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My mum just called up the stairs saying that on the radio they said Apple are reducing the price of the iPod Mini!
Don't ask me any details, lol ;) Just a heads up! Looking for news articles at the moment...
/EDIT: Okay she's explained a bit further - apparently they're going to be £100-something rather than £200-something :p
ooh, looks like they've paid attention lol
i heard something about this on the radio this morning.. as they were challenging the fact that it retails for $199 in the US, and even with VAT and the exchange rates mean its still a lot less than £199... their argument was something about them releasing it outside the US in aprile...I realise that the cost of the unit does not soley depend upon the size of the harddrive, but still a sub £100 price tag would be very tastey indeed :)
mark
Umm.. it retails for $249 in the US..
£100 buys you a creative muvo nx with 128mb RAM.
do you think that apple would THRASH the compeitition, bringing out a high quality, luxery item at such a low pricepoint?
Christ the muvo 4gb retail for over £200!!!
I would hav e said £150 would be a MINIMUM price, though i expect it to go for £200.
dgr
but it really isnt that much more for a 15/20/30gb version, and tbh i would go for storage over the physical size... as for $250/$199 it was late, i was tired :),
mark
Ouch, they want £279.90 for the muvo² 4GB.. but then you can normally get things quite a bit cheaper then creative's own shop, unlike apple..
you might go for physical storage over size, but not everyone, including myself would, there is a market for them, they're not replacing the bigger iPod, it's just a different product for those with different needs. i would have bought a 'big' iPod a long time ago, but the size has always put me off, i don't have a 40gb music collection, while bigger is better in storage terms 4gb will serve me fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by streetster
if they reduced the price to £150-160 they would absolutely dominate the opposition though, there would hardy be any mp3 player out there worth buying that wasn't apple, i don't know whether this would make good business sense for apple though. for £180 with my student discount i'm still going to have a tough time not buying one.
Basically apple are ripping off the uk market , its about time users stood up to be counted and refused to buy their products until they sort the price inequality out
Apple basically rip off anyone who doesn't live in the USA.
Add to that the tight control they put on export of their stuff . . .
Very tight :(
their price disparities are no different than for similar products from other companies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gordy
Creative Muvo2 4gb (without vat from respective creative stores) :-
£165.60 in US
£238.20 in UK
Rio Karma 40Gb (without vat from respective amazon stores)
£163.60 in US
£238.30 in UK
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Originally Posted by fondie
I know their are other companies that do it also, but they dont prevent you from buying their products from the usa :)
Apple don't stop you buying stuff from the US either?
There is summat in the warranty terms that says if the device can run on it's own power then it is covered worldwide etc. So hence laptops and iPods are covered.
I know my Powerbook is fully covered, so not sure about an iPod, but I do want to by my 40gb'er before I go to New York in Sept so need to find a better option.
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Originally Posted by CocoPops
Try ordering apple parts on a usa site and seeing if they will ship them to the uk. They wont they are not allowed to by apple. They will ship any product as long as it isnt apple's to the uk . Trust me I've asked a bunch of places all had the same answer.
Most of this fuss is because of the extreme exchange rate at the moment.
a Rio Karma for £164 is crazy, 40gb, ogg support etc, anyone going to the US sometime soon with a little spare space in their suitcase? :)
Not really, we're *always* ripped off in the UK, other places even in europe tend to be at parity with american prices, where as we usually have to pay the same figure but in pounds, which is just wrong, there is no attempt to have retail parity.Quote:
Originally Posted by Space Cowboy
It's swings and roundabouts. Some things we get severly ripped off with but we get a good deal on other things (travel is one). Don't forget that US prices never include tax either...Quote:
Not really, we're *always* ripped off in the UK, other places even in europe tend to be at parity with american prices, where as we usually have to pay the same figure but in pounds, which is just wrong, there is no attempt to have retail parity.
(air)Travel is probably about the only thing that isn't cheaper, pretty much anything else you care to mention is..
Houses, cars, electricals, food, clothes, fuel.. all cheaper, in fact the only other thing I can think of other than air travel is healthcare..
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Originally Posted by fondie
Rio karma is 20gb and quite the chunky fella
Thats got to be breeching something.... surley.?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gordy
You'd assume so wouldnt you. But the grey import market is erm a grey area in law :(Quote:
Originally Posted by acidrainy