Major electronics retailers are continuing to sell an old iPhone model for their old price, despite Apple dropping the recommended retail price by $150.
Some, however, are selling it for less than the discounted price - a potential saving of more than $200.
Two weeks ago, Apple announced the new iPhone 5, and at the weekend it dropped the price of the old model from $1049 to $899 to anticipate a drop in interest when the latest model is released on Friday. But Harvey Norman, Digital Mobile, Bond & Bond and Noel Leeming were yesterday all still selling the iPhone 4S for $1049.
A spokesman for the Noel Leeming Group, which also owns Bond & Bond, said Apple was still selling the iPhone 4S to it for the old price.
But it was anticipating a drop in a "matter of days". The spokesman said all the stores were still getting them at the same cost price.