any news on how many

[smithhouse]

any news on how many iphones att will be getting.i called a store and he said he new but could not tell me but if they ran out i could pay and they would ship it to me.i would hate to stand in line all day and not get one that night.

[Survivor61]

Yea I am wondering the same, I would assume the store will get more then AT&T so I am gonna go to the store when I get off work instead.

[smithhouse]

i would hate to stand out there in that georgia heat over 6 hours and not get one.

[att_employee]

Yea I am wondering the same, I would assume the store will get more then AT&T so I am gonna go to the store when I get off work instead.

THe exact number of devices available on launch day is a closely-guarded secret (Thanks, Steve). However, I can tell you that 50% of the devices were made available to Apple retail and 50% were made available to AT&T retail. Then they were allocated by region, then market, then district, and finally to store...

Again - I think all stores - Apple & AT&T alike - will sell out by end of business Friday night

[tompayne]

my two stores say they think they wont sell out friday, and that if they do, apple is having them do phone orders and that the phone orders will take 2-3 days to get to your home....we'll see...

[iphoneCOS]

phone orders will take 2-3 days to get to your home....we'll see...

Remember the weekend and then the 4th of July holiday on Wednesday. So hope it gets there by Tuesday or you will need to wait until Thursday.

[att_employee]

my two stores say they think they wont sell out friday, and that if they do, apple is having them do phone orders and that the phone orders will take 2-3 days to get to your home....we'll see...
it's similar to our direct fulfill process, but again, it's limited to available stock

[tompayne]

it's similar to our direct fulfill process, but again, it's limited to available stock


yeah, "direct fulfill" is what she said...i dont intend to take advantage of that anyway.

[smithhouse]

would 50 per store sound about right.i hope they just dont get something like 10 or less.

[att_employee]

would 50 per store sound about right.i hope they just dont get something like 10 or less.

Aargh... this is a slippery one.


In my region (a large geographic area), I haven't heard of any stores getting as few as 10 (though perhaps close). I know of stores getting more than 150.

[brunn1022]

I thought that I read somewhere that the inital order was for 2 million phones. Which would average about 100 phones per store if every store were to be shipped the same amount which they are not.

[thedwp]

any news on how many iphones att will be getting.i called a store and he said he new but could not tell me but if they ran out i could pay and they would ship it to me.i would hate to stand in line all day and not get one that night.

my att person said they are going to keep everyone up to date as to how many phones they have as the night progresses.

[smithhouse]

i was told by one store in atlanta ga that they were inspecting 40 iphones and i should be there in line by 3 or 4 oclock.

[thedwp]

Aargh... this is a slippery one.


In my region (a large geographic area), I haven't heard of any stores getting as few as 10 (though perhaps close). I know of stores getting more than 150.
My ATT person is saying they won't know how many they are getting until their shipment comes in...do you guys really know already and she's just bs'n me?

[the PHDs]

i gotta be 100% honest,
i dont think they are gonna sell out...
apple has been obviously been keeping this a big secret
and yes, the release will be huge...
but think about it....
they are def not worried about losing any money because they are charging us double what it cost them to make...
they will be making a profit after about the first hour i predict...
anyone else agree

[att_employee]

My ATT person is saying they won't know how many they are getting until their shipment comes in...do you guys really know already and she's just bs'n me?
As of yesterday afternoon, I was able to look to see how many were on order for my store. All the stores in my area have done the same, and we've communicated our order amounts to one another.

I anticipate my store will sell out before 8pm, depending on how fast we can move customers through the process

[smithhouse]

how many is your store getting.

[spacerog]

att_employee: Are you willing to let us know what region of the country you are posting from? Do you work at a larger city store or a smaller one in the suburbs? Just curious. Thanks.

- SR

[att_employee]

how many is your store getting.

if I could tell you that I would

[att_employee]

att_employee: Are you willing to let us know what region of the country you are posting from? Do you work at a larger city store or a smaller one in the suburbs? Just curious. Thanks.

- SR

I struggled with this one, but I'm not going to narrow things down.

[smithhouse]

is it over 20

[kneshoba]

it's similar to our direct fulfill process, but again, it's limited to available stock

just came from the att i plan to stand at and I was told if they are sold out you can still purchase the iphone and the direct fullfill process (DFP) will send phones to them (DFP) first and to stores 2nd So i was told by the manager.

