iPhone
Dick Goddard
bought one at local Apple store and I don't need both).
Unopened in the box. Pay what I paid:
PHONE 8GB-USA
MA712LL/A
$599.00
1
$599.00
SubTotal:
$599.00
Tax:
$50.25
Shipping Charge:
$10.00
Total:
$659.25
I'm in West Richardson.
Go Mavz
Put that crap EBAY NOW!!!!!
Make a profit with the demand while you can....
Seriously Mr. Goddard (I refuse to call you Dick). EBAY it while you can!
"Dick Goddard" <dgod...@airmail.net> wrote in message
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TTFFL
can still order them on Apples website so sounds like Apple made more phones
then the demand..
Shelby
"Go Mavz" <GoM...@GoM.com> wrote in message
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Tom Ricostronza
wrote:
Sure you didn't "need" that spare.
IPhone resellers ready to hang it up
Few buyers will pay more than retail
By KATIE HAFNER
THE NEW YORK TIMES
SAN FRANCISCO -- David Flashner thought he had it wired: Buy two
iPhones last week when they first went on sale, keep one and sell the
other at a profit so big it would pay for most of the first one.
Flashner wasted no time. He began advertising the extra phone while
still in line at an Apple store in Burlingame, Calif., south of San
Francisco. During his 21-hour wait, he posted half a dozen different
ads to Craigslist -- with prices ranging from $800 to $1,200 -- and
waited for the calls to come in.
But no calls came because consumers expect that stores will soon have
more phones in stock. He continued to advertise the extra phone
through the weekend, and ended up with just one call, which went
nowhere. On Wednesday, he returned the phone.
Flashner, 25, who manages an audio-visual equipment rental company, is
not the only would-be iPhone reseller whose plan failed to follow the
script. "I haven't heard of a single person who sold one," he said.
Across the nation, people looking to make a quick and easy profit
bought one, two or as many phones as they could by recruiting friends
to stand in line with them. Many of them were the first to get in
line, camping overnight outside stores. But now they are finding that
the iPhone is much more like a Harry Potter book than a hard-to-find
Wii video game machine: a great thing to be one of the first to own,
but not high in resale value because supply is not constrained.
On June 29, just after the first iPhones were sold, thousands of
listings showed up on eBay and Craigslist, with prices of $1,000 for
the 8-gigabyte phone, a $400 markup. Some bold sellers were asking
$2,000. But as it became clear that supply was meeting demand, they
found themselves stuck. Few of the phones have sold for more than
$700, which, after sales tax, is not a remarkable profit margin.
Corey Spring, a columnist at newsvine.com who analyzed eBay auctions,
estimated that a significant number of sellers "were only making their
money back, even closing at a loss." Few people seem willing to pay
even $100 over the retail price.
Some frustrated resellers say they will keep trying, then return their
extra phones within the 14-day return period.
Demand for the phone was remarkably strong in the first days. Analysts
estimate that Apple and AT&T stores have sold around 500,000 phones so
far. One analyst ventured a guess as high as 700,000. But Apple
appears to have anticipated demand and contracted with manufacturers
in Asia to build far more. Apple has said it expects to sell as many
as 10 million phones by the end of 2008.
Over the past few weeks, Apple stirred a great deal of speculation
about inventory levels by shrouding them in secrecy. As a result,
resellers decided to take a chance. The company declined to comment on
the rush to resell the phones, and on the status of iPhone
inventories. The Apple Web page that had listed the phone's
availability last weekend at stores across the country no longer shows
the row of red (for no) and green (for yes) lights. It says: "Please
check back after 9:00 p.m. for tomorrow's status. After your local
store closes, we determine iPhone availability for the following day."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/322656_iphoneresell06.html
René
<TomRico...@nospam.nul > said:
> IPhone resellers ready to hang it up
> Few buyers will pay more than retail
>
> Flashner, 25, who manages an audio-visual equipment rental company, is
> not the only would-be iPhone reseller whose plan failed to follow the
> script. "I haven't heard of a single person who sold one," he said.
*points, laughs at wanna-be scalpers*
--
"We were halfway to Rivendell when the drugs took hold..."
