I'll pay $5000.
Keep bidding. Sounds like fun...
I want to be first so $5001.
I'll pay $5000.
Keep bidding. Sounds like fun...
Too late! $5002 and a Butterfinger. I made friends with some of the Apple Store Employees when I was at their Retail Hiring Event.I want to be first so $5001.
Too late! $5002 and a Butterfinger. I made friends with some of the Apple Store Employees when I was at their Retail Hiring Event.![]()
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I'm not allowed to say what I think this is but for anyone else asking yourself "is this serious?", I hope you come to the same conclusion.
Congratulations OP, you've posted the absolute most idiotic thing I've ever seen on these forums in all my years of posting here, and if you spend even just a little bit of time here, you'll realize just how insanely idiotic that is.
I award you no points and may god have mercy on your soul.
Apple donates the extra money earned to charity. Raise money for a good cause and facilitate a rational, calm ordering process. Sounds extremely sensible.
Or, alternatively, you could be an Apple engineer and be rocking an iPhone X already.
But that involves actual work and studies in software engineering.
This is the stupidest thing I've read in recent memory on this forum.
Natural Selection, please come get your mans.
If you're really willing to pay $4k for an iPhone on launch day, then why don't you pay someone $3k to wait in line? I'm sure someone would wait a week to be the first person in line if you want. And yes, Apple still sell phones in store on launch day.
Well at least we know the highest bid is $4k. I want a X now to make profit, I'm sure after that first night there will be people like the OP bidding like mad men on Ebay.
I'll pay $5000.
Keep bidding. Sounds like fun...
I want to be first so $5001.
Too late! $5002 and a Butterfinger. I made friends with some of the Apple Store Employees when I was at their Retail Hiring Event.![]()
screw you guys!
$20,000
I actually like the idea, or something like it.
I try to be as respectful as possible to all members here by lord Jesus father God is this a terrible ass idea
Why is it idiotic? This essentially already happens in the aftermarket. Why is it idiotic for Apple to take that money for themselves while the demand is there?
Ignorance is a bliss.
Aston Martin Racing 808 – $24,000
Black Diamond VIPN – $300,000
Goldvish Le Million – $1.3 million
Black Diamond iPhone 5 – $15.3 Million
And you thought $5k is a lot for an iPhone??
http://gazettereview.com/2017/04/top-10-expensive-smartphones/
OP I have direct message'd you my PayPal address. Send me the $4,000 and I'll have an iPhone X for you on launch day. Don't spend your precious valuable time worrying about the illogical time-based ordering process.
Better idea. Offer $3000 to the first person who can order one for you at midnight on preorder day.
You gotta admit, this method is more plausible than the cockamamy idea you're proposing.
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Sensible for you and others willing to bid, maybe. For others and even Apple...not so much.
Sure, you get the phone you want at a price you're willing to pay, and some lucky charity gets an infusion of cash. You really think that'll put Apple in the good graces of the thousands of other people who will feel screwed over by something like this?
How about this...would you be OK with stores selling bottled water to the highest bidder during Hurricane Irma?
Well at least we know the highest bid is $4k. I want a X now to make profit, I'm sure after that first night there will be people like the OP bidding like mad men on Ebay.
Your proposal only benefits the wealthy. Not sure why you're not seeing that. The system in place now is more fair to everyone, not just the wealthy. If you want to spend more than retail then you have options as previously mentioned. In your suggestion the only "option" people who don't want to spend more than retail or who are not wealthy is waiting potentially months longer for the phone to be released to the peasants.
Interestingly enough, I suspect some people trying to sell the iPhone X on launch day on eBay, will be asking almost three times what it's worth for those who want one badly enough.
Ebay reselling is horribly inefficient though. You have to wait for an Ebay member to get it, to wait for the auction to end and to receive it in the mail. This option is far more efficient. Plus it raises money for a good cause.
I don't prefer to sell any electronics on eBay. Way too many people on there trying to fraud an honest seller. But my point was, if somebody purchases the iPhone X and their whole intention is to resell it for a major profit, you will find desperate people that will pay more than three times what it's worth if they want it badly enough.
Why would people feel screwed by this proposal? Do you feel screwed every time you cannot afford something?
Because the system in place now for ordering is fair. Sure, you have to be a bit lucky to get a launch day iPhone when demand is so high but it's still fair.
But you want to cut off every regular earning person for a few months because you don't like fairness and want to throw money around to get what you want. The prices of iPhones are already high enough.
And don't give me some speech about this is how the world works and make it sound like people on here are being sour because they can't afford things. It's not like people are upset they can't afford a Ferrari on their minimum wage. You want to take a high price product (but well within reach) out of the hands of the majority of the population. What's next, ruining a kids' Christmas by doing the same with new Xbox One X?
I will lay out why your plan wouldnt work. But i can already tell you've never been to an auction because auctions are designed to move items quickly. And with online auctions everyone waits until the last second to put in their bid.
1. apple would have to revamp their entire site to something like ebay. That takes a lot of time and money.
2. say there are 1 million iphones day 1 , you would have to have an auction for each individual iphone.
3. At the last minute the auction ends everyone would be trying to grab one. The site would crash if everyone 10 seconds before the end placed a bid.
4. Apple would have to credit check every person bidding on a phone.
5. Apple doesnt care about you. If you were anybody special like has already been mentioned you would easily have an iphone x
6. Apple stands to make a boat load of money in the first place why would they go through the trouble just because you feel you're more worthy.
7. So how long does apple keep this auction up? every day there are new iphones, do we just keep going until nobody wants to pay over msrp?
8. you would probably need your parents permission and im sure deeper pockets than yours would give you less of a chance of getting an iphone x than just trying to get one at launch.
You can try to justify your position all you want, but this so called randomness is more fair than an auction. As it's done now, everyone that can afford and/or is in the market for an iPhone has a chance of getting one at release, whether that's by ordering online at midnight or waiting in line. The auction scenario cuts out the majority of potential iPhone buyers, leaving only the weathly able to get one at release. You're either trolling or being willfully obtuse.
I could maybe see a lottery where everyone pays the same for a 'ticket' with an equal chance of winning (like what they do for WWDC) but a bidding system where people are encouraged to pay over the odds is tacky and completely not what you'd expect from a respectable company like Apple.
Yes a charity auction for charity, not for corporate profit!Actually, Apple participate in charity auctions all the time. This is a charity auction. See, eg, http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/06/16/charity-auction-offers-lunch-with-eddy-cue-at-apple-park
Yes a charity auction for charity, not for corporate profit!
Still don't think you can have Apple say 'ok good, you've paid $10,000 for your iPhone, we'll pass $9,000 of that on to charity after we've taken our cut' - that looks all kinds of wrong!Exactly. That's what I'm proposing. The extra money raised through the auction would be given to charity.