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[scarboni21]

^^^^if you needed to upgrade with your att account in the store. How on earth would someone buy hundreds of Iphones and resell them overseas?

 

[Hmac]

Dude, this isn't about entitlement at all, it's about the fundamental right to privacy. If this concept is not as American as it gets, than I don't know what is.

Yeh. Great story. As I said, your choice at the Apple store may be ID or CYA later. Of course, you don't have a fundamental right to buy one according to your rules, but maybe if you persist, or keep going to different stores, you'll find a manager that will bend the rules for you.

 

[Trek2100]

That has been done before, by Apple, for some items where supply was an issue.

http://www.slipperybrick.com/2007/10/iphone-2-limit-no-cash/

I've heard about this before but also that you could go into an Apple store and pay cash for an Apple gift card, then buy the phone.

Every time I've bought anything at an Apple store since they have done away with cash registers and gone to the electronic checkout, they assume you are paying by credit card. You need to tell them upfront that you are paying with cash. Its BS. The last time, they scanned the item and I told them I was paying with cash. They had to void the item and hand me over to someone else.

 

[lionheartednyhc]

Dude, this isn't about entitlement at all, it's about the fundamental right to privacy. If this concept is not as American as it gets, than I don't know what is.
*snip*.

You wan't privacy and you're buying an ipad? An ipad that can't be used without an itunes account? An itunes account that can't be used without a credit card? A credit card that is tracked and recorded for every purchase made?

Riiiiight.

 

[xyion1]

You wan't privacy and you're buying an ipad? An ipad that can't be used without an itunes account? An itunes account that can't be used without a credit card? A credit card that is tracked and recorded for every purchase made?

Riiiiight.

I don't have a credit card tied to my iTunes account. Name, email sure, but no credit card. Keeps me from buying stuff spur of the moment...I use gift cards to keep spending in check.

 

[owzer]

Dude, this isn't about entitlement at all, it's about the fundamental right to privacy. If this concept is not as American as it gets, than I don't know what is.

Guess some people just have to make a civil rights issue out of everything.
Like others have mentioned, don't buy it if you don't like the rules.

 

[barefeats]

That's a nutty policy. We bought two (his and hers). And what if I wanted to buy one for my children or as a gift to a relative or friend?

 

[Csmitte]

I would love to see the day that someone walks in with cash to buy something and was told, sorry you have to use a credit/debit card.

they did it with the iphone champ!

 

[Csmitte]

I don't have a credit card tied to my iTunes account. Name, email sure, but no credit card. Keeps me from buying stuff spur of the moment...I use gift cards to keep spending in check.

I think I need to adopt this policy also, I am scared to add up all my itunes purchases...