{"id":442,"date":"2007-11-08T12:16:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T16:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/08\/ipod-touch-price-switching-in-canada\/"},"modified":"2007-11-09T11:08:49","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T15:08:49","slug":"ipod-touch-price-switching-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2007\/11\/08\/ipod-touch-price-switching-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"iPod Touch price switching in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been watching Apple’s web site hoping for an iPhone in Canada and debating getting the Wi-Fi enabled iPod Touch. Something I noticed today is that the Apple Canada web page for the iPod Touch (www.apple.com\/ca\/ipodtouch<\/a>) reads “Music, videos, photos, and websites in 8GB and 16BG models starting at $299” but when you press the “Order Now<\/a>” button the Apple store wants to charge “$329” (again in the Apple Canada store). $299 is the American price, and probably where this image on the Canadian web page came from, b this is a $30 price increase in a situation where the exchange rate would suggest a $30 decrease from the American price.
\niPod Touch price switching in Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

I took two screen shots in case the web pages have been updated:
\niTouch Web page<\/a>Apple Store<\/a>
\n.. and a PDF print out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s the message I sent to Apple’s web site feedback form<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nHello,<\/p>\n

The web page at http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ca\/ipodtouch\/ (the Canadian web site’s link for the iPod Touch) states “..starting at 299” but when one clicks the “Order Now” button the store lists the 8GB iPod as $329. I called 1800myapple and 18006927753 and was not able to purchase the iPod Touch at 299 (in US funds because I am in Canada, and in Canadian because “their system wouldn’t allow it”).<\/p>\n

I know that you are not bound by the Retail Council of Canada’s price advertising laws, but I feel that you should pay more attention to these issues given the current price sensitivity in Canada because of the loonie-to-dollar exchange rate.<\/p>\n

Thank you<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

UPDATE: Looks like it’s fixed! I assume that means that Apple reads their feedback messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been watching Apple’s web site hoping for an iPhone in Canada and debating getting the Wi-Fi enabled iPod Touch. Something I noticed today is that the Apple Canada web page for the iPod Touch (www.apple.com\/ca\/ipodtouch) reads “Music, videos, photos, and websites in 8GB and 16BG models starting at $299” but when you press the… Continue Reading iPod Touch price switching in Canada<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}