Apple, typically tight-lipped about such things, says that pre-orders for the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus set a new overnight record for the company. The newest iPhones went live for pre-order at midnight Pacific time last night, and while there was plenty of glitching along the way, that didn't stop many from getting in their order. Apple isn't alone in the new bigger iPhones being an overnight pre-order hit — AT&T's said that pre-order demand for the phones was greater than the last two phone launches.
In a statement to Re/code, Apple said:
"Response to iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus has been incredible with a record number of preorders overnight."
Of course, that's a vague block of time, "overnight", but a record number is still a record number. To put things into perspective, Apple didn't offer pre-orders for the iPhone 5s, but did for the iPhone 5 — and pre-sold more than 2 million in the first day.
Pent up demand for a larger screen iPhone seems to be getting released here for sure. So who pre-ordered, and what did you get?
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iPhone 6 preorders set new overnight record for Apple
Woke up at 3am Eastern and encountered the usual -- everything chugging along UNTIL THE AT&T HANDOFF at which time the Apple Store App had a nervous breakdown. Repeated this several times. Finally went back to bed and much later ordered the 6plus in gold with 128GB, to be delivered in "3-4 weeks." Will it arrive before my 5s purchase offers expire! hope so!
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I preordered this sweet thing
Ordered on the Verizon site at about 3:10 eastern time. The site was non-responsive for a brief moment and then things got moving again. I was able to order the 128GB Gold 6 Plus and my confirmation email said it would deliver by 9/19. A day later the website status initially changed to "deliver by 10/7" and now it says "expected ship date: not available at this time". I'm anxious.
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Same here. only time will tell.
I pre-ordered with AT&T ordered two space gray iPhone 6 plus
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I woke up at 4:00am before go to work and in 10 minutes I Pre-order the 6 + 128 GB with Verizon Edge. I suppose to received it on 10-14-14 but I am wondering if I can go to the store on the Friday the 19 and get it there. Can someone tell me if that's possible?
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That's what I have done the last two years with the 5 and 5S. Pulled an all-nighter last year to be the first in line. They didn't have any gold models last year so I had to order anyway.
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First iPhone last year was stolen by a UPS employee, so I'm hoping for better results this year.
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Is there any way of finding out more about that M8 processor
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I tried at 3:01 AM EST for 2 hours on both the Apple store website and app. It continuously said "unavailable" on both device sizes when I tried to pre-order. Around 4AM I was able to get through 80% of the order and then it said "Sorry We Will Be Back". Finally at 5:18AM the "buy now" button appeared and I was able to complete my order for iPhone 6 Plus 64GB Space Grey. Says: Available to ship: 3 - 4 weeks / Delivers: 16 Oct - 23 Oct by Standard Shipping
Waiting for the iPhone 6S (4,7inch) next year... ;)
(I want to be sure that possible hardware glitches are over first)
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I preorder on apple store app and got a iphone 6 space grey 128g on att and being deliver 9/19 ..woohoo
Or pent up demand from customers who have just reached the end of their 2 year contracts on iPhone 5
I want to buy this one. New some extra features included with it. See this and give me a idea.
http://mobileupdate24.blogspot.com/2014/09/top-features-of-iphone-6-and-...
Am I just being desperate wanting to get the 4.7 inch because the 5.5 is sold out?
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Stayed up late and after about an hour past "go" time I was able to purchase the iPhone 6 64GB in Space Gray on Verizon through the apple store app. Silly me. It was still available on apple this morning. Wanted to make sure to get it on release date though. I'm an impatient person.
Tons of trouble for me, Att site basically down and Apple store as well. Got through with Apple store app on iPad. Picking up Space grey 64 on 19th at Apple store.
My wife and I went to the Verizon store after work today. The iPhone 6 was still available for delivery on the 19th. The 6 Plus is sold out and estimated delivery from Verizon on October 24th. We wanted the 6 Plus anyway, though. So my 5 and her 4S will have to do for now. I want the optical image stabilization. If the 6 had that, I'd have considered getting it instead.
