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Apple to Hold Four Day Shopping Event Starting on Black Friday
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so if a person were to buy a XR from the apple store before BF would apple honor the price change if i brought the recipe back in or would they make a person return and rebuy it on BF?
It can’t be, at least when I tried a year ago they couldn’t do it. That was online/over the phone but maybe in store you could.
They avoid “sale” because it devalues their products. That’s also why they only offer discounts or gifts or gift cards on special occasions for eligible customers.
Only if you sign both items up for Applecare+. And the $0.99 is in app store credit.
A door buster: $1 off the not included 3.5mm headphone adapter
Apple is not a premium luxury brand. Expensive yes, but not a luxury brand like Louis Vuitton. Vertu is the standard if we're talking luxury electronic goods.
I’d call it a luxury brand for sure. We may have differing definitions of luxury though.
What are you talking about? They've been doing Black Friday events offering store gift cards for years.
You most likely could. Apple has a pretty much no-questions-asked 14 day return policy and even after that they will probably make an exception if you seem sincere about it (they have decent flexibility to override things, and their training tells them to do so when it "feels like the right thing to do for the customer").
Where are the Black Friday deals on a Mac Mini with a PCIe slot, or the iPhone with a head phone jack, SD card slot, a normal sized screen that actually fits in a pocket, has a user replaceable battery, and is not made out of case materials that break as soon as you breathe on them?
What's that you say? Apple still does not give a crap what their customers actually want!?
Oh well, enjoy your non-sales holiday season.
//dead company walking
What's that you say? Apple still does not give a crap what their customers actually want!?
Oh well, enjoy your non-sales holiday season.
//dead company walking
If they dropped their prices by half, they'd be in line with comparable Apple products from 2011. It's just insane how overpriced they've become. Compare the 2018 mini pricing to the 2012. And in 2012 they threw in a video adapter cable. This greed is going to destroy them.
$25 Apple Store gift card for orders of $3,500+ and a free pair of wired beats for 1TB iPad Pro orders.
I'd be curious to know your definition then. Apple sells iPhones to about 2% of the entire global population each year. They're assembled from commodity parts from third parties, and those third parties sell parts for virtually all cell phones.
What, in your definition, makes Apple, circa 2018, more a luxury brand than Samsung or Huawei?
The parts making up their devices have no bearing on their perception as a luxury brand. A luxury brand is a brand that has a wide-perception, often achieved through marketing, of being of higher status, quality or value. Just because it is perceived to be these things doesn’t mean it must actually be in order to be a luxury brand. Apple is perhaps the best example on the planet of a universally known and coveted brand perceived of as being of a higher status. It does break with other luxury brand examples just because of the sheer volume in which they sell, but that’s what makes them the highest market-cap company in the world. They have the margins of BMW with the volume of Toyota. Why are they able to achieve this? Because of their brand perception.
Well I agree their prices have gone up outrageously, I'm also a realist who understands reality. An inflation calculator shows a 12.4% increase since 2011 which can't simply be ignored.
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Some of the ignorant hyperbole around here is astounding.
lol Do you have any sort of business understanding whatsoever? If they sliced their prices in half, their profit margin would be absurdly low. Their prices, while high and sometimes unquestionably over the top, have increased along with A LOT of increased costs on their end since 2011/2012. It’s really not that difficult to see why prices for their products have gone up...
Some of the ignorant hyperbole around here is astounding.
I’m totally sold on HomePods with one already in my living room. If there’s a a gift card offering with the purchase of one HomePod, I’ll use the card on another. This is the first Black Friday since HomePod was launched so we can’t know if jt’ Be included in the sales. Fingers crossed.
The wheels are falling off the Apple cart. The chart always predicted the cliff sales would fall off but Tim needed to find the wrong price points to make it happen.
Come on, Timmy isn't that generous. $2 off a 3.5mm adapter if you buy wired beats and a 1TB iPad pro (with pencil2, keyboard case, and applecare+, of course). The faithful will line up around the block to get in on that deal while arguing about who loves Timmy more.
Desperate Measures. Tim’s policy of overcharging for nothing better than average products is catching up with him. His time at Apple is almost over.
He needs to realise that people need reassuring that their love for Apple is reciprocated.
Cook’s only agenda was profit...time to think again Tim!