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Apple's Black Friday Sales Begin Around the World

I told you that there were not going to be any big sales or new iPhones!

I guess I was proved right.
 
o0samotech0o said:
Some people in the UK do.
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Who? What British person would celebrate? I mean we don't get the day off work or anything.

Are we just grateful that some folk preferred chasing turkeys around the "new world" than staying around here preaching about their religion, or is it just that age old British thing: "any excuse for a pi5s up"*.

*Note for Americans and other aliens: Pi5s Up means drinking session, rather than, well, I don't know, what would Americans think this meant - a social gathering where everyone was angry with each other?
 
Do these discounts apply in the UK? If they do then they haven't made any mention of it in UK Apple Store website...
 
Ordering my MacBook from MacConnection

Well, I guess these modest discounts from Apple may send a "healthy" signal to wallstreet that all is well with Apple retail sales. The situation is probably not as desperate as the analysts have envisioned for Apple.

I'll be ordering my MacBook 2.4gHz through MacConnection then...

$1499 MacBook 2.4gHz (MacConnection on sale through 12/1/08)
- $100 mail in rebate
- 2.7% cashback rebate via BigCrumbs
- 1.0% cashback rebate via my Amex card

The total is somewhere around $1343.53, with no tax and free shipping!
 
best buy

I ordered my MacBook 13.3" 2.0 Ghz. online yesterday for best buy store pick up. the total came to 1,266- that was after taxes and all that good stuff.
I guess the savings weren't all that spectacular (exactly 110.94 in savings).
The way I look at it, yea, apple isn't offering their computers for the 200 some that ACER is at walmart for blackfriday, but at least I have the peace of mind knowing this machine is going to last me awhile. in the past few years, I've been through 6+ Windows based computers, from the high end Hp Media Center PC's, down to an Acer laptop, and everything in between. All of them have failed me in one way or another.
So yes, I'm picking up the MacBook Saterday. Lets hope I'm as happy with it as I've been with iPods and iPhones!
 
jfanning said:
Would those be Americans?
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Not necessarily. The UK equivalent of Harvest Festival has gone by the wayside it seems, but we used to celebrate the same kind of thing when I was a nipper. I remember bringing food into school which was distributed to the local elderly population.


With apologies to the anti-capitalists, I'm looking to pick up a discounted iPod Touch tomorrow. A 15% discount - if that's accurate - will make it irresistible.
 
im terribly disappointed that they dont have a discount on their most expensive products instead of their cheaper ones (MBA/MBP)
 
knightlie said:
Not necessarily. The UK equivalent of Harvest Festival has gone by the wayside it seems, but we used to celebrate the same kind of thing when I was a nipper. I remember bringing food into school which was distributed to the local elderly population.


With apologies to the anti-capitalists, I'm looking to pick up a discounted iPod Touch tomorrow. A 15% discount - if that's accurate - will make it irresistible.
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Harvest Festival still happens.

Shame the sale isn't next week, then there'd be less VAT to pay, too...
 
knightlie said:
With apologies to the anti-capitalists, I'm looking to pick up a discounted iPod Touch tomorrow. A 15% discount - if that's accurate - will make it irresistible.
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I assume that is not Apple offering 15%? In NZ it is only 7% max on the iPod touch 8GB, and only 4% on the 32GB one
 
Philsy said:
What is Black Friday?
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Its called Black Friday because it is the busiest day in the US retail calendar that is supposed to put ALL shops into the Black (in credit for the year) as opposed to in the RED or in debt for the run up to Christmas. It has been going since the 1960s.
 
Apple black friday prices are nothing to get excited about anyway... they try to hype it but it's all marketing ploy... over-exaggerated, under-delivered. :rolleyes:
 
THE KEY FIGURE IS: what percentage of discount? For instance, $100 off says nothing. 25% off says it all.
 
Anyone who expects Apple to offer 15% discounts is a fool. They've never done that AFAICR, like...ever. It's always maybe a couple percent, that's it.
 
their black friday sales are always a huge letdown.

they're only good if you were already planning to buy something that happens to be on sale, so you can save the sales tax.
 
Marx55 said:
THE KEY FIGURE IS: what percentage of discount? For instance, $100 off says nothing. 25% off says it all.
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If you take the retail price of the MacBook 2.4ghz of $1599 and add CA state tax back on to it, the total comes to $1730.92.

My purchase at MacConnection will finally (after rebates...see my post above) total $1343.53, which would be a whopping 22% off the direct from Apple cost.:p
 
Just ordered a 16gb iPod Touch to gift my younger brother, he's been waiting for one for a long time now. Well saved $31.

Wish it was a bit more discounted. Well its :apple:.... and what you pay is what you get.

If we keep delivering great products people will alwz keep opening their wallets for us... Steve Jobs!
 
Unbelievably low discounts

Most of the so-called sale items on the Australian store are a "whopping" 4% off. MacBooks are 7% off. Call all your friends immediately, there's bargains to be had ;)

Seriously the hype over this sale is way out of touch with reality. If you were going to buy a product anyway then enjoy your 4% savings, everyone else should focus their attention on products and companies with real savings. Go get a new TV and you'll probably save 20-30%. Then buy a couch for watching that TV and you'll save 40-60%.

Apple could afford to offer 20% off everything in the store, but they don't need to.
 
Bregalad said:
Most of the so-called sale items on the Australian store are a "whopping" 4% off. MacBooks are 7% off. Call all your friends immediately, there's bargains to be had ;)

Seriously the hype over this sale is way out of touch with reality. If you were going to buy a product anyway then enjoy your 4% savings, everyone else should focus their attention on products and companies with real savings. Go get a new TV and you'll probably save 20-30%. Then buy a couch for watching that TV and you'll save 40-60%.

Apple could afford to offer 20% off everything in the store, but they don't need to.
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Sure, if you want a couch don't go and buy a MacBook, you'll be really uncomfortable when you sit on it. But then if you want a MacBook today isn't a bad day because they're cheaper than usual.

This discussion is ridiculous.

If you went to work this morning and your boss gave you a 4% payrise for no reason what would you do...Tell him/her to stuff it I guess.
 
Stuff it boss, this isn't stacked with EDU discount so nothing here for me. A whopping $11 off an entry-level iMac, keep it Apple, spend it on a fancy dress or something, or maybe some cushions for this MacCouch.
 
bryan1884 said:
anybody know if they will let you combine this sale with the education discount as well?
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They never have done anything similar before.

Also I would not be surprised if their new "price matching" does not apply to Black Friday discounts.

Price matching, yeah pretty awesome when Apple has price controls on everything.:rolleyes:
 
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