Comments on: Palm Pre on Sale for $99 at Best Buy
It is unclear at this time if this is a limited time promotion or permanent reduction. Some sales flyers also show a reduced (contract free) regular price of $749.99, down from $849. It's also uncertain whether all locations will offer the special pricing as Best Buy sales pricing can sometimes vary regionally.
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RE: Obviously BestBuy is selling as many as they can get in, eh?
Definitely not a good sign.
RE: Obviously BestBuy is selling as many as they can get in, eh?
It is unlikely, according to just about every prior external example since humans have existed, that the price was dropped because BestBuy was selling out.
RE: Obviously BestBuy is selling as many as they can get in, eh?
How long until other retailers follow suit?
RE: Obviously BestBuy is selling as many as they can get in, eh?
RE: Obviously BestBuy is selling as many as they can get in, eh?
jca666us wrote:
sorry, you're right - meant to say bb's profits on the pre are going to be pretty light.
Whatever! You know jolly well you meant to say what you did the first time. You're just being full of the stinky brown stuff. Stand up and own it like a man!
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RE: Obviously BestBuy is selling as many as they can get in, eh?
Last I read, sales are tanking, and returns are pretty high.
RE: Obviously BestBuy is selling as many as they can get in, eh?
Still the iPhone had the focal point display with 2 working devices, while the Pre and the rest of the herd from VZW, ATT, Tmob were all just non-working demos,
Pat Horne
RE: Obviously BestBuy is selling as many as they can get in, eh?
Yep, looks like it was an error, Strange, Chattanooga had this same tag. Did anyone get a deal at $99?
Pat Horne
RE: Obviously BestBuy is selling as many as they can get in, eh?
That sign did not get to the stores by mistake. IMO, this was done to create a rush in sales and some press from this "accident" and a few execs are patting each others backs getting out of the lull that that late summer sales have become this year. You event used Twitter. Bravo!
Price match for iPhone 3G
RE: Price match for iPhone 3G
Palm needs to get a 16gb Pre out to compete with the iPhone 3GS at the $199 price point.
Anyone who actually thinks it through, knows the real expense is the service that goes with the phone, but that doesn't change what the average person looks at when they go into a store, or read an advertisement.
The latest poop is...
We'll see how this works out.
Certainly had to help Palm's sell-through numbers though, huh?
RE: The latest poop is...
The actual ad (without price change) is here:http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9337595&st=9337595&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1218087261903
RE: The latest poop is...
It MAY be that this will last out the week at those BestBuys who already started honoring it simply for legal liability reasons.
Here's one of Precentral's message threads about it:
http://forums.precentral.net/palm-pre/194970-palm-pre-only-99-anybody-mad.html
RE: The latest poop is...
I can't see a reason for someone to be touching the price if it's not changing; I can see someone touching the price AND date if it's gonna change and getting the date wrong. And it is totally believable that changes are automatically propagated around the country for automatic printout.
BB Pre Ad
commoditization
RE: commoditization
Mike Fraizer
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mike-fraizer/8/47a/a43
Too bad
RE: Sploosh!
It doesn't matter what price any of the carriers sell a phone at. When talking money, it's TCO people should be looking at. But since the general public in the US is ignorant of that fact, I suspect there will be plenty of people terrible excited because they bought their phone for "only $99!"
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Obviously BestBuy is selling as many as they can get in, eh?
Like Nintendo did with the Wii.
WAITAMINUTE!
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