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B&H Photo and Amazon Discount Base iMac Pro by $500

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B&H Photo and Amazon have discounted the base model of Apple's new high-end iMac Pro desktop computer by $500 this week, offering it for $4,499, down from $4,999. Since early January, Micro Center has had the best deal on iMac Pro -- pricing the base model at $3,999.99 -- but this offer is unobtainable for those who don't live near one of Micro Center's locations, so B&H Photo and Amazon's deals should be good alternatives for online shoppers with their eyes on iMac Pro.

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There are two 27-inch models on sale at B&H Photo, including the base $4,999 configuration and a custom configuration with more RAM and an improved graphics card, both marked down by $500. In comparison, Micro Center's sale is only on the base model, and prior to that the only other sale was a $250 discount from Best Buy.
[*]27-inch 5K iMac Pro, 3.2 GHz, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 - $4,499.00, down from $4,999.00 (B&H Photo / Amazon)
[*]27-inch 5K iMac Pro, 3.2 GHz, 64GB RAM, 1TB SSD, AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64 - $5,899.00, down from $6,399.00 (B&H Photo)
Also of note on Amazon today, you can get the Black and Midnight Blue leather iPhone X cases for just $34.99, dropping further down from a price point of about $37 last week, and originally priced at $50 on Apple.com. The only other color on sale is Charcoal Gray, running for $38.72 at the time of writing.

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Head to our Deals Roundup for more Apple, Mac, and iPhone-related device and accessory sales, including a $40 discount on the UE Wonderboom speaker this week.

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Most Stores in Germany discount by EURO 500 when bought there instead of Apple Store.
Our iMacPro went for 8599 instead of 9.099..

All stores in Germany I called had this offer. So anyone in Germany thinking of buying an iMac Pro - call your local store instead of the Apple Store and save 500 EURO !

And it is not just the base model. All models minus EUR 500 !
 
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It’s a little bit like a $10k discount on a $150k Benz. That’s great and all but I still don’t need a $5k computer.
 
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B&H isn’t a bad deal (if you live outside NY). With sales tax the MicroCenter deal would be $4,300+
 
This seem like a large discount on a new product. Would Apple play any part in this discount? I would have guessed that B&H's margin on the iMac Pro would be less than $500.
Does anyone know, or can make a guess as to what wholesale price Apple would be sell the iMac Pros to B&H?
 
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Just remember that Amazon will helpfully collect the use tax due to your locality on most stuff it sells now and send it in to the proper places. B&H leaves that legal obligation up to the buyer to send checks for the tax due to those same proper places (which I know all law abiding people are happy to do, tax evasion is a bad bad thing). Might factor into your decision of how you want to pay your taxes.
 
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Great news! I got my iMac Pro about a month ago from Micro Center for $3999. Good to hear they are making them more affordable!
 
This doesn’t really make sense. Does it not suggest the iMac Pro isn’t selling very well? Anyway I hope it is selling well because I’m going to need a modular Mac Pro at some point, and if Apple has bad sales on pro computers they’ll stop producing them altogether.
 
Jesse Waugh said:
This doesn’t really make sense. Does it not suggest the iMac Pro isn’t selling very well? Anyway I hope it is selling well because I’m going to need a modular Mac Pro at some point, and if Apple has bad sales on pro computers they’ll stop producing them altogether.
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10% discount isn't much, you can probably get that from a lot of vendors just by asking. Micro Center at 20% off is pretty significant and I've seen open box returns there selling for 30% off. I expect Apple estimated higher sales of the base unit and they may have overbuilt and want to clear them out without devaluing their product line by dropping price themselves. The first upgrade to processor and GPU seems to be a sweet spot for performance and price at current prices and more than expected may be buying it instead of the base unit. You'll likely see 15 to 20% off when Apple starts selling refurbs.
 
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Jesse Waugh said:
This doesn’t really make sense. Does it not suggest the iMac Pro isn’t selling very well? Anyway I hope it is selling well because I’m going to need a modular Mac Pro at some point, and if Apple has bad sales on pro computers they’ll stop producing them altogether.
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If sales are bad, I wonder if Meltdown had anything to do with it. If I remember correctly, Microcenter's sale started soon after the vulnerability was published. You'd be paying a lot for those Xeon CPUs in the iMac Pro, and they just got significantly slower. A rare case of hardware actually becoming slower over time. I assume Intel will fix it in their newer chips.
 
