Thunderbolt Confirmed in this week's Best Buy Ad

[Chrisy]

Also, the Best Buy on these forums said his store got them in stock yesterday. I quoted it above. I'm hopeful.

 

[leehblanc]

I believe someone else pointed out that BB and other retailers plan out their advertising well in advance of whe it hits. It could have been that BB and HTC planned for this phone to hit on the 14th, which would explain the menner in which it was displayed in the ad; and before thay could change anything, were told of the change of date of release.

This is completely understandable for the PRINT ad, and an in-store retraction would be fine. The WEB ad however, would be much easier to correct. Hell, I have to deal with popups about the circus coming to town, I fill out a web form with my age (40) and targeted Extenze ads rain down on me. I really don't think it would be all that difficult to add a popup/disclaimer on the web ad, especially since they didn't just get the memo yesterday that it wasn't coming out.

 

[experiment 626]

Maybe BB moved up the Bolt's release date a few days since the Xoom's release is listed as the 24th now.

 

[I am Fake Jesus]

bolt is on front page of mobile ads as well, but says 299 for 2 year contract. lol i dont believe that or thats before a instant rebate. but this ad is basically like its out an ready for purchase like the other bby ad

 

[fire n ice]

Wierd... I just checked BB's online weekly ad and the tbolt was listed on there 4 times. whats even wierder is 3 of them were listed as 299.99 and the last one 249.99. O well, at least none of them say coming soon!!

 

[I am Fake Jesus]

at the price tag of 300 bucks, it may never come my way. lol god 1 year contracts will be worse. might as well buy it off contract lol

this better be before instant rebates

 

[experiment 626]

My copy of the BB ad has the Bolt on page 10 with a 2yr price of $249.99.( And a list price of $749.99) No mention of the 32GB memory card though,mmmmm

 

[edoublediz]

theyve been open for 10 minutes, whats the word guys?

 

[bvitale]

I called and got that the manufacturer pushed the date back to the end of this month. Whatever...... I will get it when I get it.

 

[prakash99]

No they don't have it and the reps say they have no info.

 

[Chrisy]

Aww bummer!thanks for checking guys.

 

[thedeceiver]

theyve been open for 10 minutes, whats the word guys?

Just got off the phone with my local BB in Texas. The rep didn't know anything so she asked her manager then got back on the phone with me and indicated the date had been pushed back to March 1st.

She did indicate they were doing pre-sales and I was more than welcome to come in for that.

 

[gr8racr]

hope the 249 price is right got my wife to go for that but the 300 will be no go and would cause a huge fight even if I camped out to get her the Iphone 4 on release night

 

[edoublediz]

i love it! VZW and BB are the biggest bunch of freaking idiots, not the people we see and deal with like CSRs, reps, and salespeople, the ones that run the show at corporate. how bad could you possibly **** up a release for a new phone? its almost mind boggling as to how they have still not released some type of statement regarding this phone. damnit, if their network wasnt so good...........

 

[prakash99]

VZW site shows coming soon but according to some people BB will have it first so VZW showing that on their site kinda sorta makes sense.

The rep I was talking to said that won't happen. He said "if we have it, Verizon will have it too"

 

[prakash99]

i love it! VZW and BB are the biggest bunch of freaking idiots, not the people we see and deal with like CSRs, reps, and salespeople, the ones that run the show at corporate. how bad could you possibly **** up a release for a new phone? its almost mind boggling as to how they have still not released some type of statement regarding this phone. damnit, if their network wasnt so good...........

Knowing Verizon, they do it all the time. But again, they never announced the release date. So technically we can't blame them this time. Still I don't like Verizon on the corporate level - it appears the execs don't really care abt customers. They know as long as they have better coverage and network, many disgruntled customers like u and me will still stay with them. I have had absolutely no problems with the retail reps or their cs reps (on the phone). They have always been cordial and cooperative with me. The same goes for BB sales reps.

 

[edoublediz]

Knowing Verizon, they do it all the time. But again, they never announced the release date. So technically we can't blame them this time. Still I don't like Verizon on the corporate level - it appears the execs don't really care abt customers. They know as long as they have better coverage and network, many disgruntled customers like u and me will still stay with them. I have had absolutely no problems with the retail reps or their cs reps (on the phone). They have always been cordial and cooperative with me. The same goes for BB sales reps.

i agree with your statement about VZW/BB reps as i previously stated. but they actually did give a release date by proxy through BB. anyone who thinks BB just decided to say it was available on the 14th without approval from VZW is crazy. VZW or BB needs to release a statement as to what in the hell is going on.

 

[experiment 626]

Well today is still only the 20th so 4 days until our best-guess unofficial release date. Maybe Verizon and BB plan on releasing the Bolt and Xoom together on the same day?

 

[prakash99]

i agree with your statement about VZW/BB reps as i previously stated. but they actually did give a release date by proxy through BB. anyone who thinks BB just decided to say it was available on the 14th without approval from VZW is crazy. VZW or BB needs to release a statement as to what in the hell is going on.

Maybe BB will, in some form...but VZW prolly won't. They feel too high n mighty.

 

[deltwalrus]

Just got back from my local BB in Columbus, Ohio. Reps there are less stupid than most I've encountered in other stores. They have no idea when it will be available, though the folks there said "24th or 28th" a couple of times. So even they were in the dark.