HD7s on Backorder, Seriously?

AT&T’s HD7s was released on June 5th and customers who ordered it through AT&T’s website are receiving an email stating that the phone is backordered:

Dear CHASE xxxx,

Thank you for your recent purchase on the AT&T Premier Online Store. We are pleased that you chose AT&T as your wireless service provider.

Unfortunately, items in your order are out of stock and are backordered. We will ship them as soon as they are available, and notify you of the shipment by email. We will ship multiple backordered items when all items are in stock.

If your order remains out of stock or backordered for 30 days,your order will be automatically canceled.

You can view the status of your order on AT&T Premier Online Store at any time.

Reference Web Order Number: 101xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thank you,

The AT&T Premier Team

While this could mean that the phone’s are selling like hot cakes I will choose to be a lot more realistic about this, and guess that AT&T released the HD7s with one foot out the door. It’s fine to be cautious but the fact that it’s only been out for a few days and already backordered reflects poorly on AT&T.

Source: WPCentral