iPhone 5 AT&T preorder status thread

Hi All,


I preordered 2 iPhone 5s thru AT&T last night (around 12:47am PST) and was sent the first emails (each email for each order) notifying that they should be delivered to me by 9/21/2012. About an hour later, I received second emails indicating that the orders are processed. Tracking numbers still say "pending shipment", but all look good so far.


Let's open this thread to keep track of our AT&T preorders status, so we can share our order situations.

Posted on Sep 14, 2012 9:15 AM

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Oct 17, 2012 5:03 PM in response to Big Joon

So a run down of all the posts thus far


pre orders are being fulfilled, not too many posts from angry pro order customers any more so we can assume they're getting their phones


The larger the size of the phone ordered the sooner you will receive it pretty much anything over 16gb


They will send out whichever phone they have even if purchased more than one. So you may receive one at a time instead of both together


Lately the white is scarce but it's always back and forth


9/21 - 9/22 orders are being taken off BO and even receiving tracking


Once backorder changes from 1 to 0 takes anywhere from an hour to a few hours to 48 hours for shipping info to be sent


Usually ships with 2 day shipping a lot more UPS right now but FedEx is also used


Processing means nothing as well as pending shipment the only thing that is actual progress is back order changing from 1 to 0 then tracking number that's when you are close to having your phone


I ordered 16gb white and 16gb black 9/25 "pending shipment" back order still 1. Its 17 business days for me so there's still time. Anyone ordering 16gb phones in October don't expect them for a few weeks. Remember business days that mean Monday through Friday.

Oct 17, 2012 5:14 PM in response to Maverick96

where do you check backorder?


I ordered on september 24th--no sign of them shipping yet


white iphone


btw--funny story--went to local apple store this weekend. they told me to go on line at 10 pm and try to order one and have it picked up in store. they said that they get inventory and it shows on the apple store at 10pm.


I was a little peaved that apple would not be filling an order from 9/24 --but filling orders from the night before. hmmm


I checked online 3 nights in a row--no iphones of any model in my city any of the nights. in fact the closest one was about 300 miles away. just on a lark I checked several different zipcodes around the country--and came up just about zero. weird.


good thing I didn't cancel my order from 9/24 like the person at the apple store said.

Oct 17, 2012 5:58 PM in response to joanjett27

joanjett27:

My white 16gb shipped yesterday and is being delivered tomorrow via UPS. It was ordered 9/20. I think the whites are shipping about 3-4 days later than the black. I was at day 18 of my 14-21 business days. They seem to be holdin true to their 14-21 business day statement. With that said, you should expect yours to ship any day now. If you're still on backorder, I'd say it will go off any day now and expect a tracking # 24-48 hrs later. Keep the faith! Lol I was about to go crazy.

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