Apple Sued over iPhone Price Cut
Techtree News Staff, Oct 03, 2007 1734 hrs IST
Why? Because Dongmei Li of New York lost out on the $200 price cut announced by Apple just 68 days after the July debut of its iPhone.
An 'early bird' buyer who self-admittedly 'waited for hours' in order to buy a 4GB iPhone just three days after its debut, is now suing Apple Computer for nearly $1 million, accusing the company of "price discrimination, underselling, discrimination in rebates, deceptive actions, and other wrongdoings".
Why? Because Dongmei Li of New York lost out on the $200 price cut announced by Apple just 68 days after the July debut of its iPhone.
Obviously, there are many others like her... but not everybody is suing Apple for the inconvenience caused...
Only last month, Apple slashed prices of its 8GB iPhone from $599 to $399, inciting an angry outcry from early customers of its iconic gizmo. Simultaneously, the company phased out its 4GB iPhone model, possibly, further angering its customers.
And, the company tried its best to pacify old customers. Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, even offered a public apology on the company Web site, which said, "Even though we are making the right decision to lower the price of the iPhone, and even though the technology road is bumpy, we need to do a better job taking care of our early iPhone customers, as we aggressively go after new ones with a lower price."
Apologies apart, those who'd bought the iPhone 14 days prior to the discount, were refunded the $200 difference. And, a $100 credit was offered to early buyers at all Apple stores.
All this not withstanding, an unmoved Li, says categorically in her lawsuit, that the discount injured early purchasers such as herself, because they cannot now resell their iPhones for the same profit as later purchasers.
In the first place, market conditions did not require an Apple to go and change the price of its iPhone, says a disgruntled Li in her suit...
USER COMMENTS
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by dwig, delhi, on Jun 18, 2008 08:05 AM, Report abuse Reply
thte cost whould be 200$. but when it comes to india the price ll be incresed. ,may be at 12000 rs.
by ravi, mumbai, on Jul 13, 2008 04:23 PM, Report abuse
Iphone price details& distributors in India
by tapas, Purulia, on Oct 23, 2008 09:07 PM, Report abuse
i want to know about the price of apple 3g iphone launching on 22august in india by airtel. does the gprs works in india?give suggestions.
by Shah samir, Ahmedabad, on Aug 10, 2008 11:49 AM, Report abuse Reply
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by Avais, Mumbai, on Aug 02, 2008 07:34 PM, Report abuse Reply
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by Gagandeep, New Delhi, on Jul 31, 2008 11:24 PM, Report abuse Reply
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by lucky, delhi, on Jul 29, 2008 09:01 AM, Report abuse Reply
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by ifran anwar, kolkata, on Jul 25, 2008 08:59 PM, Report abuse Reply
i am interested to buy the iphone please contact me through my mail .plz give me price details and distributors.....
by Suhail, delhi, on Jul 16, 2008 04:09 PM, Report abuse Reply
i am intersted to buy the iphone please contact me through my mail
by sridhar s, kanchipuram, on Jul 13, 2008 06:07 PM, Report abuse Reply
by Amal & Nithin, Palai, on Apr 09, 2008 05:29 PM, Report abuse Reply
I have two 8GB iphones which can be unlocked. If anyone is interested to buy in Delhi , contact me @ inder76@gmail.com
by Inder, Delhi, on Feb 01, 2008 10:41 PM, Report abuse Reply
im interested in both depending on the price
by bharat kapur, new delhi, on Feb 14, 2008 04:03 AM, Report abuse
I am selling it for 20k. Email me if you are interested. I have got 5 more phones.
by Inder76, Delhi, on Feb 24, 2008 06:30 PM, Report abuse
i wanna buy an apple iphone of 8gb or 4gb in mumbai.can you'll tll me the price of both the pones long with the specifications in my email id. thanking you
by saureen parekh, mumbai, on Jan 01, 2008 04:15 PM, Report abuse Reply
i want to buy iphone 8GB. let me know about stores in kolkata, India, from where i purchase.
by ram kumar jhawe, kolkata, on Oct 24, 2007 08:23 AM, Report abuse Reply
i want to buy iphone 8GB please let me know its price and the process i am suppose to follow...
