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這記者程度也不怎麼樣，購買 iPad 不一定要信用卡，用所謂的 VISA 金融卡之類的（debit card）也是可以。要擁有一張 debit card 很簡單，只要拿著現金去銀行開個戶（ checking account ），銀行就會發給你，並不需要什麼菁英份子或是高級天龍人。
Apple no-cash policy for iPad takes some by surprise
Apple 有這規定並不是 iPad 才開始，從 iPhone 就有了。 iPhone 上面主要是要做信用檢查（ credit check ），因為在美國 iPhone 是要榜兩年約。這次在 iPad目的就只是因為產量不足，要限制每個客戶只能購買兩台，並不是什麼高級天龍人才能購買的想法。想想看，如果用現金要怎麼限制？另外這個規定只有在 Apple Store 才有，如果你只有現金，也是可以到附近的 Best Buy 去買。
另外，你也可以到 Apple Store 買 gift card ，然後在用這 gift card 到線上商店買 iPad ，實體商店會跟你說不行，不過線上商店客服說這樣也是可以的，因為一個 Apple ID 只能買兩台。事實上在到處缺貨的情況下，這樣比去實體商店訂購還要快。
我也承認這樣的確是有點不方便，不過要試圖限制每個人買兩台，這招雖然不完美，但是在產量不足的情況下的確可以大量減少買一堆然後轉售牟利的機率。
http://trashtalkapple.blogspot.com/
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yrchern wrote:
這記者程度也不怎麼樣...(恕刪)
補充一點，原文英文是寫的很中性的，並沒有特別偏袒哪一方。只是稍微暗諷apple ipad不收現金，造成弱勢族群不便。美國只要工作正常信用正常，有這些塑膠貨幣是很簡單的，但是偏偏一推美國人就是信用收入不正常所以沒有信用卡也沒有金融卡，這是很普遍的現象。
那記者翻譯的實在有點篇跛，所以也不是很客觀，建議大家讀讀原文吧，不然只會被中文記者牽著鼻子走。
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/7_on_your_side&id=7447037
"Cash not always welcome at Apple stores"
PALO ALTO (KGO) -- It is said that "cash is king" and that people can buy anything with U.S. currency. But, that is not always true and the red hot Apple iPad is a case in point.
It is unbelievable but true.
Apple Computer has come a long way since its old renegade pirate days when it was all about making computers accessible to everybody. Now, it seems the company is more worried about guarding against piracy.
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So, your cash is not always welcome at the Apple store.
Diane Campbell can play a few songs on her guitar, but she wants to learn a few more. All she has to do, she says, is go online and download some instructions.
"Different YouTube videos where people would go online and play their music, and kind of break it down into pieces," she said describing her method.
Being disabled and on a fixed income, Campbell held off on buying a computer until the Apple iPad came along. It was small, mobile and perfect for her needs. So, little by little she saved up the $600 she needed to get one.
"It took quite a long time for me to just save up this small amount of money to go down and purchase one," she said. "I had my cash in the backpack and I went up proudly to the counter and told them, 'I would like to purchase an iPad.'"
She was at the Apple store in Palo Alto, about to pull out the big wad of cash and take home her first computer. Instead, she received a terrible blow.
"They said, 'Sorry, we don't take cash.' And, so I looked at her and I said OK she's kidding," Campbell recalled.
However, the clerk was not kidding. The Apple sales policy says if you want an iPad, you must pay by credit card or debit card. Diane didn't have any plastic and amazingly her cash was useless.
"It's sort of astounding to think here is this U.S. dollar, this money put out by the U.S. Treasury Department, and it's being turned away," Alan Fisher says.
Fisher, of California Reinvestment Coalition, advocates for low-income consumers who have trouble getting credit or mortgages.
"Apple is coming at this in a very heavy-handed way, and it means that their nice products are not being able to be enjoyed by people who already have many difficulties accessing the rest of mainstream society," he says.
"When you save for months and then you say OK I finally get to do it, finally get to have some type of internet, and all of a sudden no you don't," Campbell said.
