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Walmart Offering iPhone 5 for $127, Third-Generation iPad for $399
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Probably. I called my local Apple store before I went to Best Buy to ask if they would price match and was told they would not.
However, it might be worth you going into the store with everything you purchased and attempt to return it, telling them that you're going to go re-purchase at Wal-Mart (or Best Buy w/price match) and see what they will do.
Best of luck.
You must truly have too much time on your hands to dedicate it to a repurchase of in all things a disposable telephone. Go skiing. Keystone has got a lot of fresh snow!
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Another nice attempt at distorting facts and pushing FUD, unless you truly are unaware of the tech business. Apple ends every quarter with "hundreds of million dollars of unsold Iphone [sic] inventory", as do the resellers. That's perfectly normal. Nice try, though.
I'm sure how much time you have on my hands, but $70 is a lot of money to some people and the entire process would take no more than 30 minutes.
Since you are in a sour mood, here's something to make your day worse.
You should have unlocked you old phone first before buying the new one. The reason it get messed up is that, your old phone is not associated anymore with your number thats why AT&T can't find it anymore in their system. And your new phone is still within contract so its not yet eligible for unlock.
Relax its just a phone... Have fun skiing!!!!
That's like asking if GM is working on the next year's model of any particular vehicle. Of course it's in the works.
Is it possible that Walmart is eating the discount as a loss leader to get people into the stores and that Apple is still getting their normal price?
If anyone has done a PM with Best Buy in California, can you post what you paid including taxes? I'd get it there if I only paid on the subsidized price.
I don't think an iPhone is something you pick up while getting the groceries but I was thinking the same thing.
Or maybe there is some type of carrier based incentive? We really don't know what goes on behind the scenes, but sometimes a popular product is advertised as a loss leader.
I think, WalMart alone, won't be giving this much of a discount. There is no incentive for them give this deep of a discount especially for an Apple product as the customer has to purchase a way more a lot of extra items to make a profit from that loss leader. This stuff supposedly sells itself and a hot item this holiday and just carrying them in your store is already an attraction by itself. If I was in the market for an i5, I would buy it even for $149.99 since its already $50 cheaper from other stores. Is Apple is partly subsidizing it? We will never know as Apple would never ever admit it. Its tantamount to an admission that its not selling.
My question is does Apple have a say on how stores prices their Apple products? They have built their brand image to be "high end" and what if the stores starts selling them basement prices with store shouldering the loss?
You certainly wouldn't want to associate with THOSE kind of people.
People of quality, such as yourself, must not allow themselves to be seen with THOSE people.
I mean, really, you must maintain some standards or the peasants will start to think they are as good as you.
Don't give in...maintain your standards...the hell with the money...there are more important things at stake here!
While I know where you are coming from, our recent move to MA has shown me that not all WalMarts are equal. In the midwest EVERYONE shopped at WalMart. Here I walked into the WalMart and it was filled with riff-raff. I am talking the kind of people I wouldn't want to be around in a dark alley. For me it wouldn't be about associating myself with these people. It would be the risk of getting robbed in the parking lot for the iPad I just bought that would have me worried.
Which doesn't even address the horrible race to the bottom mentality that companies like walmart encourage in people. I'm proud to live somewhere walmart isn't allowed, and even if I did live where their unamerican business practices were accepted I still wouldn't shop there, even if it meant saving some pathetic seventy bucks on an iPhone, or whatever. And if seventy bucks is a big deal to you, maybe it's time to reorganize your priorities and quit buying **** like iPhones and 60" televisions.
Hey, Mate, does it really matter where in MA the Walmart is located? What's important is that riffraff shop there, and not the nice people who shop in Walmart in the Midwest.
And our friend doesn't want to be associated with riffraff, who will rip him off in the parking lot...unlike the nice people who shopped at Walmart in the Midwest.
He probably lives near me...I'm riffraff if I ever saw riffraff!!
So has anyone actually tried this or is it a bunch of kerfuffle? I'm getting an iPad this week so I'm very interested in this.
It was somewhere in north east MA near the NH border. I am not familiar with the area. Told the GPS I wanted a WalMart and that is where it took me lol. I remember there was a Market Basket next door, though that likely isn't saying much since there is a Market Basket on every corner, outnumbered only by Dunkin'!
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I would say more than possible, it's probable.
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Hey, Mate, does it really matter where in MA the Walmart is located? What's important is that riffraff shop there, and not the nice people who shop in Walmart in the Midwest.
And our friend doesn't want to be associated with riffraff, who will rip him off in the parking lot...unlike the nice people who shopped at Walmart in the Midwest.
He probably lives near me...I'm riffraff if I ever saw riffraff!!
I have seen your posts. You sound FAR too intelligent to be like the riff-raff I speak of. But who knows? Maybe you have ten kids, trashy tattoos, and wear your pants closer to your ankles than your waist. IDK.
FWIW I was raised in So Cal and the WalMarts were different there too. The WalMarts in MA (or the one I went to) seem to be the very reason the stereotype exists.
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Thank you. I am always relaxed. Stress relaxes me. Luckily I have the luxury of having other people deal with my phone and other mundane tasks. I should do nothing, as in my view I already pay the provider to do things for me.
Maybe we can revisit this conversation again. Maybe after they release the quarterly numbers? You can tell me why the blowout results are actually pointing to Apples eminent demise.
If $70 is of such instrumental importance in your budget you should have no business buying an iPhone.
Got my iPhone 5 for $135 with tax today, and a new contract of course...
I went to a couple Wal-Marts in my area. I did not see anything about the Hi-Res iPads being on sale. I also wasn't inquiring too much about the iPads specifically, or calling around for them. But they appeared to have the usual price tag.
I went to a couple Wal-Marts in my area. I did not see anything about the Hi-Res iPads being on sale. I also wasn't inquiring too much about the iPads specifically, or calling around for them. But they appeared to have the usual price tag.