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buying an iPhone as a gift

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Spike Spiegel

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Jan 27, 2002
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I would like to gift an iPhone to someone, but not have to involve them in the gift buying process. Is there a way to buy just the phone, then have them set up the specifics through iTunes, so that I can physically give it to them without asking them to fill out forms beforehand?
 
Buy it without contract and if you want, have the gift-packaging service.
 
You most likely won't be able to do it for the $99/199/299 pricing.

The best thing to do would be to buy an Apple Store gift card for $99-299 (depending on which iPhone you were thinking of buying for them), and give them that. You can put a picture of an iPhone in the card or something.
 
Apple has an "iPhone gift card", it"s a black card and says iPhone 3g on it (bummer that it doesn't have 3gs on it). The card holder is special too, with a pic of the iPhone on it. I bought one yesterday.
 
Maybe I'm not completely informed, but giving a $199 giftcard to someone isn't giving them an iPhone, right? They'd still need to sign up to a phone-plan that costs $30 or $50 a month, right?
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MacorgaZ said:
Maybe I'm not completely informed, but giving a $199 giftcard to someone isn't giving them an iPhone, right? They'd still need to sign up to a phone-plan that costs $30 or $50 a month, right?
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Look at it this way, $199 is enough to allow you to get a subsidized iPhone 3GS, else it will be much more without commitment. So if the gift is going to someone that will be switching to AT&T, why pay more?
 
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