Inline for 3 hours - ONLY 8GB LEFT!!!!

[Moreno]

As the subject suggested, I had to q for 3 hours as the systems at o2 went down. I have only managed to get the 8gb when I wanted the 16gb.

Do you think 8gb is enough? Also do you think if I do not open it and find a store with a 16gb I can swap and pay the difference?

[Cask]

Man, if you want the 16 GB, then don't buy the 8 GB and wait for the 16 to be available, you know they will be available later right? You don't *have* to buy anything today that you don't want.

[Moreno]

haha the voice of reason

[Code Monkey]

Why would you buy a product you do not want? I'd have gone home once I heard they were out of 16GB, not actually paid money for something I didn't come for, that's being a sheep. Of course, I'd have never been crazy enough in the first place to wait 3 hours for something that wasn't a one-time deal only ;)

That said, I don't find 8GB restricting on my 2G nano (smartlists FTW!), but I'm also not messing around with applications or video. I'd return it and wait a few weeks, there will be as many 16GB iPhones as people want to pay money for by then.

[tnutzinc]

I'd feel the same way after standing in line for 3 hours, waiting and waiting for something you have to wait for even longer.....I hear ya

[Moreno]

It got to the point where I could see the front of the q after an hour...then the systems went down and I thought crap...its gonna take a bit longer....work wasn't particularly busy so I stayed, but then they annouced about an hour later that 16gb were gone....it almost would have been a waste of my time if I would have walked away then.

[Code Monkey]

....it almost would have been a waste of my time if I would have walked away then.How would walking away be a waste of your time as opposed to spending money AND locking yourself into a 2 year contract for a product you didn't want?

I'm as impatient as the next attention deficited gadget freak, but committing to two years for a product I didn't want for a cost of over $1800 inclusive versus a few hours you spent waiting in a line, that doesn't even begin to seem like an even tradeoff.

Oh well, you made your choice, you can figure out what to do about it :cool:

[Rob9874]

Same here, in Scottsdale, AZ. By 9:00, all the 16GB were sold out. Only 20 people had walked out by 9:00 too. Who were the yahoos on here, who said you could go around noon today and get one, as there wouldn't be supply issues like the first time?

[Germansuplex]

Went for the 16gb, was a few people too late. Waited to reserve my spot for next week's shipments, they didn't accept cash.

Screw 'em, I'm heavily contemplating just keeping my 8GB first-gen for the next few months to go enjoy a $350 splurging at Best Buy.

*With that said, I damn sure didn't want an 8GB, and am glad to have gone home empty handed than with a product I didn't want. I know it sucks to wait in line and come up empty handed, but now you're stuck with a product you didn't want. I'd return it immediately and act like you were dumbfounded or something. You might have to pay a restocking fee. Or you can just deal with 8GB. 8 gigs isn't that bad at all.

[Dim]

Wow. I got a 16gb at about 1:30pm, and they had plenty more left.

[Germansuplex]

The larger cities seem like they have more in stock than the smaller cities (200,000 population and below).

I don't know why they'd oversaturate the big markets and leave the little guys out to dry. I mean, I know Chicago, NYC, San Francisco, etc. are big cities.... but where I live we had barely enough iPhones to satisfy a third of the line. Sorta ridiculous. Some of those big cities will likely have enough stock to last two or three days (guessing).

I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles.

[Surf Monkey]

They had TONS of the 16 gig units in white and black at the Washington Square Apple Store in Portland Oregon. The clerks there said that they got one of the larger shipments because they moved more 1.0 iPhones than practically any other single Apple store in the nation.

[Rob9874]

Went to the Apple Store, and stood in line from 11am till 3:30pm (after getting stiffed at AT&T). About 400 people in front of me. Apparently, Apple has tons, and sent AT&T stores about 80 iphones each, as Apple gets more money for iphones sold at their store. Should have gone to Apple from the start. Got my 16GB!

[bg5067]

only took me 2 hours here in the uk lol even ofter the o2 systems went down