“Apple’s AirPods were available to arrive before Christmas for a very short period of time. As shipping times have slipped to January through Apple, options to get them at extremely inflated prices have popped up predictably quickly by scavengers sellers on eBay,” Michael Potuck reports for 9to5Mac.
“While some eBay sellers have listed authentic AirPods in the somewhat more reasonable $230-$500 range,” Potuck reports, “some of the pricier options are giving a pre-Christmas arrival guarantee.”
“The highest asking price we have seen so far is $1,590. I suppose the seller just figures he only needs one buyer,” Potuck reports. ” One thing is for sure, this long AirPods delay has created quite the holiday demand!”
More info and links in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: That’d be quite the stocking stuffer!
SEE ALSO:
Apple AirPods now available to order, deliver by December 22 – December 13, 2016
Vultures.
To paraphrase GEICO: “If you’re a vulture, it’s what you do.”
Greed is good. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone was willing to buy them for that price just so they could strut around showing off they were able to get them. One thing is for certain, those AirPods are worth a lot more than Apple stock. No investors will be fighting over owning Apple stock like consumers fighting over those AirPods.
AirPods = high demand
Apple stock = low demand
“Greed is good. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone was willing to buy them for that price just so they could strut around showing off they were able to get them”
I have never understood the utter pointlessness and lack of tangibility of things like that. I guess if others’ shallow impression of you is more important than common sense, then more power to you.
All the power to someone who can get some moron to pay that much.
If they can afford to drop $1590 on AirPods to have them a few weeks early, maybe you’re the moron for being too poor to do so?
If I were so stupid to do such a thing, I hope that someone would just shoot me in the face, as I would no longer deserve to breathe…
You can’t even imagine yourself having a lot of money. You sound like a real loser.
That’s MISTER Real Loser to you, pal, and only on alternating Wednesdays. Get it right!
I’d pay that amount if the AirPods offered came in Continental Bisque or Egyptian Arabesque Gold. They don’t, of course; Apple are currently obsessed with white on white. I have hopes that AirPods’ future as wearable technology depends upon Apple understanding them as jewellery, and selectively marketing them as such. I’ve tweeted Angela upon this point. Her former outfit Burberry had done such conversions successfully.
Jacob Bernstein in The New York Times, just three days ago:
Headphones are now fashion statements. Status symbols. Fetish objects on par with luxury watches and limited-edition Nikes.
Note to the slow: consumer-level technology has become commonplace, and no longer susceptible to voodoo ministrations from bespectacled experts sporting pocket protectors. Now consumers just wish you would step aside, and let us experience a Lancome moment. — Once we have achieved commoditisation, fashion arrives: it is an inescapable human, and economic, ripening of desire. — Yves Saint Laurent