An amazing gift for a delayed rMBP

[bsmack]

She actually mentioned Macrumors ?

haha yep, I was pretty shocked too. The woman I spoke to and her manager/call center definitely know about this thread.

 

[bwhli]

Why are so many people asking for free things if your orders are arriving before the quoted date? If it's 3-4 weeks, then it's 3-4 weeks.

 

[wethackrey]

One thing Apple better get handle on is letting third party resellers discount their products putting Apple's own stores in a jam. For example (and there are many), B&H is currently offering the rMBP at Apples price, but you get Apple Care for $122. Even if you just buy Apple Care with nothing else, it is $244. Amazon does similar things, but not the above exactly.

I owned an Apple dealership for a decade or so back in the day. I can tell you that B&H are making their Apple sales rep very happy by moving as much volume as they can while using bundles to discount. Note they don't actually mark down the Mac. But the allocation of product B&H gets is tightly controlled. You can be sure that if the Apple retail store channel thought it was losing significant sales to B&H, B&H would find their product allocations constrained more than they already are.

If you look at Apple's financials though, you'll see that, as successful as as the Apple Stores are, the bulk of the company's revenue is certainly not from profits generated by the stores. If every sale an Apple retail store tried to make was lost to another dealer based on price, Apple's bottom line would suffer very little.