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£150 for IPad sim?
PC World are charging £150 for IPad sim cards
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They are free if get them from O2 - sounds like a cock up at PC world...
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I know people have made some money selling free 'normal' sims on ebay, looks like they could make a fourtune, if people are still that stupid.
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PC World rely on conning the clueless to stay in business, this is no surprise.
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They will be on sale next to the £75 Monster cables.
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£150 for an ipad SIM
Actually, it makes sense from PC World's point of view. The SIMs are in short supply, so rather than give them away to all and sundry at no benefit to themselves, they've put an artificially high price on to discourage people from just taking them away. This saves the stock for their customers who buy an iPad from their stores: my guess is that their EPOS system will magically discount them to zero when you make a ipad purchase.
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Maybe it's the price of the contract all together? So you pay it all upfront?
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Maybe it's the price of the contract all together? So you pay it all upfront?
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Actually, it makes sense from PC World's point of view. The SIMs are in short supply, so rather than give them away to all and sundry at no benefit to themselves, they've put an artificially high price on to discourage people from just taking them away. This saves the stock for their customers who buy an iPad from their stores: my guess is that their EPOS system will magically discount them to zero when you make a ipad purchase.
It's likely to be an error with the price or the product description. Then again, after saying that I searched the site and the SIM for 3 is the same price! |
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If that was the case they'd just not sell them individually in the first place.
It's likely to be an error with the price or the product description. Then again, after saying that I searched the site and the SIM for 3 is the same price! |
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Actually, it makes sense from PC World's point of view. The SIMs are in short supply, so rather than give them away to all and sundry at no benefit to themselves, they've put an artificially high price on to discourage people from just taking them away. This saves the stock for their customers who buy an iPad from their stores: my guess is that their EPOS system will magically discount them to zero when you make a ipad purchase.
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They WERE in short supply when the iPad launched, though I'm sure that stocks have improved. I notice that Currys (essentially the same firm as PC WOrld) are also charging £150. I tried inputting an online order (with no intention of actually buying) an iPad and sim, got as far as the checkout, but no discount was applied. I can only conclude that DSG are basically just trying it on!
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Actually, it makes sense from PC World's point of view. The SIMs are in short supply, so rather than give them away to all and sundry at no benefit to themselves, they've put an artificially high price on to discourage people from just taking them away. This saves the stock for their customers who buy an iPad from their stores: my guess is that their EPOS system will magically discount them to zero when you make a ipad purchase.
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