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[Touch Pro, Fuze General] moopile:
I know I've repeatedly said on this and the previous thread that retailers probably won't sell the Fuze no-commitment for awhile, I'm curious how many if any of you have bought one at a store for the $499 no commitment price. If so, what city/state.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] mrspawn99:
I got one no commitment from Alexandria, VA (for $500)
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] moopile:
Thanks. Maybe I will be able to find a Memphis area store that will. Gives me hope anyway.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] ALLurGroceries:
Got mine this morning @ Orange, CT on the Post Road. Don't know how many they have left.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] grmcgee:
Went to the AT&T Store in Chapel Hill, NC this morning at 9:45 and bought the first Fuze sold in that store. By the book transaction: upgraded 8525, cost $349.99, $50 MIR, extended contract by 2 years. Salesperson was polite, knowledgeable, and fast. I was in and out in 15 minutes. I bought the 8525 on the first day of availability 2 years ago, then bought the Fuze on its first day of availability. I have 4 other phones on the Family plan. AT&T loves me, and I am happy with the service. AT&T has the best coverage around my house, and I get 3G in most local areas.

Now to spend the rest of the day configuring, loading applications, and playing. Thanks to the posters in this forum for keeping me informed, and to XDA in general for being a great community resource.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Crotalus:
I got mine at the Capital City Mall outside Harrisburg about an hour ago. They had 3 and the sales guy was thinking about taking one of them.

I exchanged my new iPhone for it. i have about 2 weeks left to decide which i will ultimately go with.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] tanikir:
How disapointing, the premier site isn't offering me any discount at all. It's the exact same price. I hope letstalk gets this soon!
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] clitcommander:
Apparently, this may be more difficult than I thought.

ATT Customer Services says they can do an early upgrade but can't order the phone yet. Premier says that they can't even override any eligibility requirements and said I could get it at the N/C price. Not gonna happen.

Looks like I am going to be waiting for the "normal" ATT service to have the Fuze avail. for ordering... hope that happens in the next day or so.

ATT is fuggin Fuzeless! And I am Fuzeless for now. :(
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] MikeGL2:
I am pretty much in the same boat. The only way I will be able to order it is 'No Commitment' through the telephone sales, but they don't have the phone in there system yet. :( Premier refuses to price match the 499.99 that AT&T's site has and insists on keeping their 'No Commitment' Price of 879.99. :rolleyes: :mad:

Let me know if you have any luck ordering the phone for the 499.99 price. Waiting after the phone IS available is driving me crazy.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] kcchen:
NOVA - Sterling Store

For the N. VA folks. the ATT store in Sterling, VA (next to the Borders) has them.

FWIW, stopped by the Reston (North Point) store and the guy I spoke to didn't know much about them... but he showed me the display dummy...

Good luck.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Kraize:
Props! I got mine at Manteca, CA! 3 people before me got it also. So I'm thinking they only have a couple left.

First impressions: It's totally awesome!
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] l3it3r:
I'm tempted as hell to go get one, but I really hope that it comes to best buy (just a personal reason)
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] BoostedSR20:
Got mine a couple hours ago at the Lakeforest mall in Gaithersburg, MD. They only had two, and they had just arrived a couple of minutes before I did.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] RallyPunx:
San Antonio, TX

For the guys in San Antonio, TX, the new corporate store in Alamo Ranch (1604 and Culebra) has some left in stock (wouldn't say how many). They are not even advertising nor have the dummy out, but are selling them.

I GOT MINE :D
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] clitcommander:
Welp, at least I am not the only one going through this, lol. I'll post up if and when I get some positive movement here... please do the same. I am going to call tele-sales tonight to see if it is there in the system... GL!
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] bigb252:
St. Thomas, V.I.

No stores have it yet. Period.

It seems kinda shady though, when the bold was released, we had some even a day or two before, but now "sometime later this month or next month" for the Fuze?

I wouldn't be suprised if they did in fact held the first batch of Fuze's for themselves - one sales rep was smiling continuously as I was talking to another about the Fuze. After the guy I was dealing with left to go in the back to return the Quickfire(which they have plenty of), she laughed hard after I gave her a little wink and said "hold one for me".

