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[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] zmore:
Wow. Yeah. His account was deleted. I tried searching for "driftr319"'s posts, and got "Invalid User specified".

Harsh & unnecessary.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] kydkupa:
I worked at best buy from 2008 and joined xda in 2010 when I go my Evo. I've made posts about best buy in the past and have not received that type of treatment. Maybe his manager saw it and had him take it down. I've seen people at work have the fb accounts deleted for the same thing.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tacomojo:
no word here , yet.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] clay101eve:
He wasn't giving out any proprietary information so that seems highly unnecessary.

Clay
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tuffluck:
Maybe if he were an executive...but a 12/hr CSR, come on...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Gadgetz:
Who knows, it's all speculation at this point
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Bizdady:
Think I'm go spend my gift card tomorrow even before i get my phone lol. Think I'm go with a 32gb microsd card.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] yokken:
My BB keeps saying June 28th. Friday they said Saturday. Saturday they said the 28th but today they said the 28th. Whatever. I'm going to keep calling every day, probably twice if not 3 times... lol
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Gadgetz:
Yep, 28th seems to be the day
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] yokken:
I always *67 my number now so they can't see it's me again. Hehehehe
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] phantomevo77:
He did post some screenies of our systems.. Thats a huge NONO!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] galaxyvirgin:
Im in Bham AL. ordered the pebble blue on 6/5 and still no idea when its coming in. BB in store told me diff answers all week then finally this one guy told me end of July, he obviously didn't know what he was talking about. So I called the customer support and they couldn't help me either. Hopefully sometime this week.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] pdubcramp:
It was either that or him poking fun at his customers (iPhone users). But he was incredibly helpful nonetheless. :good:
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] cent_0_o:
Agreed. Hopefully he isn't in any trouble.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] clay101eve:
Didn't see the screenies, hmmm....

Clay
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] mercado79:
forgot to mention that i signed up for buyback again. standard price is $60, but if you sign up for the insurance (monthly or pre-paid), buyback costs $30. so, even if i decide to cancel the insurance, i saved a little cash.

also, in regards to the screenshot capability, you swipe the side of your hand from right to left (like if your hand was a scanner or copier or something).
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] galaxyvirgin:
Has anyone received their ATT gs3 from best buy yet.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] cent_0_o:
As far as I can tell no. I haven't heard/se3n anything concrete on it either. Pretty frustrating. I hope I hear something today.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] pnizzle20:
he said we should be getting our pre orders today, now when he is wrong who am I going to say " I told you so " to??
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] thehavock18:
I called the 800 number on my confirmation order that I recived via email once I pre ordred instead of caling the store (that always says the 28th). The rep on the phone was able to pull up the store inventory and my information. According to him I am still a go for pre order and that I am set for 1 of the 7 phones set to come into the store. He could however not tell me when they are expected to be delivered. He was pretty good and did not give me any false information. I tried digging to see if he would feed my any lines but he simply stated that he was unable to tell what the hold up was and that he can only see the 7 phones inbound but did not have a firm date.

Hopefully I get the email today......
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jerrygooch:
Guys I've got a good feeling about today! :)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] cent_0_o:
Me too. Just waiting for that first confirmed email, and then I think we will see the flood gates open. As far as I can tell we haven't heard anyone get an email to pick up their phones right?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] moz68:
No email here. Still waiting CSR I spoke to yesterday where I preordered said maybe today. Alpharetta,GA. Not gonna hold my breath.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] zmore:
According to the BB guy who got his account dropkicked, they expect UPS delivery of most pre-orders by 3PM.

ditto. tick tock tick tock.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] thehavock18:
I figure the shipment should arrive today and most stores won't recieve them till around 1pm so Crossing my fingers for the email around then so I can take off work early and head down to pick up this bad boy.

Spent all weekend reading about how everyone loves thier phones.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Joe777G:
Pre-ordered a PB on 6/10 and was told it would be the 28th when I called on the 21st. Hopefully they were just doing the CYA thing and I actually get an email today. I'll post here if I get the email today.

..Also, I'm on the east coast so hopefully I'll be able to give some good news soon. I'm hoping by 2pm EST by the latest as the person had me call back after 1pm on the 21st to see if the phones had come in so I'm guessing that they get their truck in a little earlier than that normally. I have a co-worker who used to work at best buy and said that Thursday is the "truck day" though. So I don't know, I guess it would have to be a special shipment and could be any time?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jerrygooch:
yeah I'd be happy with an email with my tracking number. it can get here the 28th I just want to know where my phone is! Hopefully Expedite shipping will get it here quickly!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] FlyinHi:
I decided not to preorder :( so it looks like I have to wait for 4 more days... Unless my Best Buy receives an early shipment
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] send2amrish:
:fingers crossed: hoping today is the lucky for all of us BB AT&T preorders...

gonna be following this thread like a hawk today...well been following it like a hawk since i preordered the damn thing!!!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tico1986:
Same here. I do have a good feeling about today. Watching the heat parade down here in south florida on tv plus a new phone would make my week!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] amerikian:
phoneless!

