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Apple Offering Free Gift Cards Worth Up to $200 With Select Purchases in Australia and New Zealand Today
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Excluding late 2016 macbook pro !!!! it is D... move from apple again thanks for offering discount on obsolete models no one wants to buy
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like iphone !! like HDMI cable, like external hard drives which every pro user have few of them and this list goes on
I have seen this in the US a long time ago, but I don't think it happens anymore. It would be too easy to track now and it would be bad PR.
This used to happen, and I don't see why it would be illegal. Although I don't think it happens anymore.
I vividly remember one time a store marked up prices for a sale. There was an RC car I wanted back in the 80's, and I went to a local toy store chain. This was before they had digital POS, so everything was marked with a sticker price tag.
I was in the store every couple days and looked at what I wanted. So, with my birthday coming up, I asked my parents to get it. This was also with holiday sales was about to start, so I was also waiting for a good day. The RC car normally cost $30, as I would see this every time I would visit the store.
There was a store wide 20% off everything sale. I asked my parents to take me, only to find out that they marked the RC car, and everything else in the store up a few bucks. The RC car was now $35.
I knew this was not the price before, so I dug into the stock, and way in the back I found a few that did not have their stickers updated.
I still made out with a great price, but I doubt most people would have seen know what I did.
It's the new factual incorrect buzzword and repetitive lame joke around here. The irony being that my new MacBook Pro actually allows me to use less dongles, hubs and cables than before and now I can plug all my USB cables in either way around - it's a major upgrade for everyone.
Apple's had the worst black friday deals for a while now..
I recently bought an iPhone SE as a Christmas present from a supermarket chain's online sale for 25 % less than the price on the Apple store. That certainly beats a A$35 gift card. I was pleasantly surprised to discover how much cheaper than Apple third party retailers can be. I'm probably about the last person to realise this, but it is always worth looking closely at alternatives to buying from the Apple store. Lesson learned...
Tough crowd in here.
I can't say these are great "deals", but getting a gift card with something you maybe intended to purchase anyways is never a bad thing, IMO. Plenty of ways to profit off of a gift card too, if you know what you're doing.
I can't say these are great "deals", but getting a gift card with something you maybe intended to purchase anyways is never a bad thing, IMO. Plenty of ways to profit off of a gift card too, if you know what you're doing.
If you consider that abortion of a keyboard an upgrade fine. Pretty sure everybody doesn't.
On last years iPhone and iPads that will be updated in March.
In many markets once you've sold the gift card it will only bring the price back into line with what they were a few months ago before they hiked them all up.
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I might be mistaken, but the only prices raised that I see are on the computers excluded from the deal in the first place. Like that touch-bar Macbook.
I wasn't talking about the keyboard I was talking about USB-C connections - but having used the same keyboard on the iMac since the Magic Keyboard 2 was released, yes I do consider it an upgrade, it's far better then the spongey keyboard on my old MacBook Pro.
The magic keyboard is much closer to the keyboard on the MacBook Air and the keyboard on the older MacBook Pros.
It doesn't even use the same switch mechanism as the new MacBook Pro/MacBook.
USB-A > USB-C
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Durable-Sy...32&sr=1-1-spons&keywords=usb+c+to+usb+a&psc=1
USB-B > USB-C
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cable-Matt...qid=1480003813&sr=1-6&keywords=usb+c+to+usb+b
Lighting - loads not even including Apples!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anker-Powe...1480003607&sr=1-3&keywords=usb+c+to+lightning
Thunderbolt / USB-C > HDMI CABLE
https://www.amazon.co.uk/CHOETECH-T...d=1480003556&sr=1-2&keywords=usb+c+hdmi+cable
Or of course you can get a single dongle as you can daisychain if that is really your bag.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/HooToo-Shu...8&qid=1480003884&sr=1-5&keywords=usb+c+dongle
Point is you don't need dongles... get the cable. If you really don't like it I have loads of of serial, rs-232 and usb 1 cables you can have if you want.
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Okay, here is a question. Can one buy an iPhone/iPad that qualifies in one transaction....get the gift card....and than apply it toward an iPad/iPhone in another transaction and get another gift card? I am in the market for both an iPhone and iPad lol.
Discount their most desirable, in-demand, out-of-stock Mac product? Nyeah, no. That makes entirely no sense.
Regardless of any supposed "controversy," the MBP is in huge demand and still not available for 3-4 weeks. They don't need to discount it in order to sell more, or convince people to take the leap. People have been, and still are, lining up already to do just that, and it's going to be at least the new year until that wait list drops back to traditional in-cycle availability.
Simple supply-demand.
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The latest hardware is heavily backlordered (try to find a Watch Series 2 in Italy), at full price. Discounts make no sense on these products.
Pretty incredible offers here from Apple. Two immediate words spring to my mind - BUYING OPPORTUNITY.