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Re: Any idea when Sprint will have EVO's in stock?

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Originally Posted by mnjparks (Post 1916493)

Well supposedly parts shortages so whether its screen or something else I dont know. The conspiracy theories that Sprint is dropping the ball is so ridiculous, i mean seriously. Why do people have to blame the carrier and not the manufacture who supply the phones? Thats almost like blaming Wal-mart for wii shortages.

Don't think that is a fair comparison. Sprint definitely has to share some of the blame for the supply shortage. How can they market a phone so hard and not have enough to cover a decent supply stream? Your comparison is more justified if someone was mad at Best Buy for not having any in stock.

Re: Any idea when Sprint will have EVO's in stock?

Sprint isn't losing 500 on each 1 that's sold.

It's good business to get as many of these into our hands as possible.

It's not like you can use SERO or any plan thats even remotely "cheap" with this phone.

It is in the best interest of Spint to get as many of us paying monthly bills as possible.

Re: Any idea when Sprint will have EVO's in stock?

I was told today by a rep at best buy they have 400+ white ones in stock at their warehouses. Even though I've been trying to get one for weeks now [waiting in the morning at the sprint store only to have them accept the first 5 people that were line -or waiting in line again to find out their not getting any more for a week or so] I figured I'll just keep holding out for the black one.

But if anyone is interested, best buy has white ones in stock and they ship to your house, they don't sell it at the store.

Re: Any idea when Sprint will have EVO's in stock?

The website says they are no longer available. They were available earlier but seem to be sold out again

Re: Any idea when Sprint will have EVO's in stock?

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Originally Posted by ace741 (Post 1917367)

You mean the same way Verizon marketed the Incredible and had shortage issues as well???:rolleyes: Get a clue... HTC simply sucks at keeping these phones in stock. Unless sprint has some magical unicorn they keep in their warehouse that can produce these phones out of thin air what do you expect them to do??

Re: Any idea when Sprint will have EVO's in stock?

I got one through evpdiscount.com. Ordered it tuesday and it shipped out thursday

Re: Any idea when Sprint will have EVO's in stock?

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Originally Posted by brownhornet (Post 1918188)

Actually it's not HTC...blame the manf of the parts...they are the ones that are having hardware shortages....It's all over the net. Samsung is one of them....Demand is high still...so we just have to be patient...I guess.

Re: Any idea when Sprint will have EVO's in stock?

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Originally Posted by ace741 (Post 1917367)

SPRINT isn't to blame for phone shortages....They don't make the phone when u people gonna learn this....These stores get paid to carry company's products, so if it's a shortage it's not the store fault it's the maker

Re: Any idea when Sprint will have EVO's in stock?

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Originally Posted by lkillen (Post 1913415)

This is a crying shame and part of the reason I dumped my Sprint stock. I got out at $4.95 a little while ago and damn glad I did.

As a company, Sprint does not seem to be too smart. They had a real opportunity to penetrate the market and are blowing it!! When you finally have a product that the people want, you should make it available to them!!!!

Apple is stumbling and here is the chance for Sprint to move up the ladder. Besides selling more phones, we benefit from Sprint's success. The more phones sold(and delivered) the more pressure to expend 4G!

I fear a rehash of OS2. An operating system that was hands-down superior to Windows in it's day and IBM marketed it like skim-milk. We were begging for them to spend 50cents to advertize it, knowinjg that if it failed to penetrate the market, we would be sitting on a white elephant. The EVO is selling itself but now Sprint has to deliver.

The problem is it isnt sprint its HTC. they are using a third party Samsung( a competitor at that) who is also coming out with their own smartphones that use a screen thats 4-5 inchs so samsung is trying to keep with us the demands. the reason Iphones dont fall short like this is that its apple that manufacturers the whole product including the screen so they have less problems

Re: Any idea when Sprint will have EVO's in stock?

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Originally Posted by ace741 (Post 1918564)

I got one through evpdiscount.com. Ordered it tuesday and it shipped out thursday

Coworker had been looking for weeks. Was able to order through evpdiscount.com yesterday.