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Apple Posts Details about $100 Store Credit for iPhone Owners

PlaceofDis said:
um, so? the iPhones have Bluetooth...
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No Dis, you and I have iPhone Special Editions, you know the ones that come with Bluetooth. Most people just got the ones with, um, well... Bluetooth.

Prepboy, go into Settings/General and turn Bluetooth on and you too shall behold the fabled Bluetooth icon. :)
 
io_burn said:
Haha, sweet. I went in the day of the price change to complain and got a $214 gift card. The guy must have mis-typed my serial number because I just claimed an additional $100.

$314 off my iPhone, not too shabby. :apple:
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First of all, everybody leave this guy alone. It's his decision and accepting an offered gift card before a policy was established and then also accepting the policy-based $100 is at best an ethical gray area. He's not stealing. They gave it to him.

And, io_burn, they didn't mistype your serial number. He typed it just fine. The web system is only meant to check *when* you bought your iPhone, not whether or not Apple issued a special pre-policy refund on your iPhone. If you bought before 22nd August, I don't care if Steve Jobs personally loaned you his private jet for the week, you'll still get the $100 store credit because the system matches sale date, not wether you received any kind of special consideration from Apple or AT&T. If you bought 22nd Aug. or after you now have until 19th Sept., longer than the original 14-day return period, to get the full $200 back instead of just the $100 store credit -- and the $200 you can have credited to your credit card or AT&T account so it's tantamount to cash, not a limited-used credit.

I wasn't upset by the price drop either. I can't honestly say whether I would have double-dipped or not, because I couldn't having bought after Aug. 22 and being given a $200 credit to my AT&T account this morning. But let's face it people, it's tempting.

Frankly, too, I don't think Apple gives a flip. They didn't set this up to stop people from double-dipping, they set it up to make sure you own an iPhone and still own it and also extend the normal 14-day return window to almost 30 days to allow more early buyers extra time to get their full $200 back. In io_burn they now have a double-happy customer who will probably drop more than the $100 credit while he's in the Apple Store anyway. They'll *make* money off giving him the store credit.
 
i printed the code as an ADOBE PDF - e-mailed it to myself - and can now see it on my iphone - so i dont need the stupid sheet.
 
Riddle me this Batman.....

What happens if I go to the Apple Store and buy something for less than $100. How will they handle the future credit?
 
io_burn said:
I wasn't even upset about the price drop. I read online about my local Apple store giving refunds, and I had a business meeting at a nearby restaurant that afternoon so I figured why not? If Apple is giving away free money I'm certainly not going to turn it down.

Same thing with the $100 offer today, entering my serial took me about 20 seconds, why wouldn't I enter it in just to try?

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that's cool. I hope when someone steals your credit card and does what they are not supposed to do with it you just pay the bill. Cause it probably only took them 20 seconds to do it. The kicker would be if in your meeting you were talking about ethics.
 
io_burn said:
I had a business meeting at a nearby restaurant that afternoon so I figured why not? If Apple is giving away free money I'm certainly not going to turn it down.

Same thing with the $100 offer today, entering my serial took me about 20 seconds, why wouldn't I enter it in just to try?

:cool:
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Man, I'd hate to do business with you. If you treat Apple this way, I'd hate to see how you treat your customers or business associates.

You said earlier that you had gotten the price difference back, and yet you just couldn't help yourself stealing another $100. Pathetic.
 
$399 iphone - $100 credit = $299 iphone

My wife will be happy when I give her a new iPhone tonight. I am happy I paid $299.
 
io_burn said:
Yeah, I bet Steve is feeding his kids left over government cheese tonight because I got an extra $100 credit. :(

Crap. :(
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always some sort of justification for stealing. kind of funny i think. I stole this one time from the Apple Store and as they were about to call the cops the manager rushed in and said, "no, wait! its ok, let him go, Steve has enough money." and I got to keep the stuff I took too. Grabbed an extra iPod nano on the way out. It was nice.
 
Don't know if anyone's posted about this yet, but did anyone notice on the bottom of the page where it says where you can find your serial number...in the General Menu there's a spot where it says "Home Button". This could be referring to the two-tap feature for music playback that the iPod Touch has.
 
ucfgrad93 said:
Man, I'd hate to do business with you. If you treat Apple this way, I'd hate to see how you treat your customers or business associates.

You said earlier that you had gotten the price difference back, and yet you just couldn't help yourself stealing another $100. Pathetic.
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He didn't steal anything. Apple gave him both credits sans coercion. I don't think he even had to lie about anything when he submitted his iPhone information. Bottom line is there are tons of people who got pre-policy Apple or AT&T credits and got the store credit, too. io_burn is just one of the few willing to admit he did it.

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with what he did, I'm just saying it's his call. I got treated like garbage by some moron in the Apple Store this week who refused to do a Genius stand-by appointment for or help me at all until 10 hours later, saying it was company policy, when they had two Geniuses just standing around doing nothing a bunch of no-show appointments on a rainy day. I called and complained to the GM and she was apologetic but offered me nothing for the grand total of fours, almost three of it wasted, to handle this matter which was an AppleCare-covered matter. io_burn took an extra $100 in store credit, Apple cost me loss of income around $200 by wasting my time for nothing and allowing a clerk to lie to me without firing his sorry ass or offering me something for my trouble. I like Apple, their products and their retail stores, but I'm not crying my eyes out they coughed up a little extra store credit to some people.

A Nordstrom manager would have given me a $100 gift card on the spot for the way I was treated.
 
io_burn said:
Yeah, I bet Steve is feeding his kids left over government cheese tonight because I got an extra $100 credit. :(

Crap. :(
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You're right, it is perfectly fine to be unethical as long as it doesn't lead to someone being unable to eat. Right and wrong is based on how much damage it does to the other person, not on the action itself, huh?

