Comments on: Off-Topic: New Apple Store Policy Requires Credit Card for Purchase of Two or More iPhones http://stringfoo.com/2007/10/25/off-topic-new-apple-store-policy-requires-credit-card-for-purchase-of-2-or-more-ipods/ Tips, Tools, Tutorials and Resources for Advanced Web Development Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:22:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: anonysmous http://stringfoo.com/2007/10/25/off-topic-new-apple-store-policy-requires-credit-card-for-purchase-of-2-or-more-ipods/#comment-40 anonysmous Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:57:45 +0000 http://stringfoo.com/2007/10/25/off-topic-new-apple-store-policy-requires-credit-card-for-purchase-of-2-or-more-ipods/#comment-40 I am self employed and I sell extremely expensive "things" to extremely wealthy people Every so often I throw in an iPhone, either as an incentive or as a thank you. Today I also was informed that I could not buy any iPhones any more, ever. I exceeded my quota (I probably bought about 35 or 40 in all). For the last week or so, depending on which sales person or store I dealt with, I was either allowed or not allowed to pay in cash. The word "policy" was sprinkled liberally throughout the conversations I had with Apple employees, but it felt more like a knee jerk reacting trying to control the market. Some of my customers are overseas, and did have their iPhone unlocked before shipping it to them. I was charged $75 per phone for the service. Not exactly a whopping amount of money, but I can see a grey market of unlocked phones being lucrative. I assume that is what Apple is trying to contain. Seems the iPhone has stripped the thin underdog veneer off of the Apple corporation, showing that they are just as greedy and controlling as the next multi billion dollar corporation. I am self employed and I sell extremely expensive “things” to extremely wealthy people Every so often I throw in an iPhone, either as an incentive or as a thank you. Today I also was informed that I could not buy any iPhones any more, ever. I exceeded my quota (I probably bought about 35 or 40 in all). For the last week or so, depending on which sales person or store I dealt with, I was either allowed or not allowed to pay in cash. The word “policy” was sprinkled liberally throughout the conversations I had with Apple employees, but it felt more like a knee jerk reacting trying to control the market.

Some of my customers are overseas, and did have their iPhone unlocked before shipping it to them. I was charged $75 per phone for the service. Not exactly a whopping amount of money, but I can see a grey market of unlocked phones being lucrative. I assume that is what Apple is trying to contain.

Seems the iPhone has stripped the thin underdog veneer off of the Apple corporation, showing that they are just as greedy and controlling as the next multi billion dollar corporation.

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