In the states I've seen in the past where the first person in the queue is escorted inside the store and is given goodies, Not sure what they get, Maybe someone could enlighten us on that?VIP treatment ???
It's unlikely to happen this year, the way the new iPhone 6 and 6 plus have been selling.Last year when the 5S came out, I went to a Verizon store the day after release day just to see if they had any still available. They only had a few space grey 64GB models, which by coincidence is what I was looking for. So I grabbed one. No lines, no waits, no hassle. It was great.
I had to pick my 4 on release day and that year they had problems with people not being able to get online and complete the order. The problem was mostly Apple's but the process bounced you back and forth two times Apple>AT&T>Apple. I was sitting in the Apple store, on their computer, for two hours. It could never complete the loop. By then, Apple was acknowledging the national problem. The manager at my Apple store told me as he was concerned, I would get my phone on release day. He told me there would be two lines and the I should get into the one for people who had orders to pick up. So I did. I did go in the morning, more from curiosity that anything else. My line had @20 people. The other line went around two corners so was at least 3 blks long. It was opening time, I had been waiting 15 minutes watching people packing up their sleeping bags and being filmed by the TV news. While I waited, the Apple team passed out Apple umbrellas, bottles of water and cups of coffee. I don't know it the ones who had been there all night got anything except for the ones by the glass. That was all the VIP treatment given but maybe, in San Francisco they do more.In the states I've seen in the past where the first person in the queue is escorted inside the store and is given goodies, Not sure what they get, Maybe someone could enlighten us on that?
Lol. That pretty much sums it up. I agree. 3am isnt early enough for the apple store. Maybe AT&T like i said in my last post.I agree 3am is NOT early enough. One year my son and I got to the store around 5 and the line was long it depressed us