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Today I was next door to the local certified Apple dealer (the nearest Apple store is about 70 miles) and decided to see if they had the iMac Pro on display. They did not although they still have the cylindrical Mac Pro on display so I assume they must have prosumer level customers. I didn’t ask if they ever carry the iMac Pro.
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BurgDog said:
Just remember that Amazon will helpfully collect the use tax due to your locality on most stuff it sells now and send it in to the proper places. B&H leaves that legal obligation up to the buyer to send checks for the tax due to those same proper places (which I know all law abiding people are happy to do, tax evasion is a bad bad thing). Might factor into your decision of how you want to pay your taxes.
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I don’t see why it would be tax evasion. The US Constitution allows only the federal government to tax interstate trade.
 
mikethemartian said:
I don’t see why it would be tax evasion. The US Constitution allows only the federal government to tax interstate trade.
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They can't force an out of state vendor to collect it unless they have a presence in the destination state which is why Amazon is collecting it now for most places. They call it a use tax and not a sales tax and it is definitely constitutional, it has been well tested. Effectively it is a single shot property tax equal to the sales tax which states do have the right to collect and people are supposed to pay it, few do though as only the most strict lawful people declare their out-of-state purchases on their state income tax forms as they are supposed to.

Basically it is a bit of a joke, which is how I was treating it in my first post about this, as few people actually bother. If you buy a car, plane, boat out of state they get you when you try to register it. Since I bought my iMP from Micro Center in state they helpfully collected the tax so I won't have the slight moral quandary of what to do on my next state tax filing if I had bought it from a place such as B&H. The fact I still paid $200 less that way had nothing to do with my decision, of course.
 
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This seem like a large discount on a new product.
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Well they are only discounting the base model, which implies it's more of a "loss leader" item to get folks into the site to shop. I also would expect B&H to be suggesting plenty of high-margin ancillaries (cables, adapters, etc.) to help offset that discount.


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Would Apple play any part in this discount?
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I would expect they would not.



Jesse Waugh said:
This doesn’t really make sense. Does it not suggest the iMac Pro isn’t selling very well?
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If the iMac Pro was selling "poorly", we would expect to see discounts across all configurations as well as options. That so far the only discounts are on the cheapest model likely implies one of two things:

1) These are "loss leader" sales to generate traffic
2) The base iMac Pro is indeed selling poorly so there is excess inventory, but the more expensive configurations and options are selling strong and there is not a need to discount them, as well.
 
Relentless Power said:
Just a side FYI, B&H Photo is highly reputable too. All of my purchases have been excellent and they have great customer service as well. That’s important to consider when purchasing an expensive item like the iMac Pro.
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They are good. However, they don't have the kind of return policy Apple. And unless your unit arrives damaged or wrong order, you don't get to return it because changed your mind. Something to consider.

This deal is pale in comparison to MicroCenter.
 
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They can't force an out of state vendor to collect it unless they have a presence in the destination state which is why Amazon is collecting it now for most places. They call it a use tax and not a sales tax and it is definitely constitutional, it has been well tested. Effectively it is a single shot property tax equal to the sales tax which states do have the right to collect and people are supposed to pay it, few do though as only the most strict lawful people declare their out-of-state purchases on their state income tax forms as they are supposed to.

Basically it is a bit of a joke, which is how I was treating it in my first post about this, as few people actually bother. If you buy a car, plane, boat out of state they get you when you try to register it. Since I bought my iMP from Micro Center in state they helpfully collected the tax so I won't have the slight moral quandary of what to do on my next state tax filing if I had bought it from a place such as B&H. The fact I still paid $200 less that way had nothing to do with my decision, of course.
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Has it been tested at the US Supreme Court? Or have companies just gone along with it due to the states pressuring them? I would think that a US consumer would have to fight it in court (the retailers may just acquiesce to the state pressure) but it is unlikely that would happen because as a practical matter it is easier to just ignore. And still the federal government could take the matter to court because those tax revenues on interstate sales rightfully per US Constitution should only go to the US Treasury.

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Just saw this

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...internet-sales-tax-gets-u-s-high-court-review
 
Jesse Waugh said:
This doesn’t really make sense. Does it not suggest the iMac Pro isn’t selling very well? Anyway I hope it is selling well because I’m going to need a modular Mac Pro at some point, and if Apple has bad sales on pro computers they’ll stop producing them altogether.
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I don't think it means that. Some people alleged that the microcenter deal meant that nobody wanted these things. I obviously don't have any numbers, but I know lots of people that have purchased iMac Pros in the past month for work.

I do think at full price, the base model is a harder sell. You're already in "expensive work computer" territory at $5k, and many people will jump to 10 cores, Vega 64, or both, at that point. Psychologically, Spending $5k instead of $7k doesn't feel like much savings, even if it is.
 
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