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Eight people purchase "I am Rich"

Why all the hate

I don't get why everyone is so up in arms about the app. People calling the buyers idiots for buying it. Lets not forget a lot of people call us Apple users idiots for paying the high premium to use Apple products. I say let the buyer spend their money as they please.


ps: If you want to be mad at anyone be mad at Apple for pulling apps for no reason. Its fine until its your favorite little app they pull.
 
I am so desperate to get this application, I would pay three times the original price.

Its art, and its brilliant. Not everything you pay for has to have an application. Screw practicality.

In the words of Werner Herzog "money is cowardly" - if you have it coming out of your ears why not spend it...as Jobs once said "who want to be the richest guy in cemetery". I say you only live once.
 
I'm not nearly as jealous as I am of the guy who did the "million pixel homepage" a few years back. These ideas come around once in awhile that are brilliant and/or stupid, but mostly instantly profitable.
 
The thing has probably tripled in value now since there are only eight copies of it. Now it's a limited edition. My phonesaber app is worth 10 times what I paid for it now that it's been pulled.
 
you want a free 'I am Rich' app...take a screenshot of the screen shot (which according to one poster is still on there) and crop it down to just the screen shot of the so called "app" and save it put it on the web somewhere and have a link to it on ur iphone/touchs homepage. boom ur rich in a total of like 2 minutes
 
sushi said:
Let's see, the app:
  • Was clearly listed.
  • Did not violate any rules.
  • was purchased by 8 individuals.

Why is it still not listed on the app store like this?
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Probably for the same reason you don't see Walmart selling $1,000,000 T-shirts. Sure, they might get lucky and sell a few, but overall it reflects poorly on the business.
 
ay98182 said:
I am so desperate to get this application, I would pay three times the original price.

Its art, and its brilliant. Not everything you pay for has to have an application. Screw practicality.

In the words of Werner Herzog "money is cowardly" - if you have it coming out of your ears why not spend it...as Jobs once said "who want to be the richest guy in cemetery". I say you only live once.
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I'm sorry it got pulled before you got to buy it. I'll make an identical application if you pay me the money.

P-Worm
 
It seems odd that Apple would let it pass the scrutiny test before making it available in the store. You would think that somebody that looks these things over would have seen that it was a scam.
 
EricNau said:
Probably for the same reason you don't see Walmart selling $1,000,000 T-shirts. Sure, they might get lucky and sell a few, but overall it reflects poorly on the business.
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Like how??
I got $1K I want to spend. Bam. I spend it... Where do you see bad reflection on business??
Now you want to tell others what to do with their money?

I bet you would DIE to have enough $$ to say **** it lol i will buy that stupid app and give that poor guy that did it some profit for being funny.

Now does that hurt your feelings that you're stuck with ****** job and can't afford to do what ever stupid things come to your mind??

People are so intrusive those days. Look at yourself and let others do WTF they want.
 
gcmexico said:
only 8 people bought the App? I honestly thought it would be more!!! I guess the economy is bad in the U.S.
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Well, since it was new and was pulled we probably did not see the full potential of sales.

IJ Reilly said:
Now if you want to spend a lot of money on worthless software, you're stuck with Windows Vista.
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Snort!

EricNau said:
Probably for the same reason you don't see Walmart selling $1,000,000 T-shirts. Sure, they might get lucky and sell a few, but overall it reflects poorly on the business.
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Sorry, but I disagree.

Life is full of choices. Obviously, 8 folks thought that this app was a good choice for their hard earned money. Who are we to question it?

WalMart could sell million dollar shirts if they wanted. FYI, many millionaires shop at WalMart. However, the millionaire type that shops at WalMart would not be the kind to purchased a million dollar T-Shirt.

D4F said:
Like how??
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Agree.
 
D4F said:
Like how??
I got $1K I want to spend. Bam. I spend it... Where do you see bad reflection on business??
Now you want to tell others what to do with their money?

I bet you would DIE to have enough $$ to say **** it lol i will buy that stupid app and give that poor guy that did it some profit for being funny.

Now does that hurt your feelings that you're stuck with ****** job and can't afford to do what ever stupid things come to your mind??

People are so intrusive those days. Look at yourself and let others do WTF they want.
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It has nothing to do with my personal feelings; you could burn your money for all I care (I have more important things to worry about, believe it or not). However, there's a reason why credible businesses don't take advantage of their customers: it's bad for business.

By selling this app through the app store, it reflects poorly on Apple, and in-turn, loses them sales. In addition, it is also likely to cause them problems, in the case of those who accidentally make this purchase and refute the charges with their credit card company.

It's just like the "magic" bowl of alphabet soup on ebay that sold for $7,000 dollars: it was a fair business transaction, but in allowing transactions of that nature to take place, ebay loses some respect as a legitimate auction company.
 
does anyone actually know what the app did??? Maybe it deactivates nukes or hacks into the cia mainframe or something.:cool:
 
IJ Reilly said:
Now if you want to spend a lot of money on worthless software, you're stuck with Windows Vista.
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except you need vista to play DX10 games but your a mac user so i guess you dont play games except for maybe.. EA's harry potter?

i think it was wrong of apple to pull that program, he didnt really do anything wrong, its no diffrent than people on ebay listing the iphone for $1200+ dollars. people will still pay for it and be happy.

hell people though that $600 was the biggest rip off ever for a phone that could barely keep up to a regular dumb phone but look how many people bought it?
look at the macbookair, what a rediculous joke, but the guy at my work bought 2.

its not really anyones decision to tell you were your money goes. if people want to be dumb and throw money away let them, what concern is it of yours?
 
First the woman on the toilet seat. Now this. The world's a crazy crazy place.
 
EricNau said:
It's just like the "magic" bowl of alphabet soup on ebay that sold for $7,000 dollars: it was a fair business transaction, but in allowing transactions of that nature to take place, ebay loses some respect as a legitimate auction company.[/QUOTE]

I don't know about the 'Magic' bowl but I do know that when you go to iTunes store and go to TERMS OF SALE you have this written VERY CLEARLY:



REFUND POLICY

All Sales and rentals (as applicable) are final.

Anybody complaining after purchase is just a PLAIN IDIOT. Simple and a fact UNLESS he bought something that is not matching the product description.

I don't understand people lol.
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sushi said:
Sorry, but I disagree.

Life is full of choices. Obviously, 8 folks thought that this app was a good choice for their hard earned money. Who are we to question it?
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People have every right to waste their money as they see fit, however, Apple should not be required to provide that option.

sushi said:
WalMart could sell million dollar shirts if they wanted. FYI, many millionaires shop at WalMart. However, the millionaire type that shops at WalMart would not be the kind to purchased a million dollar T-Shirt.
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Yes, Walmart could sell $1,000,000 T-shirts, but they don't. There's a reason why: they'd look like pricks.
 
EricNau said:
By selling this app through the app store, it reflects poorly on Apple, and in-turn, loses them sales. In addition, it is also likely to cause them problems, in the case of those who accidentally make this purchase and refute the charges with their credit card company.
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How?

I don't see it this way at all.

D4F said:
Simple and a fact UNLESS he bought something that is not matching the product description.

I don't understand people lol.
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Agree.
 
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