“It just got easier to make a profit by trading in an old iPhone — and still buy the latest model. Wal-Mart and RadioShack are dropping their prices for Apple’s device to less than $50,” Quentin Fottrell reports for MarketWatch.
“Both stores are cutting prices on the iPhone, which costs $99 from Apple with a two-year wireless contract or $549 without,” Fottrell reports. “Starting Saturday, RadioShack customers purchasing the iPhone 5C in-store will receive a $50 gift card that can be used toward their $99 iPhone 5C purchase, a spokesman for the company told MarketWatch. That offer ends Nov. 2. Starting Friday, however, Wal-Mart will also cut the price of the iPhone 5c from $79—a $20 discount on Apple’s price—to $45 throughout the holiday season, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman says.”
MacDailyNews Take: It’s the Battle of the Loss Leaders! Is that $0 we hear approaching? (While Apple continues to get full prices from these retailers, of course.)
Fottrell reports. “Both offers beat Best Buy’s terms: It offers a $50 gift card on iPhone 5c purchases from Friday until Oct. 7.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Come to papa, disillusioned Android settlers!
You made a mistake. It’s okay. Now it’s time to get a real iPhone.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Judge Bork” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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