Grand Junction, CO Palm Pre promoter denied a Palm Pre
I am going to make this rant short, but accurate.
The week the Palm Pre was announced, I did what many gadget geeks do, I visited the Sprint Store and asked ********, a girl I have known for a while who happens to work at the local Sprint store when it was coming out and whether they were putting together a waiting list. She assured me they were not and that I would be added to the list when it was created. I got excited.
After making a post about the Pre in February on Facebook, ******** messaged me and told me that the Pre was probably not coming until March but, “ill put ne on hold for you first shipment. rumor is it will launch the last week in march [sic]”
Over the next few months and as late as last week, I visited the Sprint Store and talked to *****, *** and ****** who I know from outside of our Sprint relationship. Each time asking to please put me on a waiting list if one formed. Each assured me that it would happen.
Tonight, I stopped in the Sprint store and when I asked, “What’s new?” I was treated like I was trying to make small talk. “With the Pre, I mean… Is it first come, first serve or invite only?” (****** told me last week it might be invite only and that I would be put on the list)
“We have a waiting list. Do you want to be added to it?” ***** asked. I asked if he was kidding. He assured me he wasn’t.
“How many people are on the list?”
Keep in mind that I have been told that our store may only get six or seven Pres – probably a made up number, but at least it’s a number.
“You’re number 12,” said *****.
I am guessing that the other 11 people must have been put on the list before the Palm Pre was announced.
Over the past six months I have been teased by all my “friends” on Twitter and Facebook about been a Pre fanatic. I have defended Sprint and Palm each on this very blog in addition to numerous threads on Palm and Pre website threads.
I have become the Pre promoter for Western Colorado. Several news sites, blogs and podcasts have asked me to provide my first impressions and reviews of the Pre on release day.
I will be providing those reviews, interviews and guest interviews whether I have the Pre or not. The question is, will I be talking about the Pre, or will I be talking about my experiences of trying to acquire a Pre?
Keep your eyes on PreCentral.net, HelpMeRick.com, DogHouseSystems.com and, of course, talkingDigital.org as well as my Facebook and Twitter feeds to find out.
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If it weren’t for talkingdigital I would not be aware of this new phone nor would I be looking at getting one. I hope that these Sprint employees/”friends” think twice and put him at the top of their list. At least with him they have a GUARANTEED sale and a hopefully a GREAT review in the end for their product and maybe their service.
I am not sure what the issue is. Brittany was not the person to make the decision. Obviously whoever made the decision on how the list would work did so (as they should have) without any outside bias. Here’s to hoping you get one, but I am sure the title is misleading as they have denied you nothing. The only thing they could do for you was put you on the list, which they did. Good luck.
Thanks for your input Carl. I admit I am being a stinker about this. Only because I have made visits twice a month since January to make sure that I would be put on the waiting list immediately if one formed. I was assured that this would happen by four employees. It was based on those promises that I agreed to do several interviews and reviews on launch day.
I am upset because I ended up as number 12 on a list. If I had not gone in, I would have not ended up on the list at all. Most of the time I went in to ask about the Pre, I had to explain what it was. The employees did a good job of pretending to make notes about my wanting to be on a waiting list.
I am on the waiting list as I asked – granted. However, were there people who went in before the second week of January? Were there others who were known in the Sprint store by first and last name as wanting a Pre?
You can see by now that I know how to raise a stink when I want something. So do the people at the Sprint store. The have known me since the early Treo days. It was no secret that I wanted to be on that waiting list. I have a feeling that I was intentionally left off so that everyone at the Sprint store could get a good laugh out of it.
That is why I am venting on the blogs.
Being 12 on the list is fine, as long as there are 12 devices in stock on launch day.