Anyone Pre-Order at Best Buy?

Justan Baca

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I pre-ordered the Core i5/8GB RAM/256 SSD/dGPU on October 7th, and went to pick up at the store today (Order Status said ready for pickup) and they didn't have it at all. After searching the back, they still didn't find it. They had me give them my phone number and said they'd call when they get it.

kind of annoying especially because they say it's ready for pick up. I hope it's available really soon.

Anyone have a similar problem? Or am I just cursed haha.

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Looks like Worst Buy is showing all Surface Book available to pick up on Nov 5th.
 
Yeah they had some funky system issues related to the Surface Book. I got a message yesterday saying it was delayed, then an email saying it wouldn't get here until November 20th, then later in the day it said it was shipped and I got it about an hour ago. Just a really bad mess up but enough to keep me from ordering anything I can't go to the store and pick up the same day from them anytime soon.
 
I had almost the exact same issue except with a happier ending. Went to my Best Buy store after receiving the notice that my Surface book was ready for pick-up. Got there and they handed me a Surface Pro 4. I told them that this was the wrong product. They looked in the back and didn't have any in stock. The person helping me was nice enough to look at other stores near me and found one. Called them up and luckily that had it and were able to hold it for me. Now I had to call Best buy 1888 number and transfer my pick-up location to the location that had it. Arrived at the new location 15 min later and they told me the transfer order hasn't come through yet. So I waited. Then as I'm waiting I get a fraud alert from my Best Buy Card. Apparently they had charged my card at the fist location and tried to charge my card at the second location. The first charge will take a few days to clear. So I ended up canceling the whole thing and buy it from the store as if I didn't pre-order and used a different Credit card. Now once the order is cleared from my Best Buy card I can go back and return my purchase and purchase it with the Best Buy card for the financing. I think they are going to be lucky if I ever shop there again. BTW I love the Surface Book! This is the tablet PC that was promised all those years ago when Bill gates talked about tablet computing. I'm coming from a Surface Pro 2 so I know some of the things I am enjoying were in Surface Pro 3. The Pen is great, the handwriting recognition is awesome. Windows Hello is quick and awesome! And it works in Portrait and Landscape Mode! The hinge is great, solid and functional. There have been some glitches with the screen freezing but nothing that has been a problem or a good reboot will fix but honestly I'm a tech enthusiast and expect minor first generation problems and these are minor.
 
I had almost the exact same issue except with a happier ending. Went to my Best Buy store after receiving the notice that my Surface book was ready for pick-up. Got there and they handed me a Surface Pro 4. I told them that this was the wrong product. They looked in the back and didn't have any in stock. The person helping me was nice enough to look at other stores near me and found one. Called them up and luckily that had it and were able to hold it for me. Now I had to call Best buy 1888 number and transfer my pick-up location to the location that had it. Arrived at the new location 15 min later and they told me the transfer order hasn't come through yet. So I waited. Then as I'm waiting I get a fraud alert from my Best Buy Card. Apparently they had charged my card at the fist location and tried to charge my card at the second location. The first charge will take a few days to clear. So I ended up canceling the whole thing and buy it from the store as if I didn't pre-order and used a different Credit card. Now once the order is cleared from my Best Buy card I can go back and return my purchase and purchase it with the Best Buy card for the financing. I think they are going to be lucky if I ever shop there again. BTW I love the Surface Book! This is the tablet PC that was promised all those years ago when Bill gates talked about tablet computing. I'm coming from a Surface Pro 2 so I know some of the things I am enjoying were in Surface Pro 3. The Pen is great, the handwriting recognition is awesome. Windows Hello is quick and awesome! And it works in Portrait and Landscape Mode! The hinge is great, solid and functional. There have been some glitches with the screen freezing but nothing that has been a problem or a good reboot will fix but honestly I'm a tech enthusiast and expect minor first generation problems and these are minor.

Glad you like it! I hope I can get mine soon. I had the same problem in store where they brought me a pro 4 and had to tell them i got the book haha. unfortunately it's not on any location nearby so I'll just have to wait. Such a mess though and I definitely won't be ordering from them again.

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I bought 2 10% coupon to use for this. But it wasnt available to preorder. So I ended up getting 10% off from Microsoft Store.
 

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