Apple's 'Red Friday' Lunar New Year Sale Will Bring Deals for Asian Customers on January 25

[MacRumors]

Apple today announced its annual Lunar New Year sale, a one day event for Asian countries that is also known as "Red Friday" because of its similarity to November's Black Friday sales.

As with its Black Friday event, Apple will be offering limited time deals on Macs, iPads, iPods, and accessories like the Smart Cover.

Last year's sales saw discounts of up to 8% on iPads, 10% on iPod touches, and a flat discount of HK$ 770 on all models of the MacBook Air, the MacBook Pro, and the iMac. This year's discounts are expected to be similar, and free shipping will be offered.

Apple has also published a gift guide for the event, which features its flagship products like the iPad mini and the iPhone, alongside several third-party accessories from manufacturers like Bose, Logitech, and Griffin.

The Red Friday sale will take place on January 25 and is valid in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand.

Article Link: Apple's 'Red Friday' Lunar New Year Sale Will Bring Deals for Asian Customers on January 25

[MultiMediaWill]

Can I get the deals in the US?

[H2SO4]

Originally Posted by MultiMediaWill

Can I get the deals in the US?

Is that sarcasm?

[Dreamer2go]

This looks awesome!!!
-Apple fanboy from Hong Kong

[StayingOccupied]

are they selling the grab bags?

[ArchAndroid]

Originally Posted by MultiMediaWill

Can I get the deals in the US?

Originally Posted by MacRumors

The Red Friday sale will take place on January 25 and is valid in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand.

[Beeplance]

I'll be looking for discounts for the iPod Touch 5th generation.

[zoobzone]

does the 8% discount stack with education discount?

[zukernik]

Originally Posted by MultiMediaWill

Can I get the deals in the US?

Ya, if you have an address in Hong Kong and a way to ship it to the US.

[smileyborg]

Apple's 'Red Friday' Lunar New Year Sale Will Bring Deals for Asian Customers on January 25

Don't you guys mean Asian Countries?? Something tells me Apple isn't checking your ethnic background for eligibility status...!

[zukernik]

Originally Posted by zoobzone

does the 8% discount stack with education discount?

It doesn't, it's still cheaper to get a laptop with an educational discount than one through this promotion unfortunately.

[macs4nw]

Red Friday, how ironic. Isn't black ink universal in accounting ledgers, LOL.
What's next, Green Fridays in Ireland around the 17th of March?

[ConCat]

Originally Posted by zukernik

Ya, if you have an address in Hong Kong and a way to ship it to the US.

This smart guy wins an "outside the box thinking" award. These guys don't:

Originally Posted by H2SO4

Is that sarcasm?

Originally Posted by ArchAndroid

[Icaras]

Good job on the misleading headline MR. I guess every Asian on the planet earth gets these deals. Can't wait for my red bag deal, even though I'm residing in California.

[mrsir2009]

North Korea misses out

Originally Posted by MultiMediaWill

Can I get the deals in the US?

What do you think?

[xDKP]

Fantastic news! In Hong Kong this week and were about to buy a new iPad no mater what

[Solomani]

Originally Posted by MultiMediaWill

Can I get the deals in the US?

Yes, but only in the Apple Stores located in a US Chinatown.

[asiga]

Originally Posted by smileyborg

Don't you guys mean Asian Countries?? Something tells me Apple isn't checking your ethnic background for eligibility status...!

It's however an interesting slip, because a country = a customer for the Apple of this last years (ie the non-Mac Apple)

[j4zb4]

Originally Posted by MacRumors

Apple today announced its annual Lunar New Year sale, a one day event for Asian countries that is also known as "Red Friday" because of its similarity to November's Black Friday sales.

I am in India and the last time I checked it was definitely a part of Asia... But sadly no such sale for us...

But ofcourse RED Friday isn't celebrated here...

With the FDI now approved in India for the retail sector I wonder how long will it be before we see Apple Retail stores here...

[MMOTotal]

Originally Posted by MultiMediaWill

Can I get the deals in the US?

Did you only look at the pretty picture and not read the article ?

[unplugme71]

Both the image and title are misleading being out of context.

The article title says Asian customers, not limiting to Asian countries. So any US citizen that's Asian could in fact get this discount.

The image, while saying Chinese New Year, does not limit where the items can be bought as it's not shown with a screen shot from the Chinese Apple Store, nor does the image limit the deals to Asian countries.

So in marketing & legal speak, based on MR's post, I'm eligible.

[xlii]

Exchange rate on the Honk Kong dollar is $1 HK = .13 US cents so .13 X 770 is equal to a $100 dollar discount in the US. Not a bad flat rate discount for things like iPods and iPads.

[MentalFloss]

Originally Posted by smileyborg

Don't you guys mean Asian Countries?? Something tells me Apple isn't checking your ethnic background for eligibility status...!

Well, even "Asian Countries" would still be incorrect, because it only applies to countries that care about the Chinese New Year. Last year, 6 countries (China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines) out of the 52 Asian countries were included in the promotion.

So that means people from Israel, Afghanistan, eastern Russia and Japan are just as out of luck as the many Asian customers in non-Asian countries.

[makinao]

Originally Posted by MentalFloss

Well, even "Asian Countries" would still be incorrect, because it only applies to countries that care about the Chinese New Year. Last year, 6 countries (China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines) out of the 52 Asian countries were included in the promotion

The Philippines (store.apple.com/ph) is not included this year :-(

[TC03]

Originally Posted by makinao

The Philippines (store.apple.com/ph) is not included this year :-(

Thanks for the URL bro.