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So much for Walmart's signed non-disclosure agreement re: iPhone launch
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12-17-2008, 05:45 PM
From: http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walma...e-than-99/

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12-17-2008, 06:06 PM
How could any WalMart employee afford an iPhone?!?
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12-17-2008, 06:08 PM
ztirffritz wrote:
How could any WalMart employee afford an iPhone?!?

costs less than some of the big screen tvs they sell or the video gaming systems.
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12-17-2008, 06:10 PM
ztirffritz wrote:
How could any WalMart employee afford an iPhone?!?

It doesn't matter how because, "each store must sell all five iPhones during the pilot."

Resistance is futile.
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12-17-2008, 06:14 PM
What is the point of basing the store's likely success on 5 sales to their staff?
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12-17-2008, 06:15 PM
ztirffritz wrote:
How could any WalMart employee afford an iPhone?!?

Thats probably exactly what the employee was thinking. "Damn iPhone! How am i supposed to afford that?!?!?! I'm so pissed I'm going to post this notice online. That'll teach 'em".
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12-17-2008, 06:18 PM
pinkoos wrote:
Resistance is futile.

"Cletus, you have been selected as one of the 5 lucky associates to receive an iPhone. Beginning this week, the Company will garner your wages for the cost of the phone and for the monthly fee from AT&T, less of course your Wal-Mart discount."
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12-17-2008, 06:20 PM
What is the point of basing the store's likely success on 5 sales to their staff?

I wonder if that's the point.

It might be a test of their ability to process a sale, not the ability to make a make a sale, since they're obviously only to sell them to employees.

I'm curious as to *why* they want them sold in the pilot only, to employees only, and not let them be sold to OTC customers.
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12-17-2008, 06:25 PM
RAMd®d wrote: I'm curious as to *why* they want them sold in the pilot only, to employees only, and not let them be sold to OTC customers.

The are trying to prevent a mad rush of people breaking down the doors and trampling employees just to save $2 off the price of buying it directly from Apple or ATT.
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12-17-2008, 06:28 PM
Maybe the whole thing is a ruse, designed to test whether Wal-Mart employees will adhere to an NDA.
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