iPad 3G launch was MUCH different than iPad Wifi only launch, I walked right into an Apple Store at 5:30 after work and walked out at 5:40 with my 3G iPad.
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iPad 3G launch was MUCH different than iPad Wifi only launch, I walked right into an Apple Store at 5:30 after work and walked out at 5:40 with my 3G iPad.
A fool and his TIME are soon parted.
Take WORK for an example. Waste of time, traded for pieces of paper money. That's the irony.
It's fine to pay off someone to wait in line for you. We all do it every day if you think about it.
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I'm not so sure that you could write off an excessive expense....I believe that you can only write off the fair market value of the item.
If you're making $600 an hour living in NYC, it also costs you way more just to live there.
It doesn't matter how much money I make........I could never justify paying 3x the price of a product just to have it on the first day. I would feel screwed every time I used the thing.
If a friend of mine told me he did that, I would laugh at him no matter how much money he had.
Seriously? I was planning on getting there in an hour or so. Guess I'll bag that idea.
Your location says "Barrington, IL"...
Well, I know of someone in the same boat as you AND the company treats him like crap. He would rather be in yours and his place than in mine, a low paying awesome fun job/company...
To each his/her own...
So you wait in line for 3 days and get $900 bucks?
I make more money at work in 3 days working 8 hours!
I make more money at work in 3 days working 8 hours!
LOL! Do you even know what "write off" means?
He still has to shell out $1500 and that write off might be worth $250 net off his taxes.
$900 for free press, and his name and company have been repeated several times. Sounds like a smart guy.
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You had a shoebox; luxury!
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You had a shoebox; luxury!
Quoting CNN.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/11/who-pays-900-to-be-no-1-in-line/
Stop acting like $900 is a lot of money.
Very smart guy.
Here he is:
So where exactly does one line up at a Target? The electronics counter? If so, there's never anybody there.
Quoting CNN.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/11/who-pays-900-to-be-no-1-in-line/
Stop acting like $900 is a lot of money.
Very smart guy.
OMG I'm so going to buy his apps now!!!! It worked!
You mean for their parents to have that kind of disposable income and give it to the kids.
How silly. Waiting in line when you can have it in a week or two, delivered right to your door.
This.
What I tried to say in a prior post.
$900 "just to be first" makes sense if doing so facilitates making >$1400 in the next few hours. You might not understand the details, but so what? the guy shelling out $900 so he didn't have to wait a couple hours (and not make, say, $1200 as BT notes is not unreasonable), or could already be using it as a tool before the initial lines cleared out, sure thought it made sense.
Just because you don't understand what someone else did doesn't mean that person is an idiot.
^^^Maybe you make that much, but it costs a crapload more to live there as well. It's not like your hypothetical person is making $600/hour in some small town in Iowa.