iPod UK Amazon offloading 5.5g iPods?

[The Grood]

Does Amazon know something we don't about a new iPod launch?

80GB iPod -

UK Apple store price: £259.00
UK Amazon store price: £229.99

Is this a stock clearance exercise, or is it perfectly normal?

 

[xJulianx]

Ooh nice find. I don't think Amazon know anything we don't...as far as I know the public and retails find out about new releases at the same time, am I correct in saying that?

 

[The Grood]

Spoze they must have some inside information to help them manage their stocks?

This is an 11.5% discount. Never really noticed this sort of discrepancy before...

Someone tell me it's just normal for Amazon to undercut Apple store like this, before I get all excited.

 

[LastLine]

Normal enough. They've been known to do it quite a bit as far as I can tell.

 

[emotion]

I picked up two 8GB nanos for £136 each over the weekend, through Amazon (pix_mania were the sellers).

 

[dalvin200]

I picked up two 8GB nanos for £136 each over the weekend, through Amazon (pix_mania were the sellers).

through Amazon Marketplace.. bit of a difference

 

[emotion]

through Amazon Marketplace.. bit of a difference

Yeah through amazon, like I said.

Sheesh.

 

[SpaceMagic]

Pixmania is a legitimate company as well as amazon anyway.

 

[dalvin200]

easy easy..
just misinterpreted "through" as "from"..

 

[emotion]

easy easy..
just misinterpreted "through" as "from"..

it's cool....slight overreaction on my part anyway....

 

[mkjj]

Been that price since before Christmas. Went as low as £210 at one time.

Still, great price though.

 

[The Grood]

OK. thanks for clearing that up.


Move on please. Nothing to see here...

 

[Zwhaler]

Costco was doing the same thing. All iPods 20 dollars off. Steve, Amazon, and Costco and in cahoots!

 

[MeWannaMac]

I have seen this thing on Amazon before. Its nothing out of the ordinary.