With all the discussion about permier customers, what does one need to do to become one, and what advantages are there to being one?

I ordered mine through the premier site today. It listed the 8310 as $299 but when I went to checkout it showed up as $199. It also charged my CC as $199. My question is, there was no rebate mentioned on the premier site, does the standard rebate that is offered in the retail store and online apply to the premier site. That would make it $199-100 = $99

I am eligible for a&tt premier through my work as well as through my school. The advantages for me was 10% off all rate plans, saved me about $10 a month

I had the same thing. The site showed my upgrade price as $300, but when then checkout came it was $176 (199.99-$25 instant discount, also don't know where that came from but it was in the cart). that alone justified the next day air ;)

MadDog_:
Premier is offered to business customers (or large organizations). If you work for a large employer see if they offer discounts with the carriers. We also get something like 15% or so off service and a nice discount off of accessories.

For $199 you could have been elgible for an upgrade, just checked my premier site and did the whole checkout and it was $299, unless they made a mistake.

Also about premier from the page before. It is more expensive but if you are not due for an upgrade it saves you $150.

it wasn't a "upgrade" price. I started my 2 year contract about 8 months ago.

Finally got an update for my letstalk order, which I placed on Oct 14. It is in "activation and picking", with an estimated ship date of Oct 18, and delivery on Oct 23.

Again, I'm not in a hurry, but they haven't been on top of things nearly as much as wirefly was with my pearl.

Inphonic and wirefly are the same company.

Inphonic operates under the names:

A1 Wireless
Cellular Buys
Cellular Choices
Continental Promotion Group
Corporate Wireless
FonCentral
Inphonic
InPhonic Inc
INTELENET Wireless Customer Service
Liberty Wireless
lowcostcells.com
mobile Pro
MSN Mobile Customer Service
Phone Deals
StarNumber, Inc.
TMI Wireless
Wirefly
wirefly.com
Wireless Marketplace
WorldPerks Wireless Service
Younevercall.com

Hey guys, what are you getting as processing times for orders on your premier site? I just placed mine this morning and received an order confirmation email stating the order will be shipped in 2 - 5 days.

My current order status shows the 'processing' checked off. Hopefully, the estimate I received is conservative and its shipped this afternoon.

I placed 2 orders.

First one last night at 8:30PMish and the order was shipped this morning.
Second one I placed this morning at 8:00AMis and the order is processed and awaiting the tracking number.

It should be fairly quick...

when you check your status, be sure to hit F5 which will request an update from the web server and it will give you the latest status instead of the cached data on your computer.

I called and asked about the processing time. I was put on hold for a few minutes while the rep checked and then he came back and told me that it would be shipped out today.

I just ordered mine through NBS...they stared out at $199 for the upgrade, but I told him about amazon pricing, and sweet talked them a bit...got it for $59 with free 2 day shipping.

I've been with AT&T/Cingular/AT&T for 5 years, and my bill is usually $300/month...so I asked them to "keep me happy" and they did!

FarSeide, thanks for the update. I'm glad to hear that the estimate they give is very conservative (2-5 days). Hopefully mine will ship out this afternoon as well.

That's a great price. What's NBS and do you have a number to call?

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8310/4.2.2 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/102 UP.Link/6.3.0.0.0)

Glad everyone is finally getting their devices..now let's move to the discussion of reviews and mods!

Anyone else annoyed by the placement of the period? This is my first bb and I hate how I have to hold shift to put some periods into a text message... Just like that

Buld quality is eh... Everything everywhere creeks and has play in it. Camera is kinda fuzzy too. Battery life is unbelievable. Coming from a WM5 device, I'm amazed.

Ill post more when I can think of it

hit space bar twice and you get a period. I've never hit shift for it.

I ordered mine at 8AM this morning and I received an email that it was just shipped with a tracking number at 11:45AM That is a good turn around time in my opinion.

That is good turn around. I ordered mine last night and still haven't received word of shipment.

call them and ask them to look up the Tracking number.

Does it not show up on the order status page? I called and they assured me that it would arrive tomorrow, but my order status still shows "processing"

Woo-hoo! Received an email update on my order being shipped.

Placed order at 8:51am ET this morning and received my shipment notification at 1:52pm ET. Hope to get it by Friday via FedEx.

For those of you who are received shipping confirmation emails, does the order status page show that it has been shipped?

Yes. It should say that the order has been completed and shipped and the "shipped" box should be checked. Plus the carrier link towards the bottom should be active and include a tracking number.

Hmm...I placed my order yesterday and mine is still processing. That's strange. I guess I'm going to have to make another phone call...

picked my crimson one up in a store in new orleans, la...they had a few left. they did not know anything about a titanium version!

got tired of waiting for my local store to get the titanium. Ordered it through Premier. Will be here tomorrow.

Picked up my Titanium 8310 this morning in Indy. They had plenty they said. I placed my old (charged) battery in it from my 8300 and while driving up to Chicago it was about dead by the time I arrived at my hotel. Hope that is not the norm for this model. It is also a bit sluggish moving through the apps. I'll give it a few days to see if things speed up. Seems the 8300 started out this way to. If I keep it I'll upgrade the OS to see if I can get better speed. The color is cool but not anything I'd write home about. I'm keeping my 8300 until I'm sure about this one.

Decided I wasn't manly enough to rock the crimson and made the exchange today...here it is:



Invisible shield goes on tonight!

Premier is full price for me, $749! ($699 with unl data and voice plan). Anyone else not seeing the normal 'web discount'?

How do you order on premier if you are not eligiable for an upgrade or don't want to add an account?

It's on AT&T's regular site now. Sadly I can't get mine yet!

Ordered this morning got shipping notice about two hours later and will be here tomorrow.

Soonerfan i dont know why Premier is showing so much for you. When i entered the store i went. buy phone -> upgrade handset/plan and logged in selected the device. It was discounted with both the company discount and the web discount.

Should have stuck with the Crimson

Is it after you enter all your credit card info and hit continue or on that page did it say $199? Anybody else still getting this price?

When I put it into my cart and got through the accessories, voice, and data plan selections, it showed the price as $199. That was on the summary page before I started to check-out.

Same for me, I was expecting to pay $299 until I got to the summary page before I confirmed my order.

Oh well, mine doesn't do that.

how much are u guys getting for the upgrade price?
just the phone itself
im getting $299

I received my order confirmation, shipping confirmation and 8310 all in the same day...today! Go figure...