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Pissed!

Damn, I cracked my screen, dropped it in London after the Bears game : (
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Use your insurance.
Luke

Filed a claim, they are on backorder, wtf?
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CALL UP ASURION to see when u will get never heard of back order for phone day out tops then again phone may not be available anymore can u live with cracked screen till then
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Filed a claim, they are on backorder, wtf?
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If Ashurion is out of stock of your phone, they will replace it with another 4g phone if you ask.
My brother's Fascinate broke a couple months ago, they replaced it with a brand new Droid X2 just a week after it came out.
I'd recommend aiming for the Bionic.
Good luck

The bright side is that the Bears won!

ph00ky said:
If Ashurion is out of stock of your phone, they will replace it with another 4g phone if you ask.
My brother's Fascinate broke a couple months ago, they replaced it with a brand new Droid X2 just a week after it came out.
I'd recommend aiming for the Bionic.
Good luck
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yeah they'll replace it with another. it's a shame you didn't "damage" it until after the launch of the 3 new ones.

I'd fight for a bionic as well.
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Honestly, asurion is gonna charge you 90 bucks to replace it.
And a new digitizer is only 30. I have gotten ripped off by asurion too many times.

I can't believe people still pay for insurance. It's a scam and way too expensive for the service they provide.

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I can't believe people still pay for insurance. It's a scam and way too expensive for the service they provide.
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Ok paying 8 bucks a month is better than paying 600 if you break or lose your phone.
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I can't believe people still pay for insurance. It's a scam and way too expensive for the service they provide.
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Yeah bro, that $7 a month kills my bank account. Yearly that comes out to about $84, that's a few lap dances right there...

g00s3y said:
Yeah bro, that $7 a month kills my bank account. Yearly that comes out to about $84, that's a few lap dances right there...
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Plus deductible. If you drop a phone and truly break it, it's probably because you didnt have a proper case on a $600 item. But most breaks occur to the digitizer....$30 and extremely easy to fix. Your local mom and pop computer shops will throw those things in for you for less than your deductible.
I'm not trying to knock anyone for paying for insurance...but those companies aren't in it to lose money. And everyone forgets about their warranty. We've sent a couple phones back for repairs and get them back within 3 days of HTC receiving them.
But losing a $600 phone...well that would be the only good thing I can see coming out of it. But cmon...if you lose a $600 phone from being careless ya kind of get what you deserve. Laptops cost less than that now. Gotta hold yourself to some kind of responsibility.

Well, I got my replacement, all is well. Sure, 99 sucks, but got to keep the battery and memory card, so now I have two of each, put the memory card in my flyer.
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fillyo said:
Well, I got my replacement, all is well. Sure, 99 sucks, but got to keep the battery and memory card, so now I have two of each, put the memory card in my flyer.
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Exactly!
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skinien said:
The bright side is that the Bears won!
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That's all that ever really matters...that, and the Bulls winning.
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Can I take it that you got another T-Bolt back? I am in no hurry to split with it although if it breaks in a years time and I am able to get something better the Insurance will be worth it.
Note: I have never used my insurance since I got it on my OG droid.

fillyo said:
Damn, I cracked my screen, dropped it in London after the Bears game : (
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If you weren't a Bears fan, I would be deeply saddened by this, but the Buccaneers fan in me laughs out loud.
j/k...bummer your screen broke. Glad you got your replacement already!

Well now that you got your replacement phone, this would be a good time for you to do one of those screen replacement kits so that you have a backup phone and then you might decide to even drop your insurance on your current phone to save $$$.

You don't get to keep the old phone, you have to send that back. Otherwise, definately would have fixed the screen and kept as back up.

[Q] regarding amazon orders

If I order the phone on Amazon, would it make it to the US? Or would it be held at Customs like all the others? Every single AT&T store is sold out

Winters37 said:
If I order the phone on Amazon, would it make it to the US? Or would it be held at Customs like all the others? Every single AT&T store is sold out
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would depend if it's back ordered or if it's in stock. Tons of other places have them in stock though.

