I ordered an iPhone 6+ 128GB in every colour at 8:01:01 BST (I checked this against the FOCS 1 atomic clock in Switzerland at the time of ordering) having spent the entire night awake incase I overslept and was unable to call 191 on time that morning. In addition to this, I was also camped outside the Vodafone call centre HQ in case I was unable to get through on 191 (and I also ensured I had my 3G enabled laptop with me so that I could order online in case I was denied access to the building). I then repeated the above in respect of the 16GB models and 64GB models in every colour, meaning that I am expecting to receive nine handsets this Friday 19th.
I have been calling 191 and speaking with the customer services team through Live chat every 6 minutes since 10am on Monday trying to find out the status of my order - and I am being told different things each time.
To make matters worse, the tracker (which I have set up a live feed of and is being projected onto the bedroom wall at home and in my office) still has my order down somewhere between stage 2 and stage 3.
I need to know when the phones will be delievered to my home. Not only have I taken the day off work (I wasn't bright enough to think of getting the phones ordered to my work address), but it is also because I have sold my home in order to finance the purchase of the iPhones (I do not mind downgrading my house so long as I get a phone with a 5.5 inch screen) and I am hoping to exchange later on Friday afternoon. I simply cannot afford for the iPhones to be delivered late.
Additionally, I have spent the last ten days imagining what life would be like with an iPhone 6 + and I think that my world would be absolutely shattered if I had to spend this weekend with my current handset, which is JUST an iPhone 5s. Although my current iPhone 5s is in fact running the same iOS8 as the phones I have ordered and makes calls/texts etc in the same way, it is absolutely essential that I have the 6+ handsets on Friday because I was hoping to take a photo of my dinner on Friday evening. Without the image stabilisation that the 6+ offers, I will be unable to take any such photo to the requisite quality (particularly if I am shaking with rage that my iPhone 6+s have not been delivered).
I appreciate that supply ultimately comes down to the manufacturers rather than the networks (who simply supply whatever handsets they receive) and I also appreciate the magnitude of the logistics involved in delivering tens of thousands of handsets on the same day. That being said, I have been a loyal Vodafone customer for several dozens of months (almost 24 to be precise) and I will gladly take my custom elsewhere if I do not get an update on my specific deliveries shortly and/or receive my handsets on Friday. [/satire]
