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That sucks I wish they would hit 100 bucks for one even a gig one 
I would buy one in a heartbeat I love my S30 sport mp3 player but jeeze the upgrade cards get expensive what good is a mp3 player that can hold up to 576 Megs when a 256 meg SD Card is 60 bucks+ and a 512 is over a 100 dollars :\ rather just get a gig player for 100-150 and save myself small parts to lose hell after my lil semi-rant I might get one of these minis if they drop to 199 rather see them at 149 tho
I would buy one in a heartbeat I love my S30 sport mp3 player but jeeze the upgrade cards get expensive what good is a mp3 player that can hold up to 576 Megs when a 256 meg SD Card is 60 bucks+ and a 512 is over a 100 dollars :\ rather just get a gig player for 100-150 and save myself small parts to lose hell after my lil semi-rant I might get one of these minis if they drop to 199 rather see them at 149 tho
Anubis
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if it only costs 30$ to make them the shoudl sell them for like 60$ 100% profit. everyoen woudl have one. hell i would even buy one then. they would compleatly own the market even more then they do now
$29? I call BS on that one.
Look at the prices of MicroDrives, battery packs, & all the other technology that goes into one.
No way in hell they can build it for $29.
Even if it DID only cost $29 to actually build, there's far more to profit than just the cost of building the product.
Viper GTS
Look at the prices of MicroDrives, battery packs, & all the other technology that goes into one.
No way in hell they can build it for $29.
Even if it DID only cost $29 to actually build, there's far more to profit than just the cost of building the product.
Viper GTS
ever been to factories in china?
the cost might be even less (those 29 bucks probably even include shipping and taxes to the US)
and maybe some marketing costs
the reason they dont price it at like $99 is because they want to go to a price competition with other mp3 players.
and they WANT to establish the ipod as the niche item. Apple focus on value competition instead of price competition..
you dont have to believe me, but this professor of mine is real.
Koing
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It probably does cost them $29 to make. BUT that doesn't take in to the account the marketing, research and 101 other things they spent on the thing to get it to market. No way does that $29 include the 4Gb drive right? And then the headphones and other things that go in to the product.
The marketing has to take a fat chunk of the overall cost. No one would buy if they didn't know it exisited.
Koing
The marketing has to take a fat chunk of the overall cost. No one would buy if they didn't know it exisited.
Koing
Considering that it costs Apple ~$100-150 for the 4gb HD, I don't see where you're professor is getting $29 from.
Lay off the crack. Unless apple is manufacuring the drives themselves with elves and using magic to get the raw materials the drive itself costs more than $29. In bulk quantities those drives cost at least $100, apple isn't getting it much cheaper even if they negotiated it below the 100,000 quantity prices.
I swear common sense is dead.
daniel1113
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Cost of Goods for 3rd Generation Ipod
If you think the mini costs 1/5th as much to build as the full size you are a fool.
Viper GTS
I believe that there is a huge markup,
But i dont know about that huge
Here is my favorite.
A sony CD player for a car here
The player retails for $649.99
If you work at BestBuy you can pick this beauty up for $187.96 on your discount
And BestBuy is still making money off that.
which means the distributor is still making money off of BestBuy
If thats not markup then i'll be a monkeys uncle
But i dont know about that huge
Here is my favorite.
A sony CD player for a car here
The player retails for $649.99
If you work at BestBuy you can pick this beauty up for $187.96 on your discount
And BestBuy is still making money off that.
which means the distributor is still making money off of BestBuy
If thats not markup then i'll be a monkeys uncle
Zenmervolt
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You do realise that it's $29 for the RAW MATERIALS, correct? By the time labor, advertising, selling and administrative expense, plant overhead and machinery (among other things) are factored in you're probably looking at a per-unit cost that is over $100 initially.
ZV <-- Finance guy.
Originally posted by: Namtaru
I believe it. Here is my find. A sony CD player for a car here The player retails for $649.99 If you work at BestBuy you can pick this beauty up for $187.96 on your discount
damnit I need a friend who works at Best Buy then
again I am restating whatever my prof said, and he is a big apple guy...
I dont care if ubelieve it or not..
Maybe for the raw parts. Put together and placed on a store shelf, the IPOD costs more than $29 to Apple.
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