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T.J. Maxx Offering 16 GB Wi-Fi iPads for $399?

This is the killer deal for sure!

$399 folks...I already have mine though...but dang...the ipad rocks at this price.
 
freelancing said:
Here's my hunch - based on having worked at the Apple Store for nearly 5 years (I quit about a year ago) - Apple always has a sale on Black Friday. They are likely going to have a similar discount on Black Friday and are allowing authorized resellers to offer it as well - and those retailers are pushing the envelope in offering it during all their Black Friday days, not just on the day after Thanksgiving... either a loophole (my guess) or Apple gave them that latitude specifically (I highly doubt this).

Authorized Apple Resellers never offer a discount of more than $5 or they will violate their agreement with Apple. The only way this is kosher is if this is what Apple is offering on Black Friday (with perhaps a $1 difference).
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Yes, but you know Apple's typical BF discount is 10%. Also TJ Maxx isn't an authorized dealer so they are not bound to the agreement. They likely bought from a 3rd party distributor or even paid full price. Notice how the window ad is mostly generic doesn't mention Apple or the typical Apple blessed pictures, fonts, or verbiage.
 
Good advertising stunt to get people in the store (and spend the difference while they are there).
 
redgaz26 said:
so how much do you guys pay for tax?? I take it its $399 plus tax??
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Sales tax varies from state to state, even city to city, county to county. A few have none. Avg. is 6-7% with some at 4.5% and 8-10%. Chicago currently has the highest sales tax at 10.75%.
 
chris975d said:
I know that, at least in my business (again, the golf course/golf equipment industry), it's been upheld as legal. I don't know if you're a golfer, but it's why you will ALWAYS see Callaway, Titleist, PING, etc (the major manufacturers) equipment listed for the exact same price (well, within a few dollars of each other). And, many manufacturers strictly enforce it. In fact, my PING account was pulled because PING sent in one of their "secret shoppers" to try and get me to come off the price of a club. I told him I couldn't, so he started getting louder and louder and more irate until I caved and gave him a FIVE DOLLAR discount. I gave it to him just to get him out of my clubhouse so he would stop making a scene. The next day, I received a fax from the company showing me the receipt and saying that I was in violation of the MAP agreement, and our purchasing account was terminated and I could no longer be listed as a PING retailer. I don't know if it's the same in consumer electronics, but in the golf business, it's perfectly legal to make retailers agree not to sell below a certain price.
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MAP or RPM is usually tied to marketing dollars rather than the actual ability to purchase. I wonder if your industry is just using the term instead of one of the other more applicable terms. If it is a true MAP, I don't know that it is legal. It might be that it just has not been challenged in your industry. Each time MAP has been challenged it has not been upheld. Remember that it is not only federal law, but state antitrust laws that would affect it. In any case, TJX does not have to accept marketing dollars to sell the product. Like any other business, they can do as they feel fit.
 
iPad in Titletown

I just called the TJ Maxx here in Titletown (Green Bay, Wisconsin) and the clerk told me they had 10 this morning but they were all gone by noon. She indicated that this might have been a "one time deal" like the Nintendo Wii was last year. Of course she added that I should "stop in every morning" to see if any more have come in.

So there's the deal- I've never been inside a TJ Maxx in my life, and now I should visit every day to look for a discounted iPad. :rolleyes:
 
Chupa Chupa said:
Yes, but you know Apple's typical BF discount is 10%. Also TJ Maxx isn't an authorized dealer so they are not bound to the agreement. They likely bought from a 3rd party distributor or even paid full price. Notice how the window ad is mostly generic doesn't mention Apple or the typical Apple blessed pictures, fonts, or verbiage.
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first thing I noticed very unapple like!!

Chupa Chupa said:
Sales tax varies from state to state, even city to city, county to county. A few have none. Avg. is 6-7% with some at 4.5% and 8-10%. Chicago currently has the highest sales tax at 10.75%.
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seems a very good deal then I have the 16g with loads of apps and still space left on it though my 3 year old uses it more than me:cool::cool:
 
Could be hot!

As a manager of an Apple Specialist store a couple of years ago, I noticed that the local T.J. Maxx was selling iPods at below our cost.

We went and bought up their entire stock (which was small). We followed up the serial numbers on the units with Apple and discovered that they had been stolen from a FedEx delivery.

I don't know the story with these iPads, but...I wonder.
 
ATHmathieu said:
Just want to confirm this great deal. I got mine at the Warwick, RI location. $399 and it's brand new in retail packaging. It's NOT a refurb as some have said. Makes you wonder why Apple can't at least offer them for $399 if TJX can.....
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Because Apple is selling them for Profit.

TJ isn't, they are likely selling at a loss for publicity.
 
T.J. Maxx at Concord Mills (NC) indicated that they (that location at least) didn't have any in stock but would be getting stock but wouldn't put them out until midnight for Black Friday.
 
maybe they are smoke damaged units from the Roseville CA store.... I know a contractor friend of mine said he saw them taking a lot of product out and it went to the salvage company.
 
this is great news.

it is nice to see someone sell an apple product below msrp and not screw the apple consumer like they have been screwed forever.
 
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