iPhone Hits Rogers Outlets… And a Few People Are None Too Happy
// July 11th, 2008 // Advertising
I just got off the phone with a former Momentum guy who claims he stood on line at a Rogers store from 6:30 am until they finally allowed people to come in to get their iPhone at 10:00 am. So imagine the dismay as he’s told that due to the system overload, of all the people trying to buy iPhones, he can buy his phone, but won’t be able to actually HAVE it for a while.
Of the line up of eager purchasers, he was second in line, and secured the second of four 16GB iPhones. That particular store only had two in black, and two in white. Naturally, he went for the black one…
Anyway, to make a long story short about a product we all want but probably won’t have for a while, Rogers’ sales tool “SalesCentral” simply couldn’t handle the pressure and crashed. Leaving even the people who had previously purchased iPhones out to dry, and more importantly, bricked.
Good luck to the lot of you, I’m keeping my Blackberry… It has a keyboard 
Cheers,
Jon
