Just got update on a price reduction on the 9th Gen ipad. I purchased only 2 days ago for $397…my loss…your gain.
Apple iPad (9th Gen) 10.2" Wi-Fi 64GB $347 + Delivery ($0 C&C/ in-Store) @ JB Hi-Fi
2190
LKreate on 07/02/2025 - 16:14 jbhifi.com.au (7825 clicks)
Last edited 07/02/2025 - 22:54 by 2 other users
Last edited 07/02/2025 - 22:54 by 2 other users
Related Stores
Comments
- 1
- 2
i checked with online chat. They said it's up to the discretion of the staff in the store. apparently, there is no written policy.
there is no written policy.
I'm not going to look for it as I don't have the time but they do have a written policy on Price protection. You have 2 weeks.
Yep they do, it's printed on the counter at my local
no its not, its a written policy, did this several times, I just called the store I bought the item from
wish officeworks had something like this. went to the store today and manager straight up denied the existence any policy of the sort.
Note to self, officeworks is the last resort if I ever consider buying from them again.
@IanMcweebs: They have that price match + extra 5% off policy though. It can be worth making exceptions for that
@IanMcweebs: Return it and buy it back? That's what I did at ALDI when they sold Lenovo tablets for $200, the lowered it to $150 and again to $100.
If you have changed your mind about your purchase, Officeworks will be pleased to offer you a refund or exchange in-store only, provided that:
I've never been asked for the sealed plastic wrapping to be intact when returning a product in Australia, have you? Just factory reset it, put it back in the box — you kept it, didn't you? 😉 — and Bob's your uncle.
@wisdomtooth: I'm not sure, but it only makes sense. Obviously an opened product has lost a significant amount of value and has to be sold at a lower price. There are a few places, like Amazon that will allow you to return opened items. But they're the exception.
Only 2 days. It's worth giving it a go.
Negative. It's a policy. My sister did it late last year without issue - just take your receipt back in and ask for the refund of the difference.
Purchase one for $347, then return it using the $397 receipt? (Does the receipt show the serial number?)
I think the receipt does not show the serial number but they still have it linked to the receipt on their system.
Find out when I was claiming warranty on a phone that they previously replaced.
I won't lie, we record IMEI for phones but nothing for iPads unless extra warranty was purchased. But of course ermmm I wouldn't do that… heh
The box has a serial number on it.
It was a written policy. It's been quietly removed from the website. But stores still honour it if you ask.
Great price, but remember this has been discontinued for a while now.
i know. i bought it for my mother in law who uses it purely to watch YouTube. She was upgrading from a 1st Gen Ipad Air. Nothing wrong with her old device except she is not able to update the youtube app anymore so its unusable. Plus its similar experience with the button. no need to change the way shes been using it.
Yep still a great device. Future updates would be more only concern.
Anyway to block YouTube ads
YES!, Use the Brave browser to watch YT add free. Furthermore, If you add the video to the Brave Playlist, it downloads and you can watch offline with ZERO ads. It is just amazing, not sure how this still works and YT hasn't taken this feature down.
you can use TrollStore to download tweaked Utube with no ads. Its work on my old iPad.
Sounds like a fire sale OP
my loss…your gain.
Thank you for your service.
no free lunches
And Officeworks is quick to match the price.
No thanks to their AI 😢
We're calling web scrapping AI now?
the brainrot marketing worked
How many more years worth of updates can you expect for this gen?
probably another 3 years or so. Unfortunately this model came out in 2021, and if you assume support for 7 years; it'll probably get its last update in 2028.
Will still be perfectly usable though for a long time after that though.
I won’t, because a future update will make it run so shit that you’re forced to upgrade.
It’s happened to most of my old Apple devices.
I won’t, because a future update will make it run so shit that you’re forced to upgrade
hmm… meanwhile my folks have been using the first gen ipad mini till last year. In my experience their devices last lot longer than any other shit on the market.
