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Did you try to buy one?

• 3825 14y ago
  I would love to buy one. To be honest, I was skeptical but I think I have become more resolved in getting a nexus 4 now that it is out of stock.
• snogglethorpe 14y ago
  Naw, the nexus 4 is way too big for my tastes. Still, lots of people were talking about it very approvingly and all it seemed to get was good press... I never got any sense of a "debacle". Apple Maps, now there's a debacle... :]
  • peeters 14y ago
    I would very much call their handling of its initial release a debacle...but one of those problems that every company would love to have. My experience: got on the notification list for the phone and started counting down the days. Go on at 00:01 GMT the day it's to be released; it's not for sale. Go on at 00:01 EST the day it's to be released; it's not for sale. Check again in the morning; nothing. I check at 11:35 EST (apparently 5 minutes after it arbitrarily goes on sale) and try for 20 solid minutes to buy one. Problem after problem after problem with the Play store (it pretty much fell over). When I finally get through, I notice my order has silently had the device removed from my cart, and realize it's sold out. I give up. 6 hours later I find out that people had randomly been getting success throughout the entire day, just by dumb luck. But now it's really really sold out. No communication from Google as to what was happening (still hasn't been any official word). Now I can't even count down the weeks, because honestly nobody has a clue when more inventory is coming. So yeah, just a monumental case of "let's shit on our customers because we have too many of them." I don't find this fun Google. Just let me order the damn thing and ship it to me when you've got it.