Another Price Drop for Refurbished Ipods
Posted in Apple on September 17th, 2008 by Jason – Be the first to comment
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Apple is at it again. Only a month ago the iPod Touch was sitting at a pretty price of $299 for an 8gb. You could get a great deal for the refurbished 8gb for only $199, a hundred dollar price difference. The price gap was the same for the $399 16 gb and $499 32 gb. With the announcement of the second generation iPod Touch along with fourth generation Nanos and appropriate price cuts came the inevitable price drops for refurbished iPods. The iPod Touch went from $199 for an 8gb refurbished ($100 savings) to $179 ($120) savings, not bad but not good. The real difference came with the 16gb.
Because the next generation 16gb iPod Touch dropped to $299 new, they had to drop the price of the refurbished, otherwise you could get a brand new iPod Touch for the same price as an old generation Touch. So they dropped it from $299 to $229 or $239. This is the part I cannot confirm, but it only stayed there for about a week. Today the 16gb Touch shows up for a great price of $219 ($180 savings) from the “Original Price” but really only an ($80) savings from the current 16gb price. Not Bad.
So the question comes to this, what will the price point for the new generation iPod Touch (refurbished) be, and how long until it shows up on the apple store? This will help to determine how good of a deal the old generation Touch really is and only time will tell.