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Contract ends Monday the 15th with Verizon, got up at 6am pacific time, loaded the AT&T website and ordered the iPhone Plus 64GB Black with delivery stated as 7-10 days.
Having it shipped by Late October will be frustrating..what's the advantage of living in one of those select nations then where it will go on sale on 19th
Got my iPhone 6 16GB Space Gray pre-ordered at 2:45 AM (CST) on U.S. Cellular's website. Took 45 minutes of login attempts before it finally worked. Supposed to get it the 19th or 20th.
What an unmitigated disaster this has been.
Woke up at 0300 EDT, went to AT&T.com after Apple was unresponsive, ordered my wife's 64GB 6 in Silver, no problem. Ship date 9/19. A minute later, I order my 128gb 6 Plus in space grey. Get a confirmation MUCH later in the day saying my expected ship date is 11/15?! I was a little ticked off, especially seeing all of the people who ordered the same phone later in the day with a 9/19 ship date. Had to call AT&T to cancel my order, which they did, so that I can try my luck waiting at the store next Friday morning. My question to the interwebs is, how did this happen? My theory is that my order, because of all the hangs and glitches at launch time, somehow got cached in their server and wasn't actually processed until the afternoon when I got the confirmation.
The other suspicious thing is that the AT&T order rep told me that ALL AT&T iPhone Plus's were backlogged until November, and that no one would be getting theirs until then. I told her about the hundreds of confirmations to the contrary, but she insisted. Obviously, clueless.
So, I called AT&T retention. They told me the best they could do was to have me call back on launch day, and they'll be able to order me a phone (no word on how long that would take to arrive).
So, after spending HOURS trying to sort this mess out, it looks like I'll be standing in line with the rest of the scumbags (movie reference) on launch day at my local Apple store. Ugh.
I cancelled my PreOrder. Will probably buy it sometime down the road but I had second thoughts about buying a phone for only 140 less than a Macbook Air or a 2012 Mac Pro with a student discount.
After figuring out the Apple Store app thing about 45 minutes into the evening I managed to snag a 128GB Plus in space gray. Then when the app said that the space gray 6 was unavailable I eventually got 64GB ordered for my dad from Verizon. Both say they should be delivered 9/16, but they showed everything from unavailable to 10/14 throughout the process so we'll see how it shakes out.
Here comes my conspiracy theory: I am starting to think that the rumors of a delay for the iPhone 6 Plus were true but Apple decided to use it to their advantage. They pushed a pre-order launch date and a "ship" date, all the while knowing that they would never meet that deadline. They have the customer's money, it looks great for investors, and the world sees demand crush supply.
You don't get charged until it ships so they don't 'have your money' until they actually ship something.
Correct.
Actually, this is incorrect. They took my money and my device has yet to ship.
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Clarification is necessary. You are right that Apple does not charge for an item until it is shipped. My purchase was through AT&T. They have already collected the funds although my iPhone will not ship for several weeks.
iPhone 6, 64GB, Space Grey for me! Ordered through the Apple site, due to ship September 19th!
I finally was able to get through to the Apple site at around 5:30 EST after numerous attempts using Safari as well as the Apple Store app. I ordered the 6+ in gold with 128gb. I am scheduled for store pick up on 9/19.
Same exact thing with me. I ordered my wife the 64gb gold iPhone 6 plus and I got the 128 slate black iPhone 6 plus.... Any chance your from PA? Haha
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Yes. Good chance.
My preorder experience was mixed. A rep from Verizon called me at 12:01 (I talked to him 2 days prior, and he arranged to call me). I ordered a 6 Plus 64GB Space Grey. Since I am also switching carriers, it took a while. About 25 minutes.
Issue #1: Well, he promised delivery of 9/19, but email came saying 10/7.
Issue #2: Also, he put me on the wrong plan. He screwed up.
Issue #3: Their system glitched, so the rep said he would contact me later to finish TnC's, but the order went through. Instead of calling me today, the guy called me at 2:30 am!! Woke me up! So upset about that.
