#Ebay quality macs pro

#Ebay quality macs pro

The Mac Pro shortage risks repeating the iMac fiasco of late 2012, when Apple announced refreshed models in October but did not begin selling them for weeks. Speculation, however, has centered on the fact that the computer is being assembled at a new $100 million Austin, Texas, facility that Apple has touted as part of a made-in-the-USA campaign. 'If I do not get reserve I am keeping it as I really want to keep the computer but will part with it for a price,' the seller wrote.Īpple has not revealed why the Mac Pro, which was unveiled in June at the company's annual developer conference, is in such short supply. The seller who listed the Mac Pro at $5,500 alluded to the extortionate pricing.

More recently, in July 2013, sellers gouged customers who were desperate to get their hands on Google's then-new Chromecast stream-to-TV device, pricing the $35 dongle as high as $300, a whopping 757% markup. In 2010, during the midst of what then-Apple CEO Steve Jobs later called 'Antennagate,' eBay sellers sold 'bumpers' - strips of rubber and plastic that fit around the edges of the iPhone 4 - for as much as three times Apple's price as the Cupertino, Calif., company's own supplies evaporated. Shortages of Apple's iPad 2 in 2011 and the first Retina-equipped iPad in early 2012 drove eBay prices sky-high as sellers listed the tablets for hundreds above retail. It wasn't surprising to see sellers leverage the Mac Pro shortage for cash: When a new technology product is in tight supply, especially right after its launch, money mercenaries quickly materialize.