Nokia Lumia 800 sold out in some Orange Stores.
I don’t know what the stock size is at Orange stores but I keep getting reports that they’re selling out of Nokia Lumia 800s. The one in Manchester has sold plenty and has sold out of cases for the Lumia 800. In Liverpool and Preston, a couple of friends said they went there to try and upgrade but have been told they were sold out already.
This was tweeted by @jamestutt who works at Microsoft UK PR team. Therefore…
Let’s put some tin foil hats on:
- The store has two Lumia 800s
- Nokia/Microsoft are the ones buying the phones, not actual consumers
- Nokia/Microsoft staff have ‘sold out signs’ and are putting them in stores
- That’s photoshopped
- Orange store bribed to sell Lumia
- Orange Store has no stock of Lumia to begin with
A couple of days ago mitun tipped us of some shops in the Netherlands that said they had sold out:
http://www.pdashop.nl/product/
“Below the picture it says
Actuele status: tijdelijk uitverkochtIt means it is sold out”
And
Tijdelijk niet op voorraad
It means : Temporarily out of stock
So it will 5-10 working days to deliver
Not sure if it still says anything about being sold out.
Devin tweeted some days ago too that it had sold out.
Cheers Realtechie for the tip.
Source: wmpoweruser.com
Category: Nokia, Windows Phone
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I think it’s sold out but there are some apple and google centric blogs trying to hurt the sales of lumia 800 by reporting these kinds of stories…
How often do you actually see “sold out” signs for a mobile phone? If the production was discontinued, ok but in this case?
“Nokia/Microsoft are the ones buying the phones, not actual consumers”
Haha,Thats really good..
Well, one of your points is probably correct actually, i.e. that the store staff are given a commission on each phone sold – this is done by the Apples and Googles of the world too so nothing new there though.
I know an Independent retailer in the US – they make nothing on the Iphone sales and their best commission is on the Android phones. IPhone brings in the punters and then they try sell them Android phones.
The US the operators offer a bigger subsidy on the Iphone than any other phone. In the UK its far better where on the equivakent plan the Iphone is far more expensive as it should be.
The operators are acting like idtiots. People want the iphone but they are providing bugger subsidies on the Iphone than other phones for the simple reason they can get more people onto their network. If they priced the phone correctly then the upfront cost should be higher.
The weird thing is you can get an Iphone on an $89 contract for $199 and get a cheap phone for $0 on the same contract without any discount on the line rental.
Until the operators actually start pricing the Iphone correctly there is no way Nokia will make major headway in the US market.
Stay assured – the operators are anything but idiots.
They are protecting their margins – not pieces, but margins – very well.
I know in canada operators do that with retailers for every contract signed more for smartphone plans etc not sure about getting paid from google/apple though
Manufacturers also give a kickback on some phones (at Futureshop anyway).
ah that’s interesting, thanks
seems like it’s another PR conjuring.
Do you remember Apple paid people in China for standing in a queue to make a big fuss over new iphone?
Pure prostitution, would have never….
seems like you are a complete idiot.. I sowed you the link to Microsoft sponsoring Nokia to push Lumia devices and you didn’t even have the balls to write back to apologize
Have I ever said about you personally? seems like you are a complete jerk and fag.
I asked you the link to the official Nokia statement on getting 20 mln Euros (the very amount you mentioned) from MS, on your link instead I could find only some unknown “source” mentioned.
Nice try Elop!
sold out… so easy. the most important is how much lumias nokia has sent to these stores. 200 000? ok it’s a success.
10 000? bad performance.
Wasn’t it Orange which gives Xboxes with the Lumia? I don’t think that is a coincidence.
..Just saying.
Only upgrading customers were eligible in that, doubt they’d all suddenly update get that.
All the same, people get a Lumia in their hands, and find out that it’s pretty awesome, and get an even better experience of Xbox Live on the phone than they would otherwise.
And it just shows the strength of an Ecosystem. Xbox 360 + Windows phone is a very logical tie in that benefits the consumer and the corporation. Nokia can’t do that with Symbian or Maemo.
Nokia lumia 800 is the best selling phone in phonehouse.fr ( for the period Nov 14 – 21 )
I think its just marketing. That’s how americans do business. They don’t play nice. They are making every effort to get profit no matter how. I have nothing against this partnership. It’s just i don’t trust the way americans do business. They don’t play fair. They will lie if necessary.
What you said has nothing to do with Americans. Not sure why you would even say such a hateful thing
It’s not a hateful thing, it’s a factual thing.
Honesty and fair play has no place in the American business model, as “Mark’s” comment underneath shows.
The pursuit for money is the paramount idea of that business model, and everything else falls by the wayside.