[att_employee]

just came from the att i plan to stand at and I was told if they are sold out you can still purchase the iphone and the direct fullfill process (DFP) will send phones to them (DFP) first and to stores 2nd So i was told by the manager.

This is correct.

[att_employee]

is it over 20

c'mon... You rEally want me to riSk my job by allowing you to squeeze this type of information out of me?

[smithhouse]

how will anyone you who you are.

[Iphonekindaguy]

i heard 150 from my att store

[att_employee]

how will anyone you who you are.
If I start commenting on my region, the peculiarities of my area that would affect demand, oe stock quantities, those from above with eyes on these forums could narrow things down. I've already received several emails from forum users wanting me to answer questions (could be people in my company trying to smoke me out) - if I use the forum's email submission form, my email address is revealed. If I answer via my email web client, my IP is revealed. Yes, I do think they take this stuff THAT seriously

[Marksman]

No offense ATT Employee I appreciate your contribution.

I will just comment on the irony of an ATT Employee who actually now has information and being unwilling to share it with us, when every AT&T employee on the planet DID NOT KNOW ANYTHING they had no problem making stuff up and lying.

I just find it very amusing is all. If your co-workers were as capable of being as closed mouth as you when they did not have any facts, as you are with facts, we would have had a lot less rumor mongering going on here the last few weeks and months.

[Domin8stang]

c'mon... You rEally want me to riSk my job by allowing you to squeeze this type of information out of me?


:2cool: i see what you did there :)

[smithhouse]

cool i understand,thanks

[smithhouse]

:2cool: i see what you did there :)

i dont see what you see.

[radbrent]

Or... you could go to a public library or someone elses house that doens't work for At&t and type it up there..... on a different account or something..

[wjp09]

Ive heard supply will surpass demand.

[Iphonekindaguy]

Ive heard supply will surpass demand.

thats what i heard also

[thinkart]

Ive heard supply will surpass demand. i've heard that you get a free monkey with every iphone purchase. :tounge:

[att_employee]

No offense ATT Employee I appreciate your contribution.

I will just comment on the irony of an ATT Employee who actually now has information and being unwilling to share it with us, when every AT&T employee on the planet DID NOT KNOW ANYTHING they had no problem making stuff up and lying.

I just find it very amusing is all. If your co-workers were as capable of being as closed mouth as you when they did not have any facts, as you are with facts, we would have had a lot less rumor mongering going on here the last few weeks and months.

I've only had most of the facts for less than a day now. If you'll notice my posts from a few weeks ago, you'll notice my tone has changed. There are still a lot of things I don't know and haven't answered to

[att_employee]

Ive heard supply will surpass demand.

That was my impression as well, until I saw the firm numbers for my area yesterday.

[att_employee]

i've heard that you get a free monkey with every iphone purchase. :tounge:

it's not a monkey. it's an iMonkey

[MBHockey]

If I start commenting on my region, the peculiarities of my area that would affect demand, oe stock quantities, those from above with eyes on these forums could narrow things down. I've already received several emails from forum users wanting me to answer questions (could be people in my company trying to smoke me out) - if I use the forum's email submission form, my email address is revealed. If I answer via my email web client, my IP is revealed. Yes, I do think they take this stuff THAT seriously

I don't want to you to risk you job, but let me give you a scenario. I live in the suburbs of NYC and plan on going to a corporate AT&T store on Friday. I plan to get there by 10-11AM. In your opinion, is that early enough to ensure a phone? Keep in mind, there is a big mall 10 minutes from this AT&T store that has both an Apple Store and a corporate owned AT&T store.

[att_employee]

Or... you could go to a public library or someone elses house that doens't work for At&t and type it up there..... on a different account or something..
nah... too much effort. I don't have a burning desire to go out of my way to give info. I'm just sitting here in my apartment watching the tv and surfing the web.

[Kev1000000]

All I really want to know is if I arrive at 1pm, is that enough time?

Do you know anything about the allocation of 4gb and 8gb models?

[att_employee]

I don't want to you to risk you job, but let me give you a scenario. I live in the suburbs of NYC and plan on going to a corporate AT&T store on Friday. I plan to get there by 10-11AM. In your opinion, is that early enough to ensure a phone? Keep in mind, there is a big mall 10 minutes from this AT&T store that has both an Apple Store and a corporate owned AT&T store.

Ensure a phone? I dunno. As I said... I believe that my store will be out of them and on direct fulfill exclusively by 8pm. My opinion is that most other stores will be in the same boat. Stock was not arbitrarily assigned to stores. It was based on volume and anticipated demand due to location

[MBHockey]

Thanks for the info

[twilsonchicago]

How fast do you think stores like yours will be able to process a line of people? 1 per minute? more than that?

