Limited iPhones availability in Canada?

Click to zoom. Posted by dennis on July 11th, 2008 at 02:26pm Comments

Maybe it’s Rogers’ decision to offer a special dataplan to customers for a limited time that’s generating unexpected sales, or maybe they’ve underestimated Canadians’ lust for the device, but it appears that there might not be enough iPhones for everyone.

Rogers‘ Ste Catherine flagship store in Montreal ran out of 16GB iPhones about 2 hours after opening its doors at 8am. According to a store manager new stock should be delivered within two days. Quantities of 8GB iPhones were very limited at 1:30pm and folks at the back of the line were warned that they might not be able to get an iPhone at all today, at least not from this store.

Did anyone see anything similar in other cities?

UPDATE: Halifax and Ottawa are sold out of iPhones, Bloomberg is reporting. CBC says Toronto’s Rogers flagship store only had 100 units for sale (and is also sold out at this stage). However Rogers’ Director of Corporate Communications Elizabeth Hamilton states that the company “received more [3G] iPhones from Apple than it asked for“, so it seems that the demand was clearly underestimated.

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taffye

about 40 people in Laval store, by 1pm they had not even managed to process 10 accounts many mad people, they just took names and numbers ans sent everyone home, a big mess, en top of really unclear plans and upgrade paths, if you are a city fido client who recently was forced to sign a contract to keep it access fee free, well... no iphone for you! you are not worthy.

dennis

Only 40? Man.... they're obviously not prepared... There were only 100 units downtown (=flagship store)...

Gary Enns

There are 3 stores in Chilliwack BC that carry the iPhone. Each store had 2 black and 1 white 16GB iphone each!!?? I was 4th in line! Sorry no iPhone for you!!

dave

Hey Dennis, I am one of the dude in line with you :-D. The ran out short about 2 people ahead of me :-(

I went to the shopping centre on pi IX and Jean-Talon and got one there around 4pm, there were about 6 left...

so I finaly manage to get one, what a drag.

Activation took around 1h 1/2 still.

dennis

Hey Dave,

It's real nice to hear from you -- glad you managed to grab an iPhone, I was really wondering whether there will be enough of them for you guys.

It seems that the launch could've been better planned, or something.

Dennis

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