She is stupid. Cell phone price cut is the nature of the business. The ipod has bigger hard drive and lower price than it was first released. AND she was told that she can only use ATT with the iphone, she knew what she getting into. If she can sue Apple, then why don't her sue herself for being stupid?

Falling boxes on customer's heads at Best Buy: sue away..

But suing because the hardware you just bought got it's price slashed??? WTF? So I should be able to sue for my plasma TV selling cheaper now, along with my XBOX360 that just went on sale?

Her lawyer should be disbarred.

There was no law violated. Any company can charge however much they want for any product they make, and they may or may not make money, depending on if the market can bear the price. So Apple decides to drop the price, and not offer the 4GB version. Where were this *idiot* woman's rights violated?

lol. She bought it and accepted the contract terms and now she is upset. Um ok.

they did not violate price discrimination laws. The discriminating factor here is TIME, which is not covered.

Also, she can't resell the phone anyway because she's under contract! AT&T effectively gave her $200 toward the phone, now she owes them. This is common practice in the US, but not elsewhere.

She'll get laughed out of court on a summary judgement and will probably have to pay apple's legal fees, too.

I can't resell my PS3 for the same kind of return as someone that bought there's post-cut, either. Wah. I'm gonna SUE SONY!

she will get her lawsuit thrown out and only one laughing will be her lawyer who is yet another person that ripped her off....

I'm no lawyer. In fact I know little about "law" beyond what I have gleaned from Law and Order. But the amount to me seems absolutely outrageous. Oh well, I suppose one rule that seems pretty well set in stone in the US is, "If you have alot of money, someone / or some group will find a way legally to try to get some of it"

It is unlikely we will see this headline anytime soon. "Woman sues homeless man for 1 million dollars, claiming his unsightly appearance and tendency to ask for spare change caused her irreparable emotional trauma".

Unless of course the homeless man was loaded.

stupid hoe I hope she dies

How is this situation any different that buying something at a local department store and finding it on sale a month later? If I bought into this lady's thinking, I'd be a millionaire many times over by now.

It seems to me that she made an impulse decision to buy a phone she knew was both expensive and tethered to a hefty service contract, and now wants someone else to take responsibility for her mistake, getting rich in the process.

IMO, just another frivolous lawsuit.

My brother bought the 4 GB model of the iPhone at launch, and he received the $100 rebate. The only reason she wouldn't have been eligible for the rebate is if she bought it within 14 days of the price drop. If that was the case it was her bad for not returning it.

Seriously I hope that when all these frivolous lawsuits against Apple (like the iPhone battery one, and the other price drop suit) get thrown out the plaintiffs have to pay legal fees for Apple.
Those greedy butts are why everything costs so dang much in the US; pretty soon you'll have to pirchase liability insurance just to do a discount.

People will do anything to make a buck. The risk you take for being a first mover is that there may be price cuts for the same product to encourage sales. This woman is looking for an easy buck and shouldn't get a cent. If Apple does decide to give her anything then it should be a refund of her money for the original purchase. 1M is overreaching.

You can sue anybody for anything, anytime!Collecting is another issue! This woman obviously has way too much time on her hands, and the attorney who represents
her needs to get a life and a new job: "Would you like fries with your order"!!

So at best she lost out on a couple hundred dollars. Then why is she suing for $1 million? It is people like this woman who file the cheap law suits that give our justice system a bad rap. But perhaps we should also take aim at the jerk lawyer who took the case.

Ms. Li, why dont you just spill hot coffee on yourself like everyone else?

When are we going to have a loser pays system so that crackpots like this lady will not file frivolous lawsuits. Like Steve said... technology prices go down. I have an iPhone and I'm not upset about the price cut. Just the usual cost of being an early adopter.

oh america, the land of 75 mil $ pants! (was thrown out of course)

wait, so does that mean i can sue exxon when they drop gas prices by $0.10 or walmart when they run a sale? i'm gonna be a millionaire....

it's a tough world out there. nobody forced her yo 1) get an iphone & 2) sign-up with At&t

This is a ridiculous lawsuit. $1 million? hahahahaha

Only in the US!

Should Apple products be labeled
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... ???

Does this mean I should be suing Intel since they cut the price in half of the processor I bought two or three weeks after I bought it? Damn, and all this time I was just settling with the fact that I had poor timing!

Has anyone read the Robinson-Patman Act, which makes price discrimination to harm competition illegal?

This is nothing more than pure greed. Lots of items get price cuts; especially if they do not sell well. I hope they throw her and her lawsuit out. :)

Hope she wins.

Sometimes I can't decide if I should have been a lawyer or a therapist.

