Anybody Know What Margins Apple gives it's Resellers?

I don't know what the margins are, but an Apple Authorized Reseller, as far as I know actually - has no margins ABOVE the price. They can't really charge you $300 for a $299 product, and 20% seems ridiculous. I think THEY are screwing their customers, or they are not an Authorized Reseller (or they may not be for long 🙄). I have seen like $294.94 on iPods and stuff like that from Apple reseller, I think. Like MacMall and those catalogs.

notify apple and they will break their legs. Apple si real strict about the prices of their products. The most i have ever seen is a 5 dollar difference.

That seems very odd especially since your location seems to be Jersey, which correct me if I'm wrong, is a tax haven?

40 points or it ain't worth it.

There's just no room for discounts or new products and the edge the non-Apple® etailers have is free junk. I gotta give to the Jobs, he's ruthless with the brand price. But my stock is booming.

Actually, the contract that Resellers sign with Apple to become Apple Authorized Resellers does allow them to set prices however they choose. The only reason most of them don't do this is because of the prevalence of the Apple Store, whether physical, or merely online. I work at an Apple Authorized Higher Education Reseller, and when new products are announcd, we actually check the Apple Educational site for pricing, because at that point, one cannot complain about pricing, and the benefit is clear by the item being physically there. That being said, to do that, we usually make less than 8 points on Apple products. Apple thoroughly screws its resellers with such ridiculous costs. Moreover, the margin we're stuck at isn't constant. We've stopped selling the combo drive eMac because Apple set it at 0 points. That's right, the price they want to sell it to us at (which is a lower cost than regular resellers), is the same price they list it for on the educational site. So, we would have to take a cash payment just to break even on it.

Wow

That is so lame. You really are screwed if you resell the Apple®. Value added to box kicking is good enough to float? I guess you can make it up in volume. I still see good stock prices. Maybe that's because Apple® is more of a fiancial services company than a computer company.