Honestly my preorder experience wasn't bad at all (and that scares me) O__o but the Apple Store app was the winner. Lagged a bit at first but once I got to the selection screen it was smooth. iPhone 6+ 64Gb Space Grey on the 19th! EXCITED :-)
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I was able to order a 64GB iPhone 6 gold for delivery on 9/19
Wasn't as lucky with the 6 Plus - 64GB space gray for delivery between 10/1-6
I guess i can live with that. #firstworldnerdproblems
Hi Ally first time chatting with you and I am wondering if I apply one of the cc that extends the warranty on items and then shouldnI cancel my other cc since i heard that it will be bad for you credit score if u have a few cc that u dont use. Thanks
I don't pretend to be a financial advisor but I believe the opposite is true. If you close a card, your amount if available credit decreases. That means the % you have utilized increases. And if that goes above 30% or so, it could probably cause your score to drop. I've never seen a time where not using a card lowers your score. I have a few I don't use. But I've just left them alone and that's never affected my credit negatively.
I see no real reason to close a card other than not wanting to pay an annual fee or wanting to sign up for that card again in the future for a bonus. If you do close a card, and have another card with the same issuing bank, make sure to call them and ask them to move your credit to your open card before cancelling. Also, It is good to have credit cards that have been open for a while, so I wouldn't necessarily close those unless you needed to for some reason.
iPhone 6 Space Grey 128GB ordered on AT&T's website (couldn't get through to Apple) at 1:25am MT. Elapsed time: 25 minutes. Delivery on or about 9/19. Used credit card that will extend Apple's 1 year warranty a 2nd year at no cost.
Good job on the warranty! I just wrote an article about that the other day :)
Oh?
I pre-ordered and have an order number with 24 hours to respond and confirm my reservation, but I haven't been able to do that all day. We will see what happens.
I ordered a silver 128GB 6 Plus off apple.com at about 5:30 am eastern and got a delivery date of Oct 13 - 20.
I tried to get in sooner but kept getting a message that the site was being updated and would be available soon.
Although tempting, I'll stick to my iphone 6 mini( 5s) until next year and wait for the iphone 6s plus.
For some reason I never have a headache preordering. I got to begin my order for my 16gb gold iphone 6 at 2:59est and I was done, complete and confirmed by 3:04am est. When I'm early and hitting refresh, Verizon never does me dirty.
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Wow, I am surprised to hear all of the issues from Verizon. My experience was smooth as butter. I logged into Verizon's site at 4:30am eastern from my computer and purchased myself a 6, 64GB in silver. Then, logged into my wife's account and puchased her the same 6, 64GB in silver. Shipment for both on the 19th. Was back in bed by 4:50am. Just checked the order status and confirmed the shipment is still set for the 19th.
I was able to order one on Sprint's mobile site by 10:00, but checkout could only be done on a PC or tablet. WTF?
It took me another hour on my work PC to snag a 128GB 6 Plus. Delivery isn't expected for up to three weeks, however.
I logged on at 3:02 ET and the ATT website was down as was the Apple website. I ended up using both my phones to log on through the Apple Store App and toggled back and forth until one of the phones got through. Even after getting into the site, I had issues because the devices were showing up "unavailable" . after logging out and going back in over 40 mins, I was finally able to place my order for the Iphone 6, 64gb in space gray. It was not as seamless as I thought it would be.
I did. I bought an unlocked 64 GB gold 6 Plus.
I bought 5 iphones. 2 gold 64gb 6's, 2 silver 6's (1 - 16gb, 1- 64gb) and one space grey 16gb 6+.... Took me 3 hours to place the orders tho! That sucked
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Oh and all will be shipped on the 19th!
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Did u place ALL items in ONE order?
And did you use the apple store app?
The apple store app only let me add one item per order for some reason.
I got through at Apple.com last night and bought a 6 Plus, but shipping had been pushed back 7 to 10 days by that point.