by babasaheb shind, pune, on Oct 23, 2007 02:50 PM, Report abuse Reply
I want to but Apple 8GB iphone..Let me know the actual price of Apple 8GB iphone and features?
by sudhakar ketha, chennai, on Oct 22, 2007 05:16 PM, Report abuse Reply
i like to buy it. where i had to search in chennai price details with all models
by rejini, chenneai, on Oct 11, 2007 08:35 AM, Report abuse Reply
Good to have it in your knowledge!
by Ganesh Khumse, Pune, on Oct 08, 2007 12:07 PM, Report abuse Reply
i like to buy iphone in india bangalore shall i know the distubutor,wholesaler of apple products
by shoukath hussai, salem, on Oct 08, 2007 10:36 AM, Report abuse Reply
it there were some common sense in the world the government wouldn't have to deal with such juvenile lawsuits.
by g33k-0, omaha, on Oct 06, 2007 11:20 PM, Report abuse Reply
THe iphone is now avialiable in India too but at a price of 48K, which is unlocked & can be used on any gsm frequencies
by Heartking, Mumbai, on Oct 06, 2007 09:57 AM, Report abuse Reply
What do you get when you outsource your operating system to India? VISTA!
by H1BsGoHome, here, on Oct 05, 2007 05:16 PM, Report abuse Reply
I WANT TO PURCHASE APPLE I PHONE IN INDIA KINDLY LET ME KNOW DISTRIBUTOR / STORES IN DELHI . INDIA
by SIDDHARTHA B RO, NEW DELHI. INDIA, on Oct 05, 2007 11:07 AM, Report abuse Reply
Taking about Americans being money hungry, etc. Why don't you read the name? That person is Chinese!!!!
by Colin, Columbus, on Oct 05, 2007 06:21 AM, Report abuse Reply
she may be an "American Chinese" who has injected the american culture into her chinese blood!!!!
by HK Indian, HKG, on Oct 05, 2007 08:47 AM, Report abuse
Every product in every market undergoes some type of mark down. In this instance, its just a matter of early buyers feeling foolish for paying so much, only to have the price dropped 3 months later. Deal with it...that's life. They don't owe it to the early customers to keep the price constant. That's retarded. Grow Up.
by Michael Katsorc, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Oct 05, 2007 03:06 AM, Report abuse Reply
IF YOU WANT TO UNLOCK YOUR IPHONE PLEASE CALL ME ON 09821024246 IM FROM MUMBAI -CHEERS NIKESH
by NIKESH, MUMBAI, on Oct 04, 2007 10:28 PM, Report abuse Reply
why such cry? price is market driven phen0mena.
by ranmal gosalia, bellevue--WA, on Oct 04, 2007 10:10 PM, Report abuse Reply
oh shut up, if your government didn't have to handle all lawsuits, you people will be just as "sue-happy" as you claim us Americans are. And by the way, it wasn't a tort lawsuit with 3000 different people attached. ONE American out of the thousands that bought the iPhone is suing. You are the ones sounding ridiculous trying to bash our entire country for one lawsuit. If you want to rip on us, pick a better topic than this.
by Anonymous, Virginia Beach, on Oct 04, 2007 06:22 PM, Report abuse Reply
Is that available in India somewhere ??
by hardnetin, mumbai, on Oct 04, 2007 09:11 AM, Report abuse Reply
Something equally good at a good price is available in India Called HTC Touch - the only small flaw is that it is powered by Windows mobile 6.0 but am a happy user for more than two months now
by anil paranjpe, pune, on Oct 04, 2007 10:03 AM, Report abuse
WM 6.0 is a flaw ? Where have you been ?? Thats a very big advantage due to the tonnes of software available for it unlike the iPhones which call them selves smart but have no room for 3rd part applications . With WM you are always feel at home
by Cyrux, Hyd, on Oct 04, 2007 12:32 PM, Report abuse
by Cyrux, Hyd, on Oct 04, 2007 12:50 PM, Report abuse
by ud_dude, delhi, on Oct 04, 2007 04:09 PM, Report abuse
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by nazim, male', on Oct 04, 2007 12:17 PM, Report abuse Reply
At the moment people are still buying unlocked iphones from ebay and they are paying up to $1000 so I like to know has she sold any on ebay for a profit. That's the real rip-off....