I bought a Sony Playstation 2 for $300 5 years ago and now they're only charging $129??!!? And to top it off they have this Playstation 3 thing which will make my PS2 obsolete!??! I'm suing!!!

Someone seriously forked over some cash to file this lawsuit and they are complaining over a few hundred dollars difference! Hahaha! Sorry but am I the only one who can see humor in this.

some people are so petty..

The iPhone is the most entertaining gadget ever! (for those who didn't buy it). Come on iPhanBoys and Girls you can give us a few more laughs.

I'll admit I've never been an apple fan, but hope she wins?! That just encourages more frivolous lawsuits, and guess who ends up paying for those in the long run. No, not the company, but Us, the consumer!

I hate these outrageous lawsuits. Even though I think she should not get one dime; if for nothing else the fact she is obviously looking to get money just cause she was dumb enough to pay, what, $600 for a phone. However when I was living in Florida some old lady actually got a million dollars from McDonalds cause she claimed that the coffee was too hot and when she spilled it she, according to her, 2nd degree burns. So you never know. Shame we have too many people who rather than just saying yeah my fault, being stupid or careless or whatever, no its sue. Next time I get a speeding ticket I am going to sue the car manufacture. After all I never would gotten that ticket if they had not sold me the car in first place. So its really their fault not mine. Right :)

Who's the dumbass lawyer her talked her into it? Christ.

And the law will forbid apple to make anymore iPods and iPhones so there won't be anymore of iDiots like this lady

It sounds like she bought it intending to resell it for a higher price. Now that apple lowered the price she has to sell it for a loss.

Its called supply and demand. After a little while in the market apple decided the sweet spot for the phone was in the $400 price range.

Apple is greedy. They knew there loyal followers would pay $600. Once the followers bought one they lowered the price to a more competitive price that non-apple fanboys might pay.

...for wasting tax dollars. Hopefully Apple will file a counter to suit and charge for their legal defense. Part of me wishes there was some "beyond common sense" waste of time lawsuit that results in a massive fine by the idiot who started it.

You've gotta expect this type of behavior from ANY corporation. They'll tell everyone that the 'market' controls the cost factor, yet the 'market' includes, rather than precludes, everyone who made a purchase, at least through the extent of their warranty period. The problem is these glutenous corps try to take as big a bite as they can out of consumers rather than make it about a moderately necessary 10% profit over R&D and manufacturing costs. On top of that, they're using ultra cheap labor forces that have no real political or consumer power in the same 'market place'. I believe the Bible when it says, "Moderation in all things", including profit.

The reason she is asking 1 million is because the lawyer fees are 999,800.00$

Oh wait a minute, so in some way she is implying that anytime a price drops on anything, the consumer has the right to take the company to court. With that logic, I could be a millionaire by now. All the clothes, hardware, software, electronic stuff that I have ever bought have dropped their price 10 times over, so I am liable to who knows how much money.
This is ridicules. Who told her to stand in line for hours and buy the phone at that price? That’s because she wanted to show off to here friends, that she could afford a ridiculously overpriced phone. She shouldn’t get a dime. In fact if I was the owner of Apple I would counter sue her for frivolous lawsuit. This is so stupid. It shouldn’t even be in the news.

We should all sue her for wasting our time and potentially raising future prices.

Do we really want companies to be afraid of dropping prices so they won't get sued?

To quote another poster:
"Stupid hoe I hope she dies"

... please tell me why we have to wait for moderators to approve our posts instead of them going directly to the thread? How was that constructive at all.

can't wait for the follow up on this!

she deffiantly should not be sueing!!

Serves her ass right for being the overzealous materialist she is and buy the thing at zero hour. For what life or death need could one justifying just having to purchase this thing at one minute past midnight anyway?

- T

Get over it! You should have waited til the price went down, or just get use to paying top dollar when something first comes out. Apple should file a counter suite for her stupidity of filing a million dollar law suite.

Robert, please read the article located at following link...

http://www.blueletterbible.org/faq/sayings.html

Moderation in all things is not a quote from the Bible. It's a derivation of a statement made by Aristotle.

Now on to your statements regarding corporations.

Making only a 10% gross margin over your R&D is ABSOLUTELY REDICULOUS (not to mention that is not how any company would attempt to set a price for a product, R&D is just ONE cost that goes into pricing). Margins like that would mean you couldn't pay your employees, give benefits of ANY sort etc. not to mention that your NET profit would probably be negative. And what in the WORLD does "moderately necessary" mean???

It always irks me when people act as though all companies should basically have a not-for-profit mindset. A "fair" price and a "fair" profit is whatever a customer is willing to pay. If a company is making a large profit, that's just fine, it means they will be around to make more products, expand business, hire more people and so on. Not to mention that not every product is a smash hit, meaning that a company has to make its money when given the chance because the future is never certain.