All of the polls I'd seen about which model people were planning on buying seemed to be showing an even split between the 6 and the 6 plus. I wonder if Apple had an equal supply of both devices. I'm guessing not, since shipping dates for the 6 Plus were pushed back first. I wonder how much demand Apple expected for the 6 versus the 6 Plus. It'll be interesting to see how many of each they sell today.
I ordered the iPhone 6 plus Gold 127gb with sprint by phone on the iPhone for life program. I have a military discount with sprint and with zero down I ordered my phone for the price of a $35 activation fee. The rep said she could not wave my activation fee because I have an ongoing military discount. Comes out to $70 per month plus taxes and fees minus my discount for unlimited everything and a new phone every two years.
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The ordering process was actually better than I anticipated. It took me about 45 minutes of trying. I gave up at one point and started to go back to sleep, but then woke up briefly and decided to try one more time. That was the magic try! I got the silver/white 6 in 128 GB. I love my storage space but opted for the smaller phone because, as a woman, I don't feel my hands are big enough to handle the 6+. I have smallish hands and the 6+ dimensions just seem too large for me personally (I also have a baby and do lots of stuff one handed). The 5 is already sufficient so a little bigger is fine, but the 6+ is just too much for my short fingers!
I got lucky and managed to sneak though an order using my iphone app at 12:20 Pacific time. Have a 6+ 128GB space grey for launch day.
That's really sad.
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I want one so much but I'm not eligible until November 2015. *sad face*
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I placed my order at 2:50 a.m., NY time, 10 minutes before the expected launch from Verizon. I ordered the Iphone 6 Plus, 128 gig in gold. I got a confirmation email that said 'delivery date 9/19/14' but a check of the order status on Verizons site say 'Oct. 7 and now Verizons site says UNAVAILABLE for delivery date.
I preordered 2 iphone 6's and 1 iphone 6 Plus, all 64gig, all gold. The two 6's are to be deliver on the 19th, but the 6 plus not till Oct, 13th.
I stayed up until 2:01 am CST and started hitting the refresh button continually. At 2:23 am CST, the site was back up. I wanted a silver 6 Plus, but discovered that the only one on my Apple app that was available to ship right away was the gold 6 Plus. I already have a gold 5S, so it's not really a big deal. I ordered my new iPhone 6 Plus in gold, 128 GB, to be delivered 9/19!! I'm excited!! I tried ordering a case to go with it, but the ones i wanted were still listed as "Unavailable". Anyway, I was in bed, asleep, with a smile on my face, buy 2:30 am CST. No problems for me. I'll bet I got one of the first ones!! Who knows??
U mean it will deliver on 9/19 not delivered!
Isn't that what I said? "To be delivered on 9/19". Because it is to be delivered, according to Apple, on 9/19.
I got through no problem on at&t's website. Actually their site went live with the preorder process about 5 min earlier than expected. I ended up with a 16GB iPhone 6 in Gold for the girlfriend. I'm currently on the at&t NEXT plan so I was told I'll have to physically walk into a retail store before I'll be able to get the model I want which is the 64GB iPhone 6 Plus in Space Gray. Over all it was actually a very smooth experience. It was interesting to see all the Tweets and posts about all the problems people where having.
After a little over an hour on the computer at 6 am EST, got to reserve my iPhone 6 black 16gb on the rogers site. They said within 15 days but I hope I can pick it up launch day
Man all these people that wasted 3+ hours of their life to get a phone for bragging rights. I would have gave up after 5 minutes of it not working and just waited to get one in the store. Like I am going to anyways.
I don't give 2 shits about 'bragging rights'. I use my phone for work and a larger screen will make all the difference in the world. I did try the whole Android thing to get a bigger screen but just ran into a lot of other issues - in short it didn't 'just work'.
Some may be after bragging rights I guess but considering millions upon millions are sold - it's not exactly an exclusive club. That's like saying you bought a Ford for bragging rights - big popular brand owned by millions of people.
I meant more the bragging rights of having the device before the majority of people. It just seems like a headache to go through all this preorder business when in a few weeks you can just walk into a store and grab one no problem.