It looks like Amazon still had them in stock. I ordered yesterday after reading about the customs issue. The phone is in transit today for delivery tomorrow.
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seanc85 said:
It looks like Amazon still had them in stock. I ordered yesterday after reading about the customs issue. The phone is in transit today for delivery tomorrow.
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What stage of transit is it in?
HydroSkillet said:
would depend if it's back ordered or if it's in stock. Tons of other places have them in stock though.
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So if it's in stock, its in the US. If its backordered, its going to get stuck in customs..

I'm not sure offhand, ups has it somewhere
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Winters37 said:
If I order the phone on Amazon, would it make it to the US? Or would it be held at Customs like all the others? Every single AT&T store is sold out
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I went to Best Buy and had them price match Walmart at $149 on the white HOX. Although you can't beat amazon's tax free, depending on your state of course.

I ordered a pair of grey at&t 1Xs 3 days ago and they arrived yesterday.
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good to hear peopel are actually get them

any lines @ store opening

thinking about going to my local att store when it opens and was wondering what my chances were of being to buy a phone...lines? ...store's stock on hand?...any ideas anyone?

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thinking about going to my local att store when it opens and was wondering what my chances were of being to buy a phone...lines? ...store's stock on hand?...any ideas anyone?
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It's been an awkward week for the S4. Most people are satisfied but the locked bootloader seems to have twisted some people. I would still go to the store early just in-case cause once the bootloader is unlocked, expect this phone to really begin selling

I just called my local store. They still have them in stock. It is now 11:34.
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Sale officially started yesterday for most areas. So I doubt there will be lines anywhere today.
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My local store started selling them this morning. I was first in line and there were about 6 behind me. There was nobody there last Friday when the HTC One launched.
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went to my local store in kalamazoo michigan. i got there at 8:45 thinking there would be a line. there was noone. and by the time i left only 2 other people came in and it seemed like they didnt get a gs4. the hype atleast in my town doesnt seem like much for the gs4 like it was the gs3.

No lines downtown Chicago. Got mine at ten and I was the only one there.
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No lines at my store..I was the second person in and the first and only one (while I was there) to grab a S4. 3-4 people came in to pay their bills and one person came in because her Note 2 screen would not come on and/or function properly.

Did any of yalls stores have any information about the 32gb version?
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No lines, 16 In stock.. And I was the first to buy it.
My store only had 16gb in stock. No info on 32gb
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Came an hour early. But there was no line. Close to 10 there were around 6 ppl behind me and the store had 10 white and 10 black. Picked up my white one.
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Thermalwolf said:
It's been an awkward week for the S4. Most people are satisfied but the locked bootloader seems to have twisted some people. I would still go to the store early just in-case cause once the bootloader is unlocked, expect this phone to really begin selling
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Came an hour early. But there was no line. Close to 10 there were around 6 ppl behind me and the store had 10 white and 10 black. Picked up my white one.
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Yea a lot of people are probably holding off until the bootloader is unlocked but 6 people right out of the gate is not bad, your area will probably be out by tomorrow

Im at Costco right now. System wide ATT activation outage in red bold font on their screens. They called ATT sales, but they said they cant do activations over the phone either. I already paid for the phone, but its sitting at the wireless booth until ATT goes live again. Costcos food court pizza use to be better btw

freebee269 said:
went to my local store in kalamazoo michigan. i got there at 8:45 thinking there would be a line. there was noone. and by the time i left only 2 other people came in and it seemed like they didnt get a gs4. the hype atleast in my town doesnt seem like much for the gs4 like it was the gs3.
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I got mine on Westnedge yesterday. millions will be sold... but the hype will never reach iphone levels... not that it doesnt deserve it. But Apple just handles its releases better, with all the weird delays and changes in carrier releases, the west main store said they didnt have it and that westnedge shouldnt have sold it to me yesterday.

