This is an interesting story sent to us by one of our viewers. It is about a gentleman (David) who ordered a refurbished iPhone through AT&T and received a bag…yep, that’s it, nothing but the bag. The only reason this concerns me is because I know a few of you bought refurbished iPhone’s from AT&T during the last sale. Below is a just snippit from David’s blog.
I am a developer for Pegasus News. My team has been working on an application for the iPhone and was in need of hardware for testing, so when my brother mentioned that AT&T had refurbished iPhones on their site, I jumped on the deal knowing that stock at all local Apple stores was nonexistent. I place my order, everything goes through just fine, I’m a happy customer. I try to pull up my order status on AT&T’s site and get an error message telling that it might take 24 hours for information to be available in their system. This seems like a common enough requirement, so I wait patiently.
ONE WEEK AND FOUR BLOG POSTS LATER…
My wife calls to tell me she found the DHL delivery, but it’s not a box. It’s a shipping envelope. She asks if she should open it. I tell her please do.
“It’s just a bag.”
“It’s a what?”
“It’s a bag. It’s an empty plastic bag.”
“Well, um, er, is there anything else in the package at all? A note or anything?”
“There’s a shipping label. But this is just a bag like you’d get if you bought something in their store.”(pause)
(sigh)
“I’ll call AT&T again.”
Read the entire blog entry HERE.
I am curious to know if anyone else is having this problem.
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Here you go, i found a similar story on “engadget.com”.
A few people responded saying it happened to them as well…
Hope that Helps….
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/05/29/atandt-ships-out-box-packed-with-one-bag-limitless-hilarity/
was it the official at&t? because they cant get away with that and even if it was some scam they still cant get away with it
Aha, interesting case for Detective xan.
I say, the wife switched it before David could come and check. She stole his iphone and hid it somewhere. : )
Case closed.
LMAO.
Haha nice! Blame it on the wife!
Same story happen with my friend .
He called ATT , after 1 hour he got hold of the right person who said that they are out of stock , sorry, you will be geting iPhone in about a week
he still did not get anything
I saw the news post and jumped on the deal right away. Phone came in a blue box with everything included. It’s an AT&T box that says refurbished. Even comes with the black mini box with the cloth inside. I had no problems purchasing. Maybe dudes wife stole it?
I’ll say shake your wife down old school style. something happened to your phone men….
She knows what time it is.
I ordered a 16gig and got it no problem in about 4 days with everything that came with my 8gig. Sorry to hear about people getting screwed like that. I would have been pissed off to.
digg it??
http://digg.com/apple/Guy_Buys_a_refurb_iPhone_from_AT_T_and_gets_a_plastic_bag
if this happen to my i will be thinking on takin “legal actions”…apple have to do something its the best phone in the market and the people of ATT are creping it!
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