Plus side: I probably wouldn't be able to finish my research paper if I did get the phone though...
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] iceman4357:
Just got mine from ATT customer service for $299, plus i will get the mail in rebate. :) Tilt for sale!!!! I got free overnight shipping so I should have it tomorrow afternoon is what the guy told me. He didnt even know about this phone until I showed it to him on his site. He didnt even think he had it in stock, but put me on hold for 5 min and came back with " I can have it to you by tomorrow".
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] kwill:
YEAH!! just ordered my FUZE for 249.99 from cust. service. If used an upgrade on one of my other lines. It is true though, Premier's no commitment price is 800 plus which is crazy. If ur not eligible for an upgrade, try this. Call reg. customer service and ask for ur 50 % off their retail or no commitment price. Last option, go into the store because they always have the Retail price listed lower than Premier and ask for your 50% off of that price. GOOD LUCK!!
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] t3t5u0:
I've been Fuzed...

Got mine at Nashville, TN (Green Hills) location... they had 11, but going fast.

For any fellow MSFTEs, they don't have it listed for a corporate discount in their system, but it is still 50% off the list. So it comes out to about $200 if you already have a contract.

:-)

/Tony
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] ITNV:
I am soooo glad I sold of my Tilt a couple of weeks ago before all the new Fuze owners dumped theirs on the market!
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] clitcommander:
that's the price you pay for living in paradise, man! ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] bwzippy:
3 left at the Cranberry Twp Pennsylvania ATT Store on Rt. 228 (Target Plaza).

Salesperson didn't know anything about it until I told her to go to www.att.com/wireless and search it.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] idj1975:
Just bought one in Plano, TX off the tollway next to Einstein Bagels.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] alicee:
Just got my Fuze! :] Got it in Portland, OR at the ATT Corporate store across from Mall 205.

It's kind of slow, but I'm installing stuff on it now so that it'll work better. It's my first phone EVER, so I'm being very n00b about everything... :[
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Kerensky97:
Woooo! Hoooo! Finally got mine!

First thing to do is put the included screen protector on, I really don't like the feel of the stylus on bare (plexi)glass. It feels like I'm scratching it, it glides much better over the protector.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] MikeGL2:
I had a hard time getting a rep that could find the Fuze. On my third try a rep finally found it in the system, but claimed the price in the system was ~$538 before tax. Anyone else have this happen to them? I wanted the Fuze and was tired of the hassle so I went ahead and placed the order, but I still can't help feeling a bit ripped off. Also they charged me $14.99 for overnight shipping and I just read a post on here saying someone got free overnight shipping, leaving me feeling like I paid an extra $55 for the phone that I shouldn't have had to.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] CalifornIyay:
Since these "Mas Putos" stores in Sacramento wont sell me the phone w/o renewing my contract, this is what I did...............

I just got off the phone with an att sales rep and she was unable to find the HTC Fuze in their system. I told her it was on their website which she eventually found. I just told her I wanted to buy the phone for my sister in-law for a early christmas present before she goes to China for a few months so its very important to make sure the phone is unlocked for sim card swapping. She said I was elgible for an upgrade and I told her I was happy with my iPhone (Yeah Right!) and this was just for my sis in-law. So I was able to purchase the phone w/no commitment for

$499+Tax + Shipping (3-5 days). Total= $548.00.

A big price to pay during these bad times but hey, I saved $15 monthly on my data plan since I will be using my iPhone $20 plan.

So now I will sell my 8gb, 2G iPhone on ebay....
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Sterch:
Ordered my Fuze Today

I highly doubt anyone is close to my area of Bowling Green KY, But i went to the att retail location and they said they were out of them. The rep claimed they had had the fuzes for over 3 days and had already been sold.

