Best Buy Details

Geidroid · Feb 22, 2011

NCX Designs said:
Exactly why i'm not saying what the tweet was, because it doesn't seem to be true since they didn't even post it on there homepage

The cat is already out of the bag, you might as well add to the gallery of false rumors

jayishere · Feb 22, 2011

lol, I love the speculation

jrm390 · Feb 22, 2011

blackceasar said:
brown goods truck = brown packaged shipments from the DC
I wasn't referring to UPS actually...

I'm just curious though, how would you know if a large shipment is coming? Drivers i'm sure only know where to deliver the packages not whats in them or future deliveries... that wouldn't make sense to tell drivers that, i mean if they want to schedule drivers for a special delivery for a large shipment, i can see that happening then but that really doesn't make any sense... (no pun intended )

we get a report on saturday about the next 2 weeks in advance for the companies we deliever to that way the terminal and the drivers can decide if it will fit on the trucks or it has to go on a tractor trailer....im fedex ground its alittle more than just loading a truck and dropping off hell we even get crime area reports!

Home screen unfortunately doesn't have landscape view but the apps and the rest of the UI does (like the keyboard and menus)

We'll get landscape for the home screen at some point since its rooted already
But of course i could be wrong and the production version of the phone will have it, never know

[/QUOTE]

I was thinking somebody at the bb distribution center. Like a supervisor or somebody on the inventory team. Generally any store employee can call up and ask about a specific item. You'd have to ask by SKU because I doubt there's an easy way to search "Thunderbolt" in the warehouse management system.

matt0715 · Feb 22, 2011

if i dont get my bolt by the 26th im gunna just go get struck by a thunderbolt!

jayishere · Feb 22, 2011

I was thinking somebody at the bb distribution center. Like a supervisor or somebody on the inventory team. Generally any store employee can call up and ask about a specific item. You'd have to ask by SKU because I doubt there's an easy way to search "Thunderbolt" in the warehouse management system.[/QUOTE]

Our warehouses usually don't see phones.

NCX Designs · Feb 22, 2011

Basically the droid_life tweet was

@droid_life Droid Life
Don't want to freak you out, but received a tip suggesting that Best Buy is calling people to re-pre-order because of a delay until March.

See why i said i wasn't going to post it now? because IT TOO doesn't make any sense.

updated with actual tweet (word for word)

matt0715 · Feb 22, 2011

NCX Designs said:
Basically the droid_life tweet was

"I'm starting to get emails about BestBuy notifying pre-orderers its delayed until Early March and that they need to re-pre-order"

See why i said i wasn't going to post it now? because IT TOO doesn't make any sense.

bad idea to say anything.....

jrm390 · Feb 22, 2011

jayishere said:
I was thinking somebody at the bb distribution center. Like a supervisor or somebody on the inventory team. Generally any store employee can call up and ask about a specific item. You'd have to ask by SKU because I doubt there's an easy way to search "Thunderbolt" in the warehouse management system.

Our warehouses usually don't see phones.[/QUOTE]

Yea I wasn't sure if they did or not.

Geidroid · Feb 22, 2011

NCX Designs said:
Basically the droid_life tweet was

@droid_life Droid Life
Don't want to freak you out, but received a tip suggesting that Best Buy is calling people to re-pre-order because of a delay until March.

See why i said i wasn't going to post it now? because IT TOO doesn't make any sense.

updated with actual tweet (word for word)

Oh well I wonder if they will accept a return on my gift card or will we have to buy another lol yeah senseless

jayishere · Feb 22, 2011

ps: we wont make you re-preorder either, that's assinine.

jwort93 · Feb 22, 2011

jayishere said:
ps: we wont make you re-preorder either, that's assinine.

Thats exactly why I didn't believe that tweet in the first place.

NCX Designs · Feb 22, 2011

jrm390 said:
Our warehouses usually don't see phones.

Yea I wasn't sure if they did or not.[/QUOTE]

I think the reason for that is because Drop Shipments are direct to the store from either the vendor or the manufacturer.

In this case, HTC or Verizon would be sending the ThunderBolts
but if those purchase orders are real, a Vendor called Reliance is the one responsible for sending them out via Drop Shipment (aka FedEX)
so they would not even be distributed to a distribution center for BestBuy to receive them on a "brown goods truck" aka Weekly stock replenishment (NOT UPS lol)

Tech Addiction · Feb 22, 2011

jayishere said:
ps: we wont make you re-preorder either, that's assinine.

Yea, that doesn't even make since and on top of that I don't even think it's a word. lol

Evo4gee · Feb 22, 2011

So I went back up there, and I asked about the inventory, he said there not in the inventory as of yet, plus he said he was the one that put them in there and said there was enough for the pre-orders. There in the bottom of that display case he told me. he had no reason to lie, he a good guy and was sincere. Oh almost forgot said he was expecting another shipment tomorrow of product.

HTCThunderbolt · Feb 22, 2011

Wheres evo?

Yes. Thats all the proof I need man.

jayishere · Feb 22, 2011

right, don't worry about it.

jayishere · Feb 22, 2011

Evo4gee said:
So I went back up there, and I asked about the inventory, he said there not in the inventory as of yet, plus he said he was the one that put them in there and said there was enough for the pre-orders. There in the bottom of that display case he told me. he had no reason to lie, he a good
guy and was sincere.

lol come on, that's not believeable at all. If they were in that case they'd be in the system.

HTCThunderbolt · Feb 22, 2011

I believe him. Jay that where the phones are kept no?

Tech Addiction · Feb 22, 2011

Evo4gee said:
So I went back up there, and I asked about the inventory, he said there not in the inventory as of yet, plus he said he was the one that put them in there and said there was enough for the pre-orders. There in the bottom of that display case he told me. he had no reason to lie, he a good guy and was sincere. Oh almost forgot said he was expecting another shipment tomorrow of product.

You get an A for effort.

Geidroid · Feb 22, 2011

Go back with a crowbar to use on the case and this time dont bother asking the rep any questions lol===Just kidding of course

Evo4gee · Feb 22, 2011

lol, Im just the messenger, but who knows just like u posted the inventory date, nothing never came or in stock. But like I said Im just telling everyone what he told me straight up.

NCX Designs · Feb 22, 2011

Maybe all of our negative karma is making the delay happen lol
i mean, we do have over 1,000 posts on this thread

so maybe if we start thinking positive like the 28th (sooner rather than later)
we might make out fine

I'm still holding onto hope for the 24th (preorders through Verizon maybe is why the 24 and 28th are both mentioned)

24th - preorders
28th - shipments are sent out with the street date for Verizon retail stores set for maybe March 3rd? i'm trying to be optimistic . . .its very hard to do lately with all the rumors we hear

gobluejd · Feb 22, 2011

FYI

black_man_x The Mobile Panda
I'm not ignoring questions about the thunderbolt... **** it actually I am. Poem give expected. Anything earlier is bonus.

noble.four · Feb 22, 2011

Take a picture of the guy holding a signed note that confirms everything you said.

Bahahahaha.

funguy123us · Feb 22, 2011

Take it for what's it worth:

Thunderbolt delayed until March direct from vzw - Android Forums

I have wasted so much of my time trying to find out the launch date for this phone. I need to get a life, this phone isn't coming out anytime soon. WTF.

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