Woman Sues Apple Over IPhone Price Cut

[meegbear]

Source: Huffington Wires | AP

A New York woman is so angry at Apple Inc. for lopping $200 off the price of the iPhone that she's filed a lawsuit seeking $1 million in damages.

Dongmei Li of Queens, N.Y., claimed the company violated price discrimination laws when it slashed the price of the 8-gigabyte iPhone by a third, from $599 to $399, within two months of the gadget's June debut.

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According to Li's lawsuit, filed on Sept. 24 in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, the price reduction injured early purchasers like herself because they cannot resell the product for the same profit as those who bought the cell phone following the price cut.

Li purchased a 4GB iPhone for $499 and alleged that owners of the 4GB model were given less favorable terms than those who bought the 8GB model at the premium price, according to the lawsuit.

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[acmavm]

1. Like everything nowdays, you're gonna get fleeced if you buy

anything electronic when it first comes out. I don't feel sorry for her.

[Roland99]

2. Sorry but this label applies to her: FREAKING IDIOT!!!

[nykym]

3. Two Words

Caveat emptor

[AlCzervik]

4. yes i too was pisseed when i rushed out to buy the playstation 2 back in the day and

then they cut the price.

[still_one]

5. so tell me how does she equate a 200 buck price change to a millon bucks

the judge should throw this lawsuit out

[YOY]

8. She bought a bunch of them and planned to resell at profit

Or so it seems.

Tough shit in the city.

[uncle ray]

14. she should have stuck to beanie babies.

[-..__...]

20. Like this hosebag?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv3UdpahdS8

[YOY]

24. You are not gonna tell me that woman votes anything but straight Republican

Smarmy cow got hoooooosed.

Notice they didn't show her AFTER they told her that she could only buy one iphone. She must have been either fuming or in tears.

"Money talks." Apparently not as well as store policy.

That was great!

[pdefalla]

6. So it's illegal to lower prices?

Somehow, it seems counterintuitive to penalize companies for reducing prices....The logical extension of this is that any seller could be sued for putting something on sale, because anyone who bought the item before it went on sale would lose potential profit. For instance, we could start suing companies when their stock went down, because we couldn't sell it for as much as when we bought it. Stupid.

[feloneous cat]

22. Can you say "THIS CASE HAS NO MERIT?"

So she bought for the going rate. Now the price is lower. So she thinks something WRONG happened?!?!

My gawd, she probably has an effing HEART ATTACK when the price of fuel drops ("call my lawyer, I was hoping to resell that gasoline!").

This...is...dumb.

[yellowcanine]

7. First of all, who buys a cell phone with the intention of reselling it? And second - I don't know

the legal argument, but I have a hard time believing that a company has any legal obligation to previous buyers when they lower the price of something. And finally, everyone knows, except apparently this doofus, that you will pay the most for an electronic product (and just about everything else) when it first comes out. If you want to be the first on the block to own the latest new gadget, you should be willing to pay for the privilege.

[YOY]

9. A whole bunch of folks bought Play Station 3s and Nintendo Wiis with this very intention

There were a bunch of a**holes on ebay offering the 800$ PS3 for 2,000+ dollars (nothing lower.)

Shortly later (a few weeks actually_ you could buy them in stores easily for the standard retail price. I hope the assclowns who pulled the 2,000+ dollar stunt got stuck with the damn things...

[yellowcanine]

11. If that is what this woman was up to, I have even less sympathy for her.

Speculators simply drive up the price for people who really want the product. If they want to speculate, they should be able accept the fact that sometimes they will guess wrong. The manufacturer owes them nothing.

[mike_c]

10. oh for pete's sake....

:rofl:

[ileus]

12. Law suit lottery brought to you by peeps like Edwards.

Think about this case when you vote for hillary in 08

[ret5hd]

13. Who ya' gonna call when your guts get sucked out at the pool?

Trial lawyers are consumer advocates.

[YOY]

16. Wow take a pretty neutral post and make it a plug for one candidate

...

[Richard Steele]

25. Funny how I knew WHICH candidate before reading the post, innit?

Funny how the arrogance, condescension, and RW talking points
always seem to come from the same person's "supporters" here.

[YOY]

31. Yup...

Damn us filthy liberals for not submitting completely... :sarcasm:

[bikebloke]

15. Rebate for first buyers?

I thought Apple offered a rebate for those who bought the iPhone at the original high price. Though I could be mistaken.

[Tesha]

17. $100 Apple product credit for most, $200 cash for buyers within 14 days.

Apple offered $200 cash for folks who had purchased the
phone within 14 days of the price drop, so they got the
full effect of the price reduction. Everyone else got
a $100 Apple product credit for future purchases.

(I don't remember the specifics of the deal for folks
who bought the smaller, now-discontinued 4GB phone.)

Tesha

[cobalt1999]

18. She must be married to the drycleaners missing pants lawsuit guy.

[tammywammy]

21. indeed

bwahaha

[LisaL]

23. Nah. She is only asking for 1 million.

[LisaM]

19. Was she planning to file for a business license, declare her profit, and pay taxes

on all the iPhones she was going to resell?

[MilesColtrane]

26. She must think that she's got her own "reality distortion field" if she thinks...

...she can win this suit.

[panzerfaust]

27. I went with 8-Track

Because it had better audio quality than cassettes.

Should check with her lawyers, I may have a case?

[JCMach1]

29. I had a Betamax can I sue too?

[JCMach1]

28. caveat emptor- buy a piece of inferior technology at an inflated price

and what should you expect?

This is not a slap at Mac owners as Macs have always been close to top of the line when it comes to PCs.

iPhones are not worthy of the Apple title...

[Exultant Democracy]

30. I hope that apple gets and injunction preventing her from every buying anything else of theirs

she is going to get laughed out of court. This is as bad as the $50 million pants.

[Javaman]

32. So I'm supposed to feel sorry for her legal version of a fencing outfit?

When you roll the dice, sometimes it's craps.

suck it up lady. you bet and you lost.

She's a dope.