Airpods Pro $199.99 AT&T Store **YMMV**

Just went looking for a pair at Costco !! I guess they don't carry them so I am looking on ebay. So please inform me WTH is up with ebay, some people say they are selling clones, other don't but for the price you know they are fake, so whats the whole deal with the flood of fake and clones and real ones, is it safe to buy them on ebay?

Quote from Dilbertic : Just went looking for a pair at Costco !! I guess they don't carry them so I am looking on ebay. So please inform me WTH is up with ebay, some people say they are selling clones, other don't but for the price you know they are fake, so whats the whole deal with the flood of fake and clones and real ones, is it safe to buy them on ebay?

Its Online item only for Costco

I should have looked and they should have had the sales cards out on the display. So how is it ebay people are selling the 140.00 case and buds for 80 bucks on ebay new sealed

Doesn't work

Signed in but can't replicate online.

Wait so basically go to a local at&t store and AirPod pros with 2 other accessories should lower the cost to 200?

Quote from Dilbertic : I should have looked and they should have had the sales cards out on the display. So how is it ebay people are selling the 140.00 case and buds for 80 bucks on ebay new sealed

They're knock-offs when they're so low ..... those Sellers are probably from overseas.

BUT ..... ingenious people buy them in bulk and resell on Ebay, Craigslist, OfferUp, LetGo, etc.

And what can you REALLY do to get your $$$ back when you LATER discover you got knock-offs???

Many things are copied and sold through a website I cannot mention here because I've been told by SD I cannot mention that website here again..... understood? Sad, but true.

What typically happens is a company, like a Danish company famous for their interlocking bricks of plastic (their name has four letters, starts with an L), will contract with a Chinese manufacturer to make a million bricks.

That manufacturer gets all the specs, and begins production ..... production of both the million plastic bricks for that L-company ...... AND two million of the same bricks for themselves.

A Millennium Falcon that should be 750 USD from that L-company costs only 250 USD from the Chinese company.

With electronics it's the same .... once Apple shares specs with a manufacturer, it's Game Over .... Counterfeits hit the market before the legit stuff even gets to America.

..... in a way, it's NOT an Apple Airpod because Apple only contracted with that Chinese manufacturer to make X-number of Airpods .... but it "is" an Apple Airpod since that Chinese company made X+Z number of Airpods.

One INGENIOUS group decided to take knock-off Chinese iPhones to Apple Stores ALL OVER the U.S. ..... and swindled Apple out of big bucks!!! Details:

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/05/71...one-scheme

...... NOTE: Even APPLE THEMSELVES didn't know they were getting a counterfeit at the store!!!

How will you know, when Apple Store people don't know?

You could try: there should be online videos on identifying Counterfeit from Legit Airpods..... I know because this past December 23rd I get a text from a buddy asking where he can buy Airpods as a gift .... and I explained all of the above preventing him from making a mistake.

He did score a legit pair ..... from his local AT&T store, ironically.

Doesn't work online. Gets the 20% on the accessories only.

Quote from Dilbertic : I should have looked and they should have had the sales cards out on the display. So how is it ebay people are selling the 140.00 case and buds for 80 bucks on ebay new sealed

Same reason youre a descendant of a Nigerian Prince

Quote from Dilbertic : Just went looking for a pair at Costco !! I guess they don't carry them so I am looking on ebay. So please inform me WTH is up with ebay, some people say they are selling clones, other don't but for the price you know they are fake, so whats the whole deal with the flood of fake and clones and real ones, is it safe to buy them on ebay?

My brother got taken with fake Airpods Pro from ebay. Please do not buy them from ebay as some sellers are selling fakes for close to the price of the real ones. I knew it was a fake the second I saw it.

Quote from Siwiiboy : Wait so basically go to a local at&t store and AirPod pros with 2 other accessories should lower the cost to 200?

Exactly

This works, but don't be a jerk and return the other items. You can get Aux to lightning dongles for $7.50 each, for example, and it makes the AirPods Pro ring for $199.99

I called my local AT&T store, and he said that AirPods are excluded from the 20% promotion. But on my request, to double check, he tried to ring 3 AirPods (I asked him to ring 3 AirPods just to make it easy instead of hunting 2 other accessories) and the 20% discount didn't kick in

If this has worked for anyone else beside the OP, please post.

Quote from EliteGeek2013 : This works, but don't be a jerk and return the other items. You can get Aux to lightning dongles for $7.50 each, for example, and it makes the AirPods Pro ring for $199.99

Quote from EliteGeek2013 : This works, but don't be a jerk and return the other items. You can get Aux to lightning dongles for $7.50 each, for example, and it makes the AirPods Pro ring for $199.99

You're telling people to not be a jerk by returning items to AT&T? Thank God scumbag corporations have people like you defending them online. Heaven forbid AT&T loses a couple dollars off the deal. Check your priorities. Nobody likes a bootlicker. Total clown post.