A ton of Google reps did.
I got the 16 GB. i was lucky though. I had a doctor's appoint this morning and was not able to get to a computer until around 11:45 am CST. (I am in Wisconsin) When I did finally get to the play store I was heart broken because It said both the 8Gb and 16GB were sold out. I clicked refreshed a few times and to my delight the 16 GB version came up as available for purchase. I was able to add it to my cart but then, when i went to check out it said my cart was empty. I added it again, but when I went to check out I got the yellow error bar. I kept clicking proceed over and over until it finally worked and I was able to purchase !!!! order went through at 11:56am CST and I got the confirmation email at 12:13 am CST.
The email said I will be charged when the phone ships. I am so happy.... but still feel bad for everyone who was not able to get one.
B.T.W. The total for the phone came up to:
Shipping Status Quantity Item Price
Delivered in 3-5 business days 1 Nexus 4 (16GB) $349.00
Shipping: $13.99
Tax: $19.96
Total: $382.95
Just thought I would share.
I got the 16 GB. i was lucky though. I had a doctor's appoint this morning and was not able to get to a computer until around 11:45 am CST. (I am in Wisconsin) When I did finally get to the play store I was heart broken because It said both the 8Gb and 16GB were sold out. I clicked refreshed a few times and to my delight the 16 GB version came up as available for purchase. I was able to add it to my cart but then, when i went to check out it said my cart was empty. I added it again, but when I went to check out I got the yellow error bar. I kept clicking proceed over and over until it finally worked and I was able to purchase !!!! order went through at 11:56am CST and I got the confirmation email at 12:13 am CST.
The email said I will be charged when the phone ships. I am so happy.... but still feel bad for everyone who was not able to get one.
B.T.W. The total for the phone came up to:
Shipping Status Quantity Item Price
Delivered in 3-5 business days 1 Nexus 4 (16GB) $349.00
Shipping: $13.99
Tax: $19.96
Total: $382.95
Just thought I would share.
Wow. What a horrible way to do a release. Keep hitting refresh and hope for the best? This is Google... could they not have figured out a way to queue us up in a line with a chat or something? Make it like e-BlackFriday up in here!
The way they did it just made a bunch of frustration...
To everyone saying F**k Google, or **** like this, go away. You try to release a product that a lot of people want, and try to keep your servers running perfectly while a ****ton of people refresh the page every second.
Man now im very pissed, ive been refreshing page since 9am today and nothing except one time but it dissapeared out of my cart, the part that pisses me off even more is i read throught this thread and so many people are able to get one after refreshing for 5 minutes, i stayed up all night cause i thought it would release at 12 or 3 pacific, and i skipped important test for the nexus 4 today, hopefully they will have more in stock this week or next week,
As i was reading in a lot of different spots google doesnt send out shipment emails til the day after actual shipment it would come in the middle of the night for most of us in the east coast so still have hope for today shipping its only 6pm in cali
Bull. The Nexus isn't an iPhone. And even Apple doesn't screw up a launch like this. Google did no preorders, couldn't keep their site from crashing and server errors (they're GOOGLE, how can they possibly crash) and only allow about 30 minutes of ordering. Sorry, but why would you defend such an abysmal and pathetic attempt of a launch?
Man now im very pissed, ive been refreshing page since 9am today and nothing except one time but it dissapeared out of my cart, the part that pisses me off even more is i read throught this thread and so many people are able to get one after refreshing for 5 minutes, i stayed up all night cause i thought it would release at 12 or 3 pacific, and i skipped important test for the nexus 4 today, hopefully they will have more in stock this week or next week,
On the kinda bright side if there was anything wrong with batch one google/lg might fix in the second,
Does anyone have any info when 2nd batch is coming in?
Bull. The Nexus isn't an iPhone. And even Apple doesn't screw up a launch like this. Google did no preorders, couldn't keep their site from crashing and server errors (they're GOOGLE, how can they possibly crash) and only allow about 30 minutes of ordering. Sorry, but why would you defend such an abysmal and pathetic attempt of a launch?
The lack of being able to have a backorder is the only thing I find wrong with this product launch.
Google isn't making much money on these phones (are they even making anything?) so I can't be angry about any difficulty I had in purchasing it. I don't buy many apps in the Play Store.
Like was said, Google got a ton of traffic, and judging by the interest in it, even if they had 5x as many phones in stock, they would go out effectively just as fast.
I think if it was one phone per person everybody would have been able to get one today
It means you are in limbo 2. Where nothing happens, but you have a backorder email. Or is that limbo 3?