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Already $800 off on Amazon [UPDATE: Discount no longer offered]
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When they start getting hundreds of orders on this item within secs they take notice!
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Its dead
http://slickdeals.net/f/9232707-app...-2880-x-1800-16gb-ddr3-1999-free-shipping?v=1
No way - well more likely cancelled than honoredAlright, that's slickdeal is over with. The only question left is...
Will Amazon honor it?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LTHXAOU/?tag=slicinc-20&ascsubtag=d5a85a109cce11e689b1964bf99121d90INT
still works. $200 off 13"
still works. $200 off 13"
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Meh, $200 is meh compared to $500 and $800. Amazon can take a $200 hit. I'm sure they'll fix it, just not as quick.
In the description, it mentions it comes with El Capital, even Intel Iris 6100. I think there's alot of editing error on Amazon, they won't know what to ship!
In the description, it mentions it comes with El Capital, even Intel Iris 6100. I think there's alot of editing error on Amazon, they won't know what to ship!
Title matters most...the below info is often wrong...from my past experience. Although one time it worked in my favor as I made Amazon honor it.
Okay, a semi-related question. Since Amazon does pre-order, what are the chances an amazon MBP ships faster than preordering from Apple?
It says Sold by: Amazon.com LLC. So most definitely Ship and Sold by Amazon themselves.
Charging cables are easy to bootleg and Amazon probably did not do so intentionally. Theyre not going to sell you a bootleg $1799 macbook pro LMFAO.
I would be impressed if someone took the time and effort to create a working bootleg MBP.
I won't say that's impossible. Surely some Chinese factory worker could go rogue.
I mean imagine they perfected the bootleg MBP with a unibody design and a pristine copy of Mac OS...
Might as well just release a legitimate product if even your bootleg is that good...
Exactly.
Cable is one thing, but a working MBP?
If they could do it, I would definitely buy them a beer.
It was a few years ago I remember Samsung offered bootleggers and cloners jobs to produce phones and gadgets, because the Chinese were making really good fakes. The quality of those fake phones were more than enough to be marketable. All those stories of fake iPhone clones, they've gotten really good at hardware built quality as well as software cloning, Samsung offered to hire them on the spot.
From an educational/intelligence level, if someone had the brains to simulate the iPhone software, seeing how the UI works, and actually create a working phone that can make calls and run all those software, like that of the real thing, without even seeing a single line of code from Apple iOS, of course any company would hire them. And it's Samsung who answered that.
I certainly can understand the morality side of it, but it really depends on context. From the Western view, people would say "Hey, they're copying us, how crazy and unethical is that?" The reason they do it is because of economics. Lots of people in China can't afford a $200 subsidized phone, let alone a $600 full retail price phone, so competition and "clones" come about.
It's no different than in the US market. A new feature that's only available in the luxury car market will "trickle down" and become standard. Power window, power door, A/C, navigation (now it's basically free if you got a smartphone).
Is a clone as good as the real thing? Certainly not.
Is faux leather in a "regular car" or even "real" leather from a Lexus/BMW as good as the leather inside a Bentley or Maybach? Certainly not.
[doublepost=1477636427][/doublepost]Now back on topic. They still have the $200 off (10% off) deal if you still want it.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LTHXAOU
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