closest store to where I live is just an authorized retailer. they only had 4 in stock and opened at 10am. pulled up at 940, there were 3 ppl outside waiting for the 4. luckiest day ever, I would've had to drive 40mins to get one otherwise. like 10-12ppl showed up while I was getting my purchase all done, asking if they had any in stock. poor guy in front of me though, had to pay cash cuz he had to pay a deposit.... transaction almost done, and then the girl behind the counter says that she can't hold it for him while he runs to the ATM. I felt bad, if I'd had ANY cash on me, I would've given it to him so he could get it, but I didn't.
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Only 10 available at my store, was 8b in line so sure they sold out quickly
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Thermalwolf said:
Yea a lot of people are probably holding off until the bootloader is unlocked but 6 people right out of the gate is not bad, your area will probably be out by tomorrow
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I doubt most people even know or care about the bootloader.
You have to remember, we are the 1% who keep track of this stuff. Most people change the wallpaper and maybe add a few widgets..

raqball said:
I doubt most people even know or care about the bootloader.
You have to remember, we are the 1% who keep track of this stuff. Most people change the wallpaper and maybe add a few widgets..
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You're probably right but I mean heck I come across a quite a few people who ask me about rooting whenever they see my phones so there's definitely interest. Again though you're right, most of them had no idea how to root lol

all 3 of my local stores had 10 on hand each no lines none sold ... i work at one of them O__o

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all 3 of my local stores had 10 on hand each no lines none sold ... i work at one of them O__o
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I think it's a lack of advertising before launch, I didn't see commercials for this phone like I saw for S3 last year. In fact I saw no commercials for the S4 lol

7 GALAXY S4s IN TWO DAYS!!!

(Phone.1)
ok so i got my NEW galaxy s4 about a week a go. just had it for one day and all the words on the screen went pink. so i went back to O2 and they give me a new one.
(Phone.2)
got the new galaxy s4 home and powered it up to see the screen going mad as hell. was flashing like mad and and lots of mad sounds coming from it. so back to O2 i went.
(Phone.3)
the man in the shop said he will open and test this one before i get it so they know it works. i said yer ok go for it. so he opened the phone and went to stick the battery in. on doing so he got an electric shock off the phone. he said well that's not right and went to get a new one.
(Phone.4)
he comes back with the new phone and starts to set it up. after about 10 mins the phone shuts off never to come back on? so now we are on
(phone.5)
everything looked ok on this one till he went to test to play back of some mp3s on my SAMSUNG class 10 64gb micro sd card. but the phone said that the card was broking and the phone would not reed it at all. he tested the card in a new Nokia and it work fine. so he opened a new micro sd card from in the shop and it said the same thing(card broke). but card works on all other phones in the shop just not in any galaxy s4.
(Phone.6)
so next phone come out. this one will not reed a 64gb card as well and if you play anything on the headphones you get lots of mad pops and cracks come out the headphone. he said well that's not right what will you like me to do now??? i said what can we do now? so he gos into the back of the shop for 5 min than come out and say we will send it away to get fixed. GET FIXED ITS JUST 3 MINS OLD!! we will send it back to SAMSUNG it will take about a week. i said ok but can we try one more please as i need my phone for work and if that don't work send them all back. he said ok last one.
(Phone.7) this phone looked to be working ok woohoo at last one that work... spoke to soon i did.... every time we went to use the camera the phone just shuts off and reboots. he then said sorry mate but we have used evey s4 in the shop and dont have any more to test the best i can do now is send them away.
whats going on SAMSUNG....... 7 galaxy s4 in under 3 days. i don't think i will be getting one now after all of this... looks like il have to go back to my IPHONE 4 what is 2 year old and has never let me down yet. just need to see what i get back in the post now. but even if this one works its going back as im sick of the dame thing.