Supply and demand is an inescapable law. You cannot ignore it and attempting to manipulate it is typically a futile effort (except in VERY specific cases like a monopoly which does not apply here).

Naturally this case will be dismissed and she should indeed have to pay Apple's legal fees. My prediction, however, is that Apple will offer her a full refund and a free 8gb iPhone to drop the suit before it ever goes to court....she will then proceed to sell the iPhone on Ebay.

Lol.. watch apple/AT&T win, then sue her for their court costs..

One lawyer proabably costs more money than that woman makes in a year. It would make more sense for Apple to give away a free phone to shut up an idiot, rather than spending one day in court. This is really one perfect example of the major problems plaguing the United States. Too many morons that cannot accept personal mistakes. Instead of learning from the mistakes, they go on to make bigger ones.

Two year contracts basically prepay part of the cost of a new cell phone, but they are fundamentally non-competitive because the early cancellation penalty is not prorated. You could cancel the contract after 22 months and you pay the same penalty as if you cancel it in the 2nd month, even though the phone has substantially depreciated after 22 months (if it even still works), but bared is near new after only two months. Cell companies would use mutually compatible phone hardware instead of making cell phone company unique locked to a carrier phone if competition were continuous and not just every two years. If you change phone companies you new company could pay the depreciated value of the phone to the old company. Besides, every customer who signs a contract more than 14 days before a price reduction gets angry at being left out of the offer since they can't drop the cell company.

I can believe the American Justice System has sunk so low that she would even consider doing this. Is she an Idiot that she can actually justify this in her(small) mind!

How do you sue a company because you weren't allowed to price gouge on a resell. She got greedy, and Apple didn't burn her,she burned herself. Good

Couple words, MADE IN CHINA = GREED

Couple Words; MADE IN CHINA (Dongmei Li) = GREED
This precisely is the reason Mattel had all those recalls, the Chinese have no God so they worship money instead. I should know, my last Boss married a Chinese and things went downhill way fast from then on.

I know that those first people who bought the phone are angry at apple for doing what they did..I am sure this person is not the first one who thought of this over-zealous idea...but this is obviously going waaay too far here, I mean..seriously, is the service sector spoiling it's customers to the point that they feel they have the right to sue the companies they do business with now when they feel cheated in ANY way, shape or form????
and second of all,,please do not go hating at ALL the Chineese people for the stupid idiotic actions of ONE person of that particular race!!!!that is the reason the whole world is angry at us americans right now..they judge the actions of just the few americans in power and think WE ALL FEEL that way..we don't always agree with ouselvs either!!The Chineese people right now are getting a really bad rap for their actions regarding Mattel toys,bad toothpaste and pet food,, you think they are trying to kill us americans or something!!!but hey, they(at least the ones I know of) are beautiful people who work very hard and are curious to learn more about all they do, not to mention we owe China a crap-load of money that they loaned us years ago, they are making so much money over there we may have to start marrying them to keep our good standard of living intact!!!!not exactly too bad an idea from where I'm at right now...

Why being discriminative? The Chinese have many gods if you know anything. Besides, the Chinese are being contracted by greedy companies from foreign countries like the US. How in the world do you think Walmark can sell so cheap? If you read the news, Mattel has apologized to the Chinese admitting intentionally over exaggerated the recall to cover up their own design flaws. We elected another Bush, and the world has gone downhill. Give me a break.

Well if she wins, I will sue HP and Microsoft for selling PCs that only allow installation of Windows NT, XP and Vista...

But I don't think that I am that stupid....

she is complaining about 200 dollars more or less?...wow..i wonder how much it cost her to sue them?...some people are not to bright...and she bought it like so many others did..when it came out...i wonder if she goes to mcdonalds the next day and says i want a refund on my bigmac LOL

.. is how many comments this "fait divers" generates. Let it die a silent dead, already...

First off I'm going to jump off a bridge because I will lose all hope for humanity....

People are waaaay too sue crazy now a days.. Everyone (in the US atleast) seems to think that everything should be fair and equal.. See what "equal opportunity" puts into peoples minds? The world isn't fair. When you purchase something, you are making a conscious choice that the product you are buying is worth as much as you are giving for it.... You can't be like "Wahhh! Mommy! Thats not fair! They got it cheaper!"

try working for a living honey!

When you make allot of something, it gets cheaper to make. Apple has been selling quite a few iPhones. I would guess that Apples cost per phone has dropped quite a bit.

I can't wait to hear all the whiners and complainers when Apple releases iPhone 2.0.