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Best Buy cuts iPhone price till end of 2008
December 19th, 2008, 10:23 am · 15 Comments · posted by Tamara Chuang, a.k.a. The Gadgetress
It’s true! Best Buy officials just confirmed to me that it is shaving $10 off the price of the Apple iPhone, at least until the end of the year.
In addition, customers who purchase an iPhone can get double Reward Zone Points (another $10 or so) and free e-mail set-up, said a Best Buy spokesperson.
This brings the price down to $189 for the 8 GB iPhone, and $289 for the 16 GB version. In the scheme of things, $10 doesn’t seem like such a big savings when you think about the phone’s monthly fees.
But Apple rarely discounts its products. Best Buy won’t say whether it is eating the discount. “Our prices fluctuate,” says Justin Barber from Best Buy PR.
People are already talking it up on other blogs so perhaps this will help lift Best Buy out of its current economic slowdown.
The deal ends December 31.
Wal-Mart is also rumored to not only start selling the iPhone, but also offer it at a lower, more permanent price of $197 and $297.
From the web:
- Apple: Best Buy Discounting iPhones By $10 Until Dec. 31 (Barrons)
- Best Buy cuts iPhone price to compete with Wal-Mart (Asbury Park Press)
- iPhone 3G goes on sale for two weeks only at Best Buy Mobile (BoyGeniusReport.com)
- Best Buy runs iPhone sale, undercuts Walmart pricing (MacNN.com)
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Oh boy! $10 off!! Now I can finally afford one.
this article is a waste of web space.
Whoopeedooo!! Best Buy is worried that they have to carry the inventory on their balance sheet if they are not able to sell the units by year end
Nice try!
Why do I feel like I just got conned into clicking the link for this “article”?
Does the Register pay by the click now?
The iPhone will soon be sold at Super-Fun Walmart!!
RIP Jobs.
slow news day Gadgetress?
It aint the price of the iphone it’s the price of the 2 year data service contract that you get stuck with - 24 months x $30.00 per month = an extra $720.00 added on!
I like the Blackberry. Almost all the features of the iphone and no data service charges for $299.00. And you get Wi-Fi!
I would have to be paid in cash advance to use, let alone be seen with any I-Anything product.
is ten dollars really newsworthy/??/?? NO
If they can get verizon to carry them I’m ready to buy one
Best Buy is a scam!
don’t buy iphone. Just save your money! happy holiday!
Amen, Digger! ATT service in OC is TERRIBLE. Dropped calls everywhere. If Verizon carried it, they would truly rule the cell phone world.
LilyC & Digger: Jobs went to Verizon first, but Verizon didn’t want to cooperate or “woo” Apple - they wanted control over the phone, and they didn’t want to agree to profit sharing because they were greedy. Now they regret it.
That’s ridicuous-$10 is nothing! Try $100 and I’ll buy 4!