Date you ordered and received the phone vs. "will ship by" date

Reginald VelJohnson said:

Ok, I'm in a bit of a dilemma and need some advice.

On 6/21, I ordered my Incredible in the store on a relative's business account (this will be important later). A little before that, I also put my name on the Incredible waiting list at Best Buy.

Yesterday, I got a call from BB that they have an Incredible with my name on it! I called the guy I've been dealing with at the Verizon store (who has been very helpful to this point) now tells me that I can't cancel my existing order and buy the one from BB.

I realize this is a pretty unusual situation... If I stick with the order I placed, there is no telling when I'll actually get the phone. If I try to cancel the existing order, will BB be able to set me up on a business account (assuming I can get the owner of the account to come in with me)? What's the real story on being able to cancel an existing order?

Any input would be greatly appreciated. I really don't want to keep waiting for this thing, but I have a bad feeling this situation just can't be worked out.

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porkupyne09 said:

Porkupyne's Incredible Chronicles - Day 2

The first day of playing with the Incredible went by so fast that I didn't even have time to jump on and say how great it was after receiving it (sorry about that for all of you waiting on updates). For anybody still waiting I was a 6/8 in-store order (processed same day) promised 6/28, 6/30, 7/1 and 7/9 ship dates. It actually shipped overnight shipping on 7/1 and arrived yesterday around 2:00 PM. After I played with it for a while I realized that I had actually forgotten the one thing that used to be at the TOP of my priorities when I would get a new phone. It is so amazing that this phone does SO many things that I completely forgot about which ringtones I wanted, lol. in the brief time I used the Moto Droid I actually grew quite fond of the Motorola "Drooooiiiid" notification sound, so I found a copy of it online and added it to my Incredible as well. All I can say for anybody waiting is that it is SOOOOOO worth the wait. I also read an article saying that an OTA update is coming that will allow the DInc to act as a 3G Wi-Fi hotspot and record 720p video just like the Droid X, so if either of those two features were causing you to question your decision then you have nothing to fear.

In other news... Apple still sucks: Is Apple in Antenna Denial? - PCWorld

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Reginald VelJohnson said:

Thanks for the info. I thought about the refusing the phone thing, but I'd really rather have it canceled first.

With the holiday weekend, I have to get this figured out by Monday or else they'll give it to the next guy on the list.

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RedSox566 said:

So after calling FedEx and them telling me there would be no way I could go and pick it up I decided to stop by the facility since I was going to be passing it anyways when I had to go out. The lady I talked to at first was being quite hopeful and sympathetic about having to wait until Tuesday when it was there somewhere in the building. Another lady came up and said 'no.' It was in a 'can' and she wasn't going to go digging through it for one package and that she didn't have the man power to do it. pfft I should have filled out an application and worked for a day just to find my phone!

She also asked who was it that was sending, the first lady: "verizon" the second lady: "no, can't do it with them, sorry"

So I left the facility with my dreams crushed, even though I didn't get my hopes up too high before going in there. I went about doing my errands and came back to my house and there was a package there from fedex (big box so obviously not my phone - something else) and there was a sticker posted to the door saying delivery attempt but with no information on it. I ran inside, refreshed the tracking page that hasn't been closed since I received my number, and it still said "At dest sort facility LONDONDERRY, NH" and I called FedEx again just to see if that slip was for some reason for my phone. It wasn't and since it is Verizon they will not allow anyone to pick it up at the facility until AFTER the first delivery attempt. Grr you Verizon.

Now I went around and gathered up some kittens all because of you Verizon and FedEx for not sorting out the packages and letting me get my phone which is less than 10 mins away.

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Reginald VelJohnson said:

Ok, I'm in a bit of a dilemma and need some advice..

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RedSox566 said:

hahaha that's great. I love all the pictures you post up and thought to join in with the kittens

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