It pays to be pink. At least Garmin thinks so.

May 27, 2009

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in Amazing, Annoying, Deals, Depressing, GPS, Hardware, Money, Ridiculous, Technology, Toys

For my mother’s birthday I purchased a TomTom One 130. The updated maps had the other half of my road, so I was happy it could navigate more efficiently. Tonight I stumbled across a new site called DealWaiter. I plugged in “Garmin Nuvi” and it had a few results but also had a link to buy it immediately on Amazon.com. I’m sure that link is purely platonic, right? Hah! It turns out the Garmin Nuvi 250 comes in two colors: pink and silver.

I was blown away by the price difference:

Amazon.com - Garmin Nuvi 250 - Price comparison between silver and pink versions — Amazon.com – Garmin Nuvi 250 – Price comparison between silver and pink versions

Silver: $109.99
Pink: $471.99
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Difference: $362.00

The difference alone could purchase
3.3 units of the silver model!

Garmin isn’t the only company who discriminates based on color. Want a black Mac? Better have some “I’m rich!” money laying around. Apple used to have both black and white MacBooks and the typical difference was $100+.

What ridiculous discrepancies have you found?

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One response to “It pays to be pink. At least Garmin thinks so.”

evan

May 28, 2009

If I recall correctly, the black and white macbooks had slightly different specs. I remember because people were completely innocuously saying, “the black one runs faster.”

It pays to be pink. At least Garmin thinks so.

The difference alone could purchase3.3 units of the silver model!

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The difference alone could purchase
3.3 units of the silver model!