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Apple's Black Friday Sales Begin Around the World

Not as much as was hoped for.

svndmvn said:
why the negative ratings? do people not like discounts? :)
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these discounts are not really very big. Not even as big as the lowered education store discount. MacMall, Amazon, BestBuy & others already do better. That means that this is a non-event for anyone that can use a student-teacher discount or those that choose to use non Apple-direct sources. This can be a very big percentage of the total. Others in the US see that their federal income taxes will go up, thus there will be less money to spend, that is if their job does not get killed to meet the tax, tax,tax, spend, stax & spend of the newly elected socialists group. Anyway these Macs are all made in China & would help their economy more than ours anyway.
 
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No deals in Japan

There are really no such deals in Japan. They have some 'holiday specials' but they are limited to accessories and software - all third party. The only Apple thing on sale is the Airport Express.

Lame!
 
Im sorry guys but this has got to be the woerst sale ever... I own a MBP and I do understand why apple products cost more (BECAUSE THEY ARE WORTH IT) however this is just a joke...
£5 off ipods isnt exactly huge is it... I don;t know why but I just expect a company to either have a decent sale or no sale at all then again i guess for those of you that are buying it is £5-£60 saved so who am i to talk:confused:
 
I don't know if the Educational Discount is in the same category as the Military/US Gov't discount.

Can the Military/US Gov't discount be stacked on top of these sale prices? That'd be a huge breath of fresh air if so.
 
rumourguy said:
its not really done in the spirit of black friday deals, which are commonly anywhere from 25-75% off
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Is that like the spirit of Christmas?

What has become of the world when a company is greedy for trying to make money, but an individual doesn't see himself as greedy for expecting the company to accept less money for their product?
 
cameronjpu said:
What has become of the world when a company is greedy for trying to make money, but an individual doesn't see himself as greedy for expecting the company to accept less money for their product?
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No, no no- that's not what's going on here...

I do feel this is kind of a kick in the head. I think it's less about a company's perceived obligation to provide discounts because it's sitting on gabillions in cash (I agree that's a dumb argument), but more about them doing an inane head-fake pretending to jump on the bandwagon of other retailers positioning themselves for a serious attempt at gaining sales in one of the most challenged retail environments anyone has seen in years. AAPL certainly has the prerogative to not participate in the BF deep discount game and rely on the fact that they can and will do well selling upscale products to upscale folks, but this crap about them sending me all kinds of advertisements and teasers stating jargon like "Our biggest sale of the entire year" is just that a headfake- empty and at the very least disingenuous.

I am at the ready to pull the trigger on a MBP, but will tell you as sold as I am on the product, even I simply cannot place an order when comparing comparable prices on similarly speced lappies. And before y'all jump on the "Oh you cannot compare a $600 Dell Latitude with same HDD, dedicated GPU, memory etc to everything that is a MBP- DON'T. I understand and agree with all those arguments- the OS, hardware integrity, etc being the very reasons why I go Apple. But there are orders of magnitude with everything and there is a *massive* price point disparity when you look at what you can get sub $1K versus a $2600 MBP.

All that said, it may be wishful thinking on my part, but those drawing comps to Australia's Black Friday promo (they don't even have a BF) to what's anticipated for the US may be jumping the gun. On the investment side of things, AAPL has really been quite deliberate giving a heads-up to us stockholders that they plan on being particularly aggressive this season which will hurt margins year over year but with the goal of blowing away revenues. So, I think something may still be in the wind which will make us smile.

But unless they come out with a 'get a free 32 GB iPod Touch with the purchase of any MBP' (i claim no personal knowledge should this happen between 12/15 and 12/28 :) then I agree people should be thoroughly annoyed by a company whose playing the BF discount game touting their biggest sale ever with nada backing it up.
 
Let's all remember this is a company that has an obligation to make money for it's shareholders. If you don't like the product, don't buy it, but don't complain if a discount isn't to your liking. All this whining is truly silly.
 
