get mine or anyone who ordered on the 17th their phone early when so many other people have gotten them early. of course unless it ships today, it really won't be 'early' because we won't get it until monday.

 

[Topweasel]

I personally think they are doing what nintendo did and held back supply to create more demand and buzz about them. I also think we are going to see this more and more in the future. I dont think this is the case everytime but I am starting to think it more often.

If you think that is what Nintendo did then your crazy. Its a hard game to figure out. But the last thing they wanted to do was go into the red when the desire for the console died out. But if they could have ended the shortage a year early to do so they would have. They didn't make money on the console (well very little) the money was in the games, people not able to purchase the console means people who can't buy the games.

Ferrari is one of the few manufacturers that can truly hold back on stock to drive up value. A company making devices they want to sell to the masses in mass can't. Value being driven up is only helpful if they can increase the cost as well and Nintendo never changed the price.

 

[ardoreal]

I like the rational discussion offered by topweasel. Good points.

In a few months when demand has died down it would have made no sense to go all out and hire tons of people to distribute this phone.

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[dubge]

If you think that is what Nintendo did then your crazy. Its a hard game to figure out. But the last thing they wanted to do was go into the red when the desire for the console died out. But if they could have ended the shortage a year early to do so they would have. They didn't make money on the console (well very little) the money was in the games, people not able to purchase the console means people who can't buy the games.

Ferrari is one of the few manufacturers that can truly hold back on stock to drive up value. A company making devices they want to sell to the masses in mass can't. Value being driven up is only helpful if they can increase the cost as well and Nintendo never changed the price.

hey now let's leave my crazyness out of this

I have a family member who works in the industry and they DID at one point hold back stock to create more demand for it, I dont want it to sound like it was the whole time because it was not and I should have been clear on that, maybe it was just before the holidays or something and I want to say it was a couple times they held back but I dont remember all the details. I am sure at some point there was more demand then supply and that was the case for a lot of it.

 

[FormerIphoney]

ordered the phone the 18th, received it last night 5:00 pm.
Traded the droid 2 back in...one word....UNREAL.

so glad I did it...this is exactly what I was looking for

 

[Topweasel]

hey now let's leave my crazyness out of this

I have a family member who works in the industry and they DID at one point hold back stock to create more demand for it, I dont want it to sound like it was the whole time because it was not and I should have been clear on that, maybe it was just before the holidays or something and I want to say it was a couple times they held back but I dont remember all the details. I am sure at some point there was more demand then supply and that was the case for a lot of it.

If they did it for the holidays it probably wasn't to increase demand but to make sure they had stock for companies bundle deals and crazy sales. Eventually that product gets sold and the sooner its sold the sooner they start selling games, and highly profitable accessories. You don't just hold back on a low margin, keystone item to drum up "demand". It could also have been when they were converting some production over to the black WII's, or when they were changing revisions on the hardware like when they added DVD playback, or stopping shipments to update firmware/software. There are reasons that there are gaps in shipments that don't = doing it on purpose.