She contacted 7 On Your Side and we contacted Apple Computer. The company only pointed to their purchase policy. It says there is a limit of two iPads per customer and you must pay by credit or debit card. Gift cards will not work either.
Apple did not respond to a 7 On Your Side request for an explanation of the policy, however, the store clerk told Campbell it was to prevent con artists from buying lots of iPads selling them overseas.
"They heard of people buying 50 and 100 iPads at a time and going overseas and selling them triple the amount, Campbell said.
Campbell walked out of the store without her iPad. She's still playing the same Eric Clapton and Elton John songs and waiting for the day Apple will take good old cash.
"Come on Mr. Jobs, give a sister a break, okay," she says. "I'm not going to go sell my iPad."
The U.S. Treasury Department says there is nothing in the law that requires companies to accept cash as payment, even though it is "legal tender." The Apple no-cash policy applies only to iPads and iPhones, although you can at least use a gift card to buy an iPhone.
(Copyright ©2010 KGO-TV/DT. All Rights Reserved.)
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deapblue wrote:
只怪ipad出貨太慢、太少才會搞得大家買不到
並不是賣得太好賣到缺貨...(恕刪)
一個從未有過的商品分類（我個人稱之為『類平板』），一款全新的產品，
在短短不到一個月內『才』賣超過100萬台的銷量(and 生產量)，
嗯～
賣得真差～
（我看其他賣3C產品不到這個速度的公司可以直接收一收了～
）還是你認為Apple應該先花10個月屯個1000萬台iPad後，再全球一起發售？！
deapblue wrote:
就像是case這種東西怎麼也會缺貨我就不懂？就是因為當初數量太少嘛！...(恕刪)
打個比方，
如果你是做電腦包包的公司，
某新電腦推出的第一個月你會打算出貨多少量？
（前提是這款電腦的尺寸大小與厚度是目前沒有過的商品Size，而且市面上有n家廠商也會出專用case～）
又，
如果你是商家，在新款電腦發表的當月，
你覺得應該進貨多少專用包包的量？總公司能分給一間支店多少量？你又有本事吃下多少量？
（沒有「進銷存」概念的人不回答也沒關係～）
--
給在美國卻因缺貨而買不到iPad的人，
iPad,iPad case在門市缺貨，你可以去Online Store訂～(反正最後都要用卡結帳～)
至於非美國的消費者，請等你所住之處有公司代理進貨，不然就請自己的「小朋友」進貨～
市場機制，沒什麼好說的～
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chhuang1010 wrote:
補充一點，原文英文是寫的很中性的，並沒有特別偏袒哪一方。只是稍微暗諷apple ipad不收現金，造成弱勢族群不便。美國只要工作正常信用正常，有這些塑膠貨幣是很簡單的，但是偏偏一推美國人就是信用收入不正常所以沒有信用卡也沒有金融卡，這是很普遍的現象。
Debit Card ( 金融卡)就算是沒有工作沒有收入都拿得到
因為只要拿著現金去銀行開個戶（ checking account ），銀行就會發給你，並不需要什麼菁英份子或是高級天龍人。
跟殘不殘障沒有關係
還有，雖然在台灣現金是王道沒錯，但現金也不過是一種支付工具，
店舖有指定的支付方式並不違法。
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Raymond Lui wrote:
Debit Card ( 金融卡)就算是沒有工作沒有收入都拿得到...(恕刪)
是啊！剛看到這新聞想到的第一件事就是怎麼不用 debit card/check card？
在美國生活的成人應該都有 checking account，用來開支票付帳單，
留學生到美國後第一件事，把錢存進銀行開戶，銀行也都是發一張 debit card/check card 給你，
還會告訴你卡上面的 Visa 或 MasterCard 標誌表示你可以在接受這些卡的店家直接扣款消費，
去超市買東西結帳時，還可以跟收銀員說要順便領個幾十元現金，
沒有信用卡或 debit card，表示你要時時備有現金，
或是在超市結帳時，看這後面等著結帳的長長的人龍，悠哉的拿出支票簿來結帳...
除非這位女士沒有合法居留權？無法到銀行開戶？但是看新聞又不是；
話說現在美國正為了非法移民的問題吵得沸沸湯湯...
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