Here is the story to date: My wife is a long time ATT customer and is eligible for an upgrade. She decided she wanted the iPhone 3G S. Here is the problem - there is not a damned ATT store within 100 miles of here (45 minutes north of Nashville) that has even ONE in stock and can't tell us when they will have any. SO..... we went to the Apple store in Nashville on Saturday where they have an abundance of any kind you want (this seems VERY odd to me that they are fully stocked and ATT has NONE ANYWHERE). Anyhow, Apple has a process to verify that you are an existing ATT account holder and eligible for the phone and here is where the problem came in. They asked for 4 pieces of information - 1. phone number, 2. last 4 digits of social, 3. email address, 4. billing zip. When we entered this information it repeatedly came back that the data entered into the Apple system did not match what was in the ATT system, so no phone for us (at the discounted price). We spent 2 hours at the Apple store with people from Apple there and people from ATT customer service on the phone trying to change the options (the four pieces of information asked) so the Apple store would sell us the phone. No go and it was closing time at Apple. We got home and went to the ATT web site and BINGO, the information matched and we could order the phone BUT they could not tell us when it would be in. We also went to the ATT store yesterday and got the same stoty. Anyhow.... all of this is maddening that Apple and their sole vendor for the phone could not get our FOUR pieces of information in sync. So, here is my question.........can anyone give ANY help of advice on how to get around this? Apple has the phone we want but won't sell it to us because the information does not match. ATT WILL sell us the phone but has none and does not know when they will. My guess is that the issue is somewhere in the ATT system but I can't prove that. There has to be a way to get this resolved though. Thanks for any suggestions.