So i proceeded to order my Fuze off the Premier site, and got it overnighted for free :) I also got the phone for $300 even. No rebate or anything. Cant wait!!!
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] KD8DNS:
I hope you don't think you can use the IPhone plan on your Fuze. That feature is provisioned for the IPhone and nothing else. However you can put your sim in a non pda phone and call cust care to have your account "updated" with a non pda IMEI then add media net and 200 txt (20.00 mo) then once you hang up put the sim back in the fuze and you will be good to go.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] CalifornIyay:
Did you call them or did the chat thing? Thats not bad at all, no tax, no rebate and free overnight shipping.. I might just change my order lol
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Praygo:
Just got my fuze today (11/11/08) Omaha Nebraska. The Screen IS WAYYYY nicer than the Tilt. Gotta get used to the keyboard and also im looking forward to ditching this stock ATT rom! BLOAT!

Does anyones Fuze make a noise when opening the keyboard? Also does it rattle when the keyboard is slid out? Is that the spring?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] dontdo_that:
i just picked up my fuze from the la jolla store for those of you in the san diego coastal area! they have plenty as mine was the first one they sold. the sales rep admitted he knew nothing about the phone since they have been so busy with the bold lol. Now to get this all sialed in and properly tweaked!
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] WhackyPlague:
I got mine at the State College, PA store. No one else in the store was even looking at the Fuze.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] MikeGL2:
Be careful when ordering to specify whether you want it with or without the camera. I ordered mine over the phone and when I saw my invoice it was P4605 NC. I was not asked which version I wanted so I was a bit upset. Here are the two item numbers and AT&T sku's etc:

P4600 - Camera 64961

P4605 - No Camera 64962

Took me an hour on the phone to get this straightened out... and I still have to call back tomorrow morning to cancel my no camera version since it needs to propogate through their system a bit more before it can be canceled. I feel like a noob with all of the issues I have been running into. :rolleyes:
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] 10332007:
Was that with new contract discount? I am seeing it on there for $879.99 without contract :eek:
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Bizybone:
My mother along with the rest of my family shares the same account, she was the only one eligible for a discount upgrade.. I just bought it off the premier site for $388 as the final price. I assume it would be as easy as a matter of swapping out the sim card as some others have done earlier in this thread?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] CalifornIyay:
This is what the invoice should say..

Item Name ​

Item ​

Number ​

Quantity Ordered ​

Unit Price ​

Extended Price ​

HITECH P4600 BLK PHONE

​
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] srfaust:
I was told in august by an att rep I would be eligible for upgrade in 2 months, its November now and when I go to pick up the Fuze, I'm told my upgrade isn't up till august '09.

Worst part is I already sold my Tilt in before the Fuze came out thinking I would get more money for it.

Now I'm stuck with an old razr I found in my house.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] intothevoid:
You can still do an early upgrade its not exactly the same but you still get it some what cheaper. Thats what i did. it comes out 375 plus 50 mail in rebate. $75 charge for early upgrade.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] whoodie:
Find a friend on Premier and get a phone through them. I can get any ATT phone at rebate price without contract. You should be able to get the same.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] srfaust:
Yeah I was told this on customer support over the phone, but when I mentioned it in the store they said I was too far away from the early upgrade.

Who exactly would qualify?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Foxfirebass:
Chicagoland area people,

I went to Harlem Irving Plaza today (...which is on Harlem and Irving Park in Harwood Heights), and was disappointed to not see the Fuze on display. Upon asking a clerk, he went "No. Wait...One sec...", disappeared for a couple minutes, and came back with one. I don't have cash today (:(), so I felt stupid asking to see a dummy one.

The Fuze is the sexiest phone I have ever played with, and it was a dummy. Holy crap.

I must say that the Bold is also very sexy. I rather like the leather back...
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] clitcommander:
Long Story

This is my voyage to become a Fuze owner... if anybody can beat this, I salute you.

Lazy bastage cliffnotes: Almost forced to pay n/c price if I could have found one for sale or worse: no Fuze at all (500 is steep!). To Fuze on it's way courtesy of overnight shipping.

(fast fwd past the months of waiting and weeks of wearing out my ctrl/f5 keys not to mention annoying the misses something fierce.:cool:)

11/11/08

6am - called sales and was told I was early upgrade avail. Can't find device to sell as it isn't in system. Notation made on acct.

11am - same as above, more or less and to try back tomorrow.

