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    Laptop Pricing - A small rant.

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    • MattSpellerM
      MattSpeller @scottalanmiller
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      @scottalanmiller said:

      The theory is that there is no resell value.

      I wouldn't buy one that's encrusted with someone else's human detritus - agreed.

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      • ?
        A Former User @IRJ
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        @IRJ said:

        @scottalanmiller said:

        @IRJ said:

        @scottalanmiller said:

        @thecreativeone91 said:

        @scottalanmiller said:

        http://www.applewatchlease.com/

        They only have TWELVE watches. Pretty small company 😉

        That's just plain stupid.

        Yup. Twelve watches and they hope to make what, $20 on each if they are lucky? You can't lease $350 items in small quantity and even pay to keep the lights on, let alone employ anyone.

        They can charge whatever they want to lease them. If they can't lease them or only lease them a few times they can just sell them. What you aren't considering is that the watches don't actually cost that much when you consider the resell value.

        The theory is that there is no resell value.

        Can you explain what you mean?

        It's a changing item. Technology in a watch. Normally watches are collectables. Technology in watches not so much. And even more so given that this is the first generation - which is usually apples "beta" basically meaning it won't last very long until they bring another one out to fix all the issues everyone has in less than 1 year.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @IRJ
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          @IRJ said:

          @scottalanmiller said:

          @IRJ said:

          @scottalanmiller said:

          @thecreativeone91 said:

          @scottalanmiller said:

          http://www.applewatchlease.com/

          They only have TWELVE watches. Pretty small company 😉

          That's just plain stupid.

          Yup. Twelve watches and they hope to make what, $20 on each if they are lucky? You can't lease $350 items in small quantity and even pay to keep the lights on, let alone employ anyone.

          They can charge whatever they want to lease them. If they can't lease them or only lease them a few times they can just sell them. What you aren't considering is that the watches don't actually cost that much when you consider the resell value.

          The theory is that there is no resell value.

          Can you explain what you mean?

          Did you read the website? The leasing website is all dedicated to talking about how they believe Apple Watches have little resell value and that's their whole pitch for the leasing.

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          • IRJI
            IRJ @scottalanmiller
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            @scottalanmiller said:

            @IRJ said:

            @scottalanmiller said:

            @IRJ said:

            @scottalanmiller said:

            @thecreativeone91 said:

            @scottalanmiller said:

            http://www.applewatchlease.com/

            They only have TWELVE watches. Pretty small company 😉

            That's just plain stupid.

            Yup. Twelve watches and they hope to make what, $20 on each if they are lucky? You can't lease $350 items in small quantity and even pay to keep the lights on, let alone employ anyone.

            They can charge whatever they want to lease them. If they can't lease them or only lease them a few times they can just sell them. What you aren't considering is that the watches don't actually cost that much when you consider the resell value.

            The theory is that there is no resell value.

            Can you explain what you mean?

            Did you read the website? The leasing website is all dedicated to talking about how they believe Apple Watches have little resell value and that's their whole pitch for the leasing.

            No I did not read the website. I just read the facts about them having 12 watches on here. Yes, that is a very stupid model

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
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              Plus won't watches likely be heavily abused compared to, say, a laptop?

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              • IRJI
                IRJ @scottalanmiller
                last edited by

                @scottalanmiller said:

                Plus won't watches likely be heavily abused compared to, say, a laptop?

                I am sure the lease will be written unfavorably for the customer. People are desperate to get ahold of the watches. People accepting insane terms would not surprise me.

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                • MattSpellerM
                  MattSpeller @IRJ
                  last edited by

                  @IRJ Sucker born every minute. I'd believe it, I've seen worse.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @IRJ
                    last edited by

                    @IRJ said:

                    @scottalanmiller said:

                    Plus won't watches likely be heavily abused compared to, say, a laptop?

                    I am sure the lease will be written unfavorably for the customer. People are desperate to get ahold of the watches. People accepting insane terms would not surprise me.

                    It can only be so extreme before people, even dumb people, shell out $350 to just buy one. No matter what, they need a LOT of watches for this to work.

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                    • Minion QueenM
                      Minion Queen
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                      People are dumb when it comes to apple stuff. Now don't get my wrong I like my stuff but jeeze really sheeple here.

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                      • IRJI
                        IRJ @scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        @IRJ said:

                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        Plus won't watches likely be heavily abused compared to, say, a laptop?

                        I am sure the lease will be written unfavorably for the customer. People are desperate to get ahold of the watches. People accepting insane terms would not surprise me.

                        It can only be so extreme before people, even dumb people, shell out $350 to just buy one. No matter what, they need a LOT of watches for this to work.

                        You are underestimating the fanboys and the stupidity of the people.

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                        • thanksajdotcomT
                          thanksajdotcom @IRJ
                          last edited by

                          @IRJ said:

                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          @IRJ said:

                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          Plus won't watches likely be heavily abused compared to, say, a laptop?

                          I am sure the lease will be written unfavorably for the customer. People are desperate to get ahold of the watches. People accepting insane terms would not surprise me.

                          It can only be so extreme before people, even dumb people, shell out $350 to just buy one. No matter what, they need a LOT of watches for this to work.

                          You are underestimating the fanboys and the stupidity of the people.

                          Especially for Apple.

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                          • thanksajdotcomT
                            thanksajdotcom @thanksajdotcom
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                            @thanksajdotcom said:

                            @IRJ said:

                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            @IRJ said:

                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            Plus won't watches likely be heavily abused compared to, say, a laptop?

