*apologies for misleading previously* – Vodafone hadn’t announced anything at the time. This announcement came at 11.07am on the Vodafone Forums.
Vodafone have stated..
So for those ordering online… we will deliver on Saturday (normally we’d wait till Monday but for you… Saturday).
However, if you’re in Auckland and you order before 11am, you can pay an extra $25 and get it delivered ON FRIDAY.
This is Auckland only, but means you can get your mitts on the iPhone 3GS on the day of sale.
Hence, you can ONLY have it on the 10th of July IF you live in Auckland and you manage to get in your sale by 11am. The site is going to have a LOT of traffic, so I would suggest not leaving it until 10.45am! Do keep in mind it is an extra $25 on Friday although Free delivery on Saturday (don’t ask me how that works).
I spose VF will be personally delivering these or hiringing out a courier company to do personal deliveries rather than getting NZ Post to do it.
Yeah I have been wondering how they are going to do it too, and how they can justify the $25. Particularly because as a general rule of thumb courier parcels picked up pre 11am in Auckland are delivered the same day anyway….
well all i can really think of is they’re charging that to earn a few extra bucks and provide a “special’ service on the day. i’m just going to get it on saturday lol and get a new sim with that $25 bucks, i still have a SIM and not a SIM2 lol.. mine doesn’t support 3G