We want the iPhone under the Christmas Tree
I have to tell you, when giving someone a gift someone is truly wanting for Christmas,it stinks to have to either put a picture or card in it's place. I want to give my wife and two older children an iPhone but don't want them to know they're getting one. Apple is making it very difficult to do this. If I purchase these phones and have them activated now, the phones my family uses now will not work. I understand that I could try and sneak the new SIM cards into they're order phones, but my two older kids are in college and not close to home. I don't want to sell these phones on ebay. I don't want to sell these phones to my friends. I want to finish my Christmas shopping before DEC 24!
I know you want to surprise your family on Christmas morning with iPhones as gifts. (Who wouldn't be excited for this?) But because of a few ruining it for the rest of us you probably won't be able too.
What you could do is, move the surprise up a few days (or maybe not). Hopefully your kids will be coming home from school around the same time and a few days early. At some point you could go get the iPhone's from where ever when they are all at home (and you know they are there). Before you leave the store remove the SIM cards (make sure you know which will go with which number). Then when you get back home they will probably have noticed their phones aren't working. You can say you went to AT&T after something was wrong with your phone and they said you needed a new SIM card. Then make up some story about it messing with your entire account and so every phone would need a new SIM card on your account. Give them the new SIMs and put the iPhones under the tree! Then on Christmas be sure to have that camera out.
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