Posts Tagged ‘Discount’

Lenovo to honor 87% discount mis-pricing of desktop computer

Late last month, precisely 2PM HKT 27 October 2009, the Hong Kong section of the Lenovo website had a minor error, the prices were incredibly low. The license alone of the newly launched Windows 7 Premium 32 is believed to be more expensive than the whole machine. It was believed that Lenovo had some minor problem distinguishing between Hong Kong dollars and US dollars. (Pic: click to enlarge)

The news spread fast among forums. Users from some local forums like HKGolden and HKEPC attempted to order multiple machines. It was believed that more than 100 machines were ordered within the short period of time.

Initially, those smart customers were not hoping to get a successful order, since not long ago, Dell Hong Kong made similar mistakes and was shamelessly voided affected orders with no compensation whatsoever (whereas Taiwanese users get a 20%-off coupon in a case where discount and price interchanged).

Affected customers were contacted by Lenovo from 30 October, confirming that their order are honored provided that a supplementary Non-Reselling Contract was to be signed. As of today, the order are being processed (and some buyers are blantantly reselling the machines in smaller local forum)(links deliberately not given)(good luck to them).

Computeruniverse coupon code

New customers to computeruniverse.net, one of the largest online shop for computer / technology products can enjoy €5 off for their first purchase (valid only for orders above €50). Note: If you are outside EU region, you can save the 17.5% VAT.

Just quote this voucher code: FW8TY5K at checkout.

Still awaiting for the shipping of our order of two HTC Heros. Hopefully they will arrive by Thursday or Friday

Drastic price increase of Apple Store

With the launch of iPod Shuffle 3g(3rd Gen), a series of price revisions were taken place in Apple Stores all over the world.

Due to currency fluctuation, some products in Apple Store of various countries skyrocketed. Taiwanese users are already complaining about the price increase of iPod Nano. However, there are more extreme cases in South Korea, which our old post just covered a few days ago.

One week ago, iPod Touch 8G was 280,000 KRW (Korean Won) in South Korea. Now it is 36% more expensive: 379,000 won in official store.

Yes, this sounds a lot, but today’s 379,000 KRW is more or less the 280,000 KRW one year ago.

Discount iPod touch / iPod nano in Seoul

(note: by 11 March 2009, this article is obsolete due to a 36% increase in official price of Apple Korea. Read more)

Our team was on vacation for a few days, and we are just back from South Korea. In Seoul, where home appliances shops are hard to come by, we’ve found the rare shops selling Mac products in an amazing price.

As the exchange rate of South Korean Won (KRW) has been dropping significantly, prices of iPod products have been dropped to a very reasonable price.

This photo was taken in Frisbee in Myeongdong, the shopping street in Seoul. We were astonished to see that the price of iPod touch after tax (280,000 won minus tax = 263,000 won) could be as low as US$160 (US$1 = 1600 won as of 28 February). That’s 30% off. If you somehow go to Korea, you might as well find this “Frisbee” shop in Myeongdong. Just don’t forget to file a tax rebate.

iPod nano are in very attractive price too as the table. MacBook, on the contrary, is not as drastically cheaper as iPod series, so we didn’t pay much attention to the price. There’s no iPhone.