Hunter S. Tolkien
Go Mavz
"Tom Ricostronza" <TomRico...@nospam.nul > wrote in message
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Bobby Knight
>bummer lol.. i would have been one of those suckers
>
>"Tom Ricostronza" <TomRico...@nospam.nul > wrote in message
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>> On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 13:06:58 -0500, Dick Goddard <dgod...@airmail.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>For Sale - 8 Gig iPhone received from Apple Online Store today (I
>>>bought one at local Apple store and I don't need both).
>>>Unopened in the box. Pay what I paid:
>>>
>>>PHONE 8GB-USA
>>>MA712LL/A
>>>
>>>$599.00
>>>
>>>1
>>>
>>>$599.00
>>>
>>>SubTotal:
>>>$599.00
>>>Tax:
>>>$50.25
>>>Shipping Charge:
>>>$10.00
>>>Total:
>>>$659.25
Sucker would be correct. Check this out:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19627590/
bk
René
> Sucker would be correct. Check this out:
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19627590/
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=310-6942
--
Do you know what the chain of command is here? It's the chain I go get
and beat you with to show you who's in ruttin' command here.
Bobby Knight
wrote:
>On 2007-07-06 09:37:58 -0500, Bobby Knight <bkn...@conramp.net> said:
>
>> Sucker would be correct. Check this out:
>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19627590/
>
>http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=310-6942
No contest. The Dell product is an add-on, you don't HAVE to have it.
The iPhone's is the main battery, ...and it isn't included in the
warranty. You have to ship the phone back to Apple, pay $79 +$7
shipping, plus $29 for a rental phone until yours comes back.
René
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 09:45:41 -0500, René <Ka...@The-Coalition.US>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2007-07-06 09:37:58 -0500, Bobby Knight <bkn...@conramp.net> said:
>>
>>> Sucker would be correct. Check this out:
>>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19627590/
>>
>> http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=310-6942
No
>>
> contest. The Dell product is an add-on, you don't HAVE to have it.
Well, you don't have to have it, but the original battery lasts for
about 3.5 hours of use.
> The iPhone's is the main battery, ...and it isn't included in the
> warranty. You have to ship the phone back to Apple, pay $79 +$7
> shipping, plus $29 for a rental phone until yours comes back.
Well, there's a number of things I don't like about the iPhone, hence I
won't be buying one. But the price of the replacement battery isn't one
of them. That price is just about normal for a battery of that capacity.
--
If there is one thing I can do, it's multitask.
Bobby Knight
wrote:
>On 2007-07-06 09:54:15 -0500, Bobby Knight <bkn...@conramp.net> said:
>
>> On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 09:45:41 -0500, René <Ka...@The-Coalition.US>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2007-07-06 09:37:58 -0500, Bobby Knight <bkn...@conramp.net> said:
>>>
>>>> Sucker would be correct. Check this out:
>>>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19627590/
>>>
>>> http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=310-6942
>
>No
>>>
>> contest. The Dell product is an add-on, you don't HAVE to have it.
>
>Well, you don't have to have it, but the original battery lasts for
>about 3.5 hours of use.
>
>> The iPhone's is the main battery, ...and it isn't included in the
>> warranty. You have to ship the phone back to Apple, pay $79 +$7
>> shipping, plus $29 for a rental phone until yours comes back.
>
>Well, there's a number of things I don't like about the iPhone, hence I
>won't be buying one. But the price of the replacement battery isn't one
>of them. That price is just about normal for a battery of that capacity.
It's not the price, it's the trouble that you have to go through. Is
there another phone that doesn't have a replaceable battery without
having to return it to the manufacturer?
bk
Luca
Thanks
"Dick Goddard" <dgod...@airmail.net> wrote in message
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Nigel Reed
your own shipping mistake? What happened, found that you couldn't scalp
people on EBay?
Dick Goddard <dgod...@airmail.net> wrote:
> For Sale - 8 Gig iPhone received from Apple Online Store today (I
> bought one at local Apple store and I don't need both).
> Unopened in the box. Pay what I paid:
> PHONE 8GB-USA
> MA712LL/A
> ?
> $599.00
> ?
> 1
> ?
> $599.00
> ?
Chris
price and not trying to be a fucking scumbag scalper like the whole lot of
them on Craigslist. Good job Mr. Goddard.
"Go Mavz" <GoM...@GoM.com> wrote in message
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Don Smith
battery would be free?
No. The last time I bought a battery for a cellphone it cost me $99.
Sorry, you're a sucker only if you are taken in by this story.
