[Nexus 4 General] Jayrod1980:
Just got caught up on the last few pages of this thread. Sure does come to life at night when we are all sulking over being in limbo. Earlier I wasn't too upset about the whole FIFO issue, but my blood started to BOIL when I saw that some guy got his RMA shipped when it was started the 12th. This stuff really pisses me off. Sure it's not been the wait we originally dealt on launch but going into Friday knowing that no matter what, the damn thing wont be here till next week at the soonest... even if it ships tonight. They need to pony up some damn money on an in house logistics/sales department. It feels like when you make the order, some printer spits out a paper in Kentucky, and whatever they get through in a work day is done, then the rest goes to a pile. I'd imagine they are really busy, and just start filling orders as they pop out and if there's any left or time, or they finish, they then pull some of the papers from the other pile. This would probably explain why there are a few poor 11/13 bastards here like estallings waiting on their stuff. It's just some receipt that fell behind the desk or stand the printer is on most likely.

The most frustrating thing is that because Google doesn't make direct profit off the hardware, or has made it part of their profit model (other than to make dough off your android usage and app purchases), they don't give a rat's a$$ about it! I feel insane even calling those CSR's because they don't have ANY POWER or pull when it comes to shipping. I just want Google for once to ship me a damn device that isn't crap. Every device bought off of Google (count the Nexus S too even though it was through Best Buy) is junk! Oh, sure the specs are great or have something unique, and the whole unlocked stock experience that's almost impossible to find anywhere else is great, but they don't contract for quality control at all. There's no reason you should get 2,3,4,8 replacements and all of them defective in some visible way. My two Galaxy Nexus phones happened to be fine, but they were both imported from a third party service! Don't doubt that if I would have bought it off the Play store it would have been a different story.

If you don't end up buying your device at that special pocket of the day that they are filling orders and sticking them on trucks to planes, then you end up in limbo. Even on my damn 32 GB N10... and that thing is listed as "ships within a week." Should be no delay at all. Of course they are probably completely out of stock on RMA's because you can't get one with a screen worth crap. The Nexus issue seems to be all about supply, yet some people buy with an expected 6 week wait and get their phone 2 days later. I want to not care, but I just can't. Having a "rental" device is almost as bad as not having one at all... which is where I will be in another week and a half since I've already shipped the god awful first replacement back, and am still holding on to my original device.

At this point I wish I could stand apple and hadn't gotten hooked by the Android platform with the G1 way back when. Dislike everything about Apple, but at least they CARE about the customer! I don't even care that their crap is entirely overpriced. Hell... the N10 is almost the cost of a similar iPad, but that has garbage QC as well.

What was the point of this whole tirade? I forget... but it's been a month and Google still can't deliver me 2 defect free devices for the roughly $900 bucks I forked over so far. /rant off