by craig, sydney, on Oct 04, 2007 07:48 AM, Report abuse Reply
america is sue happy and there's no changing anyones mind about that. People have been sued for the most rediculous reasons. what if the phone had been out for two years and she bought it a day before a price reduction? that's not anyones fault but her own. to put it bluntly, shit happens. Deal with it. everyone else does. don't cry cause you had to be first but instead be greatful you got what you wanted and still have money to live. America is greedy and it's going to be our downfall as a nation!
by Matthew Laukala, coeur d alene, on Oct 04, 2007 06:47 AM, Report abuse Reply
In my honest opinion, there are many things wrong with this person. They were not forced to be the first in like for an iphone, therefore it was her own free will to buy it at top dollar. And through expereince, i beleive that this person understood that the value of the product was to drop soon, considering that items do drop in value over time. I know this person was not born yesterday, so there is no reason for the way they are acting toward this. Again, he/she brings up the point of "Price Discrimination". Not one person in the store was discriminated against during the time of her purchase, and since it was a month or so after she bought it, the relevance of that charge is rediculously non existant. People need to grow up and learn how to earn money, rather than sit there and try to get money from places they don't deserve. Grow up america, you lawsuit hungry country.
by Justin Pinho, Newark, on Oct 03, 2007 08:23 PM, Report abuse Reply
Not all of us are lawsuit hungry (see comment above)
by Mark, Texas, on Oct 03, 2007 08:27 PM, Report abuse
First of all, Mr. Justin Pinho, from Newmark, you should not make shut broad statements like,"Grow up america, you lawsuit hungry country.", because there are alot of Americans reading posts like these. Like Mark, from Texas, said, "not all Americans are sue happy." Please if you're going to post on a multi-national type of media, you should have a little net-etiquette. Anyhow, I don't agree with the lady sueing apple because she didn't pay top price for the phone but for being one of the first one to have one. This happens when you buy a car, as well. Thank you.
by Joe, Sherman, TX, on Oct 04, 2007 02:22 AM, Report abuse
relax joe from texas. america deserves many generalising claims, 'sue hungry usa' is one of the most acurate. honestly mate the usa is the most out of control bunch of self serving, take no responsibility sueing countrys by far. its blows our mind in more mellow countrys where suing can only be done by/through the government. so yes very justified generalisation. and yes this person should not even get the time of day in court for the lame law suit. stop suing people because your to stupid to understand common sense america
by Andreous Penchi, Wellington NZ, on Oct 04, 2007 06:13 AM, Report abuse
as an early iphone buyer myself, I too feel that apple should pay for what was a clear violation of trust. I trusted that apple was providing a revolutionary product at a fair price, only to be proved wrong when my first phones screen locked up and had to be replaced. Now my second phone has intermittent lock-ups and apple decides to lower the price just two months after release because they can't sell enough of them. I was initially proud of my purchase and told everyone I knew that it was the greatest device on the planet. Now I am just embarrassed to let people know that I was one of the stupid ones who got screwed by apple. Well, screw apple... And if there is a class action lawsuit, I'm in!
by joe knudsen, pismo beach, on Oct 04, 2007 05:41 AM, Report abuse Reply
Apple will chew up her little lawsuit and spit it back in her face in the form of a $2 million countersuit for trying to pull such a douche move...
by DJ Forcefield, San Diego, on Oct 04, 2007 04:07 AM, Report abuse Reply
Yeah right! Same thing happened with my Laptop but how can it be justified?
by Arun, London, on Oct 04, 2007 03:14 AM, Report abuse Reply
She was buying the Iphone as an investment? To sell at a profit? Dumb people should not be rewarded...no they should be punished for tying up the courts.... I was a first day adopter...apple owes us nothing more than they have given us, A GREAT PHONE!
by Bill Albrecht, Lake Charles, on Oct 04, 2007 03:13 AM, Report abuse Reply
What an idiot, I hope they make her pay the legal fees when she loses.
by Mark, Texas, on Oct 03, 2007 08:25 PM, Report abuse Reply
I hope Apple gets sued and loses big time. That's the only thing keeping these huge corporations in line (and halfway legal) anymore.
by TheDonster, Saginaw, on Oct 03, 2007 10:32 PM, Report abuse
by doha, suez, on Oct 03, 2007 07:47 PM, Report abuse Reply
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