950XL out of stock online!

[John M Beauchemin]

Well it's the truth. Microsoft's marketing is absolutely horrendous. I only saw one Surface Book ad this whole time. When I go into Microsoft Store, I am more excited about Microsoft products than the entire sales team combined.

On The Walking Dead Sunday night they aired the SurfacePro4 commercial on every single break. That must have cost a fortune.

 

[707wpfan]

On The Walking Dead Sunday night they aired the SurfacePro4 commercial on every single break. That must have cost a fortune.

Too bad only viewers of the Cosby Show will see Lumia 950 series commercials

 

[Babs75]

How to get the student discount?

When you go to MicrosoftStore.com, there is a tab at the top for Business and Education. You click on that tab. It opens up a new screen. On the left you select your school and click the box below to start shopping. I saved 10% on my 950XL by doing this.

 

[Likwidz]

Lumia 950 XL sells out on Microsoft Store, next wave shipping by December 11

 

[Chrishan Fernando]

L 950 or L 950XL hmmmm nahhh ill go for L 950

 

[david90531]

Put your school info here and it should start showing student prices for stuff

Thanks, but seems like the Canadian version doesn't include the phones... just Surface and some other laptops / accessories

 

[nokia4life]

MS Store rep said shipping WILL ONLY occur on Nov25th....

That sucks I pre ordered with Express shipping which means not one day but after Thanksgiving here in the states

 

[millercrew5]

My pockets are alittle light these days but will have to grab one! Can't wait to see a review video of these phones

 

[Lyndon Sanche]

I really hope they are in stores on the 25th.

 

[Krystianpants]

Ships by december 11th. Umm... I find that quite odd. They obviously didn't have that many in stock to begin with and the pre-orders were probably there to appease those that have to wait. Which was likely limited stock. They are so behind it's silly. I was happy I was going to get my unit soon and now have to wait again. I hope stores will have stock. Ugh this sucks.

 

[libra89]

Ships by december 11th. Umm... I find that quite odd. They obviously didn't have that many in stock to begin with and the pre-orders were probably there to appease those that have to wait. Which was likely limited stock. They are so behind it's silly. I was happy I was going to get my unit soon and now have to wait again. I hope stores will have stock. Ugh this sucks.

I think this is Microsoft's new way of "feeling it out". Hopefully sooner than later.

 

[Krystianpants]

I think this is Microsoft's new way of "feeling it out". Hopefully sooner than later.

More likely it's just for the press to show that it's selling even though they probably produced the minimum of 10,000.

 

[desaideas1]

Garbage that they couldn't even last a full day's demand.

 

[707wpfan]

Now Microsoft can say "we sold out in less than 24 hrs"
What joke trying to create demand

 

[libra89]

More likely it's just for the press to show that it's selling even though they probably produced the minimum of 10,000.

Valid point, but in this case, I don't know if it's better to be overstocked and have a lot just sitting there, or be under-stocked, and have the small demand be met.

 

[Indistinguishable]

It is called a real time batch order system....MS would order batches of 10,000 depending on how many orders so that they are not stuck with hundreds of thousands of phones like Palm was.....

Seriously, everyone. Microsoft's not trying to run some sort of PR stunt to artificially create the impression of demand. They actually do want to sell these phones.

It's a batch order system on a product designed specifically for fans. More will come soon.

 

[Krystianpants]

I think this is Microsoft's new way of "feeling it out". Hopefully sooner than later.

They had a button to email you when it becomes available, which they didn't do. That's what should be used to feel it out. They are just behind on production and opened up the small batch they already had. They know the are millions of users waiting for these. Xiaomi is already announcing their snapdragon 820 phone on nov 26. Samsung their galaxy 7 line soon. MS is probably low priority for manufacturers. They are making them in taiwan I believe, but could be wrong. anyways the 950 it's available still. Likely there were last minute issues that had to fix with 950xl. In fact 950 had to be stocked for att. Maybe they prioritized it. Who knows. But it's definitely because they are not ready. Even the stores aren't in sync with what is going on.

 

[Krystianpants]

Valid point, but in this case, I don't know if it's better to be overstocked and have a lot just sitting there, or be under-stocked, and have the small demand be met.

Why is it bad to be over stocked? They will sell eventually. You don't produce phones for exactly each person that wants one.

 

[theefman]

Pretty much every flagship Lumia to date has gone "out of stock" when it was initially released but when the eventual numbers are revealed it shows the limited sales it achieved. There's really no story here, especially when you consider that there has been ZERO marketing and more importantly no official launch event for the OS unlike previous versions so apart from the fans no one is looking to buy this phone. Creates a nice headline but its really not a big deal.

 

[nkaufmann5]

I can't believe it sold out so fast. There is no way the demand was that high (most of my friends/family don't even know what these phones are)