+100

I sold my SGS II on ebay (for $318) and had to ship it out today...so now I'm phoneless until i get my SGS III! :cyclops:
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] wgarrido:
Wow that is pretty good. I hope I get close to that with the BB BuyBack program. I haven't had my SGSII long. 6-7months(launch day).
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Bizdady:
If i bought the phone online can i go toa Bestbuy store in the first month and add the insurance? Or would i have to had done it at check out?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jojo_angelov:
Darn it. I still have not received any e-mail from BB !!! I'm wondering if I should just call them. Anyone got any e-mails today, informing them that their beloved AT&T S3 has arrived?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] wgarrido:
I think its too early in the day to know if today is the today. I keep thinking it won't be till the 28th. ;( At least my case will here on the 28th. I already got a 32GB Samsung MicroSD from Microcenter. So I am all ready to go.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] thehavock18:
From what I understand they are recieving one shipment of phones. Pre orders will be pulled from that shipment and whatever else is left goes on the shelf. Might get lucky today.

---------- Post added at 11:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:27 AM ----------

Lady I talk to was confused. She said I will get 230 or 260 on my SGII trade in. On launch day as well. So basically walk out with money in the pocket.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] mercado79:
you can add insurance at any point within the first 30 days. the buyback option has to be done at time of purchase (or maybe pickup).
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] wgarrido:
Thanks! That is enough to cover the SGSIII and I still have the $50 gift card I can use towards my DSLR I am saving BB points for! Got to get one before next year for the honeymoon, ;).

Edit: Wait, are you saying that I could do it without buying a new phone? Darn I should of done it before the 6mos and used my Captivate till I got the SGSIII, or course that would of been torture.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Mr Ian B:
I did my preorder at the store and was told that I have 30 days to come back and buy it. Should be the same for you, after all, they want more of your money. lol

I think I may get the insurance as I dropped it on my tile at home yesterday and THANK GOD for the bumper case I have it on, nothing happened. Never done it before and scared the ****z out of me.

Ian B
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] palecat:
Picked mine up on Friday, mid-day @ cville, VA. They only received enough to fill pre-orders. The girl activating it was practically drooling on it.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] worldwidepmp:
Hahaha! I just got an email from BB that canceled my pre order because I didn't pick it up! Fail!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] thehavock18:
Nah you have to buy a phone to get the money.. Just expression I plan on picking up an SD card as well so I should be good to go out the door without comming out of pocket witht he 50 dollar gift card.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tuffluck:
is the sacred "Best Buy email" everyone keeps mentioning automated, as in as soon as Best Buy scans the box when it comes off the UPS truck an email goes out. or do we have to wait for some yoyo to physically unpack and scan each item in?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Joe777G:
For you guys saying that your SGS II is going to pay for your SGS III. Did you buy the SGS II outright from BB at full price or do you somehow get upgrades every 9 months or so?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] zmore:
When I visited BB on Friday, they showed me their pre-order printout list with about a dozen names on it (for Sprint, sadly), so hopefully they'll be emailing the list top-down for however many they've got, and you've got 72 hours to pick it up before losing it.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tuffluck:
thanks. so is the phone $150 or $200 in the BB store? also, will best buy purchase any phone through the buy back, or is there some program you had to pay for to make that valid?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Zinge:
I run a dummy line on my account which, in addition to my mom's upgrade, gives me an upgrade a year. I was able to get the GS2 at $164 after a price match and now the GS3 at $175 after a price match. The GS2 unlocked will probably get me ~$300 and I expect the GS3 to get the same when the GS4 eventually comes out.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] thehavock18:
I have 3 lines that rotate around updates. Trading in the galaxy sII and leaving the captivate active and rotating numbers around.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] troup1998:
No email or phone call here either. Ordered on 6/15 in Altamonte Springs, FL.

As of yesterday, they told me I'm the only AT&T preorder for the S3 @BB Altamonte Springs, FL.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] RTBee:
What I was told is, Best Buy scans the box as it comes off the truck and that automatically emails those fortunate pre-orders. When I went in and all they had were the Sprint ones, the guy told me it was supposed to happen automatically, but that it didn't, so he actually called each of the Sprint preorders, then as soon as he was done, he saw that the emailing had indeed taken place.

