Okay, stand down you two. There'll be no jelly-wrestling today...
S2 Ceramic deal went south - £151 Buy-It-Now was allegedly a mistake. Price hiked to £500. Obviously not even worth half that!
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Okay, stand down you two. There'll be no jelly-wrestling today...
S2 Ceramic deal went south - £151 Buy-It-Now was allegedly a mistake. Price hiked to £500. Obviously not even worth half that!
The quest for Cloud goes on...
I bid £9,990. If we’re going stupid, might as well go full stupid, right?
My Canary Yellow has light gray printing... but I thought it’s supposed to have dark yellow???
Wow! They are very close. Are they both 42mm or is BR/PP 44mm?
I'd do ceramic, it's much more unique than Ti, Ti can sometimes be mistaken with aluminum lol.
Ceramic, of course. The only watch I really want to have, and would go for.
That was easy. Now we hope they still have it and it wasn’t a mistake in price once I get $550 ready!
That's a shame. I like Flash, but I think Lemonade is more easily wearable
As others have said we don't know. Worth bearing in mind is that it seems to have been wildly popular, and Apple is about making money, so they will be motivated to capitalise on the opportunity to sell a load more if they can.
Counterpoint is that we don't know how easy it is to mobilise an additional production run that wasn't originally planned. Logic says it would just be a case of using fluroelastomer in the required colour, but we don't know the production challenges in making more if that has been used up, nor do we know if the factory is already at capacity with future band colours.
Right now the NZ Apple Store is sold out of both sizes. I have kept a sporadic eye on it and both have been out and come back. Last time I checked (last week I think) they had 44mm only.
I personally want to thank @mikedop as he called immediately on announcement that Plum would sell out, and that spurred me to get both sizes right away, rather than the more usual approach where I agree with my wife which of us gets which colour and then the other grabs it also only if they really like it when it arrives. Or I wait until it's too late to do that as with Coastal Gray and Grapefruit...
Straight to yoink ninja status. Well done!
Cool, but that photo shows everything very light compared to real life to my eye.
Same
I didn't realise you had a ceramic opportunity also. I agree it's more desirable than Ti, and at that price it's an uber-yoink. I'm still happy with my deal on a Euro ceramic with the right LTE bands for NZ that is now on it's way to me
(and thanks again @the future for the heads up), but US$550 is a lot cheaper than mine was.
I didn't realise you had a ceramic opportunity also. I agree it's more desirable than Ti, and at that price it's an uber-yoink. I'm still happy with my deal on a Euro ceramic with the right LTE bands for NZ that is now on it's way to me
You‘re very welcome. 😊 I thought long and hard about buying that Ceramic S5 myself (I‘m in Europe) but in the end I didn‘t think I‘d wear it often enough. And the price is really very good IMO. Those 550 USD sound too good to be true, to be quite honest. Keeping my fingers crossed for Mike that it works out, but I‘d be very cautious if I got an offer like that which is way below current market value.
Agreed, it's because of direct sunlight, but this is the only way for me to see the real tone of darker color bands/loops.
I didn't realise you had a ceramic opportunity also. I agree it's more desirable than Ti, and at that price it's an uber-yoink. I'm still happy with my deal on a Euro ceramic with the right LTE bands for NZ that is now on it's way to me
I just hope it’s still there when I have the $550 ready, but yeah, I’m proceeding cautiously. Even if this one isn’t real, I’ll be buying a S5. Hopefully a ceramic from someone else at the same yoink pricing. It’s time for me to move on from my S2.
Not quite a ‘yoink’, but finally found the titanium Edition grey Sport Band for ~66% of retail price of a new band. Almost regretting buying Fog yesterday but will have a plethora of greys to choose from when they arrive!
44mm Plum SBs in stock in the UK if I can help anyone out... UK retail higher than US though.