Posts Tagged ‘iPhone Back Order’

Well I broke down last week and ordered an iPhone 3G black 16G. The bad part of that is that it seems most of the country ordered my phone as well. Demand has far outstripped supply and it’s going to be 2 to 4 weeks before phones started arriving. There are some who are being lucky and getting theirs early. I think that living in the ozarks will do 1 of 2 things. See that I get it early because the store I ordered from has fewer orders than those in bigger cities, or 2 get starved of supply due to being smaller. We’ll see.

There’s a thread HERE that as of this morning had 421 pages and 4205 posts about folks still waiting on their phones. One of the links from there is a way to track where you are in the queue and when you “possibly” could expect your iPhone 3G to ship.

http://www.wheresmydamniphone.com/

Att itself has a site where you can track your order, but it doesn’t compete with the masochism of seeing just how far away you are from getting that iPhone 3G you just had to have, but couldn’t be bothered waiting in line for 7/11. That being said, there are folks who ordered on the 7/11 who haven’t got there iPhones yet.

The site for att is HERE, you’ll need your receipt details, specifically the Order ID: (last 5 digits), the postcode of the store you ordered from and the iPhone 3G you ordered.

While it looks like it may take a month for me to get my new phone, it should prove entertaining to keep an eye on that thread to see just how big it gets, and how irate people get. Unless Apple and get supply moving and quickly, there will be a LOT of irate customers getting impatient.

Cheers,

Shane