iPhone users irked by price drop | The Coffeehouse

Ray6

... so Apple hacks $200 off the price of an iPhone, and then whining starts ....

My favourite line?

Macenstein wrote:

This behavior is so uncharacteristic of Apple, I feel all iPhone users have a right to be outraged.

WTF?!! ... Big Smile

Cybermagellan
Live for nothing, or die for everything

Apple and AT&T have already stated that if you bought your device within 14 days that you're OK to get a price adjustment. > 14 days and your screwed though.

moot point.

ScanIAm
On a scale of 1 to 10, people are stupid.

Cybermagellan wrote:
Apple and AT&T have already stated that if you bought your device within 14 days that you're OK to get a price adjustment. > 14 days and your screwed though.

moot point.

I'd venture that you were screwed the moment you paid for the thing no matter how much it cost. Smiley

dahat

Nyeh, I was an early adopter and am outraged to see that prices and features didn’t remain static, nyeh!

You just know that someone who bought their iPhone... 15 days before the price drop (or opening day) is going to file suit over this.

My favorite line was:

This type of price reduction is unheard of, especially on a device selling as (allegedly) well as the iPhone

No it's not... you start at a high price and get to charge a premium for the new toy and as cost of production comes down or sales slow... you drop the price.

Apple just did it a little faster than the rate we normally see.

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

dahat wrote:
You just know that someone who bought their iPhone... 15 days before the price drop (or opening day) is going to file suit over this.

They're going to try to sue... but what claim to they have?

ScanIAm
On a scale of 1 to 10, people are stupid.

W3bbo wrote:

dahat wrote: You just know that someone who bought their iPhone... 15 days before the price drop (or opening day) is going to file suit over this.

They're going to try to sue... but what claim to they have?

Price fixing?

pathfinder
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Give it a few days and everyone will shut up about it. Apple plans to sell 10+ million more of these world wide. Why would they care about the less than 1 million that they already sold. Most of them are fan-boys and buy new iPods every 6 months anyways.

Apple cashed in on all of the people wanting to buy them an re-sell them for more on eBay anyways. It makes pure economical sense. Now that demand is subsiding sell them at a godd price point.

Kryptos
Backup People!

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter/

Kryptos
Backup People!

It does look cool....

Harlequin
http://twitter.com/TrueHarlequin

http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/06/steve-jobs-gives-all-iphone-owners-100-back/

Looks like current owners are getting $100 in gift certificates back.

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

Dear Microsoft,

Pay attention to how this works. Big pricedrops, money back to early adopters. Lots of big positive press.

That is all.

Lloyd_Humph
If Blackberrys are addictive cellphones, Channel9 is the ultimate addictive website.

Bas wrote:
Dear Microsoft,

Pay attention to how this works. Big pricedrops, money back to early adopters. Lots of big positive press.

That is all.

Big pricedrops. $50 here and there is cool, but $200 is frickin' awesome! MS has a _lot_ to learn, but overall I'll stick to MS, cause anything i-Tune-ified seems to mess up my computer.

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

$50 on a $250 product is cool, except when it's already being sold for $50 less anyway. $50 on a $500 product is just pathetic.

ScanIAm
On a scale of 1 to 10, people are stupid.

What a crock. I'll give Jobs credit for good PR, but it's at best a coupon for a reacharound.

We'll see how it works out, but my bet will be that you'll have to prove that you've purchased the iPhone in the past. It may be easier to do so since you had to sign up for AT&T, but recognize that this isn't a lump sum rebate, it's a coupon redeemable ONLY at the apple store. And do the math on how much 2 years of service and an iPhone cost. $100 is chump change. It probably costs twice that just to cancel your service.

Again, good for Apple, they at least recognized that they screwed up, but I've purchased a number of MSFT products over the years, and rather than an open letter from Bill Gates telling me that I'll get some nice stuff from the MSFT store, I usually get a rebate.

Cold hard cash that I can use to buy anything from bibles to hookers and I don't have to go to the MSFT store to do it.

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

ScanIAm wrote:
it's a coupon redeemable ONLY at the apple store.

That is, indeed, beyond lame.

GoddersUK
I CAN has cheezburger and you CAN'T has stop me!