I don't think it's the bragging rights so much as it folks trying to avoid a lengthy wait once the initial shipment sells out. Sprint offered me a limited window to upgrade, even though my current contract isn't up until July 1st.
Thats pretty cool that Sprint did that for you. I have AT&T my contract is up mid November. I can wait.
For me it's all about going out of town on Sept 28th to Oct3 and I was hoping to have the phone before then because the battery in my 5S isn't lasting at all anymore.
or you could have slept like normal people woke up and did it now with no problem.
I had Siri wake me up at 11:55 and then got on my laptop for apple.com as well as the Apple app on both my iPhone and iPad. This was a constant activity of refreshing all three devices over and over again. It was not until about 1:10 I was able to place my order on the Apple Store app on my iPhone to get a 64Gb iPhone 6 in space gray.
The problem was that at that point I was so amped up from the frustration of not being able to get a connection anywhere for so long that I could not get back to sleep for a couple of more hours. Anyone else feeling the "iPhone 6 pre-order zombie walk" today?
Very funny and appropriate on the iPhone zombie walk.....
6 delivery scheduled for 9/19 and 6+ scheduled to deliver 10/13-10/22. Used the iPhone Apple Store app - website on laptop never worked.
Had to order through the Apple Store app after almost 3 hours of trying to order. I got the iPhone 6 plus 64gb and 128gb. Had it ship to a local Apple Store and says available 9/19 on my processing order
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I have a hard time believing that, when their US store went live 3 hours late.
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Got through via the Apple Store app on my iPhone around 12:30am PST and an 128gb Space Gray 6 en route for release day delivery!
This is the kind of thing that sends me into orbit. I was pounding the Apple Store App continuously from 2:01-3:30am CDT and NEVER got through until the end, where they gave me a reservation number only for Oct.1-6 delivery.
Totally agree. I stayed up till 3am EST with the wife. Website never responded despite her hitting cmd-r every 5 minutes until 3:45.
Finally got my order in via iPhone app at 3:50 but shopping cart crashed before I could add second phone. When it recovered, just hit place order and tried again.
Placed girlfriends order after 4 am after hammering iPad and iPhone app for 20 minutes. iPad finally responded, but now I'm in the dog house cause mine shows 9/19 and hers shows 10/2 lol
Was able to get a 6 grey 128 this am around 10am showing 9/19. Seems to be the least popular combo or the model they made the most of... But all are showing 3-4 weeks now
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I think u can only add 1 item per order at a time when u r going to pay for it because i had a message saying that. Just making sure u used the apple store app?
Funny, I got into the App Store app too and it showed the 128gb Space Gray 6 as unavilable....so I got into AT&T's site instead.....about the same time: 1:20am MT.
Think they do "real time availability" of some sort. All models were showing unavailable unless you keep hammering site until it responded with a date
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I could get through with the iPad app but then got stopped in my tracks because T-Mobile was not listed among the carriers so I just sat and waited, ordered off the Apple Site at about 2.30 and then went to bed for a 30-40 sleep before I had to get up, shower and get ready to go out for my work. So I'll get the longer lightning-USB cord in the next couple days, the case a few days later and then in about a month and a bit I'll get my Space Grey 128GB iPhone 6+.
Had no problems at all thru ATT was at work so I was one of first to get thru ordered 64 gig 6 for self and 64 gig plus for wife.
Spent ~3 hours trying to pre-order via Apple.com, Apple Store App, and ATT.com. Finally got through with AT&T for two phones and then AT&T emails me today to tell me one of my orders is canceled as it's not eligible for upgrade [even though the site clearly says it is, did last night and still does now]. The other one that didn't get canceled shows shipping Oct 13-20th.
Just ordered the one that got canceled by AT&T through Apple.com and it shows delivery Oct 13-21st.
Looks like no new iPhones for me or the wife until mid to late October.
