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14 Responses to “apple ipod touch”

1. 1 Jeremy
   5 September 2007 at 3:17 pm

   …and they lowered the price of the iPhone by 30%.

   I feel raped. I bought mine 41 days ago and it’s only been out for 60 days. In a matter of minutes Apple managed to wipe out all the good will it took them years to build with me.

   And before I get flamed with “early adopter” B.S. please look at the situation fairly. Never has Apple lowered the price on something so dramatically so quickly after release. In fact rarely does an apple product ever drop 30% over it’s entire run. An ipod start to finish will maybe drop $50. I could even live with 100 on the iPhone but 200 just pisses me off.

   Apple seems to want to punish their best customers. And for me at lease I know I will be talking more about how I feel ripped off rather than how good I think the phone is. No wonder their stock dropped 5% today.

2. 2 michael lee
   5 September 2007 at 3:44 pm

   wow. I didn’t even see that. Yeah, that would piss me off pretty badly too.

   Did you get a rebate on your service plan or something similar that would offset the cost? Or is this just a straight $200 kick-in-tha-balls?

3. 3 Jeremy
   5 September 2007 at 4:48 pm

   This is a straight kick-in-tha-balls.

   I called customer service, talked to the manager at the Apple store I bought it from…no help. Just a curt, “sorry.”

   I have an email into Steve so we’ll see how that goes.

4. 4 Bobby
   5 September 2007 at 7:10 pm

   The big screen is cool, but I’m pretty sure my calculator watch from 7th grade had 8GB of memory, and I wasn’t trying to watch videos on it. Wonder why they didn’t give it the 160GB innards?

   Sorry you got hosed Jeremy. But hey, if you click on the ad below, you could win a free ipod shuffle and set off about half that amount… :)

5. 5 Zack
   6 September 2007 at 9:38 am

   Jeremy: Head over to Consumerist.com. They have a “5 Options If You Got Shafted By Yesterday’s iPhone Price Cut” article that might be able to offer you some respite:

   link

6. 6 Jeremy
   6 September 2007 at 1:23 pm

   So I wasn’t kidding when I said I sent Stevey an email.

   Guess I wasn’t alone…

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

   Steve comes through again and somehow now looks like a saint after stiffing me on 200 bucks. The guy’s a genius no doubt.

   I will now get back in line for my grape Kool-Aid.

7. 7 Daniel Semsen
   7 September 2007 at 6:33 am

   yeah–$100 free bucks at the Apple store is no small thanks…way to go Steve Jobs!

8. 8 michael lee
   7 September 2007 at 8:46 am

   Jeremy, that brings the price of your second, backup iPhone down to like $299! Sweet!

9. 9 Zack
   7 September 2007 at 12:00 pm

   I bought an iPhone yesterday. $299 to be a beta-tester is OK with me, not $599. It’s pretty damn cool. Now only if AT&T would port my Verizon number sometime this century, all would be good…

10. 10 michael lee
    7 September 2007 at 2:40 pm

    Possible extra cash?

    http://www.tuaw.com/2007/09/06/amex-mulls-iphone-purchase-rebate-policy/

11. 11 Jeremy
    9 September 2007 at 4:29 pm

    yes…Good think i purcahsed mine with my amex…

    I’m thinking that this will go through as I am an excellent customer. Hopefully this means that I will be rewarded with 100 from apple for being an early adopter.

12. 12 michael lee
    9 September 2007 at 5:09 pm

    Welcome back.

    

13. 13 Pi
    21 September 2007 at 12:24 am

    If you feel that Steve’s letter to iPhone pre-kick-in-the-pants-price-drop customers had about as much sincerity as binary does, please read the current woot.com product description.

14. 14 Michael
    21 September 2007 at 8:24 am

    that is awesome.