Seattle: G1s sell out, especially due to short supply

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Supplies of T-Mobile G1 phones were short at some stores in the Northwest US, so although customers numbered only a few dozen, at least a few stores could say they sold out by 12 pm PDT, as Angela Gunn reports.

SEATTLE (BetaNews) - 8:00 am comes early for some of us -- in fact, in Seattle in October, the sun's barely up. But today if you snoozed you lose, as those who were not in line in front of the downtown T-Mobile store were out of luck by noon.

Supplies at Seattle's other two official T-Mobile stores were in better shape at midday, though phones were moving out the door at a brisk clip when we visited. An employee at the (relatively hard to find) North Seattle store said that they had approximately 20 customers queued up when they opened the doors at 8:00 am, with about double that crowd reported downtown. Activations were proceeding without incident and took the usual 10-15 minutes.

The customers I saw were evenly divided between current T-Mobile customers and users of other services. Interestingly, the store employee said that he'd noticed very few people coming in only to play with the new handset -- they'd already made up their minds.

Rob Stumpf, who went into a T-Mobile store last week to replace a lost phone and ended up getting on a waiting list for the G1, picked his up over his lunch hour at a reseller north of the city, where he was the fourth G1 buyer. He reported that his new phone attracted positive attention from passers-by, and praised its sound quality and ease of use.


FOR MORE:

  • Baltimore: No G1s available at T-Mobile stores, but no lines either by Tim Conneally
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