Originally posted by Casper
shipping costs are $2000 for a standard 20ft container, how many iphone's can u fit in a 20ft container, 37,000 by my calculations, so thats a shipping cost of $0.05 per phone, shipping is not an issue.
(yes i have no life)
Well, since you have no life, why don't you re-calculate how many phones you can get in a 20ft container, keeping in mind that each phone comes in a box that is roughly 6 X 3 X 3.5", then there are the cases that they come in (each case's cardboard thickness comes into play here) plus any packing material that goes into the crate. Now, this container goes from the factory to a shipping hub. There it is unpacked, and the cases sorted to different trucks. Those trucks then deliver them to the individual stores, where they are inventoried and stocked.
So you aren't just paying for the transportation of the 20ft container, you're also paying for all the other transportation that the phones get between the point where they are unpacked from the container and the end store.
Frankly, I think it's funny that people are so up in arms over the cost of the phone. It will last for a long time and provide a lot of use and entertainment. By contrast, a ticket for Harry Potter IMAX is $12 for less than 3 hours of entertainment. A ticket to Disneyland is more than $50 for one day of entertainment. A ticket for a Vegas Cirque du Soleil show can run up to $150 for about 2 hours of entertainment.
Looking at it that way, it's a bargain!
[;)]
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