Cool story bro
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That was a mad good reed.
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Never read anything like this in my life. Come on Samsung.
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Too much smoke in your eye. Apple troll.
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I think apart from a dev thread this was the longest op ive ever read. I feel for you bro
By chance were the s4's you tried all made in china? Chinese manufactured phones (other would be korean) have been having huge problems throughout the forum.
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isnt O2 a UK carrier? and mate?
that post sounds BS to me after the 3rd S4 I would have gone and got a HTC ONE. The worker guy in the store would not go sit through 7 phones, a manager would have been called after the 3rd one, lol, too much weed smoking...

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isnt O2 a UK carrier? and mate?
that post sounds BS to me after the 3rd S4 I would have gone and got a HTC ONE. The worker guy in the store would not go sit through 7 phones, a manager would have been called after the 3rd one, lol, too much weed smoking...
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it was the manager of the o2 shop that tested all the phones. i dont want a HTC phone. all the o2 shops next to me have had to send all of the s4 back to samsung. it was the GT-19505 16gb ones but two of them said they were gt-19505X dont know what the (x) was for tho?

Personally if this happened to me I would not even bother with the s4 I would get another phone like the HTC one, note 2, or LG Optimus G Pro.

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it was the manager of the o2 shop that tested all the phones. i dont want a HTC phone. all the o2 shops next to me have had to send all of the s4 back to samsung. it was the GT-19505 16gb ones.
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The problem sounds like the store you went to. I could easily write the same story with the 3 iphone 4s my sister went through but we just went to a different store.
Out of one box of inventory, you probably got one that was shipped stupidly under extreme conditions and kept pulling bad batches from the same box.
Other than that, your story sounds like BS. I stopped reading after phone 3, an electric shock? Really? Yeah right. 2 posts? Uhuh... you're not even in the right section to complain about your carrier.
But if it is true, try a completely different store.

BS.
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Ah, you can always expect the apologist brigade rushing in to defend their noble brand's honor.
But anyway, it sounds like this shop's shipment of S4s got zapped or something in transit.

Unless a real bad batch, you must have some magnetic aura flux that kills devices, else statistically unlikely. You could be banned from flying in planes due to a magnetic aura flux. Left hand or right hand rule? That will only be got by physics or electronic oriented folks

Pictures or it never happened....
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Of all the things that have never happened on this planet, OP's story never happened the most.

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Of all the things that have never happened on this planet, OP's story never happened the most.
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Maybe it did, though, and a chorus of lame "pics or gtfo" comments adds nothing in either case.

yeah probably a bad shipment. 99.9% of people won't ever go through something like that

Pointless thread is pointless

Anyone got the grey Pure XL yet?

I placed an order on the grey version last Friday but no ETA yet. The gold version is in stock though.

On Amazon I placed order for gray phone it was placed on back order. I canceled that order on Sunday. Placed new order Monday and it went straight thru. Phone will be here today Wednesday.
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onemotodroid said:
On Amazon I placed order for gray phone it was placed on back order. I canceled that order on Sunday. Placed new order Monday and it went straight thru. Phone will be here today Wednesday.
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Based on this post, i have ordered a second grey unit. My original order was placed 10/20. Once i receive a shipping notification, i will cancel the other order. Ill post back when i hear something. :fingers-crossed:

percentevo said:
Based on this post, i have ordered a second grey unit. My original order was placed 10/20. Once i receive a shipping notification, i will cancel the other order. Ill post back when i hear something. :fingers-crossed:
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I think that other post was inaccurate. There are no grey phones yet.

Funny, my grey XL arrived on Wednesday.
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Funny, my grey XL arrived on Wednesday.
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Still no shipping notification on either order :banghead:

The Gold has gone out of stock and then back in stock while the Grey has remained out of stock the entire time. I called Blu's sales office (who lied on release day about it being Amazon's fault) and again they said that it was Amazons fault and i needed to contact them to see when the phone would be available. These freakin people, how do you run a company like this?
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Btw, i do question onemotodroids assertion that he received his grey unit as no pics or supporting evidence were given while I cannot find anyone else out there claiming to have received one.

