Yeah I think the scalpers might be making a mistake here. Unlike regular wearable like the Apple Watch, the Vision Pro is a pretty niche product at the moment.these scalpers will learn a lesson or two really soon. The hard way. Absolutely no one's gonna buy these for $8k.
You'd be surprised, especially considering the Vision Pro is only available in the US at the moment. Only takes a few oversees customers with money to burn. When the new iPhones come out, the stores see scalpers buying to sell overseas for weeks--and that's simply because the iPhone prices are notably more expensive in many countries. This product isn't even available to them yet.
I'm a huge fan of the product, but haters will say that we don't know at all if it was 100,000.
Both. Apple makes a certain number for pre-sale opening day. If Kuo is to be believed, Apple made 80,000 of them for Feb 2 delivery or pickup. They plan to make about 450,000 or so for the entire year according to some reports. The initial order did sell out, which means they won’t have any more in their warehouses until they make more. The dates being pushed back are based on future production. Likely they get some in inventory every day. With some shipping dates going into March now, that means Apple is selling product they won’t get in stock for weeks.
Feels like scalping a mac pro...just not a good investment.
Well that will be a big problem then... hopefully they are holding back some light seal inventory. Otherwise, you use the scan to order, it's not the right size to work properly, and then you are stuck with a $3500 product you can't use for months...
Yeah that's a good point actually. For it to actually have an effect they'll probably need to limit returns e.g. if you order more than 1 within a 24 hour time window you can only return one of them.
Same here. Picked 11am on Feb 2 but it was taken already when I was trying to pay. That was 5:04 am PT. To save the precious time, I tell myself to not risk it to pick a time that is close than that (which may also be taken). So I picked 3 pm, and it goes through (also at the same minute, 5:04). A heart-beating moment!
This is an excellent point. A big market is likely customers from the rich oil countries in the Middle East, for them $8K is surely a drop in the ocean of their wealth.
You’d be surprised. I’ll be most of them selling for twice the price are being sold overseas to countries that aren’t even mentioned yet for future sales.
When the dust settles and reality kicks in, I really hope Apple will even offer discounts, so that these clowns will even make a loss with this
But... so you're going to use it for just yourself? I feel like if I were buying it for someone else I'd let them scan their face instead.
We don’t actually know how many Apple made do we, so how can we possibly know how many have been sold?
