Just got a One Plus Invite, apparently they don't ship to Australia. What do?

[SuperfastJellyfish]

As title... I got an invite for the 64gb black one, but the invite says they won't ship to Australia. It expires in 24hrs. Really weird because I only did one of the invite things a while ago, I suppose the system chooses people completely randomly. I'd really like one as I'm on a Galaxy S3 at the moment, but regardless I don't really have the spare 400 or so $ to spend on it, plus if I can find a way to get it here there'd probably be issues with radio band compatibility.

What can/should I do? It seems a waste to not use the invite as they're so scarce.

[Karumu]

As title... I got an invite for the 64gb black one, but the invite says they won't ship to Australia. It expires in 24hrs. Really weird because I only did one of the invite things a while ago, I suppose the system chooses people completely randomly.

get them to ship it to someone in a different country that you trust then get them to ship it to you

 

EDIT: just noticed http://gyazo.com/d5a6b1001b9a833e0cb08269964b8799 lel

[Luc401]

Yeah try to do what karumu said if you really wanted one.

[Assassin]

Post it here start a race

[Marvzl1357]

 radio band compatibility.

 

before you get it, SERIOUSLY consider radio band compatability. 

I got an overseas model of the Asus padfone infinity which is said to have 850 mhz 3g for the telstra next-g, guess what? doesn't work, so around 30% of the time I'm stuck in 3g reception, and I can get incoming call notifications (rings and everything) but it wouldn't actually allow me to pick up the call, it's seriously annoying and I'm going to be replacing it soon. However, H+ and 4g works, so I can survive for some periods of time without schrodinger's call reception. 

[SuperfastJellyfish]

before you get it, SERIOUSLY consider radio band compatability.

I got an overseas model of the Asus padfone infinity which is said to have 850 mhz 3g for the telstra next-g, guess what? doesn't work, so around 30% of the time I'm stuck in 3g reception, and I can get incoming call notifications (rings and everything) but it wouldn't actually allow me to pick up the call, it's seriously annoying and I'm going to be replacing it soon. However, H+ and 4g works, so I can survive for some periods of time without schrodinger's call reception.

It looks like the phone is specced to cover all of the GSM/CDMA/LTE bands that the SP's use. I suppose I can send the phone to someone in the US...

[dizmo]

If you need you can ship it to me and I can ship it to you.

If you don't actually know someone in the US, which I'm guessing you do.

[SuperfastJellyfish]

If you need you can ship it to me and I can ship it to you.

If you don't actually know someone in the US, which I'm guessing you do.

 

Thankfully I have a relative in Texas. When I visit the accept invite page, it says if I claim the invite they won't be able to send it to Australia. Reckon I should accept it using a US proxy?

[dizmo]

Thankfully I have a relative in Texas. When I visit the accept invite page, it says if I claim the invite they won't be able to send it to Australia. Reckon I should accept it using a US proxy?

You can just accept it and put your relatives address in as the shipping address, your address as the payee address.

It doesn't matter where you accept it from I don't think, they likely just don't ship to Australia for logistics reasons. Or do they not allow you to go any farther?

When I was filling out the form, I had to redo it a few times because it wouldn't accept the (correct) address.

It's absolutely horrible web forms. Clearly a very, very inexperienced company.

[SuperfastJellyfish]

You can just accept it and put your relatives address in as the shipping address, your address as the payee address.

It doesn't matter where you accept it from I don't think, they likely just don't ship to Australia for logistics reasons. Or do they not allow you to go any farther?

When I was filling out the form, I had to redo it a few times because it wouldn't accept the (correct) address.

It's absolutely horrible web forms. Clearly a very, very inexperienced company.

 

Yeah, I'm sure you can still put a US address regardless. I emailed customer service about 18hrs ago to see what my options were but they still haven't replied - hopefully they know how to make a phone! How do you like yours so far?

[dizmo]

Yeah, I'm sure you can still put a US address regardless. I emailed customer service about 18hrs ago to see what my options were but they still haven't replied - hopefully they know how to make a phone! How do you like yours so far?

Hah, yeah. They're not the greatest at replying.

I didn't bother keeping it, or even opening it. I sold it immediately. Way too big, not at all what they promised.

I'm hoping they have better luck with their next phone, and hopefully it's smaller!

[Linusinium]

There is a forwarding service named Gateway or something, positive Google will find it, It provides a alternate address to ship to, from which they ship to you.

[SuperfastJellyfish]

Hah, yeah. They're not the greatest at replying.

I didn't bother keeping it, or even opening it. I sold it immediately. Way too big, not at all what they promised.

I'm hoping they have better luck with their next phone, and hopefully it's smaller!

 

How do you know any of this without even opening it?

[dizmo]

How do you know any of this without even opening it?

I've been following the company from very, very early on. There were loads of promises about a 5" super phone, then a 5.5" phone in the body of a 5" phone.

All it turned out to be was a differently skinned Oppo Find 7. Which, being larger than a Note 3, is by no means the body of a 5" phone.

It's not a terrible device by any means, but much larger than anything I'd consider carrying around. I'd have been fine if they fit it into an LG G3 sized bod, but no.

[SuperfastJellyfish]

I've been following the company from very, very early on. There were loads of promises about a 5" super phone, then a 5.5" phone in the body of a 5" phone.

All it turned out to be was a differently skinned Oppo Find 7. Which, being larger than a Note 3, is by no means the body of a 5" phone.

It's not a terrible device by any means, but much larger than anything I'd consider carrying around. I'd have been fine if they fit it into an LG G3 sized bod, but no.

Hmm, I haven't really paid much attention to their marketing and I'm comfortable with the larger size. If it's too big I can probably sell it for a small profit anyway. Apart from that the reviews are overwhelmingly positive, especially for the money, so coming from an S3 I think it'll be a pretty significant upgrade.