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Best Buy deepens links to Apple, says watch has been a smash hit
Fortune ^
| August 25, 2015
| by Phil Wahba
Posted on 08/25/2015 1:49:15 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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Best Buy CEO says Apple Watch demand is so strong that were expanding sales to all 1,050 stores PING!
Apple Watch Strong sales at Best Buy
Ping!
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posted on
08/25/2015 1:55:57 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker
BustedBuy frantically scrambling for a lifeline to stay afloat in the cratering retail market.
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posted on
08/25/2015 1:56:16 PM PDT
by
lapsus calami
(What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
To: lapsus calami
Asian/Chinese demand for Apple watch is cratering for obvious reasons
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posted on
08/25/2015 2:08:19 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: Swordmaker
every best buy i’ve walked into during the last 2 months, i’ve paid attention to a few areas to gauge interest.
the iwatch areas are always completely abandoned.
if you go to the apple store, the faithful will gather round most tables... except the iwatch table.
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posted on
08/25/2015 2:27:30 PM PDT
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: Swordmaker
So how come I’ve never seen anyone wearing or using one?
And I work in tech.
On the other hand, I know may persons who have seen “Straight out of Compton”, which also is purported to be a hit.
What gives?
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posted on
08/25/2015 2:33:45 PM PDT
by
cicero2k
To: sten
As far as buying Apple products the Apple watch ranks lowest. Gives the buyer the least prestige say in Manhattan.
I would say:
-iPhone gives the most status
- then comes Apple 15” laptops not the dinky sized jokes that are 13.3”
-then ipad
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posted on
08/25/2015 2:49:51 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: sten
every best buy ive walked into during the last 2 months, ive paid attention to a few areas to gauge interest.
the iwatch areas are always completely abandoned.
if you go to the Apple Store, the faithful will gather round most tables... except the iwatch table. WOW! How do you tell sten is lying? Simple, he posts on Apple threads.
- Apple neither makes, advertises, nor displays for sale a product called "iWatch."
- Apple Watch sales in select Best Buy stores started on August 7, eighteen days ago, not two months ago.
- How many times, and how many BestBuy stores did sten visit in two and a half weeks?
- The CEO of BestBuy makes a positive assertion in a Financial Conference Call referencing the strong sales of Apple Watches and their change in plans to extend sales from just 300 stores to all 1050 stores because of that strong demand, a statement that if false can result in fines and penalties under the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002, personal fines and penalties of up to $20 million and twenty years in prison for making false statements in a financial report.
- My girlfriend and I were in an Apple Store about two weeks ago to pick up her new pre-ordered MacBook. We were there for all of twenty minutes or so. During those twenty minutes we were waiting in a very crowded store, I saw six Apple Watches (four sports and two stainless) sold, which should counter sten's anecdote. I have a witness.
That pretty much shows that sten is making up his claim as he's types his post.
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posted on
08/25/2015 3:00:12 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker
since the beginning of july, i’ve been to 3 different best buys and 1 apple store. i’ve yet to see anyone going over the product with any sales person. i’ve also yet to see anyone wearing an iwatch
you’re just pimping for apple, trying to boost their sales.
as you always do.
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posted on
08/25/2015 3:12:22 PM PDT
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: dennisw
Asian/Chinese demand for Apple watch is cratering for obvious reasons Not according to Apple CEO in his letter to Jim Cramer. . .
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posted on
08/25/2015 3:14:00 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
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To: dennisw
As far as buying Apple products the Apple watch ranks lowest. Gives the buyer the least prestige say in Manhattan.
I would say:
-iPhone gives the most status
- then comes Apple 15 laptops not the dinky sized jokes that are 13.3
-then ipad Lying again, Dennis? You don't have any data on any of this except what you pull out of your posterior.
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posted on
08/25/2015 3:16:48 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker
Are you nuts, no one is buying that toy, plenty of people right here has told me that. :)
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posted on
08/25/2015 4:40:23 PM PDT
by
itsahoot
(55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
To: sten
since the beginning of july, ive been to 3 different best buys and 1 apple store. ive yet to see anyone going over the product with any sales person. ive also yet to see anyone wearing an iwatch What part of:
- Apple neither makes, advertises, nor displays for sale a product called "iWatch."
- Apple Watch sales in select Best Buy stores started on August 7, eighteen days ago, not two months ago.
. . . did you fail to comprehend?
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posted on
08/25/2015 5:26:31 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker
You should talk. You are the one trying to pawn off one of those 13 inchers on granny.
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posted on
08/25/2015 5:27:11 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: Swordmaker
Good for BB.
Radio Shack made next to nothing on the per-unit sales of the iPhone. Unless BB is getting a deal from Apple, they probably do not make much profit on each iwatch. IOW, increase in sales, but not necessarily profits.
To: Swordmaker
i didn’t say when in those two months i went to the stores
keep on shilling. maybe someone will buy the snake oil
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posted on
08/25/2015 5:42:39 PM PDT
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: sten
i didnt say when in those two months i went to the stores Keep dancing with your lies, Sten. . . you keep changing your stories. Caught in lies and you change them to try and make it sound true. Sorry. Caught once, your credibility is in shreds. You haven't said anything to deny the credibility of the CEO of BestBuy. . . and you have none as a member of the anti-Apple hate brigade who obviously makes up anecdotes to fit what ever negative FUD you want to spread.
If you had gone in the last two weeks, you would have said so. You didn't until it was thrown in your face that your lie couldn't possibly be true on it's face and you were impeached. . . because BestBuy was not selling the product in their stores during the past two months.
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posted on
08/25/2015 6:47:49 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
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To: HonkyTonkMan
Radio Shack made next to nothing on the per-unit sales of the iPhone. Unless BB is getting a deal from Apple, they probably do not make much profit on each iwatch. IOW, increase in sales, but not necessarily profits. That really makes sense. . . they make no money on the great sales of the Apple Watch in 300 stores so they are going expend lots of money accelerating their time table to add it to 750 more as quickly as possible, getting it done by September instead of December, so they can make no money on the Apple Watch in those stores too! Do you realize how insane you sound? Businesses such as BestBuy are in business to MAKE money for themselves and their investors, not for someone else.
By the way, there is no such product as an "iWatch." The TradeMark for iWatch belongs to another company. Apple is even being sued by the Trademark owner for Trademark infringement even though they don't even use the name in their advertising, or even mention it, and never have. . . only the Apple haters call it that. Hilarious.
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posted on
08/25/2015 6:57:40 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker
face it, you’re just butt hurt because no one wants the iwatch and apple is about to get caught buying up their own stock (and ‘accidentally’ causing a stock shortage) in the hopes of driving up interest.
might as well rename it now: iSegway
apple’s best move is to get govt types to buy it with taxpayer funds
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posted on
08/25/2015 7:54:10 PM PDT
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: Swordmaker
You’re an idiot buddy. Keep drinking that koolaid. If apple does not pay u for posting this crap, you are a fool.
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