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8GB iPhone Price Drop, 4GB iPhone Discontinued

PupnTaco said:
After only three months, they're dropping the price by $200? And deleting the 4GB iPhone?

I know there's a "bleeding edge" penalty, but jesus. There's a lot of pissed-off iPhone owners right now. I'm sure. :mad:
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Yeh, what's next? "Oh about that exclusivity with AT&T thing... yeh we're dropping that too."

I'm annoyed that I'm $200 out of pocket, and that I only really wanted the iPod touch anyway... The phone aspect is still rather surplus to requirements. $200 for visual voicemail? Wow...
 
I'm betting they issue a credit

The majority of iPhone buyers--nearly 1 million by Apple's count--were promoting the crap out of the iPhone to anyone who would listen. Those 1 million customers were Apple's best sales people. I doubt Apple will totally alienate them by not offering at least some type of credit toward a future Apple purchase.

Any takers?;)
 
Just FYI, the apple store online is showing remaining 4gb iPhones for $299! Not sure that that really makes any early adopters feel better though.
 
how you could deal...

1) If you bought your ipod in the last 60 days and used some sort of credit card..MasterCard / Visa / Amex ... some cards offer price protection. All you have to do is show them the new price in an advertisment with the 200 dollar price drop, file a claim and you can get your 200 bucks back.

Example: http://www.wamu.com/NR/rdonlyres/126F31B2-6279-4FDF-A4BF-A5DAEC6C6CF3/0/Value_shop_2006.pdf

2) Some credit cards offer extended protection / warranty / loss clauses. Basically smash your iphone on the wall, ask for the amount you paid, then buy a new phone at the cheaper price and get the difference.
 
Oh my God!!! Enough people! EVERY single manufacturer out there does this. I bought my Xbox 360 a year and a half ago and now they added HDMI and lowered the price... Should I be getting a rebate?!

I bought my Macbook Pro in September 2006 shortly before they introduced the Core 2 Duo chips and 802.11n networking built-in... should I get a free upgrade?!

People bought computers in July 2007 and then iLife '08 came out in August... should they get free upgrades?!

No. Suck it up! All companies take advantage of the hype, price things accordingly, and then gradually improve the product from there.

IF THE PRODUCT MEETS YOUR NEEDS WHEN YOU BOUGHT IT THEN YOU PAID THE RIGHT PRICE AND GOT WHAT YOU PAID FOR! If you're an idiot who bought it just to have one then CONGRATULATIONS! you are a sheep. I hope you enjoy the rest of your bahhhhhhhhhhhhh day! :rolleyes:
 
Quiet down you flock of whaa whaa's

Wow all you whiners who bought the iphone on its release are either A) first time apple buyers or B) can't come to grips with buying a Rev. A Apple product.

Deal with it. You know how many of us have had this happen when we bought the first Intel Rev. A laptops? or countless other first gen Apple products?? THIS IS THE PRICE YOU PAY FOR BUYING REV A PRODUCTS. Wow. How long has Apple been around? Get with the program folks. I swear this happens with every new product. It's been 30 years people, come on. You knew this was going to happen. Quit filling the thread with your Rev A buyers remorse anger.

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ibwb said:
Old price:
iPhone: $600, two years of service: $1560, total: $2160

New price:
iPhone: $400, two years of service: $1560, total: $1960

Price difference: $200, or 10%. Why freak out over a 10% price drop?
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Yeah not sure why folks are bitching that much...

Apple priced it judging on their production volume and estimates of demand. They likely priced it higher then they planned long term to limit the up front demand given product volumes and expected demand based on the hype. Now that things have leveled out demand wise and they have real data to work on they re-priced it (also aligned it with the rest of the iPod product line).

/me Happy owner of a heavily used 8 GiB iPhone purchased on the first weekend and a happy Apple stock owner.
 
Lot of peole here like rubbing it in the early adopters faces. Would like to see them in the other peoples shoes.

I think most people are familiar with being on the cutting edge and paying a premium, but 2 months later a 33% drop is pretty drastic.

Think of the last big purchase you made and then think how you would feel.
 
that's quite a big early adopters tax. so much so fast! 33% off in 2 months!

What does this say about current sales ...
That must be the new supply and demand price.
 
VoodooDaddy said:
curious how you know this since the store is still down?

I bought a 4gb 10 days ago. Want to return and buy another for whatever the cheaper price is.
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The store was up for a few minutes and it was at the bottom, right under the special deals logo.
 