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Funny, my grey XL arrived on Wednesday.
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Then you won't mind posting a photo?

Do you guys have Prime? I do, for me the gold one is always in stock, at least every time I look. It's in stock now.
The screen on the Pure XL is outstanding for reading. Yes, it's better than the N6. I just need root!
I will install an AT&T Sim in the XL on Saturday and see if I can live workout root as a DD.
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Do you guys have Prime? I do, for me the gold one is always in stock, at least every time I look. It's in stock now.
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No one is saying the gold is not in stock and available now. Some of us are skeptical about your claim to have purchased and received the *grey* Pure XL from Amazon without waiting. The grey has never been in stock according to Amazon's web site are there are people who have pre-ordered and have been waiting for it from the first day the page was up (Oct 19) without any word of availability from Amazon. It seems improbable to us that you simply ordered it last week and received it in a couple of days as you claim. So we'd like you to post a photo of your grey Pure XL.

Anyone kind of wondering whether or not the Grey edition actually exists? Its now over a month since the 'launch' date, the gold unit has been in and out of stock several times on Amazon with no sign of the Grey aside from the "Temporarily out of stock" label that hasnt changed once. The way that they keep blaming Amazon when its clearly NOT THEIR FAULT really makes me wonder what a company like this is capable of. If the Grey unit never shows, and it was only the Gold all along, I guess i just wouldnt be surprised one bit at this point.
Edit: Come to think of it, I dont believe that ive seen any video reviews of this phone that werent the Gold version.

Amazon just sent me an ETA for Nov 11 for the grey phone I ordered on Oct 23!
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Amazon just sent me an ETA for Nov 11 for the grey phone I ordered on Oct 23!
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Shii, ordered mine on the 20th and my est date is friday the 13th. This cant be good lol
I dont have prime, just chose the free 4-5 day shipping.

I do have Prime. Maybe that's why.
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I do have Prime. Maybe that's why.
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I just ordered one with it listed being in stock, suppose to be here on the 9th...

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I just ordered one with it listed being in stock, suppose to be here on the 9th...
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Woah, what's the deal with Amazon? "Since you've already been waiting, you wouldn't mind waiting a bit more"?

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Anyone kind of wondering whether or not the Grey edition actually exists? Its now over a month since the 'launch' date, the gold unit has been in and out of stock several times on Amazon with no sign of the Grey aside from the "Temporarily out of stock" label that hasnt changed once. The way that they keep blaming Amazon when its clearly NOT THEIR FAULT really makes me wonder what a company like this is capable of. If the Grey unit never shows, and it was only the Gold all along, I guess i just wouldnt be surprised one bit at this point.
Edit: Come to think of it, I dont believe that ive seen any video reviews of this phone that werent the Gold version.
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percentevo you have been so patient. I hope your grey phone arrives. Just saying.
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Woah, what's the deal with Amazon? "Since you've already been waiting, you wouldn't mind waiting a bit more"?
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Yeah, not right by Amazon to do it, but we will have to wait and see if mine actually ships.

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percentevo you have been so patient. I hope your grey phone arrives. Just saying.
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Haha thanks. I tried to get upgraded to 2 day shipping this morning but I guess its too late. Wouldve had it Tuesday. Like you said though, its been a long wait, whats a cpl more days lol

percentevo said:
Haha thanks. I tried to get upgraded to 2 day shipping this morning but I guess its too late. Wouldve had it Tuesday. Like you said though, its been a long wait, whats a cpl more days lol
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Man, that's how I felt with the gold and pre order, not pre-order dilemma. My decision to wait a day to do my pre-order cost like one extra day which at that point had already been way past the whole 9/29 original date was my feeling. Phone is worth it. You'll love it. Now, I wonder if the black will ever surface. Fortunately I wanted the gold to begin with!
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