@kaleidoscope: They do — I have an 14-year old iPad mini 2 that's perfectly fine, even after being subjected to 5 years of toddler abuse — but it's now a pain to use bc Apple makes it nearly impossible to install apps compatible older versions (unless you jailbreak it, or you had installed them before, but still have to downgrade every time the app gets offloaded).
you know that most people here dont play games on iPad
Given that the oldest non-pro iPad to get the latest iOS is an 2018 model and this is actually a 2021 model you would expect another 3-4 years latest iOS from now.
Then you will should security updates for several years taking you to 2030+
I'm no Apple fanboy but overall I dont think thats too bad. Far worse is the 64GB memory which has been appauling for many years. As someone who uses these the Office cache can regularly bloat whatever left of the free space leaving them without unable to take photos or videos or use some apps.
I feel like 64gb on an ipad is a lot more forgiving than 64gb on a phone. When i used to have a 64gb iphone xs, i did struggle with space, but half of it was photos and videos.
I've never even taken a photo or video with my ipad.
Apps would take up the balance of the space, but if you're not doing heavy gaming then those apps dont add up to too much either.
Good to use this as a car map/ gps?
wifi only iPads don't have GPS, so no.
Thanks for the clarification
You’ll need an iPad with cellular abilities as they come with gps capabilities.
My work mounted tablets in cars. Half of them expanded with the batteries going bad.
So dont leave it inside all.the time.
Not to mention your local car burglar
No burglars in my area luckily
And nearly $500 more for the usable 246gb model!
My work iPad with 3 pages full of apps still has 36.2GB free out of 64GB.
Power users/gamers who need a lot of storage aren’t going to buy a base iPad anyways. The 9th gen only has 3GB of RAM and the 10th gen only has 4GB which is much less than the 8/16GB of RAM that the other iPads have.
Yes your work iPad is probably full of frontends for websites/databases apps & emails & word docs/PDFs.
Home based users tend to store video (whether its 4gb of YT cache), videos & photos. Umm gamers like.Minecraft & Roblox uses heaps of storage, bit don't need CPU power. there's music too. Two of our kid ones both have over 150gb used.
Awesome! Will get it tomorrow or Sunday hopefully
64gb is fine for me. No interest in games.
My kids still using 32gb 5th Gen which is more than enough for their needs.
Not so fast mate… I bought the 64gb 10th gen thinking it'd be too limiting. I was wrong. Went on a long haul flight/ holiday with it and it had enough storage space for 12 (!!!) fully downloaded movies, my music and apps. More than sufficient for many people. Obviously some people need more, but surprisingly the 64gb does take you a decent way.
Holy shit it's Broden. How much storage did those PS3s have mate?
The man, the myth, the legend…Broden
Not if you buy 20.
Last iPad to use the Lightning connector.
Yup, good riddance.
Nearly bought this but stopped due to this reason. Don't want another Lightning device when everything else is USB C.
Yup I'm waiting for 10th gen to be at this price. Sick of Lightning ports. Should never exist in the first place
Any day now
Dude it was a great port when it was invented! It was usb-c like when there was only micro usb.
@Fuzor: It still doesn't make the current situation better. Apple should have adopted usb-c earlier.
Apple took 9 years to drop the lighting port on the iPhone after usb c came out. They actively harmed the adoption of usb c by sticking to lightning. It took 10 years for the average phone user to have a usb c phone.
@Skarpi TT: Yeah and so much waste plus enforcing us who own their devices to buy their lightning cables. Totally hate it for 9 years and ongoing until dumping their old pads and phones
You saved me $347
Thanks for highlighting this
this is the 2021 ipad….almost 4 years old now :S
Sure. It's still fast enough for casual tasks and will get more updates than 99% of cheap Androids.
I'm an android household but like an iPad. I'll get this over 10th gen just because I have an OG keyboard/pencil from an iPad pro my son smashed
And you reckon it can’t play YouTube, for emails and browse Instagram?