You have to remember that MSNBC.com is co-owned and co-operated by Microsoft.
MS CEO Steve Ballmer said back in February something like "Why would
anyone pay six hundred dollars for an iPhone when they can get a
Motorola Q for $99?"
Of course, Ballmer was only going by what he had heard. He'd not seen
the iPhone in person. It was in his (and MS) best interest to trash the
iPhone early.
Turns out, the minimum talk and unlimited data plan for the Q was $80 a
month. The minimum talk and unlimited data plan for the iPhone is $60 a
month. Each requires a two year commitment. Do the math and you'll find
that the cost of the phone plus the two years of plan payments makes
the iPhone about a hundred dollars less in price than the Q, and you
get a phone with far more capability than the Q.
The whole MS article is based on a press release from a "consumer
group" that I have never heard of. MS jumped on the opportunity to
follow Ballmer's lead and the article uses tabloid terms to make it
sound even worse. For example, the group wrote a letter to Apple but
the MS article rephrased it to say tht the group "fired off" a letter.
If you had checked your brain at the door then you would think this
article really makes the iPhone sound bad, but if you had posession of
your brain and thought a step beyond the story then you'd realize that
if the battery was replaceable then it would cost you anyway. What you
SHOULD know up front, and this has been no secret, is that you'll have
to be without your iPhone for three business days while Apple replaces
the battery. In the meantime, you can spend $29 to rent a replacement
iPhone and, with your own iPhone card in it, it'll be a clone of your
own iPhone. If that is too much hassle for you, then don't buy the
iPhone. The process, however, has never been secret and there's no
outrage at its "discovery" by this consumer group.
Also, if you think a little further, iPods have had non-user
replaceable batteries for five years!
Also know that there's a one-year warranty on the phone and that
includes the battery.
Finally, the battery in the iPhone is as high-tech as they come. My
first day of owning an iPhone it was in use all day long as people
around me took their turn to see and operate it. When I went to bed the
battery level was slightly below half-full. The battery has as many
"cycles" as any other high-quality battery. The odds of you actually
reaching the end-life of the battery before your phone is
lost/stolen/broken or replaced with a newer model are very small
indeed, the same as for any other cellphone on the market that uses a
high-quality battery.
Sounds like a no-name consumer group is trying to make a name for
itself. All it took was a letter to Apple and a press release about it
to MS.
On 2007-07-06 09:37:58 -0500, Bobby Knight <bkn...@conramp.net> said:
> Sucker would be correct. Check this out:
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19627590/
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Bobby Knight
wrote:
>If you had checked your brain at the door then you would think this
>article really makes the iPhone sound bad, but if you had posession of
>your brain and thought a step beyond the story then you'd realize that
>if the battery was replaceable then it would cost you anyway. What you
>SHOULD know up front, and this has been no secret, is that you'll have
>to be without your iPhone for three business days while Apple replaces
>the battery. In the meantime, you can spend $29 to rent a replacement
>iPhone and, with your own iPhone card in it, it'll be a clone of your
>own iPhone. If that is too much hassle for you, then don't buy the
>iPhone. The process, however, has never been secret and there's no
>outrage at its "discovery" by this consumer group.
>
Screw you.The fact that you made a purchase of the product doesn't
make it a good deal. I still think it's a ripoff. I have no intention
of buying the phone, leaving that to others.
>Also, if you think a little further, iPods have had non-user
>replaceable batteries for five years!
>
Hmmm. Doesn't Apple make the iPod?
>Also know that there's a one-year warranty on the phone and that
>includes the battery.
>
>Finally, the battery in the iPhone is as high-tech as they come. My
>first day of owning an iPhone it was in use all day long as people
>around me took their turn to see and operate it. When I went to bed the
>battery level was slightly below half-full. The battery has as many
>"cycles" as any other high-quality battery. The odds of you actually
>reaching the end-life of the battery before your phone is
>lost/stolen/broken or replaced with a newer model are very small
>indeed, the same as for any other cellphone on the market that uses a
>high-quality battery.
>
Wow, bet you were the apple of everyone's eye (pun intended). I guess
also that that owning an iPhone made you popular. LOL
>Sounds like a no-name consumer group is trying to make a name for
>itself. All it took was a letter to Apple and a press release about it
>to MS.
Sounds like you're defending the fact that you bought an iPhone.