cheap ipods at Apple Store (merged)

abomb1969

Listen if anyone is buying and selling for profit you really need to be registering as self employed with the Inland Revenue. If anyone would like their details go to http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/menus/contactus.shtml

Please remember that you are traceable through this board, and that any investigation will probably mean proving your income for the last 7 years.

My advice to those profiteering is to keep quiet about it, or you might find that someone reports you.

alanshave

That goes for anyone selling on Ebay etc. You should officially declare the tax. Unfortunately I'm a student and therefore don't even meet my basic threshold! Lol.

Hintza

silps wrote:

We should be directing our comments to Apple because if they put a limit on how many refurb iPods (the heavily discounted ones) an individual can buy then we would all be happy.

Surely if you are a retailer and having a sale the best thing to do is ship as many as fast as you can. You don't want resources and staff tied up on obsolete stock for weeks.

If folk buy loads they are also running a risk. Some guys must have bought them at the first reduced price of £87+/- only to see them drop to the £60 level in various stages.

This offer was live for about a month so no one should have missed out if they really wanted one.

You snooze you lose!

biglugs

Buying and selling these sort of items on Ebay is rarely that profitable. Once you take into account your Ebay fees, Paypal fees, travel costs to the Post Office and the loss of your own time you have to make a pretty sizeable profit to just break even. I doubt if many people who buy items such as these make that much on the deal. As I said in an earlier post Ebay is great for any BOGOF or 342 offers where you can offset your own costs a bit.
As for grabbing it when you can if you see something you MIGHT want buy it then and there - it may not be there when you come back.

gazbert_2

alanshave wrote:

That goes for anyone selling on Ebay etc. You should officially declare the tax. Unfortunately I'm a student and therefore don't even meet my basic threshold! Lol.

According to the HMRC web site they're not fussed by people that flog their old stuff off on eBay. In most cases you're going to be getting less than you paid for the item in the first place. So you're not actually making a profit. If you're not making money, there's no tax to pay.

If however, you're trading and making a profit, then the HMRC would be VERY happy to hear from you.

wolfman

Hintza wrote:

This offer was live for about a month so no one should have missed out if they really wanted one.

You snooze you lose!

The 20gb and 30gb iPod Colour ones weren't. The former was on for about a day or two and the latter was literally a matter of hours.

Hintza

wolfman wrote:

The 20gb and 30gb iPod Colour ones weren't. The former was on for about a day or two and the latter was literally a matter of hours.

Fair point but the mini's we there for ages.

lemontree

Does anyone know where the chearest small Ipod is i.e. 4gb would be ok.
It has to be small as my daughter is taking it back to China where she teaches.
Thanks.

pabenny

lemontree wrote:

Does anyone know where the chearest small Ipod is i.e. 4gb would be ok.

Try The Link online. Items over £80 are showing a 20% discount when you add them to your basket. Don't forget to delete the accessories that they try to make you add.

Repo

Interesting development on the "ipods for eBay" argument:

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/productlister.aspx?GroupID=1649&source=MDnewsletter

No stock levels at the moment but I suggest that a large number were taken off the site and sold to MD for resale by themselves. More than all the iPods bought for resale by MSE "lurkers" on eBay put together?