Baldy, BestBye not selling the iMac well, is what I think.
BestBye is in a real odd position with regard to selling the iMac. First of all, they never sold macs in the first place- they just put them on the shelves, let them get all dusty, and the mac faithful could buy one, if they shoved a few 17-23 year old "salesmen" out of the way. I expect it is the same situation now. I'm going to stop at the BestBye and see for myself what is up there.
So, BBye has iMacs to sell. If they had a plan, they would put them by the TV's and Web-TV set-top boxes. Sell them like consumer internet surfing appliances, instead of putting them in the hubbub of the wintel circus isles. Hey, Wait! They ARE consumer web surfing appliances! And BBye is an appliance store! It is a major retail screw-up if CompUSA can sell zillions of these things from the computer store, and BBye can't sell the hell out of them from their appliance store. Does it matter to AAPL? I don't think so. They have not yet cut wholesale prices.
Does this matter to BBye, CPU, MWHS, MALL, MZON, COOL, and the host of long-time mac retailers? Probably.
Why else could BBye be doing this? They know something is up.MacWorld Expo is January 4-8. macworldexpo.com
Steve Jobs has made these things major events for Apple and AAPL has responded with spikes up. Given the interruptions in trading days before Jan 4, and that it is no secret AAPL spikes on these events, I placed by bet last Wednesday- betting on a $35 pin to the max-pain strike price of $35. Now I'm waiting on the January effect and the January Show effect, with surprisingly few trading days left to go in the year- and everyone and their dog knowing about 'em.
Good luck on this one- I think technical analysis and fundamentals must give way to buyers speculating on traditional event-driven price spike you can almost set your watch to. Then momentum players, and short-covering...
Like shooting fish in a barrel. Um, sometimes you can shoot yourself in the foot- so place your bets, and let's see what happens!
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