Apple's Online Refurb Store Outage Reaches Third Day [Updated]

FWIW, it doesn't work for me unless I sign in. After signing in, it works perfectly.

It's up for me

I'm not sure if it is at all location based, but it has been working fine for me here in California. I have been checking about once a day for the past few days - since I read someone state that the site wasn't working for them.

works for me

Bought a refurb 2.5Ghz core i5 mac mini Tuesday night no issues.

No problem seeing refurbs in the Syracuse, NY area.

Can't see it myself here on the Canadian Apple Store website.

troop231 said:

I'm in the U.S. and this is what I get:

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This is what I'm getting as well.

Weird. I tried signing in, but all I see are the three items at the top and the "Sorry" message. And if I click on one of the visible items, the page it takes me to says the item is out of stock.

After two days of not being able to view Aus refurbs, I can now - and I never allow cookies at that site.

adr1974 said:

FWIW, it doesn't work for me unless I sign in. After signing in, it works perfectly.

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Ditto.

Nothing is listed in the US store for me and whenever I click on a direct link to a product that someone else provides, it shows the product as "Out of stock". This occurs whether or not I log in.

Sure working in NJ.

I couldn't see anything at first (clicking on the refurb links down the bottom left of the store), but then I started clicking on various things and it started showing up. Not exactly sure what exact click made it work, but if you need it now try clicking on individual items that say "out of stock" or anything else that seems promising, that's what I did, and it started showing up. Once it started working, everything seemed to go fine from there.

US works

Slovak said:

The £399 includes a 20% VAT (effectively sales tax). Welcome to Europe, don't go to Hungary VAT is 27% there.

Then you add the cost of transportation ($8+ per gallon of gas), "free" healthcare, 6 weeks of vacation benefits, etc. I'd say £399 is actually "cheaper" than in the US.

Free to recipient != free of cost

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I grew up in London when my father worked for Bear Stearns in Investment Banking. I miss it something bad.

...and you're spot on about everything else, concepts yet to be understood in the U.S. As a diabetic in perfect health since 12 - now 35 - I still pay $1k/mo to Blue Cross Blue Shield Excellus and still have to fight them for included coverage as they want to wear you down. I'd take the taxes that go to healthcare, education and other aspects that actually IMPROVE our way of live and make us a better country than this left/right rhetoric that is tearing us apart. God, I want to move back! Adopt me! lol

They just updated their webserver to Lion and "Please try again later" is being displayed instead of "You can't open Apple Refurbished Store because PowerPC applications are no longer supported".

Refurbished, yes. Clearance, NO.

Here in Socal, I can see that Apple has stock of refurbished iPad 2, mac mini, macbook, and iMac.

There is nothing under clearance, though.

It works on the old G4 Mac. Firefox.

Zero!sOne said:

Cookie issue. Apple is aware and working on a fix.

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/15230346/

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Coming from a web development background, I know that "cookie issue" is just placeholder text for "I have no idea."


i.e. What's wrong with my car? An "electrical issue."

Could it be that they are/were upgrading the machines to ML?

As long as its up when the rMBP is available, I'm good.

adr1974 said:

FWIW, it doesn't work for me unless I sign in. After signing in, it works perfectly.

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I just tried signing in, and now I can see the refurb items as well.

BTW, after signing in I still didn't see anything listed. Then I went to refill my water bottle and refreshed the page, and now I see tons of stock in the refurb store.


So if signing in doesn't work for you, try signing in and then going to the break room to refill your water bottle.

working for me

It's not up. I don't know why some people say it is, but I bet if they looked closely, they'd realize that the items they CAN find are all out of stock. The 'categories' pages (Mac, iPad, etc.) are blank, except for three featured items--all of which are out of stock.

Spoke to Apple. They said that it IS a technical glitch, and they're working on it. You can still order by phone.

this has been going on for much longer than 3 days. At least since the Retina MBP was announced!