Comments on: Apple Supports Breast Cancer Research With Pink iPod Shuffle http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/09/26/apple-supports-breast-cancer-research-with-pink-ipod-shuffle/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:34:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Ed H http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/09/26/apple-supports-breast-cancer-research-with-pink-ipod-shuffle/#comment-451996 Ed H Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:03:58 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/09/26/apple-supports-breast-cancer-research-with-pink-ipod-shuffle/#comment-451996 This is not *APPLE* doing anything. This is Target (or more precisely, a Target partner company, U.S. Merchants,) repackaging a stock-standard previous-color-selection iPod shuffle plus gift card and selling it. Apple has nothing to do with it. And it's not even that a certain amount of money per bundle is being donated. U.S. Merchants (aka "Diversified Re-Packaging") is donating a flat $25,000, then trying to recoup that donation by selling various products this way. (It is even possible that they could actually make more than $25,000 profit off this program.) See http://backstage.ilounge.com/index.php/backstage/comments/repurposing-pink-shuffles-for-breast-cancer-promo/ This is not *APPLE* doing anything. This is Target (or more precisely, a Target partner company, U.S. Merchants,) repackaging a stock-standard previous-color-selection iPod shuffle plus gift card and selling it. Apple has nothing to do with it.

And it’s not even that a certain amount of money per bundle is being donated. U.S. Merchants (aka “Diversified Re-Packaging”) is donating a flat $25,000, then trying to recoup that donation by selling various products this way. (It is even possible that they could actually make more than $25,000 profit off this program.)

See http://backstage.ilounge.com/index.php/backstage/comments/repurposing-pink-shuffles-for-breast-cancer-promo/

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