'Free Phone Fridays' promotion coming to Best Buy

Nope, Apple forbids discounting of iPhone’s by third parties. Several friends work in the cellular industry, Apple wants to keep product prestige, and any discount is because Apple mandated the reduced price and it would be applicable to all authorized sellers. Apple also bans any advertisements of its products that are not authorized by Apple.

I dont blame Apple. Android is like Nascar…annoyingly tacky.

Tell me what scent powder Steve uses on his balls when you come off of them

Apple certainly isn’t the first company to have this much control over their own company.

smart.

they def. made iphones free if you had the best buy reward zone premier at one point, so… yea

In regards to no-contract device prices, not subsidized prices:

Your friends “in the industry” are incorrect, Apple does not forbid the discounting of their devices, but because Apple products sell at MSRP there is no reason for authorized resellers to charge less.

Your friends don’t understand how resellers work, because once the device is in the resellers inventory it’s already been purchased by them, and they can do as they please with it. Another fun fact is that the devices are sold to retailers at near MSRP, making discounts even more impractical.

If that’s true, besides selling iPhones for contract money from the carriers, why would a retailer want to sell other Apple products?

You don’t quite understand how it works either…

All i would say is that as a reseller the profit solely on an Iphone is zero. There is more money in selling a Samsung Knack sadly…. but what self-respecting Phone location could exist without the iPhone? ..or at least try to make a buck on some sweet marked up cases!

Check it out this link.
http://www.bby.com/2010/09/28/tgif-best-buy-mobile-launches-free-phone-fridays-for-the-month-of-october/

It says that “There are no rain checks or price matches and the offer is not valid on prior purchases.”

I also bought Fascinate just last Sunday for $149 but I am not sure if BestBuy will refund that for me and I am not sure if I will even return my existing phone, they would sell new for $0 because it would be a simple exchange. But it is defiantly worth trying.

Not sure what craigslist you look at but I was checking for my friend with the 1st droid and it was still selling for almost $200.

Real item is that iPhones are made by one company that release once per year where the Android based phones are made by many companies with many releases. Also the reason why AndroidOS will be undisputed king.

Yep just checked Ebay too, and the year old android phones there are also selling for over $200.

Also, I love how people -/+ you on this site. Such fanboyism, lol.

This is true, iphones always retain value since its a great phone, droids dont, theyre just like any other plastic phone except it runs android.

Also, droid x, droid 2, and fascinate are all over $400 on ebay.

So, in the end yes, iPhone’s sell for more for the reasons I stated; however, you grossly undervalued the Android lineup.

Most of those $400 phones on ebay are “Buy It Now” deals for brand new products that people buy in quantity to try to make a buck off of selling.

Thats like buying a bunch of Chevy Pick Ups and then selling them for just a few bucks under brand new prices on Auto Trader

I would not consider those as “resell” items.

No, I saw that the majority were heavily bidded on phones all over $400. I can provide links if you wish.

But having said that, If iPhones resell for more or retain more of their value, its simply because there are less of them floating around so sellers can ask and get higher resell prices.

The market is flooded with Android Devices so commen sense says there are more of them available for resell thus lowering their resell value.

I am a heavy Ebay user. I know how Ebay works.

I searched for ‘Droid X’ or ‘Droid 2′ or ‘iPhone 3GS’, etc. Under Cell Phones & PDAs; sorted by ending soonest, with Auction only selected as well as US only.

In each case you’ll see a few low offers for questionable users and/or broken phones, then you’ll see a bunch of over $400 listings that have less than an hour of time left.

There’s also alot of used bid only droid x’s in the $150.00-$300.00 range as well.

Now go on ebay and see how many “bid only” iPhone 4′s are going at that price.

I own a Droid X myself, but I’ll be the first one to say that if I were inclined to sell it, I couldn’t sell it for nearly as much as my sister could get for her iPhone 4.

It’s really no big deal, but it’s the truth.

What truth? The only truth is economic demand theory you moron. Supply > Demand = Lower Price and conversely Supply < Demand = Higher Price. Hence Driod will sell for less than the Iphone.

2 thoughts:

1: iphones have an reality distortion apple on them causing crazy prices.

2: iphones are unlockable GSM phones that you can’t get on other carriers, let alone for a cheaper price at retail.

i know enough people who have put iphones on tmobile…not sure why… but to each his own.

I would recommend using the two side by side. Any of the Galaxy S phones are not as fast or responsive as an Evo. I read it was something to do with the File Structure Samsung used but don’t know that for a fact… although that screen is damn pretty… and I agree on paper that the Hummingbird is fantastic – It doesn’t seem to quite translate into real world performace.

Both sick phones regardless.