[JackBauer]

Will Apple Retial stores have more? If so, how many?

[att_employee]

How fast do you think stores like yours will be able to process a line of people? 1 per minute? more than that?

Depends on the computer system, whether or not there's a credit evaluation needed.

Now, if someone whips out cash or (God Forbid) a checkbook....

[radbrent]

I'm an existing customer.. What will the iTunes activation be like for me? Will I have to enter account info?

[twilsonchicago]

Depends on the computer system, whether or not there's a credit evaluation needed.

Now, if someone whips out cash or (God Forbid) a checkbook....

I guess what I'm asking is, on average, how fast do you think a store like yours will be able to process sales? How quickly will the line move, in your estimation?

[wjp09]

Hopefully they will stack them and make iPhone mountain and give them away free :) dreams....

[rose]

As much as I would like to ask questions and get some answers that will help me out.. I don't think Mr. AT&T will give me any answers.. Yes, I would like to know what time would be a great time to show up.. How long should I anticipate the wait.. What the ****! Can God just give me a divine call (on my Pearl, God forbid) and just tell me that, "Yes, Rose, You will get your iphone on June 29th. Don't worry my child." As much as I want all those things. God's not going to call me.. and MrAT&T is not going to give me the answers that I want.

Rose.

[jda182]

i would think that everyone that wants an iphone will get one within 2 weeks of launch, at the latest 2 weeks

[DD0]

Repost from another thread...

A girl I work with used to work at an Apple store and she told me any new product they got at least 300 of. Obviously that doesn't mean that it's true for this, but good news in my mind.

[AppleLA]

c'mon... You rEally want me to riSk my job by allowing you to squeeze this type of information out of me?


What a joke. Don't come on an iPhone message board with a username like AT&T Employee and then tell us you dont want to risk your job. Can you really be any more obvious. You probably don't even work for AT&T and just like the attention.

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

i've heard that you get a free monkey with every iphone purchase. :tounge:

A free monkey?!?!

I am so there on the 29th!

[bizzy045]

What a joke. Don't come on an iPhone message board with a username like AT&T Employee and then tell us you dont want to risk your job. Can you really be any more obvious. You probably don't even work for AT&T and just like the attention.

I have to agree with AppleLA...this is bs...at&t Employee?????? and youre trying not to get fired????? what the hell sense does that make....why even post this stuff...

[DD0]

I have to agree with AppleLA...this is bs...at&t Employee?????? and youre trying not to get fired????? what the hell sense does that make....why even post this stuff...

The AT&T guy is a fake...clearly. He doesn't know anything we don't and for that matter neither do AT&T employees. They DO NOT know how many they are getting, I know that because I know people that work at both AT&T stores and Apple stores and none of them have any idea what is going on.

Attention is on the internets is good!

[twilsonchicago]

AppleLA, bizzy045, DD0, I recommend you read through all his posts before you judge. Looks like the real deal to me.

[mlass]

I figure they will start out with 250,000 phones. Average per store will be 125. Some more, some less. 250,000 online.

Remember, they are wanting to sell 10,000,000 phones in 10 months per estimates.

Production will have to put out a million phones a month. They started about a month ago (after FCC approval) and should have around at least 500,000.

[DD0]

AppleLA, bizzy045, DD0, I recommend you read through all his posts before you judge. Looks like the real deal to me.

I think I've seen most.

[thedwp]

The AT&T guy is a fake...clearly. He doesn't know anything we don't and for that matter neither do AT&T employees. They DO NOT know how many they are getting, I know that because I know people that work at both AT&T stores and Apple stores and none of them have any idea what is going on.

Attention is on the internets is good!

Agreed. I totally trust my inside AT&T person, she's always shot straight with me and I have no reason to doubt her now. She says they still haven't received their shipment and have no way of knowing until it comes in on Friday. Then she said they will communicate with the crowds.

[DD0]

Agreed. I totally trust my inside AT&T person, she's always shot straight with me and I have no reason to doubt her now. She says they still haven't received their shipment and have no way of knowing until it comes in on Friday. Then she said they will communicate with the crowds.

Exact same I've heard from both Apple and AT&T friends. They will know the numbers when they get them, that's it. There is no database, there are no lists and there are no numbers. Most of them don't even know about the videos on apple.com.