Kryptos wrote:
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter/

The grammar in that letter is just awful.

ironichi

Early purchasers of the iPhone get $100 certificate back so they can throw it plus more cash at Apple and likely become early adopters of the new iPod and get hosed again when the iPod price is slashed. Those people at Apple are brilliant!

This is going to be hilarious.

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

Chinmay007 wrote:

Wow, Apple's CEO voluntarily apologized to their customers and gave them a $100 coupon. That’s hundreds of millions of dollars. Steve Jobs is nothing less then a hero and really deserves all the "hype" he gets.

That's hundreds of millions of dollars that they won't lose a dime of, of course. It's more like lending, rather than giving.

Ray6

The rebate is a master stroke. And let's remember that he is not obliged to give these whiners anything back at all. The $100 certificate will probably be put towards an even more expensive Mac widget.

Huge PR strokes and goodwill all round. And when other folk see the benevolence of Jobs, they're going to jump on the Apple wagon too.

Once again. Genius.

Lloyd_Humph
If Blackberrys are addictive cellphones, Channel9 is the ultimate addictive website.

He is a genius, really. No offence to big-G but when did he ever pull anything like this?

Makes me wonder if SJ had this planned the _whole_ time, ever since the iPhone was released in order to grab some more people onto the bandwagon.

Ray6

Lloyd_Humph wrote:
He is a genius, really. No offence to big-G but when did he ever pull anything like this?

Kind of odd, because Bill and Steve are about the same age, but I think that Jobs has experienced more failures in business; this is probably why he has learned more about turning a bad situation into an advantage.

With a monopoly to save them from mishaps, MS executives have never picked up the skill.

But looking at the both of them, Gates will always have one thing over Jobs.

Five years from now, over one of their 'fireside chats'

Steve: 'Well Bill. The Mac now has a 40% market share. The iPod III has replaced just about every Windows mobile device out there. The iStore is racking up the kind of profits you used to pull in with Office. Quite a turnaround huh?'

Bill: 'Right you are Steve. You outgunned, outplayed and outclassed us at every turn ... but which of us still has all his own hair?'

Steve: '..... could ... could you stop filming now please?'

ScanIAm
On a scale of 1 to 10, people are stupid.

Lloyd_Humph wrote:
He is a genius, really. No offence to big-G but when did he ever pull anything like this?

Like what? Gouging sheeple with overpriced gadgets? Never.

Giving rebates on products? Quite often.

Lloyd_Humph wrote:

Makes me wonder if SJ had this planned the _whole_ time, ever since the iPhone was released in order to grab some more people onto the bandwagon.

1) Release overpriced gadget to adoring fanbois.
2) Drop price drastically and after customer complaints, release rebate.
3) Profit.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we finally have the formula.

Rossj

ScanIAm wrote:

2) Drop price drastically and after customer complaints, release rebate.

You really think that he had people set up the whole rebate scheme in the 24 hours after the announcement?

Lloyd_Humph
If Blackberrys are addictive cellphones, Channel9 is the ultimate addictive website.

ScanIAm wrote:

Lloyd_Humph wrote: He is a genius, really. No offence to big-G but when did he ever pull anything like this?

Like what? Gouging sheeple with overpriced gadgets? Never.

Giving rebates on products? Quite often.

Lloyd_Humph wrote:
Makes me wonder if SJ had this planned the _whole_ time, ever since the iPhone was released in order to grab some more people onto the bandwagon.

1) Release overpriced gadget to adoring fanbois.
2) Drop price drastically and after customer complaints, release rebate.
3) Profit.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we finally have the formula.

Yeah, great points, but _WE_ have thought about this. We have debated. The average person looking at this thinks about it and thinks: "next time they release something overpriced, I'll go out and buy it straight away. I'll get a rebate when they drop the price. Whoo."

Alterior motives ftw Big Smile

ScanIAm
On a scale of 1 to 10, people are stupid.

Rossj wrote:

ScanIAm wrote:
2) Drop price drastically and after customer complaints, release rebate.

You really think that he had people set up the whole rebate scheme in the 24 hours after the announcement?

I couldn't be positive, but the wording seems to imply that the actual rebate will be started 'in the future'. Is the rebate actually live now?