2pm - called Premier. They said I am NOT upgrade eligible period and to contact the first group that said they'd honor it. But she searched for the phone simply because she couldn't believe the n/c price on the site >$800. Cool lady, I thought. :rolleyes:

7pm - physically go to store and basically get told I am not even close to an upgrade - stuck right in the middle of a 2-year, and they weren't going to do an exception... pulled the Fuze box away from me...tool.

8pm - On my last leg, I call sales (the same "team" that said they'd do an early upgrade, but couldn't find the phone). I am told that the acct. has a notation that I am not eligible. Period. Fuggin Premier lady not so cool at this point. I asked to check earlier records... nope, she's not budging.

I just about gave up. If it weren't for the empty feeling the last rep left me with, I probably would have called it a night... then...

8:12pm - Called the sales line again... explain the story of previous calls and was put on hold. rep told me that the 'not eligible' was there. Was able to get some real customer service when she checked the logs from earlier. she put me on hold, Came back and said, "Ok, we have to honor this upgrade..."

I'll be damned. Almost waiting for the punchline...

So I am haflway stunned and then I get put on hold for a while again. "getting further". evidently she had found the phone and was honoring the standard 2-year deal w/ rebate. Very nice! Said she "just about had it shipped already". I thought that was pretty funny. THIS one was cool.

One caveat, if you will... I have to call them back when I get the device (free overnight, ftw) to get the data plan... she said she couldn't do it or it would take a while to process tonight or something. :confused: I am not worried about it too much.

I still don't know what happened.... but I'll take it. Until that thing is in my hands and properly activated, I have my doubts. :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] 10332007:
I logged into the Premier site today for the first time and went through to the phone to find it $879.99 no rebates offered or anything.

I am just about a year into my contract for the phone and thought I had read somewhere it was 500 or so without the discounts, how are you suggesting to get it at a cheaper price without new contract?

(Just curious.)

Thanks.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] baboola:
i'm in the same problem. wasn't eligible for upgrade til jan 09. they let me do early upgrade for 75 less retail price. manager was also nice enough to waive the upgrade fee ($18) for me. then you still get mail in rebate if you subscribe to txt/data plan. Will work out to be ~ 380ish in total after tax and all the rebates. hope that helps.

also, anyone who hasn't had an early upgrade in the last 12 months and also currently 6 months into their contract is eligbile for early upgrade. so if they tell you otherwise, you can point that out
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Sterch:
I just called them. Great thing is tomorrows my day off so I can sit around allllll day and play with it :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Sterch:
AT&T told me they wouldnt honor my warrentee claaim on my Tilt because it was refurbished and refurbs only have a 90 day warrentee. So I told the rep that I would be cancelling my service and going to Verizon "Where I could get the G1" ;) After a little more poking and prodding they finally let me upgrade. But for some reason I got the phone at 300 even, I dont have to mess with a rebate form or anything! I got lucky
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] pazookie:
thats what im going to do just warranty claim my device (warranty expires on 12/16 but i have had about 4 rweplacements and this refurb's warranty goes out 12/16 so ill try on the 15th or a few days before and if they offer me a fuze ill take it if not just get another tilt and wait another month or so lol i think we have every right to warranty exchange for the upgraded fuze for the sole pupose of the driver issue amongs others...
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] MikeGL2:
You need to call up the customer service line and buy it through them. That will allow you to get it for ~$500. They told me they had it in the system for $538 and wouldn't match the online price of $500. I didn't feel like arguing over $38 but may call back later after I get the phone to see if they will credit me it back. I also had the 879.99 price nc price through premier, and this is the only way I found to get it for a reasonable price. A store would have worked fine also, but I haven't found a single store that has it in AZ.

Anyways, I can look forward to a new Fuze showing up at my door tomorrow! :):cool:
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] nektoinphx:
Still no joy in AZ. Called 5 stores, and they were either drooling idiots, or they said they wouldn't be getting any for two weeks. One store, the one in Tempe Marketplace, said they expected to get some on that day's shipment, but did not know when they would actually come in.

