Will iPhone5s be sold at reseller stores?

Call them and ask

1. Best Buy is not a reseller.

2. Call them and ask them.

What is Best Buy if not a reseller?

Yes, Best Buy will sell them. It is on their website. I'll let you check futureshop.

Best Buy is a 3rd party marketing partner of Apple and each of the carriers. You can't start or upgrade a contract at a reseller. Of course, you can't get fake hair extensions by the pound at Best Buy.

Not sure what the last sentence means, but they are indeed a reseller of Apple products.

Best Buy is able to transact original sales of Apple products and the receipt will reflect the correct date of purchase. They also can access the customer's account with the carrier to make binding changes and upgrades to the contract. They are a partner.

Resellers are found in strip malls and street corners selling "unlocked" iPhones to people who come to support forums every time there's an iOS update.

Your splitting hairs and playing semantics games. They are an authorized reseller of Apple products.

What you call semantics is what is needed to understand the truth. They are the original sale. By definition, that's not a resale.

For what the OP asked the answer was it will be availabie at Best Buy and he used a generic term reseller. You just blew smoke.

If Best Buy sells a Yamaha Aventage receiver that is a resell. They are not the original manufacturer. You are totally misundertanding what a reseller is.

No, you are the one misunderstanding. In fact, everything you say proves my point even better than I. Best Buy is the retailer of Yamaha as well as many other products. All of the manufaturers under their big-box roof will warranty products based on the purchase date on the reciept.

I'm not blowing smoke because if he/she purchases from a reseller and we say, "Yeah! Sure! It'll be there! You have a one-year warranty!" That would be setting our reader up for disappointment.

No, I'm not. Whether you want to call it retailer or reseller they mean the same things. I have been in contracts where I was the authorized reseller of a product. Best Buy is an authorized reseller of Yamaha, Bose, Samsung, Sharp, Apple, etc. Again, they are an AUTHORIZED RESELLER. They buy the product from Apple and then they resell it. Same thing with Yamaha. They are indeed a retailer, i.e. they sell at retail to the general public.

If you go to Apple's website and search for authorized resellers, Best Buy indeed does come up, Dirty.

OK, fine. Yes OP, resellers should have some iPhone 5s on the the 20th.