I am in the not so enviable position of being one of the nitwits who purchased a MBA slightly more than 14 days before yesterday. The manager of the local apple store will have 2.13 MBA for me to exchange for my 18 day old 1.86 MBA tomorrow. I will have to pay a 10% restocking fee, so I lose about $200 of my $700 savings but I still get a faster machine and end up $500 or so ahead. Sort of sucks, but I bought it knowing an update was possible at any time, just didn't expect it so soon, and I had a big week of travel week before last during which the MBA was sweet (I know I'm rationalizing).
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Getting a replacement which costs less than what i paid for!
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I'm lovin Apple again!!!
so this is the new status:
Apple agreed to give me the MBA 2,13ghz, all i have to do is pay 299 difference, which i find ok, since they also gave me a airport base station for free!
so i only paid 200 for a slight better CPU and for the SSD
so this is the new status:
Apple agreed to give me the MBA 2,13ghz, all i have to do is pay 299 difference, which i find ok, since they also gave me a airport base station for free!
so i only paid 200 for a slight better CPU and for the SSD
so this is the new status:
Apple agreed to give me the MBA 2,13ghz, all i have to do is pay 299 difference, which i find ok, since they also gave me a airport base station for free!
so i only paid 200 for a slight better CPU and for the SSD
was this something they agreed to when you bought? cause how would they know they were coming out with a newer one? did you have replacements or how did you accomplish this?
I have a similar issue where I bought your same model and would love to pay the difference to get into the newer one....what would I need to do?
well they offered me the replacement, they did not know that Apple would bring out new MBA's at that time. they told me that it would take longer...
so i waited and then on Monday the new MBA's came out, so i called apple and asked
that's when they told me that i was lucky and they would give me the new MBA base model. to cut the story short, i asked if it were possible to get the high end model and the supervising manager said yes, all i have to do is pay the difference he said + i got the airport base station for free
so i waited and then on Monday the new MBA's came out, so i called apple and asked
that's when they told me that i was lucky and they would give me the new MBA base model. to cut the story short, i asked if it were possible to get the high end model and the supervising manager said yes, all i have to do is pay the difference he said + i got the airport base station for free
is there any way you and I can chat on AIM or yahoo or something ? I have questions before I attempt any of this lol
I have a similar issue where I bought a rev A off of Ebay 1 year ago and I would love to pay the difference to get the new air tomorrow too. (for anyone who can't tell, this is sarcasm).
You buy what you buy at a point in time, unless you keep it in the original box for the 14 days or you have had multiple issues where it is cheaper for apple to replace then continue to fix, apple should tell you to take a flying leap. Customer service is one thing - they are amazing for support of defects, issues and problems, ripping a company off (and wasting apple staff time) because of the timing of your purchase (that you were very happy with when you bought it) is another.