Pre going for $80 on Amazon 28
by Robert Werlinger Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:53 am EST
Deals, deals, deals. Third party resellers have really been taking a hatchet to the prices of Palm's webOS powered devices lately. The latest comes from Amazon, who is selling the Pre for $79.99, or a full 20 dollars less than what Sprint is selling the Pixi for directly. This comes on the heels of both Walmart and WireFly slashing their prices on the Pixi, to $49.95 (previously $30) and $24.95 on a new 2 year agreement respectively, and Canadian reseller WirlessWave dropping the Pre down to $49.95CAD on a 3 year contract.
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The Amazon deal for the Pre also includes a credit for the $36 activation fee through November 23.
Too bad it's just for new customers. :-(
Too bad you could get your friend/family member to buy you one, as long as they don't already have a Sprint account.... and then do a Transfer of Liability (TOL) to you. You might even benefit from the $50 referral, but then you'd have to wait a month to do the TOL.
If you're not getting "new customer pricing" EVERY time... you're not doing it right.
Same price at Best Buy
http://forums.precentral.net/palm-pre/215604-best-buy-pre-79-99-silver-m...
Good find.
Too bad you have to have a silver premier rewards zone member. There is no way I will spend 2500 in a year at BB. Has anyone got this deal w/o the silver membership? Will anyone price match it, like Radio Shack, and not check for the silver premier membership?
I'm sure BestBuy will give you the deal if you ask them.
Negatory. I just went there, and they said it is a coupon, and that it is linked to my Rewards Zone Card. No coupon, no deal.
and people wonder why the iPhone is King. You price something as low as junk, it loses its real value and makes a company look vulnerable and desperate. Would you buy a steak for 9 dollars? Maybe, but, don't wonder why you ended up in the restroom for half an hour. Palm's stock has dropped because its integrity has fallen. Sorry, but maybe that should be the story you guys write and not the 30th report on Palm dropping prices to the cost of the $9 hamburger
Palm is not dropping the price. Palm gets paid the same price for every Pre sold, whether it's sold at $20 or $150. It's the retailer who is selling the phone which is changing the price it's being sold at.
To use your own analogy, it'd be like a steakhouse and AppleBee's both buy the same steaks from the same slaughterhouse. AppleBee's chooses to sell theirs for less than the steakhouse does, even though it's the same steak bought for the same price from the same slaughterhouse.
dat dare is a smart man!
Exactly. Also, with sprint shutting down more stores to cut overhead, getting people to buy their phones at Best Buy, Walmart or Amazon, actualy helps spint get more customers. I would not be suprized if Sprint is not supsidizing some of this, to increase their subscriber numbers.
while your analogy is true and correct and great economics, people don't see that when they go to purchase any product. They see what's in front of them and not by Walmart paid them. When people see an $80 phone, they see just that....an $80 phone. You are correct but from a consumer point of view, its not as valuable
If a consumer doesn't understand that "the more you get for a smaller price" is the definition of value... then of course it wouldn't be as valuable.
The iPhone is only $100 for essentially the same specs (and arguably higher build quality) but a ton more popularity. To price the Pre slightly lower makes plenty of sense
I agree.
Ask Apple why the Mac still after all these years of having an excellent computer is still not the king. Overpricing! Your analogy (sugarbirdpmd) only works if the item is actually superior.
that's like saying Britney Spears is a terrible artist. Personally I don't like her, but numbers show. I hate Apple and I have always had a Palm, but numbers speak. Its statistics and not opinions that drive facts. Hate Apple all we want, but its taking more than just this small Army to chop Apple down. Numbers speak...popularity or not
sugarbird,
iphone prices hold because Apple requires resellers to sell at MSRP, with rare exceptions. Therefore, if you buy an ipod at Walmart, you'll get it for the same price as Costo, or the Apple Store.
The lower prices on Palm products are the result of the retailers and Sprint "giving the phone away" to rake in the lucrative airtime contracts and commisions. Dont be surprised if the Pre's are free in the next six weeks and beyond, as Sprint will do anything to steal Palm buyers from Verizon when VZ goes live.
ATT has no pressure like this as they are exclusive. So if you want an iphone, you're gonna have to put up with h ATT, and you're going to pay through the nose to be fashionable, while lacking function.
In the end, the price of the phone is just the tip of the iceberg. Monthly service for Pre starts around $53/month before the hidden crap. Iphone starts at $90 and lacks a lot of perks that Sprint includes as value added. When anybody that wants an iphone has pretty much bought it and the novelty wears off, price and function will likely make other units more popular.
I know, I agree. I'm just saying that I thing the way they price their stuff and staying exclusive to Satan ATNT is extremely effective. I think its geneous marketing and something Palm probably could never pull off. You have to hand it to them. They're smart and all the botic manequins are falling for it. Again, I'm saying marketing of the price and excluiveness is great marketing and alluring, but user wise, we both know which is a better phone
I just purchased a $10,000 2009 Maserati. I wonder if it'll run
A Maserati Bi-Turbo was turned in to Cash for Clunkers, sadly. Which meant it had to run, and was only "worth" 3500-4500. A very sad day. Sheople are 'tarded.
Also, BB offered the Iphone for $50 last Febuary (for the 8 gb version).
I sometimes forget to mention what model instead of generally pointing out royalty, but I never fail to find those select few who use one bad example to try and difuse my point of view. I guess if I said Ferrari or Lambo you'd do the same without realizing that walking into a showroom with 10G they'd laugh at you as you pulled away in your Ford. Sorry, Ford Focus. Sorry to sound like a 'Tard' but maybe I should keep writing sensible paragraphs to appease to your narrow minded POV.
I love cars, but that is my line of work. I've only driven one Maserati; a 2008 Gransport with cambriocorsa, and Tubi exhaust. What exactly is narrow minded about my point of view? Particularly regarding your statement?
My "tarded" statement dealt with the idiots who turned in perfectly fine cars that by themselves were worth more than the Cash for Clunkers deal, and were perfectly good cars...
Does the Maserati include free texting and mobile-to-mobile calls to any carrier?
nice! I should buy you a beer for that one
While price cuts seem to be good for the consumer, they do not paint a very good picture for the product. If Palm has not cut the price, the retailers are taking a bath. Clearly, the Pre could not be sold at a higher price-point. I agree with an earlier poster that it will be a free phone before long, but it can hardly be considered a premium phone if it is being given away in cereal boxes.
You're not really understanding whats going on. Palm and Sprint are not lowering the price on the phone, its 3rd parties who are cutting the price on new activations. They still get paid by Sprint for new activations and they use the low prices to get customers into the store to buy other things. Last I looked the cost of the phone without an activation actually tends to be higher at retailers than Sprint. I think at Sprint the pre is ike $530 while at Best Buy its $700.
I would stake my brother's life that if Apple removed the required MSRP that you would see it for $29.99 or even free at various stores.