I was waiting the google play website has be ready to sell their Nexus 4 phone. Finally the “Notify Me” button was changed to “Add to Cart” from its site. However, it didn’t work out to checkout from its shopping cart.
It made me think many people hit google play website at the same time. I’ve been kept trying to check out but it returned with an error message and removed an item in the cart.
With all those issues and problems, the checkout process had been through successfully and they have charged me $396.57 for the 16GB model. And it included tax and shipping too. The order confirmation email indicated the phone will be delivered in couple days.
However, I have got an email from google as below in this afternoon and I have to wait 3 more weeks from now on.
What a painful waiting time to get a new phone from google! They have to change the way of selling the Nexus phone in different way than what they have it right now.
From: Google Play <googleplay-device-english@
Date: Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:00 PM
Subject: An update on your Nexus 4 Google Play order
To:
Thank you for your recent purchase on Google Play. Due to
overwhelming demand, your Nexus 4 is on backorder and is expected to
ship within three weeks. We’ll send you a notification when your order
has shipped and will credit the shipping charges.
To check the status of your order at any time, visit the link below:
https://wallet.google.com/
If you would prefer to cancel your order, please reply to this email
and our team will assist you. Or you can cancel your order using our
online tool. Please follow the instructions found here:
http://support.google.com/
We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you again for your order.
Thanks,
The Google Play Team
© 2012 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
You’ve received this mandatory service announcement email to provide
you with important information related to your purchase from Google
Play.