And the emailing (according to him) is supposed to be the earliest preorder first, down the list till they run out of phones. Any extra after that go on the shelf for general public. fwiw. :)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] zmore:
AFAIK it's $200, unless you took advantage of a promo a while back to get $50 off, or have other discounts / giftcards. No clue about the buyback (I'm keeping my old phone as a backup / kidgamephone / devphone)

I should only be paying $150 + $36 ATT "upgrade fee" + $13.31 (8.875% tax) == $199.30.

Amazon would've charged me tax too (I checked), and the ATT fee still applies, so I wouldn't have saved anything by buying from them. In retrospect, I should've just pre-ordered from AT&T and called to ***** to get the $50 off.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tuffluck:
not to mention you'd have your phone by now (along with me and everyone else in this thread)!!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] pnizzle20:
I will be extremely surprised if my pre order is fulfilled today
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Gadgetz:
Dont get ur hopes up for today fellas, ur setting urself up for failure.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] pnizzle20:
I agree, I think Thursday is the day
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] wgarrido:
Oh, okay makes sense. BTW the Samsung SD card is supposed to be pretty fast and gets the advertised speed. Might want to look into it.

---------- Post added at 10:47 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:45 AM ----------

I bought the SGSII on contract but I used my 2nd line because I still had 6mos left on the Captivate which I bought on launch day. With premier I have been able to do early upgrade at 18mos instead of 24mos. So now my line can upgrade. So I could upgrade again next year if I use my 2nd line again. ;)/

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You have to have paid the fee to do the buy back. I paid like $25-$30 when I bought the SGSII. Then you buy it back based on the retail price of the phone not what you paid. The sooner you trade in the more you get, up to 2 years after which you don't get anything. Which is lame. I think they got rid of the buy back program for everything except phones.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Aridon:
Picking up one from best buy in Lafayette Louisiana as we speak. Had 5 total e with three preorders. One left as I'm taking one.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] drksilenc:
damit this is annoying
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] phantomevo77:
Sprint i take it?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Aridon:
At&t.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tico1986:
Must be Sprint. In about 30 minutes the UPS trucks should be arriving in most stores. At least thats what driftr said. Oh yea, in the east coast though.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] phantomevo77:
Dur... Sorry i thought i was in the GS3 general. (not carrier specific)

Congrats on that!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] moz68:
Nice! Congrats!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tico1986:
Did they email you or call you or what? This is good news!!! :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] clark44:
Looks like I got lucky guys!! So I came into my local BB trying to return my EVOLTE and they said they don't have any SGS3's in stock. So I told the rep I'm cool with time return this EVO and just gimme my upgrade back. He opened the closet for the sprint phones to put mline back and there was a SGS3 white the same one I wanted just sitting there! Some guy preordered but didn't pick it up for 3 days so the representative talked to the manager and he looked at the preorder sheet and said it's ok to sell! They checked the preorder list and there was no one on there so they sold me the phone :D keep trying guys you'll get it :)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] EthanMG:
you dont have to buy the buy-back program to trade in your phone. you will just probably get more for your phone if you do. i never bought it and i will be trading in my captivate for about $50 when i go to get my s3. ive done it before. buy-back just gets you more for your trade-in.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Aridon:
Neither. I walked in as he was taking them out of the box. Had 5 units in there in a nice black box. 3 were claimed through preorders leaving two to buy from walk in. Just got lucky. One left here in Lafayetteat best buy on Johnson st.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] EthanMG:
you can trade-in at any time for a gift card, it doesnt have to be for the purchase of a new phone. ive done it before.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tico1986:
Wow that is great news! You got lucky there!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] LightningGA:
So did you preorder???
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ReggieSmith:
Ouch! Why buy from BB anyway? 3rd party, even authorized resellers, almost rarely have sufficient counts of "hot" handsets at launch. Besides, BB wants $150 more for the handset than AT&T (no commit pricing)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] phantomevo77:
Doesnt sound like he did. He said they had 5 and 3 were preorders and now only 1 left.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] bluesolarflare:
He didn't pre-order. Looks like they ordered 5 phones and pre-orders went first and since they only had 3 pre-orders, they put the other 2 up for general sale and he bought one.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Gr8Danes:
Not looking too good for today now, at least by what my store just stated. Not sure if they got their shipment for the day yet, but he was saying the 28th. :(
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Bizdady:
BestBuy finally shipped my S3 today!! w00t!!

