Cheapest place for Ipods?

The Filth

Hi want to get a 30gb ipod vid just wanna know wheres the cheapest place to get it including websites and shops
Anyone had a good deal on em?

TommyGun

There is very little differance in price if you dont want to go the ebay etc. Try apple.com and komplett.ie.

Creamy Goodness

TommyGun wrote:

There is very little differance in price if you dont want to go the ebay etc. Try apple.com and komplett.ie.

yup you'll be pushing very hard to find them cheaper than anywhere else legit.

komplett afaik sell them for a 15 euro less, but there's a tenner shipping.

Noelie

Don't Apple regulate the price for iPod aroud the world, the only difference comes from VAT/TAX variations in differnet countries.

I've a friend in Taiwan he can pick up most electronics far cheaper over there than over here, yet iPod's are nearly the same price

TommyGun

Cremo wrote:

yup you'll be pushing very hard to find them cheaper than anywhere else legit.

komplett afaik sell them for a 15 euro less, but there's a tenner shipping.

You get free engraving and shipping with apple.com.

kensutz

Airports if you're flying anywhere.

The Filth

To reply to my own post i think i actually found a good deal:
http://www.shopireland.ie/electronics/detail/B000BAFN6K/New-Apple-iPod30GB/

Kinda better anyway than the normal retail of 330
Not too sure how much they will charge me on delivery tho...

FX Meister

Does anyone know if you can buy from apple in the uk to avoid paying the vat on it?

TommyGun

FX Meister wrote:

Does anyone know if you can buy from apple in the uk to avoid paying the vat on it?

Anywhere you buy, you will have to pay VAT in the country you have bought it. (Even if you buy it in a tax free country you would have to pay duty bringing it back to EC)

The only way not to pay VAT is if the UNIT was bought for use in business, the VAT can be claimed back by the business using there VAT no.

Alot of small businesses and self employed people do with computers for home use, they can say it's for business and also use it for personal use.

It might be difficult to justify an IPOD as business use.

FX Meister

Thats what I mean, buy it for business use. I've done this before for a creative zen from Germany and a bunch of camera lenses too. It looks like I need to ship it to the UK though if I buy it from there. I've a friend in Wales so I'll probably ship to him and he'll bring it home at Easter. Now to go for a 30GB of 60GB.

mambo

I've been checking around Dublin for an Ipod nano 4GB and the price is a suspiciously uniform €209.

The one exception I've found is the O2 store (on Henry St) at €199.

daithimac

comptec, if I remember will give you a student discount of around 8%.

hunnymonster

If you're a student (or know a student) you can get an academic discount from apple. I think it's 10%

tywy

the student discount is gone on iPods, was taken away in late September

tywy

also that Amazon link is to the old iPod Video, it says the release date was Jan 2005

Sandwich

Noelie wrote:

Don't Apple regulate the price for iPod aroud the world, the only difference comes from VAT/TAX variations in differnet countries.

I had thought so too but doesnt seem to be quite true. I bought an 80G one two weeks ago from Savastore in UK. E359 Incl post. Was 399 on Apple Ireland.

richieg

There's a 1 day sale on Apple tomorrow, might be worth checking out!!

Creamy Goodness

richieg wrote:

There's a 1 day sale on Apple tomorrow, might be worth checking out!!

doubt they will take much off their best selling piece of hardware to be honest.

hunnymonster

one of our students got an academic discount on a video ipod about 3 weeks ago.

delly

The 30gb iPod was €270 in Power City last week.