Comments on: Holy Crap, He Listened! Steve Offers $100 Apple Store Coupons for Early iPhone Adopters

By: bob

bob — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:12:27 +0000

to all of you that are happy about the price cut. If u think that we got a good deal with the $100 rebate I got bad news. Apple didnt lose any money with this gift card because they are only giving u money to spend at their store. I think its a rip off because they should give u full credit back in cash. to spend it on whatever u want.

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By: ZuDfunck

ZuDfunck — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:12:18 +0000

I am over the shock and going to spend my credit on the Wireless Keyboard when it comes out.

By: Meh_Whatever

Meh_Whatever — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:16:37 +0000

Yeah, pretty much what BabaJunk said.

I'm fine that I bought my phone when it was first released. I wanted it then, I bought it then, and I wouldn't have bought it if I couldn't have afforded it. I have, since I heard of the price cut thought: 1) ah well, that's just business and then 2) Hey... a credit. He had to be planning that all along. Makes him smell like a rose, makes people come in and buy more stuff.

If this was some sort of major 'goodwill' gesture, it'd be a cash rebate, not a store credit.

In any event, I'm not caring much either way. I'll take my credits like the next person and I'll buy something whenever I need it.

Bleh.

By: BabaJunk

BabaJunk — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:17:15 +0000

Some of you people are absolutely SOFT! A company as large as Apple doesn't get to be that large without employing intelligent business tactics, spending money on the best market research and playing the public. The price point of the 8GB phone was always intended to be 399. 599 was the value the market would tolerate for a breakthrough product along with the future sales impact of dropping the phone 200 back to the target price point. To think that this whole game was a "mistake" by apple and that they are being "considerate" of early adopters by giving you back HALF the difference makes you ignorant to business economics and what it takes to succeed in big business. Consider the profit margin of selling saps a measly 100 "Itunes" songs as "payback" for their "mistake" in overcharging you. How much does it cost apple to send the sap 100 songs? The cost of bandwidth, that small portion of equipment useage and the royalty of the song paid back to whomever. If a single song cost them a grand total of .50 I'd be amazed, but given that, that still leaves Apple with a pure profit of 50% on a "mistake" that is absolutely guaranteed since all Iphone users pwned by Jobs will most definitely spend the "store credit". So Apple's giving you back a chance to buy even more Apple crap, which has a built in profit margin of the retail value, and if you're dumb enough to BUY electrons from Apple rather than rip your own or your friend's or even download them off usenet for free then you're a happy consumer that fell face first into Apple's marketing scheme. This was a marketing scam from day one to win apple 100% of the marketing pie in the form of:

1st to market this new technology
Pushed the pricing limit to extreme and showed investors that people were willing to pay huge $ for cutting edge tech 3 Cut pricing from that extreme to garner more customers before the Christmas rush, as stated by Steve himself
Made himself look "genuinely concerned" about those who propelled the device to god status for him by granting a 50% difference back further RETAIL SALES
Kept the early Apple promoters in his pocket while garnering millions more from his "genuine concern"
Proven to investors that his tactics/technology can manipulate the public into shedding thier cash

This was the plan from the start, it is still being played out, and will continue to be played out until 2008 when Apple can sit back and see just how much cash their game reaped them.

To all whiners, wake up and smell your underwear!! No one at Apple is "helping" you, "being concerned" or trying to take care of you. You spent big, Jobs is making sure you'll have to spend MORE, and you are a market test subject who seems to be falling into the predicted pattern of Apple's marketing analysts.

One last rant, this excuse of "we're working out the details of how to get the 100 credit" is nothing more than an excuse to observe blowback from the credit. In this day and age, store credits could have been easily accomplished at either store with simple accounting. This delay is yet another part of the scam to weigh the averages and get market feel for the "concern" and future Apple sales.

By: Yellowscarf

Yellowscarf — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:05:35 +0000

Nothing like a frivolous lawsuit to waste your time and money. Almost as ridiculous as folks who complain about price drops. Typically, Apple drops the price on all its products within a few months after introduction – this one just happens to be in time for Christmas.

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 22:09:44 +0000

After much thinking on this topic, I am beginning to wonder if this issue may be eligible for an anti-trust lawsuit against Apple. It certainly smells of one to me! I’m certainly going to look into this issue with one of my attorney friends and see what he thinks. It might honestly be worth the time to check. If I start a class-action lawsuit, I’ll be sure to let you all know!

By: jp

jp — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:38:33 +0000

I just purchased the iphone less than 30 days, although, more than the 14 days (Apple return policy) I purchased the 4GB, I would have rather had an option to exchange to 8GB vs. receiving a $100 gift certificate from Apple/ATT&T, especially now that the 4GB is going to be discontinued. It is interesting to note that all phones purchased at AT&T have the “right to exchange” within a 30 day period…. but NOT the Apple iPHONE (only phone that has 14 days)…. doesn’t appear that Apple will back their product as other companies do….

So, I’m STUCK with the 4GB iphone, as Apple discontinues this phone….