They shipped UPS 2nd day Air so hopefully should have by Wednesday :)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] airerik:
BB keeps telling me "You will receive an e-mail..." I haven't received the e-mail yet. Still no phone in the store for me. Others have picked up their pre-orders there. Wondering if I'll even get my phone this week. They have no idea when they will get more.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Jirv311:
I spoke with a Best Buy rep yesterday here in CO, and she said July 18th. Although, I tend to take what most of those reps say with a big fat grain of salt.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tuffluck:
sounds kind of silly, but i thought pre-orders would run out quickly. i too went in a BB the day before the official pre-ordering was allowed by ATT, so i thought for sure at least i would get one. otherwise i was assuming there were only x number available for pre-order and i would wake up the next morning and get beat to the chase to reserve one. maybe i'm imagining things, but i feel like i have tried to pre-order a phone before (maybe the original iphone) and the pre-orders actually ran out and that's where my anxiety came from.

nevertheless in retrospect it sucks, but i figure i'll own the s3 for ~2 years, what's another week or two anyway?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jerrygooch:
My thought process is they'll ship today. Be in stores in the next few days for preorders first then to be sold the 28th for those that didn't pre order...and be on my front door step on or before the 28th when they start selling to the public.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tico1986:
Just called my store and they don't even know if the truck has arrived yet. They did say that when they scan the phone it will email me automatically. According to them their main truck arrives on tuesday.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] kydkupa:
Okay guys good news. I just go off the phone with one my friends who is a mobile lead at a store in Houston, she said that she was getting a ups shipment with the Sprint and AT&T S3 later today. She said the truck should come by 3pm. So we may be on luck today.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] thehavock18:
Pictures or it didnt happen if you guys get your phones or emails.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] wgarrido:
I have plenty of reasons, rewards points and I bought into the buy back program so I could get more than $200 for the SGSII. Oh and their insurance is better, which I only keep for a few months. The SGSII was the first time I bought a phone from BB.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] cent_0_o:
Good to hear. Hope that goes for more than just her best buy. Unless it happens to be the best buy off of beltway and wallisville. :)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jayrod88:
Just got my notification for my Att pebble blue to be picked up. This is a Chicago suburb store.

-sent from my mobile device
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tuffluck:
well 3pm CST is approaching and still no one with a phone. what that says to me is that UPS trucks are going to arrive at every best buy store in the nation within the hour, and i find that scheduling phenomenon to be pretty unlikely to say the least. i would have expected if today were the day, that different stores would have received shipments periodically throughout the day.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] contriver12:
Mind if I ask what store it is? I have mine preordered in Homewood, IL.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jbrook10:
Just called the best buy wireless 800 number on my pre-order. Guy said he saw some on order for my store (Northbrook, IL) but none had shipped yet. He thought they might go out tomorrow but wasn't sure if they would be available same day.

Can't wait to get my blue s3 but it seems like the wait will be a few more days.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Comando156:
Same Story Here... Hopefully by Friday.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] EthanMG:
actually a few people on this thread have gotten their notification or have gotten their phone. read up bud! =D
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tuffluck:
i see one guy that got a notification, and he was posting at the exact same time that i posted my message (which would make my point about UPS delivery still valid). the only other guy wasn't a pre-order, just got lucky walking in. i didn't see any others?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] EthanMG:
well in your post you said no one had gotten it, but at least one person has, and soon another. but i agree, i dont think every store is going to get their shipment in at the same time, so it looks like it will be sporadic through the next few days.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] zaisaroni:
THIS.

Best Buy doesn't get all of their deliveries at the same time, they are on a route for each delivery service from a localish depot. The retail store I work at gets our deliveries fairly regularly 10-11am every day.

Monday will also typically be a busier day for shipping companies.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] cardinalryan:
I was just checking the Best Buy website to check availability and it shows that the Pebble Blue S3 is available in store right now in Rogers, Arkansas.

I am not in Rogers, AR, but had it search within 300 miles of my location just to see if any stores had stock. All the cities were listed as "UNAVAILABLE", except Rogers, AR which was listed as available now.

Why Rogers, AR...what did they do to receive these before the bigger cities??
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] thehavock18:
Gah.. called the 888 number again and got my order is awaiting inventory and they could not give me any more information.

Called the store I pre-ordered through and they told me AT&T has not released the phones yet. WOW the stories continue.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] wgarrido:
That was a good idea. I am finding a handful of stores in CA that have them "In store only" This is a good sign. I just hope its not by the store size. Its only early afternoon so today is still possible for CA.

Edit: Now I have a new page to refresh constantly.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] cardinalryan:
I can't imagine that it is by store size...surely the Rogers, Arkansas store isn't one of the bigger Best Buy's in the country.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] wgarrido:
Yea, I don't think it is. Southern CA doesn't have any. Just up here I am seeing them. I almost want to drive an hour to get one.... so hard to be patient.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] bluesolarflare:
I just checked out here in SoCal there is a Pebble Blue available in Store at the Tustin Store. So they are indeed showing up, but I haven't seen any Marble White's.