Apple Price - $1000 = Amazon

[turtlebud]

nice deal

glad to hear amazon gave you some compensation for their pricing error. usually sites will just tell you there was a pricing error and leave it at that. is it $600 off and no rebate?

btw, i just noticed that the 3.0 model is up to $3599 and back in stock at amazon (but still with the wrong speed bus 1.33)

I got one of the cancellation/error e-mails...

They claimed a pricing error...

I got them to call me using their online contact us info, and worked out a compromise. I got the 8-core 2.8Ghz for $2199.

I still consider this a smokin' deal, $600 below Apple's price.

The thing I have to say about Amazon is that they stepped up and worked out a fair compromise. A lot of bigger companies would have told me go jump in a lake. I will now be an amazon customer FOREVER.

I think I'll buy all my macs from them. As much as I hate to say this, I cannot see Apple ever being that accommodating.

Good luck to all that ordered!

 

[netdog]

Okay, I'll throw this WAG out there and hope I'm wrong. What IF Apple is planning on releasing an update to the MacPro's in April. But if they were updating in April, maybe it's a Blue-Ray update. Its very odd that Apple would describe the MacPro's as "Early 2008" model.

No.

 

[John.B]

Thats definitely the previous Cloverton Mac Pro model w/ 1333 MHz FSB. Still, $2600 w/ rebate for an 8 core 3 GHz Mac Pro...

I'm think Ars recently ran benchmarks between one of the the above Mac Pros and the new Harpertown 1600 MHz FSB models, I don't remember what processor speeds they used.

 

[BryanLyle]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A93 Safari/419.3)

the MBA that was100 dollars more than App9
lwas from a different seller and not Amazon

 

[gnasher729]

I agree, which is what I don't understand. Most computer companies that sell their own computers via their site have prices higher than third party sellers. I would think they would have the lowest price so they get more of the customers...why in the world would Apple or Sony up their prices and allow Amazon sell the same products for $100 to $200 less! There's obviously profit loss.

First, you need to check whether sales tax is included. Amazon doesn't add sales tax for sales in many of the US states, whereas Apple has to charge sales tax. However, if the seller doesn't charge sales tax, then the buyer has to pay the tax themselves to the inland revenue in their next income tax statement. Obviously people tend to forget this and think it is savings. In reality, it is just an opportunity for tax evasion. (It would be similar if I sold you a CD with Microsoft Office for $20, and asked you to send a checque for the full purchase price to Microsoft).

But also, Apple doesn't maximise profits by selling cheaper than Amazon. Usually you maximise profits by selling to different people at different price points. Apple makes a lot of profit from people who buy directly from Apple. Then they make a bit less profit from people who look for the cheapest possible source and buy from Amazon (Apple still makes money on that purchase). They make a lot of money from people buying RAM from Apple, and a bit less from people who shop around. If Apple sold RAM at the same price as Crucial, and Macs at the same price as Amazon, the total profit would be less.