{"id":908,"date":"2010-11-29T14:25:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T22:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=908"},"modified":"2010-11-29T17:15:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T01:15:55","slug":"iphone-4-its-about-fing-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=908","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 4 in stock – Finally!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Back on Sept 1st<\/a>, I mentioned that I had taken on the task of finding a shiny new Apple iPhone 4 for my lovely wife.\u00a0 At the time the iPhone had been in Canada a little over a month.<\/p>\n

It really shouldn’t have been that difficult.\u00a0 According to Rogers Wireless, I was eligible to upgrade to the 16 GB model for $160; assuming I could find one.\u00a0 They didn’t have any in stock so they advised me to pick one up at a Rogers Wireless dealer store.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I called the nearest store and was laughed at when I asked if they had any in stock.\u00a0 It turned out that most stores had created wait lists since they were only getting 2 or 3 in at a time.\u00a0 Places like Best Buy didn’t do wait lists, but they were selling out shortly after receiving stock.\u00a0 I ended up adding my name to as many wait lists as possible.\u00a0 Some stores were no longer adding names as their lists were already getting too long.<\/p>\n

I then called Rogers back and complained about the issue.\u00a0\u00a0 The rep offered to put me on her personal call list.\u00a0 Once they had stock, she would give me a call.<\/p>\n

Other than occasionally checking with Best Buy to see if they had any in stock, I left it at that.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Skip to last week.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude21<\/p>\n

No one called, not even the Rogers customer service rep.\u00a0 As of last week I had supposedly been on half a dozen wait lists for almost 3 months.\u00a0 That’s total BULL$#!T!!!\u00a0 If Apple isn’t able to build enough iPhone 4s to supply Canada, what business do they have launching in China <\/a>and elsewhere?\u00a0 \ud83d\udc7f<\/p>\n

Then comes Friday night (3 days ago).\u00a0 Out of the blue, my local Rogers Video calls me up to tell me that they happen to have an iPhone 4 in stock if I am still interested.\u00a0 He also mentioned that Rogers recently changed their upgrade eligibility rules so that many of the people on his wait list were no longer eligible (isn’t that convenient).<\/p>\n

He checked my account and luckily I was still eligible.<\/p>\n

I checked with the wife and she still wanted it, so I went over and grabbed it.<\/p>\n

I had to extend my contract to 3 years and it’s still going to add over $200 to my next bill (after fees and taxes).\u00a0 I’m sure glad I have been a Rogers Wireless customer for over 10 years, I get such special treatment.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

You know what, after having an Apple iPad for over a month and an Apple iPod for a lot longer, the iPhone 4 doesn’t seem like anything special.<\/p>\n

Regardless, the wife is happy.\u00a0 Rogers has me by the balls for another 3 years and Apple has one more iTunes slave.\u00a0 Everybody wins!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Wait a minute!\u00a0 What do I win?\u00a0 Ahhh CRAP!!!<\/p>\n

CompuAbuser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back on Sept 1st, I mentioned that I had taken on the task of finding a shiny new Apple iPhone 4 for my lovely wife. At the time the iPhone had been in Canada a little over a month.<\/p>\n

It really shouldn’t have been that difficult. According to Rogers Wireless, I was eligible to upgrade to the 16 GB model for $160; assuming I could find one. They didn’t have any in stock so they advised me to pick one up at a Rogers Wireless dealer store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[39,30,8,40,9,34,10],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-cellular","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-4","tag-mobile","tag-rogers","tag-wireless"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11UM6-eE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":926,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}