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Old 05-23-2007, 03:15 PM   #1 (permalink)
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What the HELL! I thought there wasn't a waiting list?!?!?! According to this site there is one? Can this be BS? I just called a Cingular store and the girl said that they do not have a waiting list and that it will be an online purchase only. Has the whole world gone nuts?

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What the HELL! I thought there wasn't a waiting list?!?!?! According to this site there is one? Can this be BS? I just called a Cingular store and the girl said that they do not have a waiting list and that it will be an online purchase only. Has the whole world gone nuts?
It may have gone mad....mad for the iPhone, but in talking with Apple folk and Cingular folk, there is no list- at least in upstate NY at those two specific places. And online only would be the nuts!!
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What the HELL! I thought there wasn't a waiting list?!?!?! According to this site there is one? Can this be BS? I just called a Cingular store and the girl said that they do not have a waiting list and that it will be an online purchase only. Has the whole world gone nuts?
Did you read the article? It states that there isn't supposed to a waiting list, but 64% of stores have one anyway. Since there sample size was only 36 stores I would take it with a grain of salt.
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Yeah alot of the stores are independantly owned so They may just do whatever they want.
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I put my name on a waiting list of sorts.
The only employee in the store (not a manager, so I think he was lying about being alone) said it was more of a way to approximate how many iPhones they will need than a waiting list.
But all I know, is my name is on that list.... Or at least some sheet of paper that he will hand to his manager... pls.....
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Yeah alot of the stores are independantly owned so They may just do whatever they want.
I was under the impression that the iPhone would only be available from corporately owned AT&T stores, Apple stores and online. Have you heard something that indicates that independently owned AT&T stores will have it too?
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I dont have my name on any list, but if come launch day, If I'm forced to get one at one of these Att stores and their is a "list" already, their will be hell to pay.
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My name will be on quite a few lists come june. Worst comes to worst there is always the internet.
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These waiting lists are simply lists of names that AT&T store employees will call on release day to let you know that the iPhone has arrived, not a formal preorder list. With so many rumors flying around, I think AT&T store employees probably know as much as we do, maybe even less.
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These waiting lists are simply lists of names that AT&T store employees will call on release day to let you know that the iPhone has arrived, not a formal preorder list. With so many rumors flying around, I think AT&T store employees probably know as much as we do, maybe even less.
That's what I thought, too.

And if we're assuming that Steve Jobs announces the release date @ WWDC, won't these lists become obsolete??

i mean, by the time the memo from AT&T gets distributed to each store and they sit down and call all these people to tell them the release date, us fanatics will already have known about it.
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