non dummy thunderbolt spotted at verizon store

[martin erwin]

Why do you need more than anecdotal evidence peeps? I played with a live TBolt in January. They are out there in the hands of HTC reps. The one I played with belonged to an HTC rep. Whether you believe his story is true or not makes no difference to him, I'm sure.

Sometimes people on here act like this phone is the second coming of christ.

 

[Droid800]

Why do you need more than anecdotal evidence peeps? I played with a live TBolt in January. They are out there in the hands of HTC reps. The one I played with belonged to an HTC rep. Whether you believe his story is true or not makes no difference to him, I'm sure.

Sometimes people on here act like this phone is the second coming of christ.

Its starting to get really irritating. Is the phone cool? Hell yeah it is. But geeze people. Find something to occupy your time until we get an announcement.

 

[Sokar]

Did it have a cupholder?

 

[chronic illusionz]

You know what TC, I believe you. Because also being from NY, any Verizon store I walk into to ask about the TBolt they seem to want to get rid of you QUICK. I refuse to believe not one single person in all of those stores know absolutely NOTHING.

 

[Noloc0209]

I believe you op. Yeah this bashing is really getting crazy on here......its not like he couls have said "hey everyone gather around the thunderbolt you keeping me away from and taunting me with so I can take a picture for people I will never meet in my life and so that they can believe me and I can sleep better knowing I did the android community justice" honestly people should not be threatened or scared to post a thread for the reason of being harrassed. Forum people and last I checked it was open unless it doesn't pretain to the forum topic which this story does....jusayin...that is all

 

[azdmelani]

this is not spam..i am not a troll.. this is a 100% legit story it happened to me today at roughly 5pm..so after going to 2 different verizon stores in manhatten (34th street and 42nd/6th) asking to just simply see the dummy unit of the tbolt so i can get a feel for it..i was told that they didnt have any and in a last ditch effort i went to a 3rd and final (much much smaller) verizon store at 43rd street and madison ave..this is where the fun begins..now i work for the city of new york and i was in full uniform(thats all i can say) which may or may not have any relevance, anyway i walk in and i approach the very kind greater and ask her if they have a dummy tbolt, she replied "no we dont but that lady standing by customer service is a regional htc rep you may want to speak to her" and literally winks at me..ok hint taken..i walk over to the rep and ask her the above question..the htc rep looks at me smiles and says "we dont have any" so i reply 'ohh okk do you really not have any or you just cant show me"..i laughed and the rep laughed..at this point the rep looks at a verizon store employee smiles at her and says "can in show him"..the verizon store employee (with the dirtiest look i have ever seen) sharply replies "no we dont have any, it will be out in a few weeks" and brushes me off..so i reply "whats a few weeks because im a new customer comming from tmobile and ive been interested in this phone" vz employee replies "I DONT KNOW, A FEW WEEKS"..so i take a hint and walk away to wait for my partner who was conducting other business..at this point im standing only 5 or so feet from the htc rep and the above lovley vz employee..then the original greater aproaches me and brings me to the htc rep again(i guess she figured i didnt talk to her yet) and she says "hey so in so this guy is interested in the tbolt" so i imediatley say 'yeah we met already she said she cant show me" for the whole store to hear..now this is where the fun stuff really begins..as i wait for my partner no less than 3 seperate vz employees walk up to the htc rep and say "can i see it"...this is when the htc rep pulls a device out of her pocket and hands it to each employee in full view of the store...the htc rep whispers something to the employee and the employee turns her back to me hiding the very obvious tbolt in her hand and starts playing with it..now this is when the vz employee (with her back still turned) says to me very loudly "sir this phone is very very cool"..i reply simply "i bet it is" standing there like a shmuck..i stormed out at this point...i really dont know if this info is of any value to anyone but i figured i would share anyway..and i know bad grammar, run on sentences and terrible wording..i apologize im just extremley pissed

great... that's the store by my office I want to go to

 

[thedeceiver]

TLDR

 

[ejweber]

At this point, I don't even care if the original poster is telling the truth. I need stories like these to keep me going!

 

[funguy123us]

I believe this story and it is actually bad news...

Think about it, this means VZ employee don't have phone and they have no clue when they will get it. Because if they were getting in next 3-7 days then they wouldn't be this excited just to see the tbolt. This tells me more bad news to follow... (ie 17th?)

 

[htowngator]

TLDR

lol

 

[Koato]

sniff sniff... ew

 

[dt]

very interesting, true or not, i can confirm that the employees are either trained to say they don't have a dummy tb or simply dont have one, and they also do not have a release date, basically, no info at all from that store

 

[aupharmd2011]

lol did you guys even read the story?...

I didn't; I prefer paragraphs

 

[phantomog]

very interesting, true or not, i can confirm that the employees are either trained to say they don't have a dummy tb or simply dont have one, and they also do not have a release date, basically, no info at all from that store

weird. at my closest VZW store, they had 2 dummy units prominently on display, didn't even have to ask to see it. This was this past Saturday.

 

[FatalErrorz]

Someone gets on here to share a story. You guys decide to go after him because he doesn't have pics. Is it so hard to believe that an HTC rep would have the phone in hand? When I worked for an AT&T store we got to see pre-production units sometimes a month before they were officially released. In some cases it was even sooner than that.

Now are you guys gonna say you don't believe me because I don't have pictures to prove it? If so then don't post and just move on. We all know the phones are out in the wild somewhere (at least for testing purposes if not more) so if someone saw one randomly in a store it's definitely possible.

If it is true (and I have no reason to doubt the OP) than it should make you guys that want the phone happy that they are letting reps have them to use.

lol...ALL of the T-Bolt threads are this way...I just got used to it and stay away from the rabid ones.

 

[jayishere]

Ahhh the prelaunch hysteria!

 

[bunique4life05]

Ahhh the prelaunch hysteria!

exactly!

 

[gunmetalgr3g]

If I went into store where the employee's brushed me off, walked away and yelled at me I would flip out. I would asking who hell these kid's parents are. Worse who thought these kids could run store? In this story they sound like a bratty little sister.

This

 

[jayishere]

This

I'd probably tell them to Eff off

 

[aupharmd2011]

now that I've read your post, I don't think I would visit that store again and I would try to tell somebody about the behavior there and that it cost verizon a new customer (true or not)