{"id":1410,"date":"2011-05-12T14:50:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T13:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2011-05-12T14:50:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T13:50:56","slug":"apple-yes-we-have-iphones-in-stock-but-you-cant-buy-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/12\/apple-yes-we-have-iphones-in-stock-but-you-cant-buy-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple: “Yes, we have iPhones in stock. But you can’t buy them”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple UK continues to show that they don’t have a clue how to operate a retail operation.<\/p>\n

We’ve got an app that’s demoing today and tomorrow, and it would help if I had an extra iPhone4 to run it on. So, I try to buy one from the local Apple shop.<\/p>\n

Hi, do you have any iPhone 4’s?<\/h4>\n

“Do you want a contract?”
\n“No”
\n“Well, in that case: no. We don’t have any” ([To Other Guards] I told him we already got one<\/a>)
\n“But … if I *do* want a contract, you’ve got some?”
\n“Yes!”
\n“But you won’t sell me one of those, even though you have them?”
\n“No!”<\/p>\n

When will you have [these magical non-contract] phones?<\/h4>\n

“No idea. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe not”
\n“…”
\n“Here’s a phone number – you can call them at 9am tomorrow morning and they’ll tell you if we have any that day”
\n“So, I can call, and reserve one and collect it that day?”
\n“No. They’ll only tell you if we have one RIGHT NOW when you call – it could be gone when you get here”
\n“So, this number is totally useless?”
\n“Well … it’ll tell you whether maybe we probably might have one. We don’t do reservations any more. We used to, all the time. But then we … uh … stopped”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/store.apple.com\/uk<\/h4>\n

“Order now, in stock, ships in 24 hours”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apple UK continues to show that they don’t have a clue how to operate a retail operation. We’ve got an app that’s demoing today and tomorrow, and it would help if I had an extra iPhone4 to run it on. So, I try to buy one from the local Apple shop. Hi, do you have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}