                            I am sure the lease will be written unfavorably for the customer. People are desperate to get ahold of the watches. People accepting insane terms would not surprise me.

                            It can only be so extreme before people, even dumb people, shell out $350 to just buy one. No matter what, they need a LOT of watches for this to work.

                            You are underestimating the fanboys and the stupidity of the people.

                            Especially for Apple.

                            IF you think my "fanboyism" for Android is bad, I don't think you understand that people who are die-hard Mac people are at extreme-cult-level.

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                            • IRJI
                              IRJ @thanksajdotcom
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                              @thanksajdotcom said:

                              @IRJ said:

                              @scottalanmiller said:

                              @IRJ said:

                              @scottalanmiller said:

                              Plus won't watches likely be heavily abused compared to, say, a laptop?

                              I am sure the lease will be written unfavorably for the customer. People are desperate to get ahold of the watches. People accepting insane terms would not surprise me.

                              It can only be so extreme before people, even dumb people, shell out $350 to just buy one. No matter what, they need a LOT of watches for this to work.

                              You are underestimating the fanboys and the stupidity of the people.

                              Especially for Apple.

                              I didn't say that. There are stupid android people too.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @IRJ
                                last edited by

                                @IRJ said:

                                @scottalanmiller said:

                                @IRJ said:

                                @scottalanmiller said:

                                Plus won't watches likely be heavily abused compared to, say, a laptop?

                                I am sure the lease will be written unfavorably for the customer. People are desperate to get ahold of the watches. People accepting insane terms would not surprise me.

                                It can only be so extreme before people, even dumb people, shell out $350 to just buy one. No matter what, they need a LOT of watches for this to work.

                                You are underestimating the fanboys and the stupidity of the people.

                                But fanboys will just shell out the $350. I admit the stupidity of people is stupefying but I feel like this is a case where the cost just isn't high enough and the value of "owning" is too high and too obtainable

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                                • thanksajdotcomT
                                  thanksajdotcom @IRJ
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                                  @IRJ said:

                                  @thanksajdotcom said:

                                  @IRJ said:

                                  @scottalanmiller said:

                                  @IRJ said:

                                  @scottalanmiller said:

                                  Plus won't watches likely be heavily abused compared to, say, a laptop?

                                  I am sure the lease will be written unfavorably for the customer. People are desperate to get ahold of the watches. People accepting insane terms would not surprise me.

                                  It can only be so extreme before people, even dumb people, shell out $350 to just buy one. No matter what, they need a LOT of watches for this to work.

                                  You are underestimating the fanboys and the stupidity of the people.

                                  Especially for Apple.

                                  I didn't say that. There are stupid android people too.

                                  Oh I totally agree. But when the newest Galaxy phone comes out, you don't see people literally camping outside the $carrier store. However, new iPhone release? It's tent city outside the Apple store.

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                                  • IRJI
                                    IRJ @scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by

                                    @scottalanmiller said:

                                    @IRJ said:

                                    @scottalanmiller said:

                                    @IRJ said:

                                    @scottalanmiller said:

                                    Plus won't watches likely be heavily abused compared to, say, a laptop?

                                    I am sure the lease will be written unfavorably for the customer. People are desperate to get ahold of the watches. People accepting insane terms would not surprise me.

                                    It can only be so extreme before people, even dumb people, shell out $350 to just buy one. No matter what, they need a LOT of watches for this to work.

                                    You are underestimating the fanboys and the stupidity of the people.

                                    But fanboys will just shell out the $350. I admit the stupidity of people is stupefying but I feel like this is a case where the cost just isn't high enough and the value of "owning" is too high and too obtainable

                                    That is IF they can get the watch.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @IRJ
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                                      @IRJ said:

                                      @scottalanmiller said:

                                      @IRJ said:

                                      @scottalanmiller said:

                                      @IRJ said:

                                      @scottalanmiller said:

                                      Plus won't watches likely be heavily abused compared to, say, a laptop?

                                      I am sure the lease will be written unfavorably for the customer. People are desperate to get ahold of the watches. People accepting insane terms would not surprise me.

                                      It can only be so extreme before people, even dumb people, shell out $350 to just buy one. No matter what, they need a LOT of watches for this to work.

                                      You are underestimating the fanboys and the stupidity of the people.

                                      But fanboys will just shell out the $350. I admit the stupidity of people is stupefying but I feel like this is a case where the cost just isn't high enough and the value of "owning" is too high and too obtainable

                                      That is IF they can get the watch.

                                      Same issue for the watch leasers, they need to be able to get tens of thousands of them to make enough to justify it. By the time that they can get it, getting the watch will be easy for normal consumers. Yeah, you can't get them on day one, but the lease people can't either. Once the initial rush is over, they will be easy to get at your local store. Use a credit card and you take care of most of the benefits of leasing such a small item.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller
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                                        Three months with the Apple MacBook and already noticed that the case is dented. Even though I baby the thing. This is the most fragile computer I've ever experienced.

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                                        • MattSpellerM
                                          MattSpeller @scottalanmiller
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                                          @scottalanmiller I'm sure you have a generous budget for hardware, did you go with Mac to learn it and get more cross platform experience? Can't imagine why you'd take one over a Lenovo X1 or a nice custom Sager etc.

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                                          • StrongBadS
                                            StrongBad @scottalanmiller
                                            last edited by

                                            @scottalanmiller said:

                                            Three months with the Apple MacBook and already noticed that the case is dented. Even though I baby the thing. This is the most fragile computer I've ever experienced.

                                            Those things are awful. If you so much as touch it, it gets dented or twisted. No strength at all.

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