Marshalls gonna have them too....$399...so TJ Maxx and Marshals.....get them while they are hot!
Marshalls gonna have them too....$399...so TJ Maxx and Marshals.....get them while they are hot!
Do you think it's possible to get a price match at Best Buy plus 10% difference?
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).
so how much do you guys pay for tax?? I take it its $399 plus tax??
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.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.
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.
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%.
Knoxville HAD them.
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.....