Australian Buyers Say They Were Told "No iPad Without Accessories"

CuteSteveJobs writes "Australian iPad buyers have been forced to buy all manner of unnecessary add-ons, including screen protectors, docking stations, covers, chargers, and extended warranties, due to a reported official Apple policy. Shoppers reported sales assistants said it was 'company policy' or 'Apple policy' to sell the devices only with accessories, or not at all. A store manager for Authorised Apple Reseller JB Hi-Fi said it was 'a bad policy but it was Apple's policy and they couldn't sell one without it.' Other customers were told they must 'buy a Telstra SIM because the iPad is locked to Telstra,' even though it wasn't. The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission and Consumer Affairs are investigating the complaints."

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[BitZtream]

...another tedious chestnut that appears like clockwork whenever a company gets criticism for sales practices or goods people don't like.

You get those chestnuts because we're tired of retards like yourself and the GP whining about it.

You know the drill.

Its not new, its certainly not new for Apple. They haven't changed. They aren't getting any worse. They aren't the only ones that do this sort of thing, its pretty common even if you're too busy railing against the machine to know how often you buy into this same thing.

We're just tired of seeing you idiots rant on about the same thing over and over again as if its something different and that Apple is just the scum of the Earth for doing it.

As soon as you stop making retarded statements about how evil the company is everytime the do something that makes them money because you disagree with it, then the rest of us will stop saying ...

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUY IT YOU FUCKING MORON.