Apple Rejects Cold, Hard Cash at its Own Stores

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So- why would she need to save up $600 for an iPad- JUST for YOUTUBE????? Are you kidding? Spend HALF of that on a netbook and get your youtube just fine, along with lots of other capabilities.
 
Not accepting the US dollar is simply un-American. Remember the commercial from the 80s for Apple with a running throwing a hammer into the screen of big brother? They are now worse than Microsoft and what use to be of IBM. Ditch the dollar?! Ditch this rotten Apple
 
[citation][nom]Yoder54[/nom]This tactic is commonly used to fight the black market, [/citation]

The Black Market will always exist. As long as there are people living in this world the black market will exist. Learn to deal with it.

Apple knows that they cant control the black market... why do they even try to do this. It just hurts them more (hurts their legit customers who just have cash), because you know people in the black market are STILL GOING TO GET THEIR IPAD... no matter what apples does.

Apple you just keep on failing in so many ways...
 
And what is exactly wrong with selling the IPAD to people over seas for a profit. I thought that was called "business" and "capitilism". Are you people serious, you are worried about the IPAD in the black market? Do you hear yourselves?
 
[citation][nom]jchoefer[/nom]Sounds like a case of discrimination to me.If you don't have the income level or credit to get a credit card, you can't buy an iPad.[/citation]

Then they probably shouldn't be buying an iPad. There's a LOT of cash in this world, and a LOT of it is in places it shouldn't be. No reason to not have a credit card. As long as you're responsible, owning at least a single credit card *points to self* isn't hard to do.
 
[citation][nom]NoCaDrummer[/nom]In MY country it's illegal as well. I live in the U.S.A. and our currency says, "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE." I'm a fan (but not a fanboy) of Apple, but I think the Feds wouldn't care much for this tactic...[/citation]
Not so, Drummer. There is no "debt" involved - Apple Stores are merely setting the Terms of Sale. Perfectly legal (STUPID, but legal) as you as the customer do not have to accept these Terms (no cash) and simply don't buy the thing.
Not accepting cold, hard cash is indicative of the type of decision a large, committee-run corporation would make - a corporation "out of touch" with their customers. As a stockholder, I'd be worried. Such a policy (for whatever self-serving reason) just turns customers off. What other bizzarro policies are next?
 
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Ha! I remember Baron Matrix, he provided me with many a good laugh. At him, not with him.
 
cause they are making so much money a few years ago they were almost out of business this is unheard of. that disabled person should smarten javascript:%20void(0);up with her/his $600 that could buy a notebook and more. or a netbook and more.
 
Has no one tried to pay cash before today?

And what's worse is no gift cards if you ask me, pretty sure there's a law against that here.
 
I frequently find myself wondering why there is anybody in the world who does not yet have a debit card. If you have a bank account, your bank will give you one for free.

These thoughts are particularly intense when I'm standing in line behind an old woman who is writing a check for a five dollar item...
 
"U.S. Treasury Department says that there is nothing in the law that requires businesses to accept cash as payment."

That is just ridiculous. It opens the door for all types of discrimination, like the Apple is guilty of here. The law should be changed.
 
funny they want to track people to stop them selling it over seas? i have loaded a ton of prepaid credit cards and have 4 bank accounts, and though i would never use a apple product, i have managed to buy more than 40 of them and selling them to the bahamas and other islands at nearly twice the price. good tactic apple, hurting legitimate people.
 
Funny thing is, if the crooks really wanted to buy a whole bunch of iPads they could do it just as easily with all the stolen CCs they have. The ONLY people this is really hurting are those people who don't have or want a CC/DC.
 
What gets me more than the no cash deal is the fact that you can't use a gift card to buy the iPad (not that I would buy one of those pieces of junk anyway). I wonder how many people are going to but Apple gift cards for others who are saving up to buy one of those oversized iPhones not knowing that they just bought a worthless piece of plastic?
 
"It took quite a long time for me to just save up this small amount of money to go down and purchase one," she said to ABC local station KGO. "I had my cash in the backpack and I went up proudly to the counter and told them, 'I would like to purchase an iPad.'"
Sounds like she is carrying $600 in coins and singles. She should consider opening an account at TD first
 
After reading this, more than ever I "reject" the notion of giving my "cash" to apple in any way at all. Is it not bad enough almost all their products are either underpowered or underperforming for the price asked?

I feel bad for the lady that wanted it but in the long run she may be better off.
 
If they want the card number so they can limit the number of purchases I make, that implies they are storing my credit card number in case I use it again to make another purchase.
If I go into any store, not just the Apple store, is it really legal for them to store my credit card number?
Isn't this just:-
A) A breach of privacy
B) A breach of security
If this is the case could every customer who has ever used a credit card to buy an Apple product launch a massive class-action lawsuit? Now that's the kind of bad publicity that no retailer can afford.

As for curbing grey market by tracking your card, I have a wallet with 10 differant bits of plastic, if I really wanted to, over a weekend I could stroll away with 20 iPads and "grey market" 19 of them and damn the Apple store's stupid, illegal and unenforcable policy.
 
I don't get it. So, she took months to save up for a POS device with limited capability, and apple saved her from wasting her money? Seems like she won out, go buy a useful product like a netbook if you're strapped on cash and need some sort of computing device.
 
Just another example of Apple's, "We're Apple and you're not" attitude. What an arrogant bunch . I've never bought an Apple product, and I never will.
 
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