Best place to buy a Touch in NY

Rollo Tamasi

'Ello,
I'll be heading off to NY this week and I'm going to splash out and buy an iPod Touch. What's the cheapest store in the city center to pick up a 32GB'er?

Mercy beacoups.

Chardee MacDennis

they'll be the same price everywhere due to agreements with Apple.

for the experience i would say the 5th avenue store as it's pretty cool.

dubmick

order it from amazon.com and ship to your hotel. No sales tax.

Rollo Tamasi

dubmick wrote: »

order it from amazon.com and ship to your hotel. No sales tax.

How quick would the delivery be? I'm staying for a week, Saturday to Saturday.

Cabaal

Rollo Tamasi wrote: »

How quick would the delivery be? I'm staying for a week, Saturday to Saturday.

You'd be better off just getting it in the apple store, less risk and atleast you'll know 100% you'll get it

WUSBDesign

Some time back, I did something like this - ordering from Amazon and then asking the delivery to be made to me, c/o the hotel manager's name. Mind you, I could trust the hotel (it was in Reno, Las Vegas) and I made a phone call to make sure the hotel manager did agree.

Not sure about New York though...

Cabaal

You could do that I suppose, but make sure to order a few days before you actually get to the hotel...perhaps a week in advance

dubmick

Rollo Tamasi wrote: »

How quick would the delivery be? I'm staying for a week, Saturday to Saturday.

sign up for a months free trial of Amazon Prime and you'll get one day delivery for $3.95

merkuree

Yeah, I agree.....Amazon is probably best for price....lack of sales tax, free shipin in some cases.

The Apple store will probably assure you the product though in a small timeframe....but you get hit for NY sales tax.......

You can check delivery dates for Amazon when you go to check-out....Amazon usually ship/deliver ahead of their 'estimated delivery date' in the US for standard

faceman

There are rumours of a 64gb release in the US later this year.

Kid Nothing

they just released a 32GB.....we really need to be getting more than 6 months from our products before an update....sort it our Apple!

BanzaiBk

Sort what out? They're releasing the technology as soon as they get it, it's a business afterall.

Kid Nothing

I know but it just seemed that they're not being too fair to customers in that we never know when they're gonna realease a new product which is better than the one currently on the market. IMO it leaves customers in the dark as whether to buy or not and it's like Apple are trying to sucker in as many people as they can. e.g. people who said they wouldn't buy an iPod Touch because it was too small suddenly jump when it's 32GB and now there's a 64GB on the horizon very quickly.

I'm just trying to say that if you drop €400 on an iPod you wouldn't expect it to be out of date 6 months later. But as you say business is business and they're in it for the money at the end of the day.

whiterebel

amull87 wrote: »

I know but it just seemed that they're not being too fair to customers in that we never know when they're gonna realease a new product which is better than the one currently on the market. IMO it leaves customers in the dark as whether to buy or not and it's like Apple are trying to sucker in as many people as they can. e.g. people who said they wouldn't buy an iPod Touch because it was too small suddenly jump when it's 32GB and now there's a 64GB on the horizon very quickly.

I'm just trying to say that if you drop €400 on an iPod you wouldn't expect it to be out of date 6 months later. But as you say business is business and they're in it for the money at the end of the day.

Always been the way. I didn't like what they did with charging for the touch software, but as the memory prices drop they will be putting in bigger memory chips. They'll get left behind by the other manufacturers if they didn't.

Ham'nd'egger

amull87 wrote: »

I know but it just seemed that they're not being too fair to customers in that we never know when they're gonna realease a new product which is better than the one currently on the market. IMO it leaves customers in the dark as whether to buy or not and it's like Apple are trying to sucker in as many people as they can. e.g. people who said they wouldn't buy an iPod Touch because it was too small suddenly jump when it's 32GB and now there's a 64GB on the horizon very quickly.

Thing is, if everybody held on until a newer, faster, better model came out, you would never sell any product. I don't accept that it is "trying to sucker"; it follows that the newer product will be better specced. If you want it enough, go out and get one.