http://www.ebay.com.my/itm/Mac-Pro-...LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a3c7dedee&_uhb=1I plan to extend my mac pro's applecare and am wondering if this is a good buy or a scam?
P.S is this applicable to the nMP as well?
I plan to extend my mac pro's applecare and am wondering if this is a good buy or a scam?
P.S is this applicable to the nMP as well?
Can I not have the box? I just need the +2 years extension. It's an extra $60 to ship it here in Malaysia. Or do I need the box?.................
I do not know that seller you indicate but he has 100% positive evaluations and eBay offers buyers paying through PayPal a certain protection.
Better not to need it, of course, I had no terribly good experiences with eBay's so called "customers service", but it is better to have any protection than having none.
I can only say that I bought my AppleCare from someone I did not know at all in Germany offering a sealed pack indicated in the picture "Mac Pro/ Power Mac", therefore issued several years ago when there still were Power Macs.
I paid about the equivalent price this seller you mention asks, although in Euros.
Apple had first confirmed me by phone that 1) there is no new AppleCare specifically made for the nMP and 2) that I could buy it from a seller in another country and register it in my own. (I bought my nMP here where I live, in Switzerland).
There was no problem. I paid, received the parcel with the entirely sealed box, opened it, found inside a code and used it to register the AppleCare of my nMP on line.
Everything went -in my case- perfectly OK.
Nobody can decide for you or know if the seller you indicate is honest or isn't.
While there is always a risk buying from someone you don't know, and buying from B&H has no risk at all, I myself took the risk of trusting the eBay customer protection if something goes wrong, and my seller was luckily indeed a honest person.
I saved not a fortune(!) but in percentage quite an high percentage of money as compared to the official price Apple asks over here for the AppleCare of a nMP without finally any difference at all in my coverage. I was therefore lucky.
Decide by yourself.
I can only tell my own experience.
In MY PARTICULAR CASE it worked fine.
P.S. I forgot to mention that Apple asked me to mail them my purchase invoice of my nMP and next day they informed me that my AppleCare had been accepted.
Probably if I had bought the AppleCare together with the nMP (at the quite higher Apple official price) this step would not be necessary.
Anyways it was no problem to follow Apple's instructions and the final result just took 1 day longer...
I had so many issues when purchasing it. First was ZIP Code issues, second was CC issues and 3rd was Paypal issues and some weird errors. I gave up. (Not fated to buy from B&H).
If the machine was tied to your name with the AppleCare, won't that give you precedence over the seller who sold you the AppleCare? Furthermore, since now Apple is asking for proof of purchase of the machine, would that mean that once the applecare is added to the machine, it will be under your name and that only the owner of the machine may ask for cancellation?
I've sent my rMBP for repair and they never did ask for a box. I just called them and told I was lucky to have applecare if not it would have costed a lot and then was asked to send to their service centre.
Can't believe this is true, shocking stuff! I thought that Apple Care could be purchased for always a fixed price. I paid euro 249,00 for Apple Care on my MP 3.1 in 2008 and euro 249,00 for my recently purchased MP 5.1 in 2014. So I'm paying 'to much' to compensate for peoples that paid 'to little'? I think it's a scam, but if this is true then a real shame for Apple to accept this!
I vote: Apple CARE should be FAIR!
~ Nevertheless Cheers
I just don't understand why a 'reseller' would sell AC for 1/3 of the regular MAS price? In other words, where did they originally bought the AC box that cheap to sell it for $85 and still make a 'profit'? 
It's not that I don't know how to GooGle and search for bargains...
~ Cheers
Can't believe this is true, shocking stuff! I thought that Apple Care could be purchased for always a fixed price. I paid euro 249,00 for Apple Care on my MP 3.1 in 2008 and euro 249,00 for my recently purchased MP 5.1 in 2014. So I'm paying 'to much' to compensate for peoples that paid 'to little'? I think it's a scam, but if this is true then a real shame for Apple to accept this!
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If someone buys a nMP, doesn't use it and resells it for much less than his buying price, there is nothing illegal. It's his good right. Apple won't mind.
The same applies to people having bought Apple Care(s) and not having used it.
They might sell it for a low price, better less money than nothing.
There is no reason whatsoever in either case, a resold computer or a resold unused Apple Care, for Apple to intervene and block such a sale.
The only fix price is the one Apple itself practices and it is linked to the specific country, being different from country to country and from currency to currency, the same as the price policy of Apple computers and other products.
Only if you learn that another person in your same country paid less to Apple for the same Apple Care than the amount they asked from you, you would have good reasons to feel outraged.
As long as any non Apple source offers it for any lower amount, you are free to buy it from that source or person. It does not matter in which country the seller lives or how much he paid for it or even if he got it as a free present.
The concern is not about if a seller can sell something they've legitimately obtained for less than it cost them to obtain it. The concern is about whether the product was legitimately obtained? If Apple, for whatever reason, deems a particular Apple Care entitlement was not legitimately obtained from them then they could, and likely would, refuse to honor it. A second party buyer may not learn there is a problem until they attempt to use it which could be well after the sale..............................
If someone buys a nMP, doesn't use it and resells it for much less than his buying price, there is nothing illegal. It's his good right. Apple won't mind.
The same applies to people having bought Apple Care(s) and not having used it.
They might sell it for a low price, better less money than nothing.
There is no reason whatsoever in either case, a resold computer or a resold unused Apple Care, for Apple to intervene and block such a sale.
The only fix price is the one Apple itself practices and it is linked to the specific country, being different from country to country and from currency to currency, the same as the price policy of Apple computers and other products.
Only if you learn that another person in your same country paid less to Apple for the same Apple Care than the amount they asked from you, you would have good reasons to feel outraged.
As long as any non Apple source offers it for any lower amount, you are free to buy it from that source or person. It does not matter in which country the seller lives or how much he paid for it or even if he got it as a free present.
