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New Apple iPhone Sales Policy: Two Per Customer

Monday, October 29th, 2007 at 3:10 PM - by

Apple changed its iPhone sales policy, according to Apple spokesperson Natalie Kerris, on October 25th. The limit is now two phones per customer.

"Customer response to the iPhone has been off the charts, and limiting iPhone sales to two per customer helps us ensure that there are enough iPhones for people who are shopping for themselves or buying a gift," Ms. Kerris said. "We're requiring a credit or debit card for payment to discourage unauthorized resellers." The story was posted at Yahoo! News.

The previous policy was a a limit of five purchased at a time, and cash was accepted.

Carl Howe at Blackfriars Communications wondered on Friday if Apple could in fact decline to accept cash for payment. However, further investigation by Mr. Howe showed that Apple can do just that..

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Sir Harry Flashman said:

member since 08 Feb 2007 with 651 posts, unranked, send him a message or view his profile

Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:10 pm

I am skeptical when stories like this do not link to a press release or something on the Apple web site. Now it may very will be true, but for all we know the statement was taken out of context.

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Bosco said:

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Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:32 pm

LMAO. Yeah, this is such a huge problem. People are coming in and buying 20 to resell on eBay before Apple lowers the price again and Apple just has to cut them off because they're never in stock otherwise. This is all about boosting iPhone street cred. When will you people see it for what it is?

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Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:09 pm

Just to comment on the t-mobile rate plans for the iPhone in Germany, am I the only one with a much different understanding of "unlimited" than Apple and T-Mobile have? If you dig into tmobile's germany web site, they list their rate plans for the iphone, and putting the 'note' for data transfer through google's translate, you get:

"From a data volume of 200 MB (Complete M), 1 GB (Complete L), or 5 GB (Complete XL) per Month is the bandwidth of each month at max. 64 Kbit / s (download) and 16 kbit / s (upload)."

Have an explicit limit [that's different based on the plan, which is what the Complete M/L/XL refer to], is by definition limited. Which is the opposite of unlimited.

Isn't this false advertising?

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gslusher said:

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Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:30 pm

Anonymous wrote:
Just to comment on the t-mobile rate plans for the iPhone in Germany, am I the only one with a much different understanding of "unlimited" than Apple and T-Mobile have? If you dig into tmobile's germany web site, they list their rate plans for the iphone, and putting the 'note' for data transfer through google's translate, you get:

"From a data volume of 200 MB (Complete M), 1 GB (Complete L), or 5 GB (Complete XL) per Month is the bandwidth of each month at max. 64 Kbit / s (download) and 16 kbit / s (upload)."

Have an explicit limit [that's different based on the plan, which is what the Complete M/L/XL refer to], is by definition limited. Which is the opposite of unlimited.

Isn't this false advertising?

You'll have to take that up with T-Mobile (Apple doesn't sell the phone service, just the hardware) and the German government. If you live in Germany, you may have legal standing; otherwise, you probably don't.

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