On 10 Mar 2005, at 09:04, Andrew Rodger wrote:
On 10 Mar 2005, at 01:48, Christopher Phillips wrote:
Kickself? Maybe. Outrage? No.
Technology gets cheaper. The time to buy is when you think what you are buying is worth what you are paying for it. The only measure by which an item you already own loses value in response to such events is expected resale.
I agree with the principle of what you say. However, I also think it should be subject to a matter of degree. A �100 drop in price after something like five or six weeks, maybe less, I think is a nasty slap in the face for the early investors. Had it fallen as much as improvements were wrought and over a longer period of time I might have persuaded my daughter to be a bit more philosophical about it.
I am keen to find where I read that someone had actually obtained some financial recompense before I take it up with Apple.
Drew
I have mixed feelings on this issue, as in the last month or so I've seen price reductions (sort of...) on several items that I bought. In late January I bought a Nikon D70 DSLR (for a bargain price), and then found just a week later that Nikon UK was giving �100 cash-back for D70s bought - in February! Initially my retailer put their price up by �30 or so, but by mid-Feb it was back to the price that I paid. So if I'd just waited a couple of weeks, I would have saved �100.
Then just over a month ago I bought not one but two iPods... a Mini for my wife, and a 40 Gbyte for me. I don't think the price reduction on the Mini bothers me since (as others have pointed out) part of it seems to have been funded by reducing the contents of the pack, but I did feel a little irked by the availability of the 30 Gbyte iPod Photo for �50 less than I paid for a 40 Gbyte 'ordinary' iPod - I would have definitely preferred that.
But, at the time I made those purchases, I was content or I wouldn't have made them. How can I complain that customers at a later date have got options that weren't available at the time I made my purchase...
Tom
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