The Toddfather said:
Let's all remember this is a company that has an obligation to make money for it's shareholders...
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...which they haven't been doing in the last few months...just like every other cooperation in America. But, that's a different story. :confused:
 
svndmvn said:
why the negative ratings? do people not like discounts? :)
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Ii's Apple's right to not discount, heck they couldrise the price if they want but when they make a stament like "Special one day shopping event" and then take a wopping $50 off all they are doing is making a joke of them selves.

Some people feel they are insulting their customers, do they think we are so dumb that $50 discount would make us buy a $2,000 computer?

My opinion is that this kind of non-discount could cost them more in good will then they will make in extra sales and is just a bad business decision.
 
ChrisA said:
...My opinion is that this kind of non-discount could cost them more in good will then they will make in extra sales and is just a bad business decision.
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Giving a discount will make people mad, good point.

If you don't like it, don't buy it.

Waaaaaaah.
 
Reading the Black Friday threads from prior years, folks complain about the same thing EVERY YEAR...

Apple doesn't NEED to discount to move ever-increasing quantities. We've been numbed by DellHPetc. who need to hack prices to keep the masses from scrutinizing the product too closely.
 
Looking forward to visiting the Apple store tomorrow, hoping for a 10% discount on the MB. I like my Blackbook but it has to go to my wife. I'm pretty much ready to spring for the aluminum one, despite the lack of Firewire, less than optimal screen, and reported trackpad problems with Windows.
 
black friday

tsice19 said:
Five minutes past the hour... where are my discounts?
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seriously!!!!!!!! I just wanna see if I'll be able to ask Santa for a Mac or if i actually am going to have to break down to buy a PC. (dear apple gods, save me from the world of vista via a decent discount)
 
kas23 said:
...which they haven't been doing in the last few months...just like every other cooperation in America. But, that's a different story. :confused:
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I don't see why you would think they haven't been doing that? Apple has been doing just fine, do you realize they're going to earn about as much profit in this quarter as they EVER have? Plus or minus a few percentage points. Too many people out there are spending way too much time watching the news and panicking. The vast majority of the world continues to operate as it always has, only a small percentage of people are not able to buy the things they could last quarter/year.

You do realize that even the most pessimistic analysis expects the US economy to contract by less than 1% this year, right? That means of all the money changing hands last year, 99% of that amount will happen again this year. This is not the end of the world people! Please, for your own good, so you don't sound so clueless, check out a chart of economic activity over the last 50 years. Check out unemployment rates over that period too.

You'll quickly see that what's happening now happens every 7-8 years on average. This one may or may not be worse than many, but right now the situation is far from the worst most of us have lived through. There were periods in both the 70s and 80s that were far worse that our current predicament.

Sheesh!
 
12 am or 3 am?

Do deals for US online apple store start at 12 am eastern or 3 am eastern??
 
sjc83 said:
wonder how long its going to be down for ?
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I'm giving it to the top of the hour, then it will have to wait until tomorrow.

Seriously, how long can it take? Wouldn't they have a single db update to set the store prices.

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No notebook discounts but
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:Dkidding, sorry:D
 
Duke2 said:
I am at the ready to pull the trigger on a MBP, but will tell you as sold as I am on the product, even I simply cannot place an order when comparing comparable prices on similarly speced lappies. And before y'all jump on the "Oh you cannot compare a $600 Dell Latitude with same HDD, dedicated GPU, memory etc to everything that is a MBP- DON'T. I understand and agree with all those arguments- the OS, hardware integrity, etc being the very reasons why I go Apple. But there are orders of magnitude with everything and there is a *massive* price point disparity when you look at what you can get sub $1K versus a $2600 MBP.
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hijofrizbe said:
seriously!!!!!!!! I just wanna see if I'll be able to ask Santa for a Mac or if i actually am going to have to break down to buy a PC. (dear apple gods, save me from the world of vista via a decent discount)
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:confused: Huh? I don't get it. So if some of the Mac models or lines are more than your budget (which they often are) you are going to just turn to PC? I would never do that. That's like saying if the filet mignon is too expensive you have to become a vegetarian. I' rather have the Mac OS and quality any day, even if it meant getting a sub-$1000 white MacBook or Mac Mini.
 
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