It’s alien to European culture (though certainly it has caught on in the EU as well in the past years).
It is a hateful thing, because it was said out of hate for Americans.
If Americans did not behave in despicable ways, nothing would be said of them.
You reap what you sow.
Nobody is speaking about “Chinese business practices” or “Russian business practices” or “German business practices” now, are they?
Did you hear I said I hate americans. I said I dont like how they are doing business. I don’t hate.
Mark if for you is the business to lie your customers than what else to say. To lie people who are buying from you, who give you their money. Marketing mix is everything but not lie.
That’s why I would never buy apple products. Apple products are good, but if I am going to be just money machine for your company, I don’t want. So business means not just profit it means solutions to help people in everyday life.
“They don’t play fair. They will lie if necessary.”
This just in: Americans have been doing that for three hundred years. We Europeans have been doing it for a few thousand and Indians, Africans and Chinese for even longer.
It’s called business, son.
It’s not just Americans, it’s businesses all around the world. So really, it’s how businesses do business.
Mybe microsoft send people from america to buy these products.
and how many where actually in store for sale……
cause if there are 15 per store then this is a huge joke
i bought a PS3 game yesterday and they even told me it was selling quickly…….but the funny thing is i know the company very well and they are notorious for not making alot of copies so……
seeing this is a a huge joke and lie at the same time
by the way the game came out yesterday 22.11.2011 and it sold alot but was there alof of copies to begin with in the first place ?
So…. Your complaining about your game? Okayyyyyyyy…………
your a fool for not understanding….they do this shit all the time
make a few then say that it sold out so people think that it sold well or sold alot but i reality they didn’t even make alot to start with >.>
You are the fuckin’ fool, just go stick with your zombie OS Symbian or dead OS Meego.
i’m waiting for the new look at what Carla and donna will look like softwar wise and hardwar wise….it’s not a zombie OS at all
and nokia isn’t slow with hardware…..android is just doing too fast and look at all the problems the manufactures/end users face because hey didn’t bother to take their time
if a symbian phone can perform just and good as a current android phone with lower specs……they are doing something correct…even though it’s takin long….taking their time to do shit correctly is much better and i respect that alot
Here’s a tissue. Dry your eyes.
ah yes, the age old business model of making less than the demand…
atleast you are smart enough to understand what i explained
sorry, forgot to add the: /s
thought it was obvious…
Really smart idea. Why don’t Nokia make 12 Lumia’s, and when they sell. They can announce how popular it is because its completely sold out in minutes!!
What game was this anyway?
King Of Fighters XIII PS3
No one from PR would ever tweet that who works for Microsoft. If you wear the incorrect clothes you are gone at Microsoft. Microsoft knows what you tweet and what you had for dinner last night.
That sounds like Google or Apples’s goons. Remember, we are in mobile smartphone wars.
I remember the orange website selling out of the n8 3 times. This hasn’t yet happened once on orange’s website.
Suspect Nokia is doing an “low numbers to create out of stock” to create an impression that its selling.
ah yes the age old business model of making… no wait, I already said that…
If i am not mistaken then you get a free MS Xbox 360 when buying a lumia 800 at Orange UK. That is definitely a brilliant way to make the sale numbers look good.
of course. ever heard of special promo deals?
plus its for eligible upgraders only.
xbox sucks
too much money to invest in
xbox is cheap cause it’s made cheap
56% failure rate XD with a low marketshare OS
nice combo and you need a data plan with WP7…..for the extra storage so that’s a fail again …more money
Ooo yeaaah??? Meh you are just a clueless MS hater shoo shoo.
Failure rate has gone down a lot. Anything sold in the past 3 years hasn’t had much trouble, and anyone with a failure prone one had it replaced with MS’ extended warranty.
In phonehouse.fr the Lumia 800 Cyan is not available since a WEEK!
It may be sold out because the shops/ networks have underestimated the demand. Nokia has not being doing great lately with many of their phones so it is natural that the initial stock has been to low yo meet demand. Further, Nokia and MS have done a real marketing push for the WP phones whereas Nokia has not spent as much on marketing of other models.
+1
It makes sense that a marketing push would increase sales to the point of being sold out.
My guess is that beacause Nokia phones were getting sold less, stores didn’t buy big enough stocks…
All 20 phones they had sold out huh? WOW!
20 a store a shipment would be pretty good
Should have added that one to the list…..
I think it would do much better around here.
Congrats on the article, it made it to gsmarena’s front page.
Now,Nokia Lumia 800 cyan (Pre-order) up to Top3 on most popular
http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/catalog/phoneListView.jsp?categoryId=cat70018
That lumia 800 looks alot better that that older models of nokia.
But i think Nokia will lose more and more market