I'm not really upset about having to wait as much as I'm upset that it was completely outside of my realm of control. If I overslept and forgot to pre-order or *my* internet was down or something of the likes I would be 100% OK with it but the sheer fact the only reason I have to wait is because none of these sites could get their crap together is frustrating at best
Same here Mike. I had my alarm clock go off at 2:45 est and was at the computer and couldn't even get in to the Apple Store (or ATT). Finally got through ATT and ordered the space grey 64 gig Plus and got an email telling me to expect delivery between 13th thru 21st. Oh well, at least we got our order in.
Turns out that Apple.com had issues 'verifying' my AT&T Upgrade Eligibility when I did get in a few times and gave me a reservation number. They emailed me today and I was able to order for 7-10 days delivery [Oct 1~3] right from Apple.
Woot.
64gb Gold iPhone 6 from Apple September 19 delivery.
Imagine how huge it would be if they'd let people who wanted to buy it outright actually do it.
What carrier are you with? I bought a iPhone 6 64GB Space Grey outright and my girlfriend bought the equivalent in Silver. We just bought the no contract "T-Mobile" version which is just the GSM unlocked model shipped with a T-Mobile sim card. We'll just take it out and pop in our AT&T sim cards.
ATT. And Apple tells me they are locked to Tmo, not unlocked.
They're not being truthful. When t-mobile first got the iPhone they listed it as unlocked/contract free but I guess T-Mobile didn't want it labeled as that. So they removed it from the site to follow their old method of not selling a "unlocked device" for a month and a half, 2 months after the new model comes out so carriers could get their customer locks (contracts). If you buy a iPhone device only no subsidy AT&T or T-Mobile (same model) phone from Apple its unlocked out the box. But that's marketing for you. Didn't include Verizon because theirs are unlocked regardless.
I suspect the reason they have been saying that is because they didn't want everyone purchasing the T-Mobile version just to get an unlocked.
I do think that they are not locked to T-Mobile just like the iPhone 5C and 5S were never locked to T-Mobile it was just the unlocked phone phone with a T-Mobile SIM in it. The only ones that are locked out of the big four carriers are AT&T and Sprint. Verizon have not locked the iPhone to their network since the iPhone 5 but it was only with the iPhone 5C and 5S that it was easy to switch to T-Mobile or AT&T using their model iPhone.
Maybe it's changed this time round but somehow that would be a smack in the face with a carrier that says, if you don't like us you don't have to stay.
Your right the T-mobile version is nothing more than a factory unlocked iPhone with a T-mobile sim in it. It's not that they're being untruthful, they're level 1 support and they don't know shit.
I ordered a tmobile from apple.com at full price and intend to use it on ATT. I have read enough to believe it is unlocked. If I pop the SIM in and it does not work, I have a Apple store about 1.5 miles away to return it to.
If you are going to wait for a no contract device from a carrier, it ill be a few months.
If you wanted to buy outright, why not buy from apple.com? Buying outright from carrier seems counter intuitive. Carriers in canada sell ip's for same price listed on apple website but are locked. I think you have to use the phone for 45 or 90 days before carrier will provide unlock code. I don't get it.
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Because Apple.com isn't selling it that way.
See above
I didn't preorder because I'm still on the fence as to which one.
I'm sure prior records will be shattered as people get their hands on the devices and can device which one to get.
Finally got through on the Verizon site after trying Apple.com and the Apple Store app and a call to Verizon. Ordered the 6 Plus 128GB in Grey. Originally set to ship 10-7-14, then changed to 10-14-14 and now "unavailable at this time."
I feel your pain. I ordered the same and while my confirmation email said "deliver by 9/19" the status on the website now says "date not available".
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I'm still tired. I was up from 2am to 4:30am Central, trying to order but never got thru.
I ordered a gold iphone plus 128gb thru Sprint on Apples site about 6:00 am CST. It says available to ship in 7-10 days, with a delivery date of Oct 1-6.
I probably could've gotten by with the 64gb. I have a 64 gb iphone 5, and still have 20gb available - but figured for an additional $100 for an additional 64gb - seemed silly not too!
I did with tmobile (finally after 6hrs) got iPhone 6 16gb silver to be delivered by the 20th. It was a very long night but so worth it.