Which is what most people use these for.
And you reckon it can’t play YouTube, for emails and browse Instagram?
I didnt say that, but cant a cheap $150 andriod do that?
We use these for clock in devices for staff. Mounted to the wall they work a treat and better quality and faster than similar priced Androids that we also have in the fleet.
Games crash on mine but still useful.
Which game? how about roblox?
I only play hearthstone haha
At first I was like cheap then I saw it was 9th gen
Lightning. Can’t do it. I want no more lightning in our house.
It was thunderstorm in Melbourne last week.
even though cheap I recommend waiting for the new budget iPad (11th Gen) just about to be released and buying that with discount GC you have saved up.
because it's gonna support apple intelligence it's getting a jump in chip generation (giving you even longer support maybe even more than 5-7 years). A14 —> A16 with some rumors saying it might even get A17 Pro. normally it's always just one jump like it was before A13 —> A14.
best time to invest in budget ipad with 11th gen double jump in chip doesn't happen often or regularly. I have been putting up with a cracked screen 9th gen waiting for this so I will most likely buy 11th gen on release with 10% off GC I have saved up by buying over the years.
not happy with the jacked budget ipad 10th price during covid though it was double what I got the 9th gen for.
also hoping for base storage to be 128GB for 11th to soften the big price. 64GB is enough for basic use for me, OS, 2 games, streaming apps, photos video etc and I have 20GB left. if I install another mainstream game that's storage 95% full.A13 is an iPhone 11 chip. M2 iPad cost 1k which completely reflects the performance difference, thus no idea where people see "bargain"
Geekbench 6 multi-core benchmark tests the system's performance under partial load.
Apple A13 Bionic Apple A13 Bionic 6C 6T @ 2.65 GHz 3599 (36%)
Apple M2 Apple M2 8C 8T @ 3.50 GHz 10062 (100%)yeah but tbf iPhones are way more popular, so they can sell them for higher price. tablets are way less popular than smartphones apparently.
laptops also being less and less popular so they drop the prices on them at the same time as raising prices on iPhones. iPads are probably more popular than laptops soon.
I always thought how confusing it is how small a iPhone is, but it costs equal to or more than a iPad Pro or Macbook air. I mean Macbook air is a 20x bigger piece of all aluminum. but they can keep selling iPhones no problem while raising price every year so that's why.
Not buying anything before 11th Gen is out - even after that.
We purchased this online for $397 about 8 days ago. Already back in NZ now and claimed TRS too.
Hopped on the JB Hi-Fi chat and there was a bit of a wait but once we got the right agent he processed a refund no problem.Couldn't find any mention of price protection on their website though.
hows the TRS queue at airports these days?
Very fast. It was like 2 people in the queue. No queue at all for the "Border Force Client services" who didn't even want to sight the goods and stamped all our invoices no questions asked. This is for goods that need to go in check in.
We did have problems with the QR code from online though. For some reason it wouldn't show up properly in photos or iMessage, the code would be transparent. We eventually figure it out by dragging the image which brought it out of transparency and enough for their scanner to pick it up.
Once scanned they checked the stamped invoices and we were on our way. They didn't even check the goods.
Not too much work for a ~$277, brand new iPad (we used GCs as well)
20% TRS??
More like $311, no?
Depends on time of day
Wow great deal. These are fast and will be supported for ages as the hardware is pretty decent now.
But no, they won’t support Apple intelligence but that has a way to go and better suited to an iPhone if you must use it.
I may buy one just to leave in the kitchen while I cook to watch YouTube and X.
Just got update on a price reduction
How do you get notifications from JB?
nfi…. I just saw a prompt in the taskbar from jbhifi saying the ipad I was looking at had a price reduction. I assumed I must of had a tab still open from a few days ago.
Don’t forget the gift cards from MacQuarie Bank - a further 4% discount at $13.88 brining the price down to $333.12 👍
- 1
- 2
Claim back $50 brother. Ask them for price match