[dogthebountyhunter]

Agreed. I totally trust my inside AT&T person, she's always shot straight with me and I have no reason to doubt her now. She says they still haven't received their shipment and have no way of knowing until it comes in on Friday. Then she said they will communicate with the crowds.


I asked the same thing to my friend who works at AT&T and he is like they have told me poop.

[Medeiros2227]

any news on how many iphones att will be getting.i called a store and he said he new but could not tell me but if they ran out i could pay and they would ship it to me.i would hate to stand in line all day and not get one that night.


THERE HAS BEEN TALK ABOUT 50 TO ATT AND 300 TO APPLE STORES(RESONABLE)

AND..

tHERE HAD BEEN TALK ABOUT 12 TO ATT AND 36 TO APPLE STORES

[Christy4Me]

I was talking with a friend who was telling me that the store on Tatum and Shay in Phoenix is having some type of mass media event. She said that that store will probably have the largest supply for that reason, even more than the Apple stores! No exact numbers given. :( So I will give you all one guess where I will be standing in line! Best of luck to all! Oh, and I heard there are limits. CH

[Scipyo]

We know...

-iPhones are not terribly difficult to make, so there probably wont be shortages due to unavoidable manufacturing problems from parts that have a high failure rate etc...

-The iPhone hype is already though the roof so apple won't need to create shortages by shipping less to artificially create hype. This also goes to counter the possibility that they didn't make many because they don't expect many sales.

-Typically Apple stores get more than enough product for expectable in demand products. Hopefully they will also apply this to AT&T stores.

-Obviously the Apple stores will get more than the AT&T stores.

As for how the necessity to camp, I would say, you should be secure in showing up 1-2 hours early at an AT&T store. The average consumer will be going to an Apple store, they see the iPhone more as an iPod than a phone, so they will be going to what in their minds is the iPod store (see interviews with early campers outside of NY Apple store). This means that the AT&T stores will most likely be the best bet to a purchasing location.

In conclusion, go to an AT&T store an hour or two early, it will probably be far less crowded, and you won't be hassled there to upgrade your plan because you can always activate it at home.

[radbrent]

The At&t guy here said you HAVE to activate at home. Is that true?

[mlass]

The At&t guy here said you HAVE to activate at home. Is that true?

Yes, where have you been. There is a video out on that.

[Youngbinks]

^^While there is a video on home activation I refuse to believe they are going to make EVERYONE activate the iPhone at home. The simple reason being that many of the new buyers may be completely unfamiliar with iTunes and while iTunes will be a necessity to owning the iPhone I still believe that they will activate the iPhone at the AT&T store if you so desire.

[radbrent]

Yes, where have you been. There is a video out on that.

I've had 2 iPods... I thought that you could activate in the at&t store OR activate in itunes... All I'm asking is if They can activate it then and there or itunes is the only way to do it.... which I"m assuming it is, but I never heard news saying they wouldn't do it.

[UnseenLlama]

I've had 2 iPods... I thought that you could activate in the at&t store OR activate in itunes... All I'm asking is if They can activate it then and there or itunes is the only way to do it.... which I"m assuming it is, but I never heard news saying they wouldn't do it.

If you think about it, how can you activate the phone in the store? That would mean each store would have to have a kiosk of some type with iTunes installed. Remember you are linking the iPhone to your iTunes account. Each customer would have to log into their iTunes account at the ATT store. Doesn't make sense to me and would take a bit longer for each transaction.

Take it home, plug it in, activate, raise hands towards the sky, rejoice! :2cool:

[slipperypete]

I've had 2 iPods... I thought that you could activate in the at&t store OR activate in itunes... All I'm asking is if They can activate it then and there or itunes is the only way to do it.... which I"m assuming it is, but I never heard news saying they wouldn't do it.


I can't see any activations being done in a store.

[iPhonePro07]

You can't activate the store. The employees are not allowed to touch your product at all. They are not allowed to open the box even if you ask them to. They are too worried about being liable for people saying "the employee opened my bbox, now charge THEM the 10% restocking fee" or something along those lines. So be prepared to do it yourself.

[pharoh]

any news on how many iphones att will be getting.i called a store and he said he new but could not tell me but if they ran out i could pay and they would ship it to me.i would hate to stand in line all day and not get one that night.

forgot to mention that the AT&T outlet only received 72 iphones and was promised another shipment within 21 days......It is said 72 is a high number for the first wave.....