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Apple will cut prices this Friday
APPLE WILL CUT its prices for Black Friday sales to punters in the UK again this year.
For those who don't know, Black Friday is a hellish shopping day in the US every year on the day after the Thanksgiving holiday. Anyone with an eye for a bargain, sharp elbows and hard toed shoes descends on their local mall and makes it clear that they care more about holiday shopping than their fellow man. In the US, Black Friday prices are often not so much cut as whipped and dragged behind an SUV.
A teaser ad on the online Apple Store shows a number of Apple items wrapped up in a red bow with the tag, "This Friday". Items displayed include Ipods, Iphones, an Apple TV, more Ipods and something that looks like an electronic razor, all of which are likely to find themselves under Christmas trees this year.
"Come back to the Apple Online Store this Friday for a special one-day-only shopping event. You’ll find lots of great Ipod, Iphone and Mac gift ideas — all with free shipping," a blurb on the Apple Store website further teases.
Apple has not confirmed how great its price cuts will be in the US this year, but the smart money is betting that they'll be worth getting off the sofa for.
Last year UK bargain hunters got £80 off a 20-inch Imac and a "you've dragged me all the way to the shops for this?!" £5 off an Ipod. µ
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I have looked at there black friday ads before. It will be something like $10.00 off on a $1000.00 notebook.What a joke.
You would be better off looking at other websites that sell apple machines.
In the old days, when every stage between turning raw materials into products saw the price double, there was plenty of scope for real bargains. You could make things half price - really half price, not just based upon a fantasy RRP or only on returned goods and discontinued models - but now, margins are so slim that there's no such thing as a seasonal bargain. All they do is knock off a trivial sum from the goods you really want to buy and try and get rid of the rubbish they haven't been able to sell so far.
Same with the new year sales - The last time I went to one of those, I was frog marched to a dark dank hall in Selfriges which looked like a jumble sale! It was just a load of tables arranged in a huge square, with all the returned goods and damaged stock from over the year thrown randomly on top for us peasants to sift through.
Remember Melle Mel's sound advice this Christmas - Don't do it! Stay at home and watch Dr Who instead, and don't forget to press the red button to get the version with violence, strong language and scenes of a highly explicit sexual nature.
"Apple has not confirmed how great its price cuts will be in the US this year, but the smart money is betting that they'll be worth getting off the sofa for."
Sorry, but nothing apple sells is worth getting of the sofa for unless it's being given away free. And this is only if you need a paper weight, seeing as all of their stuff is complete crap compared to everyone else.
Nor do i watch a hockey for the game itself.
I just go to the mall to get in the way and have fun shoving people into the bins and shelves. Its quite fun and gets rid of some frustrations to boot
Its like football"American version" hockey and boxing all rolled into one.
I highly recommend it.
:)
so I and 1000 others, all surprised and happy, drove down to the Apple shop just to find items at 10% off normal price. I don't call that a sale and is certainly nothing to get excited about.
When IBM made the processors and Apple computers were really from Apple and not just a cheap PC running Apple software (as they are now) maybe the price was worth it but that just isn't the case today.