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Resellers returning iPads at the Apple store [PIC]
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Apple should put a no return for 45 day policy on newly released products. If a consumer has a general problem with the product than that's fine they can get it swapped for a new one. This would stop scalpers from buying up what looks to be 20+ iPads from that picture because they'd be forced to pay interest on their credit cards on the purchase. And it would be too much of a gamble to hope Apple didn't manufacture enough. It would also give impulse buyers something to think about. There would be less open box items because of buyers remorse. That would leave a lot more stock for people who actually want the device or need it.
I got no problem with someone trying to make a little extra coin. But that picture shows pure greed at its prime and the intent to screw people over by hoping there is a shortage and being able to charge ridiculous amounts of money to people who are dumb enough to pay. Taking advantage of people's desires and weakness'. Shame on them. I'm glad this happened.
I got no problem with someone trying to make a little extra coin. But that picture shows pure greed at its prime and the intent to screw people over by hoping there is a shortage and being able to charge ridiculous amounts of money to people who are dumb enough to pay. Taking advantage of people's desires and weakness'. Shame on them. I'm glad this happened.
I think one key idea that pro scalpers are missing is this: Just because people might be willing to pay more for an item doesn't mean that that should. It's not about getting people to pay the max, it's about getting people to pay what you need them to pay for you to make a profit that is inline with your companies plans.
If the iPads are truly worth more than that is for apple to research and discover through legit business practices, not through people artificially altering the market.
Matt
If the iPads are truly worth more than that is for apple to research and discover through legit business practices, not through people artificially altering the market.
Matt
The theory is that they work for a corporation that overbought iPads, these are the employees returning them for cash and WE are the d-bags for assuming otherwise...
Personally, I judge books by their cover all the time. Just because being that simplistic might make me wrong once or twice, the 99% that I'm right makes me okay with making assumptions. People just aren't as unique as we like to think we are.
I didn't comment on the scalpers. I would say they most likely are. But if a guy in a baseball cap and jeans comes in my office, I don't assume he works at a comic book store. What is with you? You stuck in the 20th century?
Scalpers are easy to spot. Just look for the guy with the cheesiest gold jewelry in the store. Oh and a too far unbuttoned shirt with a lot of chest hair peeking out.
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I never said that they are comic book store workers.
Matt
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Everyone does. Everyone has to make the best decision that they can and we don't always have all he facts. Incorrectly assuming a thug is a thug could get you mugged, for instance.
It's how we survive. I find it sad that others started to, incorrectly, call it racism....
Matt
Do we know for a fact that they were new iPads and not iPad 2's? It could be a company that had ordered a hundred iPad 2's, but decided to swap them out for the new model.
Or they could be from a school district that ordered a classroom full of iPads only to have their funding cut.
Or they could be from a school district that ordered a classroom full of iPads only to have their funding cut.
Went back to the store today and saw more people returning a bunch of iPads. These women had at least 20, from what I saw, and had a bunch of people waiting with them. They had a bunch of purses and bags (as seen in below) filled with iPads. A lot of them were 64GB 4G.
Again, I apologize for the bad photos. I was trying to be incognito.
Again, I apologize for the bad photos. I was trying to be incognito.
Roosevelt Field in NY.
They were all sealed on both accounts.
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They were all new iPads.
More than likely they have account managers for that kind of thing. I have worked with multiple schools who order and use products in mass amounts and even that can be 30 units but... None of them walked into a store and said "I want to buy 50 iPads."
Bulk accounts get account managers and sometimes discounts for the bulk.