Order your iPhone
Marzouq was supposed to get me an iPhone with him from the States but he couldn’t buy one from the store without signing up for an AT&T contract. So I decided to order one online from the Apple Store.
Thing is because of all my traveling and shopping these past 3 weeks my credit card is completely maxed out, like KD80 over the limit. I figured let me place an order on the store and see if it works, if it didn’t then it didn’t and if it did great. Surprisingly, it went through. MTC Zain couldn’t charge my last months phone bill to my card cuz it was maxed out yet Apple somehow managed to charge an iPhone!
Anyway for those of you who want to buy an iPhone, Amazon.com don’t sell it but you can purchase the phone directly from the US Apple Store online. For your shipping and billing address fill in your USWS or Aramex address. For your credit card you can use a local card. I personally used my NBK Visa card and it worked. I don’t know if it works with cards from other banks like Gulf Bank, Burgan etc.. but I am guessing they should. Enjoy!
Ihope we don’t get fucked on Kuwaiti Kustoms. I want to get my iphone on time FFS
I NEED ONE ! Mark let me know when u get it PLEASE
i can unlock it for KD 50, if anyone interested let me know.
why would people pay you KD50 to unlock it when they can unlock it via the internet for $50
Internet Phobia.. ;-)
Support for local resellers..;-)
ziza what about the iphone plus the unlock ? is there any offer ?
That would be KD 180
i will buy it from u with KD 160 if u accept it send email to Mishary@al-mudhaf.net
Mark, why is there a $ 34.26 tax on your price slip?
cuz my mailing address is new york
Mark, as i know you Use ARAMEX, so i just opened a box, i’m kinda confused with this, but should i put the box # in Address 2 or 1? cause the last time i ordered, since june and i got nothing yet.
its Springfield right? i could really get come tips in here.
Thanks in Advance
I put my box number in address line 1 and the street on line 2. its springfield gardens.
ziza where can we get the unlocked iphone? and does it come with the arabic software?
so its like this
Add 1: KWI xxxx
Add 2: 147-29 182nd Street, Springfield Gardens, NY 11413
correct?
No
Add 1: KWI XXX
Add 2: 147-29 182nd Street
City: Springfield Gardens
State: NY
Zip code: 11413
Thanks alot, Almost Worked, though they need a US number phone.
I guess i won’t get my iPhone anytime soon.
for US number fill in anything, use area code 718.
I just Ordered iPhone and iPod Classic, Mark, honestly, we need to have lunch at Bader Al Bodour someday, lol.
Thank you very much, and i insist on this Lunch thing.
no problem dude
Dude meshari the worst part is yet to come. Dealing with the fucking customs clearance.
well, i think my past order is stuck in Customs, since it was couple of Cd’s and a DVD. with a shirt.
i think i won’t see them anytime soon, but do they still fuck with the electronics?
ok, well, i just spent 230 kd, if i will do the clearance my self i know a guy there, or specifically the guy who work for us knows the guys there.
but i think Aramex is the one who watch the shipment. as they watch our samples which we get from Germany.
Clearance isn’t that bad .. It usually takes an hour if you know the process. I have gotten my things out in 30 minutes (without wasta).
i wonder if there is any arabization for it soon ?
any news when it will be here in kuwait i apple shops ?
from : http://iphone.macworld.com/2007/07/iphone_lacking_unicode_support.php
“Here’s an oddity: Arabic and Hebrew characters don’t render in the iPhone’s web browser. BBC News, for example, offers news in a variety of different languages, including Arabic. However, when you try to view those pages on the iPhone, the Arabic text renders as gibberish. A quick test of other sites in both Arabic and Hebrew showed that the iPhone’s version of Safari doesn’t render either language correctly.
Safari on OS X (and, presumably, on Windows) handles Arabic and Hebrew just fine, and in fact languages with other alphabets do seem to display correctly on the iPhone’s version of Safari: Chinese and Russian, for example. The problem likely lies in the character encodings supported by the iPhone’s browser: indeed, visiting one site which tests Unicode support for browsers showed that Safari on the iPhone does not recognize any characters from Hebrew or Arabic, though it does recognize most characters from other encodings such as Cyrillic and Japanese.
I presume support for other alphabets will materialize in a future software update, and I’d imagine it’d be necessary before the iPhone can be offered for sale in the Middle East, anyway. “
Mark, are you sure visa approved your transaction, make sure apple e-mails you with a confirmation and in one or two days; your tracking info to confirm that you’re transaction went through .. if it did go through and your address in NBK’s files isnt the same as your USWS address, then expect apple to canel your order or NBK to cancel your card as they might think you’re card number has been stolen. let me know what happens with you :) wish you all the best ..
yeah I’m with anas on that. I get confirmations on Visa on overseas transactions, then need to confirm later after the retailer has tried processing it.
