Mimi80's Posts

I was actually able to upgrade last week.  I have an iPhone 6 plus that I received last year on release day.  I am still under a 2 year contract and was able to upgrade to an iPhone 6s plus using their new monthly payment plan.  All I had to do was pay the sales tax.  When I receive my new phone I do have to turn in my current iPhone though.  I am patiently waiting for my rose gold 64gb which is on back order until November.  I am in no hurry.  I am just happy that they are allowing me to upgrade early without having to pay full retail for it. 

Glad to hear I'm not the only one with this problem.  I mailed my iphone 5 on Saturday 9/20.  It was late in the day so it probably didn't go out until Monday 9/22 but it is now 9/30 and the status still says "not received".  I was hoping I would get the $200 credit before my next bill is due on 10/15 so I could apply it towards it.  I'm wondering if they received an overwhelming response to this promotion that they are so backed up.  I haven't tried calling but I was considering going into a Verizon store today during lunch.

You can submit the trade in now so they can send you the postage paid envelope but only send the old phone once you receive the new phone.  Once you send it off it should take a couple of weeks to get an electronic gift card.  So yes you would have to buy the new phone unless you want your grandson to be without a phone.

I ordered my iphone 6 plus 64gb at 3:00 am and at that time I noticed the 16gb had a delivery date of 10/14.  The 64gb had a delivery date of 9/19.  I was planning on pre-ordering the 64gb anyway but was surprised that the 16gb showed as "out of stock" so to speak when the pre-order just went live.  Nonetheless, I placed my order and my order confirmation stated delivery by 9/19 and my email confirmation also stated the same.  When I called Verizon earlier today for a seperate issue he informed me that he saw a delivery date of 10/14 on his end but I told him that both my confirmations said 9/19.  He told me that as long as my email confirmation said 9/19 that that was when I would receive it.  If I recall correctly this same thing happened two years ago when I pre-ordered the iphone 5.  Everyone was getting conflicting delivery dates but it all got worked out at least a few days before when they shipped the phone.

Okay, so I'm a little confused.  After this update is it still necessary to have wi-fi on all the time in order for it not to consume cellular data?  Or do I still have to manually turn cellular data on/off when I'm not on wi-fi?  I guess the question I'm asking is if it has an active wi-fi connection will it defualt to wi-fi or does it always use up cellular data? 

Wow!  This has definetely been a hot topic of discussion.  Thanks for the feedback from those that have pre-ordered in the past and have received their phone on or before the release.  I just read that Apple has broken records and sold $2M in 24 hours.  Perhaps this time is different and there isn't enough supply or man power to fulfill all of these orders and maybe they won't ship out until 9/21.  I hope that is NOT the case.  This is the first time I pre-order any phone and depending on how this experience goes will determine if I do it again.  What is the point of pre-ordering if you can't get it the day of??  Especially when you hear that Walmart and Target were taking pre-orders and you could just walk into their store on 9/21 and walk out with your new phone!  That seems faster and painless than this process especially when all you see is so much conflicting information from Verizon employees no less!!