ChandlerXJ said:
wow, this is utter ********. not only is it 200 cheaper, that means ******* APPLE was making at LEAST 200 per phone.
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And you are all shocked by this?
How about some cheese with that whine?

Last I heard, this is still a free market society. The government hasn't stepped in with iPod Price Controls... yet. It sound like some of you might like that.
 
I can sympathize with you guys that are upset, If I were in your shoes I would be mad too. But since I waited, I'm very happy and will be ordering my brand new as soon as the store goes back up. Oh happy day :D:apple::D
 
JPark said:
Wow, not a happy place to be right now. I feel for all you early adopters who were so valuable in making the launch successful.

My guess is that they jacked up the price at launch in order to keep the demand in check.
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That is exactly what I was thinking. The worst disaster for Apple would be to sell so many phones on the first day that no one could activate them or contact customer service. That almost happened. Apple came close to selling to many.

Why do people complain about a price drop? They looked at the $600 price and thought is was a good deal. If it was then it still is. If you wait long enough these these will be nearly free on ebay and Goodwill thrift shops.

Those ideots wanting to bring a class action suit are going to have to show how Apple changeing the price a any effect what so ever on them. You have to remember -- what Apple does to the guy standing in back of you in line has zero effect on you.

I think I paid $600 for a 10MB disk drive once. (yes 10MB not 10GB) do I complain to Seagate? Not $600 was a fantastic deal back in 1982.
 
huntercr said:
Uh, no, but you can be proud to be holding a receipt for paying the early adopter tax. Where have you been the last 20 years. If you want something as soon as it comes out, you pay the early adopter tax.
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If that's the case they can keep my $200 this time and next time I need to spend $2,000 on a notebook, I'll just give it to someone other than Apple.

If we want to talk about early adopter taxes and general business practices; they better make good on this to avoid a backlash.
 
suck it up whiners. You knew from day 1 it was an overpriced phone, you were willing to shell out the $$ even up til the last week before you knew this "music centered" event was coming. You have nobody to blame but yourselves. You got the $200 "awe" factor for having it before the rest of us sensible people grabbed ours.

...off to get my $399 iPhone today :p
 
'73-B said:
Just FYI, the apple store online is showing remaining 4gb iPhones for $299! Not sure that that really makes any early adopters feel better though.
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How the hell are you even getting to the store?? All I get is "be back soon"??
 
blueskybyway said:
The majority of iPhone buyers--nearly 1 million by Apple's count--were promoting the crap out of the iPhone to anyone who would listen. Those 1 million customers were Apple's best sales people. I doubt Apple will totally alienate them by not offering at least some type of credit toward a future Apple purchase.

Any takers?;)
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Nope. It would be a terrible precedent to set because once you agree that you should refund price drops on one product, albeit an extraordinary one, you could be forced into doing it on every product no manner how small the change.
 
While I can understand people getting upset about the $200, remember Apple's playing in the mobile phone market here, not the iPod market - and that's what happens in this sector. Two/three months in and the prices drop like there's no tomorrow.

Think there's a degree of inevitability to it, but people who were sucked in early on the back of it being an Apple product expected Apple pricing policies, but they got mobile phone pricing policies.

Sympathies, but was always going to happen.
 
zioxide said:
haha you idiots.. thats what happens when you buy a product first. guess what? newer **** comes out, prices come down.

you don't deserve 200. If you wanted it cheaper, you should have waited.

haha.
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And Apple has done this before when without changing the hardware?
 
As an Apple stock holder, the price drop is not good news. The only reason a company drops the price on anything is to increase sales. This could explain why APPL is down almost $5.00.
 
Look. There's some truth on both sides here.

People paid $600 because they thought it was worth it. ok.

But Apple is still pissing on their best customers.

I think calls for class action lawsuits are b.s. At the end of the day, if Apple screws us, they didn't do anything illegal. If they offer no recourse, call them bastards or stop buying their stuff, or whatever. But I agree completely that we have no *right* to demand anything.

But they should want satisfied customers. They should do right by the ones who gave them the best p.r. they could dream of. And I think they will.
 
let's all remember before we get too salty that apple's stock was in the high 80's when the iphone was announced. that means that while I paid a $200 early adoption fee, my 100 shares of apple have gone from around 9 thousand bucks to close $14000. i'll make that trade.
 
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