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Just preordered!!!

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I ordered the Midnight Green Pro Max 256GB. I hit the preorder button on the Verizon site at exactly 7:00 am Central US time when it went live. Only got so far in the process and it froze, so I clicked “Chat” and got a great rep who got me through the process.
So I have the green 256 Max coming next Friday! And I got to use my $55 VerizonUp dollars toward it too. So my monthly bill is only going up $2.00 Yay!
I did get an email confirmation and a text confirmation.
 

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I am not on the apple upgrade program. So when I went to the page to pre order it asked you if you have a phone to trade and gives you an estimated price. However, if you do so they make you ship it in and you can't trade in store.

Ah ok ya that's different then.
 

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I've got a question for all of you who pre-order. I've never done so, and have purchased from either my carrier or at Best Buy. My cousin, who is switching from a Pixel, wants to pre-order, yet she's unsure of what color she wants. I've suggested that she wait, and go look at the phones in person so she can see for herself. She wants to also have a glass screen protector put on the phone when she purchases it. Does Apple do that for phones that people have preordered?

Personally, she's going to be freaked out by the change in operating systems, and I think she'd do better to not preorder and just go to the store and buy it once she knows exactly what she wants. What do you guys think?
 

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I've got a question for all of you who pre-order. I've never done so, and have purchased from either my carrier or at Best Buy. My cousin, who is switching from a Pixel, wants to pre-order, yet she's unsure of what color she wants. I've suggested that she wait, and go look at the phones in person so she can see for herself. She wants to also have a glass screen protector put on the phone when she purchases it. Does Apple do that for phones that people have preordered?

Personally, she's going to be freaked out by the change in operating systems, and I think she'd do better to not preorder and just go to the store and buy it once she knows exactly what she wants. What do you guys think?

Yes they do, at least they did for my XS. They have a special machine thing to put the belkin glass on. I had mine put on by them right out of the box. Peeled the plastic off and straight to the screen protector.
 

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Yes they do, at least they did for my XS. They have a special machine thing to put the belkin glass on. I had mine put on by them right out of the box. Peeled the plastic off and straight to the screen protector.

Thanks! That's good to know!
 

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Anybody else get their Citizen’s One loan approval? Got mine about an hour and 45 minutes after the confirmation email for my preorder.
 

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GAH I just noticed I forgot to put my work company name in the shipping address and typo’d my contact number in the shipping section. Apparently I was on crack when I typed that

Hoping it moves my order status shortly so I can edit the information - has anyone had to edit that stuff before on a preorder? Normally I’m more careful about that stuff. Boo me!
 

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Preordered Midnight Green Pro Max 64gb right when they went live. Confirmation email delivered at 7:04ct :). I have my pick up window at 6:00-6:30pm. I requested the day off from work but it's "pending" which means I won't know if I got it off until the day before, so that's a bit of a bummer, but at least I probably won't have that much of a crowd to fight my way through.
 

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I pre ordered a space grey 256 but I may have to cancel. I am trading in my iphone XS and would rather do the trade in person at the store when I pick up rather than wait for a box ship. Crazy I know but would like that discount to already be applied. I may try my chances in stores next week so I can just do the trade then.

Looks like Apple is using a 3rd party to handle the trade-ins. That's most likely why you can't do the trade-in at the Apple Store.
 

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But has it been confirmed in store trades are no more?
I'm pretty sure they'll still be doing in store trade-ins, but for the initial maximum value they're using a 3rd party. I bet after preorder the trade-in values will go down. Of course this is all conjecture on my part, so I could be 100% wrong.
 

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Just preordered a silver 256gb for Friday pickup! Question for anyone doing IPhone Upgrade Plan and using an AppleCard....was there a way to check out using Apple Pay? The only option it gave me was to manually enter in my card number, which I did.

I just want to make sure I get the 3% back on the monthly payments.
 

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I'm pretty sure they'll still be doing in store trade-ins, but for the initial maximum value they're using a 3rd party. I bet after preorder the trade-in values will go down. Of course this is all conjecture on my part, so I could be 100% wrong.

I might be remembering wrong, but I thought I read during the pre-approval process that if you picked up your order instead of had it shipped that you trade it in at the store but I might be confusing that with an article on iMore just saying you could choose to trade in either way.
 

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Preordered the wife an iPhone 11 purple and myself a midnight green Pro max through ATT, so far has arrival date of Sept 20.
 

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I ordered through Verizon since I do the yearly upgrade program with them. I asked (ordered through “chat”) if I could do in store pick up instead of shipping but they said no.
Last year with my Xs I did the same thing and a box arrived separately from the phone for the return of my 8Plus.
I got to use $55 device dollars I had accumulated through Verizon Up and that is taken off the total price of the phone instead on the front end when you pay the tax and activation fee.
Had planned to get the silver, but last night after watching a bunch of hands on videos and seeing the green being handed under the lights I was impressed. It looks like a very interesting color and quite pretty.
 

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My order flipped to an editable status and I could correct the typo I made in the shipping address...but sadly even though my order was placed at 8:02am the arrival date is September 23. I was reallllllly hoping it would update to launch day.

Sigh.
 

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My order flipped to an editable status and I could correct the typo I made in the shipping address...but sadly even though my order was placed at 8:02am the arrival date is September 23. I was reallllllly hoping it would update to launch day.

Sigh.

Keep an eye on it, the date might change in the next day or so. I remember when we ordered our X's a couple years ago my wife's got stuck being a few days or more out, then the date shifted to launch day or something like that.
 

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