The northlondonhippy

I have iWor­ries over my brand new, shiny, lick­able iPhone 3G.

iDon’t think its com­ing today.

And ok, ok, enough with the iWord jokes. They are wear­ing a bit iThin now.

As I pre­vi­ously posted, I was assured on Wednes­day that my iPhone would be deliv­ered today, but that now appears not to be the case.

Accord­ing to O2’s web­site, I should have had a text mes­sage before 6pm yes­ter­day, con­firm­ing deliv­ery today. I didn’t get that text. Fur­ther more, a mate of mine who is get­ting an iPhone 3G as an upgrade has been able to track his pack­age all the way to DHL. My order is show­ing online as still “in progress”.

I’ve already phoned O2 this morn­ing. Yes I am sad.

The rep I spoke to told me they are still hav­ing prob­lems with their web­site and data­base and she couldn’t con­firm if it was com­ing today or Mon­day. She said the stock had been allo­cated, but it didn’t appear to be shipped yet, but because of their inter­nal prob­lems, she couldn’t be sure. Her feel­ing was that a Mon­day deliv­ery was much more likely, but again she assured me I was def­i­nitely get­ting one and told me not to buy one at the shop.

As if the shops have any left by now! I’ve had reports from my spies of small (10–30 peo­ple) queues at every O2 and Car Phone Ware­house shop they passed this morn­ing. With the very lim­ited stock num­bers, I’m not the only poten­tially dis­ap­pointed per­son in the UK today.

Of course, I could be pleas­antly sur­prised by the arrival of my brand new tech-toy, but I am not feel­ing con­fi­dent at all.

It seems like O2 screwed this up roy­ally and they should never have attempted to pre-sell them online. If they kept all the stock they had for the shops, I’d prob­a­bly be stroking mine right now. Instead, I fool­ishly believed that pre-ordering as soon as they went on sale would secure me one on launch day. Oh what a twat I am!

Instead of hav­ing a huge cel­e­bra­tion of gadgetery-geekery, I’ve spent the bet­ter part of this week suf­fer­ing from a bad case of tech-stress and cus­tomer ser­vice rage.

So there you go, its 9:30am on the 11th of July, inter­na­tional iPhone day and rather than play­ing with my new toy, I’m sit­ting here play­ing with myself and that’s no where near as sat­is­fy­ing as it sounds!

Please Mr. iPhone man, deliver mine today! I’ve waited oh so long and I’ve been oh so patient! I deserve to have all my iPhone 3G dreams come true!

Don’t I?

Doesn’t every­one?

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