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Im highly considering buying the 5gb ipod and im just wondering since there it about 500can wheter or not u guys think there well be a price drop before christmas or has there already recently been a price drop that i missedd
 
Its hard to say, Apple lowered the price on the iBooks and PowerBooks but that doesn't happen often with new releases.

Apple may lower the price of the 5GB iPod or they may just phase it out completely. It is the only one that doesn't offer a touchpad scroll-wheel.

You may want to wait till around Christmas to see what happens. You never know with Apple!
 
I believe something will happen for the X'mas season. It has to happen... they need to boost sales.
 
do u think there well be an update witht hem following an imac change, "this could be used as just another product being updated and the price droped"
 
in response ti itanium i doubt there well be i 5gb ipod pahased out yet stiill to soon the price of the 10gig would have to hav a dramatic price decresase
 
I doubt they well drop the the 5 gig model because up north here in canada it is like a 200 dollar price increase and it weould not seem smart for apple to losse about half of potential buyers because right now i can get a hi end player for about 300 without as big drive and less options such has how the ipod can be used for file trensfers and so on ....
 
Apple HAS to drop the 5GB model if it's going to increase sales of the iPod... this is product-tree strategies 101. Apple apparently only has 15% marketshare on the MP3 players... this is hardly enough to keep a price squeeze on the public.

In regards to Apple's iPod product-tree, if they kept the 5GB (entry) model hanging around as-is, then too many competitors would be able to muscle in. Although iPod seems to be very popular, an analysis of WHY the iPod is popular would reveal the usual: early adopters snatching up a new toy. Well the party's over, and now as the market saturation begins, Apple has to count on more conservative pricing strategies and typical product-tree paradigms to keep the iPod generating sales.

When we see the demise of the 5GB depends upon how quickly Apple wants to introduce a new model into market and how much 5GB inventory is left... as Apple's new Dell-like approach to inventory is wait-2-build, it's possible this Xmas is the last year for the 5GB, and then the stock-out will begin. So prices will probably remain high (with perhaps a small reduction) through Xmas (peek purchasing, yeah!) and then any leftovers will go on sale to introduce the new models. (A typical pricing strategy is to really lowball the low-end when it's being phased out and super-inflate the high end, so the middle-units will become more attractive to potential buyers--basically the old "tease" or "bait and switch" approach)...

Well, that's what I say anyway. Business as usual for Apple.
 
Bait & switch is actually when you offer a product at one price, then refuse to sell it but offer a similar product at a higher cost in its place.

Apple does not currently do this.
 
Originally posted by itanium
Bait & switch is actually when you offer a product at one price, then refuse to sell it but offer a similar product at a higher cost in its place.

Apple does not currently do this.
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"bait and switch" is a basic marketing term and doesn't neccessarily imply that a certain product won't be sold at a certain price, although the term has been associated with this type of practice, usually from used-car dealers. This would be the consumers perception of bait and switch.

I'm using the term here to describe a basic business pricing strategy, where a company offers a significant discount on an item about to be phased out of stock and makes the prices of it's high-end product so high that the consumer often opts for the mid-priced product. This is another form of "bait and switch" or "tease". Note that the product-pyramid is the same model with different features, in this case the wonderous iPod. When you go into a store looking to buy the 5GB on sale ("tease", or "bait") and come out with a 10GB model, you've "switched".

This is from a markeing/price strategy POV, not a consumers.

:cool:
 
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