she confirmed that they are doing pre orders and you will be guaranteed to get the phone on sunday. she said you put $50 deposit and then they give you a $50 gift card or something you can use towards the phone.

Dang too bad they're not doing this for the Sprint Tour... *sad face*

I just left my local best buy. I was the SECOND person to do the pre-order. They will charge you $50.00, but give you a $50.00 gift card, as the placeholder. They will then call you the day the phones come in, and you get the phone. As I have a corporate account, this is the only way I was able to pre-order.

If the Best Buy you go to can't find the info, tell the sales rep to go into "employee news" or "employee mail". The flyer is in there. There is a UPC they have to scan.

Good luck !

It is a nice option, but I still think I will try my local corporate store. I am a gambler like that.

And nice Info Pablo, thanks

It's not a charge, it's a deposit.....it's deducted from the price when you p/u the phone. This is what I did when I p/u my Storm.
They made appointments when I did mine, so people didn't crowd the mobile area, and for the most part it worked....some delays.

...you are freakin' KILLIN' me. Step it up.

That is what every BestBuy mobile rep I speak to in the Charlotte area tells me when I call to ask about the Tour release date. They say I can do the pre-order, but they don't know when they are getting it.

no sprint love?

Can anyone confirm this - I went to my local retail Sprint store in South Philly and the guy told me that thru Sprint, they will only sell on-line or via telesales. Sprint retail stores will start selling the Tour sometime next month.

This was weird to me, but hey that is what they told me.

I work for Bestbuy mobile and we have had the pre order slips from 4 days ago. No one has pre-order any at all how about my store selling the bold for $30 I am getting me one

@Eyemumforfun

That's a lie they are suppose to sell it in store.

What is wrong with the editorial integrity of this site?..

The way it looks to an outside observer the only carrier to have the tour is Verizon... either get an editor, get a sprint blogger or cut out the bias...

Can't wait. I am ordering mine thru tele sales...

So what's the price? What's the price to those not eligible for the new every 2? Wirefly seems like the best bet for those in that situation at 279. the vzw website is still telling me that it'll cost me 500+ from them.

the guy did not seem very confident that they would even have the phone sunday.

and he did not know the official price.

i'll just order it online on sunday and get my ne2 credit from vzw...which i would not receive if i bought it at best buy he told me.

Would you be able to pre-order the Tour at best buy even if you weren't due for an upgrade on that date?

I work for Best Buy Mobile as well, and to confirm, the $50 deposit is given as a gift card, which can be used towards the price of the phone.

Give BBY a break- if sales consultants don't know the price or when the phones are coming, they're not lying. Unfortunately, they don't tell us much.

I'm pumped though!

very nice mobile...

seo specialists

you guys are scaring me now..the women i talked to sounded sure that they would have them on sunday. im going today and im going to make absolutely certain that they will have them on sunday or else ill just go to the verizon store early and wait outside.

so lets say i preorder at best buy..put down my $50 and they give me the gift card for $50. then i go to my verizon store on sunday morning and just get it there instead..can i just not get the phone at best buy and use the gift card for something else? im thinking about doing this just in case they run out of the phone at the verizon store. best case i get it at verizon and use the best buy gift card for something else cause i need some stuff there anyway and worst case i miss out at verizon and get it at best buy when they get it. can someone who works there tell me if this is possible? thanks!

Yes you can use the gift card for something else, if you end up getting the tour somewhere else.

Also, verizon and bbym always have either the same price, or lower. The advantage to bbym is that there isn't any mail in rebates (you get the savings instantly), and we price match (:

Just made my pre-order at BB and I was only #3 in line. But he said I'm "guaranteed" to have it on Sunday. Fingers crossed!

I talked to my local Verizon rep yesterday and he stated to me that plenty of Tours are going to be at hand for the store. He said because this is not a popular phone compared to the STORM that everybody will get a phone. Go figure

All I can say is I am glad I pre-ordered from the VZW site - I do not want to put up with any mess like the Storm release...best part I do not have to set foot in a dreaded VZW store, which I am pretty sure most VZW customers hate doing.

I don't know what's up with Sprint! They just don't seem to care about satisfying its customers. We are always left in the dust...last to get the great phones! Get with it Sprint!!!

Best Buy Mobile locations will be receiving the BlackBerry Tour on Sunday. The devices are not in our DC's yet because the initial shipment is going to be drop shipped via UPS rather than coming on one of our regular trucks. As for the Sprint BlackBerry Tour we haven't received any communication as to the release date on that. It is however in our inventory system, so we WILL be carrying it at some point.