So I ordered through my premier site. Now all I have to do is wait, and hope fedex sees and obeys the sign i put up to leave the package without signature!!!
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] moopile:
Posted by Shroud on HoFo

" Got mine ordered today through Wal-Mart / Lets Talk for FREE!

http://walmart.letstalk.com/product...seDefaultPlan=1 "

I went to the site, and it is offering it to me @ $249.99 with a free 2gb microSD card if I use add-a-line. (I don't have an upgrade available.)
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] 10332007:
Thank you for the response, I will give them a call and see what they say. Or stop by my local store and hope. I can spring for 550 (less than I paid for my 730 less than a year ago D'oh!), but 900 :o good grief no lol.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] pazookie:
i cant believe letstalk.com has it so cheap...like the above poster sais its free (after resbates and its BACKORDERED) but you have to be a new subscriber but still plus if you want to ditch the data plan right away its only $99 before rebates...AND if your upgrading its only 249! KILLER
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] srfaust:
Well I should finally be able to get my Fuze. Called customer service for a 3rd time and the lady I spoke with was more then helpful. She put a note on my account to let the store give me an early upgrade. And she assured me if come friday I haven't gotten the phone she will give me a call and let me order it over the phone.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Kraize:
Hmm. What's up with this part in LetsTalk's Terms and Conditions? :S
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] bigb252:
This still sucks, yo...

We finally have gas that reached $3.23 a gallon...down from $4.73 not too long ago - I just want my Fuze :(
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] l3it3r:
3.23?! I paid 1.84 last night.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] bigb252:
Yea, $3.23 is actually quite cheap nowadays to us...

Back on track, I went to the Kiosk in K-Mart that is owned by the Corporate store, and they had a dummy on display. The Sales Rep that was holing one for me immediately said "They ain reach in yet...probably later or today or tomorrow"...

Just holding the dummy phone made me grin from ear to ear..:D
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] nektoinphx:
Mmmm, fuzey goodness! Finally!! Resorted to ordering it online through ATT premier, got it about two hours ago.

The screen is F'ing amazing! Not impressed with TF3D, but maybe I'm just an old skool kinda guy..
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] scotchua:
I paid $3.79 a couple nights ago, so $3.23 sounds good to me.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] g2tl:
I ordered online on Tuesday

My credit card company held the payment until they got my clear (supposedly the highest amount of mullah spent)

Today I called, and it was on back order!!

They said the fuze was selling very, very well
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Kraize:
gay. How did you guys order through premier? Mine doesn't even show it >.> I called the premier guy and he said he didn't even have it on his list.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] g2tl:
Weird, I don't see it either.

Maybe they should've pushed the fuze more than the bold :p
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] bigb252:
Good News/Bad News

Good: The sales rep holding the phone for me said they came in, and to come and pick it up.

Bad: I'm out $10, its costs almost $5 a day for me to go from home to my university and back...everyday. I've been catching rides often, but I HAD to spend the $10 over these past two days. All in all, its hard being fulltime with no job...:(

Oh well, at least I'll be getting mine REAL SOON!! :D
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] clitcommander:
sweet. you deserve it, man.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] bigb252:
Well if anyone wanted to know...The Fuze is released in the Virgin Islands as of today, 11/14. Just got around to posting...I had it for a couple hours, just messing with everything...:)
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] wickedday:
Fuse to be released Nov 11-12

I just called my local ATT company store in San Francisco, and spoke to the store's buyer. He said they'd have the phones on November 11th or 12th, for sure. No word on how many they'd get, though...
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] bpm2000:
If you do it that way are you going to get all the "new customer" incentives? I can't wait to dump helio myself lol.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] zachoo:
BGR reports demos in store!

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/11/05/we-have-lift-off-att-fuze-hits-att-stores/

No this doesn't mean too much, but it's definitely noteworthy
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] bfspider:
Can't wait for this phone to hit the stores. I'll be dropping my V8 for this bad boy.

I hope I can find a nice guide of what stuff to install on the Fuze to lose all the ATT bloat ware.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] zachoo:
Never mind -- deleted my stupid comment. Just realized it's a dummy device. Wow I'm worked up over this thing.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] m.carroll:
just for info, here's a wm training pamphlet for the fuze. nothing new, except a nice hd picture of it.

http://www.windowsmobiletraining.com/Content/Resources/Device Specs/AT&T_Fuze_US_ST_EN.pdf