was at Compusa yesterday with my friend who flew in for a few days from Austria... she mentioned how much (especially with our weak dollar) more it costs to get an Apple in Europe so we were looking around.
to make a long story short... i managed to talk the manager down to $850 for a G3 800mhz ibook with 30gb/cdrom/128mb brand new. they rang it up as $600 for the iBook and $250 for Applecare. Don't know if this was because it was at the end of the month and he had to meet Revenue goals or what, because he wouldnt take $700 for just the ibook, no apple care. H(wanted them to match cdw's price) He "Had" to sell it as a bundle. So anyways, one hell of a deal, especially for my friend because after tax it came out to 700 Euro's total with applecare. Oh yea they said it was an Open Box, but then brought out a sealed box, opened it with a letter opener and said "there... open box"
See if you can talk down the manager's price at your local CompUSA, you might just get an iBook for $600. I think i will go to Compusa for my apple purchases from now on seeing as how they are willing to "wheel and deal". Just make sure you go at the end of the month.
to make a long story short... i managed to talk the manager down to $850 for a G3 800mhz ibook with 30gb/cdrom/128mb brand new. they rang it up as $600 for the iBook and $250 for Applecare. Don't know if this was because it was at the end of the month and he had to meet Revenue goals or what, because he wouldnt take $700 for just the ibook, no apple care. H(wanted them to match cdw's price) He "Had" to sell it as a bundle. So anyways, one hell of a deal, especially for my friend because after tax it came out to 700 Euro's total with applecare. Oh yea they said it was an Open Box, but then brought out a sealed box, opened it with a letter opener and said "there... open box"
See if you can talk down the manager's price at your local CompUSA, you might just get an iBook for $600. I think i will go to Compusa for my apple purchases from now on seeing as how they are willing to "wheel and deal". Just make sure you go at the end of the month.