OK, so I conducted a poll here to see who was going to get the GNex opening day and who would wait...I answered that I would wait. I guess I lied.
So I'm at work and I just can't stand having my constantly freezing, waiting-to-react Droid any more, so I called the Verizon store about a mile from my work and they said they were almost sold out. So I walked down only to see a line of 4 dudes at the checkout. The manager says, "if you're here to get a Nexus, we're sold out," and then proceeded to get my info to do an order for me to have it by tomorrow.
Well, another guy comes in with a Nexus and says he has no data connectivity. The manager says, "where'd you get it?" He says, "Best Buy" (across the street). The manager looks at me and says, "if you wanna go for it, no problem...if they're out, I'll still get you squared away." So I left. Best Buy was out, so I walked back and the only person left was the dude who I was in line behind. He finishes his ordering process and I step up and the manager and her assistant begin to take care of me in ordering the Nexus which should arrive in the mail tomorrow.
About 2-3 minutes into the process, the manager, standing behind the checkout girl, looks down at the shelf right in front of us and says, "What's this?" She reaches down and grabs a plain white SGN box right in front of us. The checkout girl stops, realizing that, holy crap...it's a SGN. She looks confused, thinking they were out, turns around to her manager and says, "I thought you sold that one." The manager chuckles and says, "I though YOU sold that one." They both then look at me with a smile and I say, "Did I just get lucky?" The manager says, "Yup...you just got lucky." So they sold me the last SGN they had...hidden in plain sight.
As an aside, they were notified of the release yesterday afternoon...they got 30 SGNs in. The Droid RAZR they had been notified of a week in advance and they got 40...about 15 of which were still sitting on the very front shelf in their box.
So I'm at work and I just can't stand having my constantly freezing, waiting-to-react Droid any more, so I called the Verizon store about a mile from my work and they said they were almost sold out. So I walked down only to see a line of 4 dudes at the checkout. The manager says, "if you're here to get a Nexus, we're sold out," and then proceeded to get my info to do an order for me to have it by tomorrow.
Well, another guy comes in with a Nexus and says he has no data connectivity. The manager says, "where'd you get it?" He says, "Best Buy" (across the street). The manager looks at me and says, "if you wanna go for it, no problem...if they're out, I'll still get you squared away." So I left. Best Buy was out, so I walked back and the only person left was the dude who I was in line behind. He finishes his ordering process and I step up and the manager and her assistant begin to take care of me in ordering the Nexus which should arrive in the mail tomorrow.
About 2-3 minutes into the process, the manager, standing behind the checkout girl, looks down at the shelf right in front of us and says, "What's this?" She reaches down and grabs a plain white SGN box right in front of us. The checkout girl stops, realizing that, holy crap...it's a SGN. She looks confused, thinking they were out, turns around to her manager and says, "I thought you sold that one." The manager chuckles and says, "I though YOU sold that one." They both then look at me with a smile and I say, "Did I just get lucky?" The manager says, "Yup...you just got lucky." So they sold me the last SGN they had...hidden in plain sight.
As an aside, they were notified of the release yesterday afternoon...they got 30 SGNs in. The Droid RAZR they had been notified of a week in advance and they got 40...about 15 of which were still sitting on the very front shelf in their box.
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