Hello Mark,
We wanted to let you know that your order has shipped. If you ordered multiple items, you may receive separate shipments with no additional shipping charges. All shipments except those delivered by the U.S. Postal Service require a signature on receipt. Visit Order Status to track or pre-sign for your shipment. If you’d like to request a return, print an invoice or view your account history, please log in to Your Account.
If you have any questions about your order please do not hesitate to call us at 1-800-676-2775.
Best regards,
The Apple Store Team
Anas that has never happened to me. Their are a few sites I buy from where under the billing address there is no option for Kuwait so I just put my US address and the order still goes through. Apple is no exception. My iPhone has shipped.
me 2 :D through USWS
why dont you wait for the middle east official release.. its on dec. 2007 as i know. so you wont have to stick up with the current version cuz with the hack you wont be able to upgrade or patch any bug.
Hamad there is no release date for the iPhone in the middle east or anywhere else in the world. Also when it finally comes out in the middle east, like all the apple products in the region it will most probably be over priced.
mark, enjoy your phone :)
I’m talking about the unlock release.. ofcourse you dont have to wait to buy it from any reseller here in kuwait. but just wait for it to be unlocked officially
There is no official date for the unlock release version.
Mark ur gonna use it with Zain or Wataniya ?
Zain
I’ve heared that if ur sim card Zain you cant get calls with the iPhone so could you confirm that once u’ve get the iphone plz
Mark,
what did you use for cridet card address?
hey i just found iphone simfree on isohunt, i guess no one has to pay anything now…
I just tried using the kuwaiti address as the CC addy, state NY city Spring Field Gardens. Now I just have to wait and see what happens… I tried ordering before, they cancelled the order twice.
Amazing :)
you just tought me a new trick to use with the apple store, i keep on trasfering money to my american bank account everytime i want to buy something from them!
thanks Mark.
one more thing you guys .. if you want to get the 4GB iphones ($299) instead of the 8GB ones ($399) .. you can find them tucked away on the bottom right corner of the apple online store … for those of you who want to save KD28 and dont mind the less storage space.
M.u.D1./.2
maybe you cant use the zain card when you get wataniya to unlock it for you.
i heard wataniya are unlocking iphones for KD50 (some one at icity told me) so maybe if you get wataniya to unlock it for you, you can only use their sim cards ? … just a thought ..
guys..the middle east version of the iphone with 3g is coming to kuwait in november/december for sure..talked to the owner of macandmore, and he gave me the details..
hey mark did u change ur billing address with NBK or is it still a kuwait address because my order just got canceled and i used aramex on both the shipping and billing address ??
well my order with aramex was rejected. (I dont have a us bank account)
I doubt thats true. Apple never leaks info like that out.
Kismat most of the people ordering from apple store here in kuwait dont have a us bank account and it works.
F: no i didnt change it. Holla also ordered using gulf bank card and it worked. my sis using nbk visa card also worked.
what the… their website says ”
The Apple Store accepts Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover cards. Apple is unable to accept credit, debit, or check cards issued by banks outside of the United States.”
i will try it again but i doubt its going to work
Yes even though their website says that your local credit card will go through.
I tried ordering the new Touch iPod using my Aramex address and a day later I got an email message from Apple informing me they had canceled my order because they had sniffed out my Aramex address being a mail forwarder’s address, and they said they don’t sell Apple products to people living outside the US. I then just ordered it from Amazon.
Interesting. Well so far the three people I know who have ordered from the Apple Store all used their U Shop We Ship mailboxes. So maybe its the fact that Aramex’s address is giving it away.
Can anyone confirm ordering from Apple using a local credit card and had it shipped to Aramex?
can any one tell me what s the price of Ipod touch and Ipohe in Kuwait and where to get it??? its urgent please???
can i ues the iphone unloced in K.S.A buz i order one from USA plz help
Few Unlock iphones are availabl for sale in Saudi Arabia and it works fine for both Al-Jawal & Mobily. The cost about SR2800.
Sorry to burst your bubble Mark, but if you read more closely on the US Apple Store Online on the page where you go to buy the 8GB Iphone it says in small writing that a contract does apply. So sorry to tell you but unless you unlock the phone properly it wont work outside the US and if you do then you still have the required monthly payments to the specific phone company in the US.
Ahmed of course you need to unlock the iphone, thats common knowledge duh
Ok, but still what about the contract….you are forgetting that……
No I am not forgetting that. There is no contract. The contract is only if you are not planning on unlocking your phone and are planning to use AT&T.