Any funny or weird stories from the front line?

I got mine at AT&T being 12th in line and they got a total of 40.

I swung by Apple store in mall just to check it out since they were supposed to have alot more and as of noon there was still a huge line and everyone still walking out with 3g iphones.

Better hit up an apple store if you want one today, they seem to have plenty

I went to the AT&T store at 7:30... and the line was too long for me... so I came back at 10. the line was still just as long, but I got in it anyway... so a few minutes later, the manager comes out counting people... and stops right in front of the girl that was in the back of the line the first time I came by.... and says they only have enough phones for that many people.... so if I had waited that entire time, I still wouldn't have a phone. that girl was ******, but she didn't get out of line. I hope she got one.

AT&T wasn't having too many computer glitches..of course I got the only one. I sat in the store for almost 3 hours while everyone WAAAAAY behind me in line got their iPhones and got on with their day. I was 2nd in line at my AT&T store, so I did get my 16 gig white iPhone, but I didn't actually get in in my possession to take home for a while.

I managed to be at the front of a 3 person queue at my local Carphone Warehouse, they had 2 16Gb which I had one of.
The person serving me was new and didn't know how the system worked (neither did anyone else), so I was in there an hour why they phoned around and worked it out, then o2's sytem crashed and it took 45 minutes to do the checks....I was in there 2 hours in the end, and it was only for an early upgrade....

yes -did u see my post about the 2 buddist monks in their orange robes in my store in woking UK who queued for an hour to get a phone!!! that is just bizarre. The sales person in the store serving me said 'it proves everything isn't orange' which i thought was quite funny given the orange store was nearly opposite!! but monks and iphones??! go figure!

Well, I was standing online to get an iPhone when little did I know it was a girlfriend. She say me there and was 34th in line and I was 32nd. She thought I was cute and asked me out to lunch, so we left the line because they said there was no more in stock. Turns out she was about my age and asked me to a movie tonight. Does it make up for not getting an iPhone???????

I went to the Mall of America at 10am to go to the Apple store for my new iPhone. Come to see the line was over 2.5 hours long. So I decided to just leave, when I overheard someone whispering something about AT&T. That's when I thought to myself, "wonder if there is an AT&T store in the mall". So I went to the directory and found that there was one. I hurried up to the 3rd floor south side, and what did I see at the AT&T store, NO line and a bunch of reps just waiting to help people and sell some iPhones. Walked right in, and walked out with new black 16GB iPhone in 5 mins! Take that people who wait in line for hours and days! =)

i see you live in manhattan too which i have always considered to be young and trendy - how strange! I was the only girl in my queue, although given the monks I am not sure how representative a demographic woking is to the world!

I was third in line and the two guys in front of me had their families show up as the doors opened. The family father’s of each young “man” claimed they were the account holders so they had to accompany their son’s in typical "cultural fashion". Of course this was utter BS but the store manager let them in ahead of everyone who waited for hours!
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lol the funny part is that I'm actually in northern wisconsin meeting with some clients. Too bad the meeting is less than an hour away now and I'm stuck without a working business phone due to at&t thinking it was necessary to shut down my original iPhone before they turn on my new one! Thanks captain **face!

Your AT&T store was nicer than mine. They refused to do a head count, or give any indication to how many phones they had. There were people getting upset, but not at the fact that they ran out. They were upset that they (including myself) arrived at 8:00 and waited 3 hours but could not get any kind of answer from ATT if they were wasting their time standing in line or if it was worthwhile. Even when they finally ran out (w/6 people ahead of me) the guy came out with bottles of water for the remainder of those waiting (for 3hrs in the sun) as if this would soften the blow, and said something along the line of he could not say for sure that they were out, but it appeared that from this man back (and he indicated the man in the front of the line) that there would not be phones available. The biggest complaint was the communication breakdown.

On the other hand the lady I was standing by ran to Starbucks for me and another guy in line. We saved her place. No one else minded this, but she did offer to get the guy behind us something as well. I did enjoy meeting new people and the conversation. I will go back sometime next week to get my phone.

Yes I wasn't planning on waiting in line but with all the server problems it took about 3 1/2 hours. Oh well, we had fun in line.

I got proposed to by the guy in front of me, despite he was married with a kid 😉 :P He was pretty funny.

I'm fine with waiting, it was an experience.

I did my research, surfed the net, read the blogs, and called a couple of AT&T stores to gauge the stock of iPhones. Did my homework and confirmed by phone and internet that I was upgrade eligble. Also realized that Apple stores would be crazy busy and not able to fix any AT&T issues, and decided not to go to an Apple store.

Went to my local (Largo, FL) AT&T store at 4:30am, 7 people in line ahead. Knew this was a good thing, as my research suggested that each store was going to get about 20-40 iPhones. Had a great time with people in line, well worth the wait, lots of kidding around and joking. We even moved two chairs near the front back to the end of the line, these guys were in their A/C car while all of us were sweating in line. Somebody bought egg mcmuffins for all of us, and I had my 2G iPhone and a DVD player to pass the time. The line at 8pm was about 50 people, somebody didn't do their homework!

AT&T staff were great, went through the line at 7:30am, getting info about our upgrade eligibility and which iPhone we wanted. Very professional. Surprisingly, a lot of people ahead of me wanted a white iPhone, but good for me, I wanted a black 16gb. Went inside at 8pm, they had about 7 service reps to process everything. Activation did lock up, but after about 45 minutes all was cool, I had my iPhone 3G. They even traded out my iPhone for another one when I noticed a dented microphone mesh cover.

Everybody was cool and calm, great experience overall and much smoother than I expected. For such a great platform and high demand/expectations, Apple and AT&T overall did a great job, just to give another opinion.