Costco to Sell iPhones for $149 in January?

With a contract or Pre Pay?

So would these then be unlocked?

sounds too good to be true. but if it is - great! would they be available from the online store costco.com?

I doubt they will sell it for that cheap. But anything is possible.

+1 ^^^ $199 & $299 just like the rest of them...

How will they be able to do this? Will they be able to subsidize them some how? I don't see how they will make any money doing this.

$199 & $299 just like the rest of them...

I agree. The price WILL be the same as the others. Otherwise, other retailers would be crying unfair advantage and there would be lawsuits against Apple.

$199 and $299.

You can already get a few ATT phones at costco for $50 less then other stores, and get the activation fee waived.

I would not be surprised at all to see a $149 and $244 iPhone at costco with a 2 year contract, and no activation fee. It would be locked of course, just like the ones you get at best buy or any other authorized reseller.

You could feasibly see a difference of $5 or $10 ($194 or $189), but not that much.

If they bump it down to $149, it'll probably require a 3 year contract. Now Americans can experience what cell phone plans are like in Canada (and any other country with 3 year contracts and a minimum of $5 for call display or voicemail.

..... On second thought, that's probably not going to happen. What's more likely is that they'll bump the 8GB iPhone to $149 USD, 16GB iPhone to $249 USD and add a new 32GB model at $349 USD. Remember at the beginning of this year the iPhone got bumped to 16GB in around the same timeframe. I'm pretty sure it was in the first week of February, and most of the time when Apple specifies a month that they'll have a product ready, it's usually in the last week.... or the month after.