It gets worse…

I just called Carphone Warehouse and asked where my lovely iPhones were (due to be delivered Monday) and they said that they don’t have the stock to fill the order. The said that someone must have entered the wrong amount in stock control.

So, they’ve taken my money, duped me into buying two iPhones (see earlier post How Not To Buy An iPhone) so that I can get them by last Monday and say they expect to have some by Friday… but when I asked how they knew that they said because other people at Carphone Warehouse said so. Other people at Carphone Warehouse said my iPhone was waiting to be delivered.

Is selling things you don’t have illegal in any way? What if I’d opened a store selling iPhones (I have a million imaginary ones in stock!) and I took orders for delivery the next week.. then simply waited until Apple send the next load over to the UK and delivered them month’s later? People could of course “have their money back”… some would ask, some wouldn’t… some very rich people with short memories might forgot where they made their order or lose their receipt…. and on the remaining idiots (like me) you’d make the commission.

It’s definitely a scam in that they’ve been sitting on my money for a week and I have nothing but a piece of paper, a load of excuses from Carphone Warehouse and a hangover on Saturday to show for it.

So, when the next big consumer hype wave rolls into town, expect me to open a shop and offer to sell it to you (I have millions of them in stock, whatever they are), but remember that my business model is based on The Carphone Warehouse Scam.