[Official] Best Buy GS3 thread
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Did they email you or call you or what? This is good news!!! :fingers-crossed:
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 
keep trying guys you'll get it
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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.
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.
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.
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)I gotta say, my whole reason for preordering through Best Buy was because they were the first to open for preorders. They started accepting preorders on 6.5.12, everyone else the following day, so I surmised that at best I'd get the phone slightly before everyone else or at worst the same time as AT&T. The sad truth is that although I preordered before 99% of the people here, I'll likely be one of the last to get the damn thing.
That being said, I'll never preorder though Best Buy again. They are as wildly uninformed as AT&T but when push comes to shove, BB gets pushed to the side as if somehow it's customers (who's money goes directly to AT&T just the same) aren't as important as those who preordered through AT&T direct. The one's who lose are us, the customers. Lesson learned. If I ever preorder a phone again, rest assured it will be direct from the carrier.
Sorry for the rant, just sucks to see so many people who preordered after I did get their phone, or at least shipping confirmation (with delivery eta 6.21.12) before I even know if my preorder is going to be filled on or before 6.21.12 as stated on my preorder receipt.
Doesnt sound like he did. He said they had 5 and 3 were preorders and now only 1 left.
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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.
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.
BestBuy finally shipped my S3 today!! w00t!!
They shipped UPS 2nd day Air so hopefully should have by Wednesday
They shipped UPS 2nd day Air so hopefully should have by Wednesday
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.
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.
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?
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.
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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.
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.
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