This isn't a GRAY AREA... read the letter from Steve Jobs:

"Therefore, we have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store."

That means, you aren't eligible. Anyway, you should run along and pirate some music and movies, because it won't lead to anyone eating government cheese.
 
NoCleverSNForMe said:
I just switched back to Verizon -- can't wait to get home and see if this rebate will still work for me.

I wonder if they ask for your number to verify your AT&T account or to simply find out where to send you your text.

We'll see...
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Wait a minute...so you got your iPhone to work with Verizon Cell service? How? I thought that if you hacked your iPhone you could still either use T-Mobile or AT&T? Guess I might be wrong...
 
Getting the $214 from the Apple store was laughably easy. I didn't plan to put up any kind of fight, I just walked in on the way to lunch, asked the dude at the cash register if they were doing anything about the iPhone price difference and mere moments later I was holding a $214 gift card.

Then I put in my serial number.

Total time invested: under 5 minutes.
 
drichx said:
Don't know if anyone's posted about this yet, but did anyone notice on the bottom of the page where it says where you can find your serial number...in the General Menu there's a spot where it says "Home Button". This could be referring to the two-tap feature for music playback that the iPod Touch has.
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And it says international!
 
drichx said:
Don't know if anyone's posted about this yet, but did anyone notice on the bottom of the page where it says where you can find your serial number...in the General Menu there's a spot where it says "Home Button". This could be referring to the two-tap feature for music playback that the iPod Touch has.
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No doubt. No doubt. They used iPhones with new firmware for that web page, except for the one on the first page which would have been a dead giveaway showing the WiFi Store icon. What I'd really like more than any extra $100 credit or whatever is the WiFi Store firmware update to be released today, even if the other upcoming updates -- two-tap Home button, video-out, photo events sync'ing, maybe video clip recording, who knows -- have to wait a while longer.
 
irun5k said:
You're right, it is perfectly fine to be unethical as long as it doesn't lead to someone being unable to eat. Right and wrong is based on how much damage it does to the other person, not on the action itself, huh?

This isn't a GRAY AREA... read the letter from Steve Jobs:

"Therefore, we have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store."

That means, you aren't eligible. Anyway, you should run along and pirate some music and movies, because it won't lead to anyone eating government cheese.
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That was in the letter, but not in that I noticed in the form you filled out online. Making it a gray area.
 
io_burn said:
Getting the $214 from the Apple store was laughably easy. I didn't plan to put up any kind of fight, I just walked in on the way to lunch, asked the dude at the cash register if they were doing anything about the iPhone price difference and mere moments later I was holding a $214 gift card.

Then I put in my serial number.

Total time invested: under 5 minutes.
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the moral of the story is 1. you thought it was funny, 2. you gloated about it and 3. after knowing you already got credit, tried to get more.

No one cares about how much time it took for you to do it. What's you CC#? I'll show you how much I can get in 5 minutes. But only five minutes, cause that wouldn't be stealing.
 
Not sure if this has already been mentioned. I bought the iphone, did the pre pay thing then canceled before the second month. I cant make calls or anything like that and i was able to get the access code. So people who did did the prepaid then cancel should still be able to get the code.
 
drater said:
Sounds like the peter griffen excuse for overly stated welfare checks if you ask me.
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Cashing welfare checks in excess is by statute a crime. Signing up for a free $100 Apple Store credit that does not bind you to any statement that you have not already received consideration is not.

Again I'm not saying I agree with this on an ethical basis. I'm saying this is a corporation and the corporation does what's best for the corporation. Giving the $100 credit was best for the corporation. If in the cost/benefit analysis they figured they'd lose more than they'd gain by smooching the early buyers, they wouldn't have offered the credit. Same for offering price protection for the full $200 longer than the normal 14-day period. Not best for the corporation, they wouldn't have done it. So io_burn here does what's best for him, although my *personal* ethics would almost surely prevent me from doing it, I can't fault the guy for looking out for himself over an entity that would look out for itself over him.
 
Hey, new mac convert - iPhone was my first Apple purchase (I even avoided iPods for years!). Picked up an iPhone on the third day it was released. I didn't know anything about any open letter but when I saw the new prices in the window at my local Apple store I went in and asked about it and they immediately gave me a $200 refund no-questions asked.

Then earlier today I got the text from a friend about the rebate and assumed that it was eligable for everyone?? I just followed the process, put my serial number and got my gift-card on top of my refund...I thought everybody got one? Hey, its not my fault if Apple wanna give me extra money - they've certainly got themselves a lifetime custmer in me after such awesome treatment! $200 back and $100 bonus = love for :apple:!
 
sanford said:
Cashing welfare checks in excess is by statute a crime. Signing up for a free $100 Apple Store credit that does not bind you to any statement that you have not already received consideration is not.

Again I'm not saying I agree with this on an ethical basis. I'm saying this is a corporation and the corporation does what's best for the corporation. Giving the $100 credit was best for the corporation. If in the cost/benefit analysis they figured they'd lose more than they'd gain by smooching the early buyers, they wouldn't have offered the credit. Same for offering price protection for the full $200 longer than the normal 14-day period. Not best for the corporation, they wouldn't have done it. So io_burn here does what's best for him, although my *personal* ethics would almost surely prevent me from doing it, I can't fault the guy for looking out for himself over an entity that would look out for itself over him.
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I'm not questioning the grey area here, I'm questioning the integrity and ethical standards io_burn has. Which obviously is lacking and not a matter of looking out for himself.

And I said he used the same kind of excuse, I didn't compare the crimes.
 
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