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What happens to Apple products' prices now?
 
Up. The RM is likely to decline in the short term as investors pull out. [ 14 ] ** [16.67%]
Down. They did promise to abolish GST. [ 41 ] ** [48.81%]
Same. [ 29 ] ** [34.52%]
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westlife
post May 17 2018, 08:50 AM

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Apple does not revise the price so often. Only once a year. Even if there is any changes in price due to no GST. It may takes a while before it is effective.
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post May 17 2018, 10:29 AM

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QUOTE(attw @ May 17 2018, 09:32 AM)
Yeah, possibly in September, after the new iPhone announcement.

What interests me though, is once the GST is zero-rated, the price of everything should no longer reflect the 6% we see in the tax invoice so by default, wouldn’t most things be automatically cheaper?
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yes, by rite, it is.

because before GST implemented, bolehland apple products can be cheaper as high as SGD80+ comparing to lion city.

there were one period buying macbook in bolehland is so much cheaper than lion city.

few years back, due to the weakning of MYR, apple revised price 3 times in a year.
two times becos of currency, one time becos of GST.

that's the reason why bolehland price is now higher or same as lion city.
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post Jun 1 2018, 09:05 AM

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QUOTE(adam.wong @ Jun 1 2018, 07:22 AM)
Roughly RM 340 lesser for MacBook Pro too. Yayyers!

But lets wait for WWDC to see what are they going announce.
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Price without GST for MacBook is still same price as lion city with 7% GST. Not exactly cheaper seriously.
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post Jun 1 2018, 09:05 AM

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QUOTE(adam.wong @ Jun 1 2018, 07:22 AM)
Roughly RM 340 lesser for MacBook Pro too. Yayyers!

But lets wait for WWDC to see what are they going announce.
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Price without GST for MacBook is still same price as lion city with 7% GST. Not exactly cheaper seriously.
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post Jun 1 2018, 06:47 PM

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QUOTE(attw @ Jun 1 2018, 09:07 AM)
Buy at Changi and get the 7% GST waived. Cheaper already biggrin.gif
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yup, even with GST is cheaper, without GST at airport, it is even cheaper than bolehland (even now without 6% GST).
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post Jun 7 2018, 05:19 PM

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QUOTE(attw @ Jun 7 2018, 03:36 PM)
The reason I went with Cellular rather than WiFi only: -

1. Cellular models have GPS, sometimes I use Waze on my iPad
2. Cellular models have slightly better resale value
3. I’m too lazy to switch on hotspot

I doubt those are good enough reasons to justify spending another 500 bucks though laugh.gif
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Good thing for cellular version of iPad is that if go overseas and u buy a data Sim u can use it as a hotspot for ur mobile phone and other devices. This is good if one does not have a mifi device etc.
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