Just sold out in Canada as well. Bummer.
That's odd. I wasn't notified by email when it apparently became available. Were people just refreshing Google Play nonstop until they saw an option to buy it?
Yes. yes we were.
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#1021922: heroin 1932: alchohol 1942: nicotine 1952: amphetamines 1962: marijuana 1972: acid 1982: crack cocaine 1992: crystal meth 2002: X 2012: smartphones
2002: Internet? :)
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#103Did it!
After refreshing repeatedly, I finally got through and made a purchase for the 8GB at around noon PST.
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#104I downloaded the Auto Refresh Plus Chrome plugin, set it to auto-refresh the 16GB page (https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_16g...) every 1s and set the "Popup notification once FIND the target" option using the word "STOCK".
I went through 3-4 false starts of trying to add it to cart and having it fail, but it eventually succeeded and I was able to add to cart and complete the purchase at 3:04pm EST.
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#105There are 8600 likes on google+ for the Nexus 4. If you are very generous you could say that would translate to 860,000 purchases. No decent smartphone manufacture plans for sales of less than 1 million units of its flagship product. The fact that the nexus 4 sold out in every country it was sold within one hour would only demonstrate complete operational incompetence on every level to be that far off the mark. It's…
It does feel that Google celebrates what I feel is actually incompetence.
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#106I stayed up till after midnight and then got up again at 9pm to try and place an order. I guess I wasn't persistent enough at the face of errors - no phone.
Google should do much better at communicating the situation. When will the phone be available for ordering, how many units are in stock, etc. How about providing some information about when the next batch is coming? The way they've handled this is a disgrace. If there was any comparable product in a comparable price I would not be buying Google.
EDIT: Are all those people saying that if you keep refreshing you'll get to buy it just part of a DDoS attack on the store?
I hope the phone works better than the store. :-(
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#107You know, had they implemented a pre-order option, they may have been able to better gauge demand. Instead, they decided to piss off their customers.
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#108The fact that it is 2012 and stores still refuse to just let you give them money and then have them ship you a product is ridiculous. I don't want to sit here and wait for a store to open or for things to come 'back in stock' to buy a phone. That's why we invented computers, to automate boring tasks. I give you money, you put my name on a list, as phones come in, you ship them in the order of the names on the list. P…
This is nice in theory. I think this doesn't happen because when you take people's money they're suddenly your "customers" and think they're entitled to a phone ASAP and if there are any unexpected delays you have upset the hoard. As soon as you take someone's money, they're a customer support liability.
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#109It's not strictly sold out.
At 3:03 PM EST, I managed to purchase a 16GB Nexus 4 after refreshing every second for ten minutes.
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#110This is almost like the touchpad fiasco all over again