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Apple Buyback Program?

The offer is now on the Apple UK website. Why not go to ebay and buy an old wreck for a few quid to trade-in?

Good for Apple for doing this as the margins are obviously tight anyway. Would they have the additional cost of paying the dealers and anyone else for handling too? Anything to recycle the old stuff is welcome.

I notice that the offer runs to the end of July which is beyond MYNY so maybe the new towers are not in the offer or won't be out until Augst to tie in with Jaguar.

Love from the UK :)
 
Cool idea

Get those old machines out of users hands, and give them OS X machines, excellent plan.

I just wonder how many people are going to take them up on the offer, and what Apple's going to do with all the old boxes.

I'd love to see this extended to the U.S. as well. If they'd only accept multiple machines per person... I'd be going hog wild on ebay :D
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Can't afford Apple's hardware? How about a raffle ticket?
 
Seen this here in Belgium (Europe) also in certain stores, no news from Apple itself though!
Sounds like new (improved?)machines to me, I 've rarely seen Apple do this for no reason, did you?
 
Originally posted by dukestreet
So is this rebate added on to the purchase incentive that Apple already has to try and get things cleared out by MWNY? If so that's not a bad deal, or is the incentive only available in the US?
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That's what I want to know. They'd probably make the most $ from the U.S. since people would be buying a new machine.

I want to trade in my old 7200, they'd probably give me more $ than I'd get elsewhere. Where's this deal in the U.S. hmmmmmmm.......

Now I'm peeved. :(
 
I'm on a 8600/250 now with 384M of DRAM and a XLR8 G3/450 processor upgrade card right now. Btw that card has an 466 processor in it (it came to me that way) and it runs at 500Mhz!
If I would get an Double 1GHz with a 17" Lcd, I would get back from Apple about as much as I would get for it on ebay I think... This is worth some thinking over.
I do not know however what Apple wants if they take back, can one trade in just the basic machine (no keyb, screen, extra mem and so on...?)
Anyone?
 
buyback pricing

All minitowers went up €100 on the day, the buyback program started in Germany. You get €300 when buying 800MHz, €450 for 933MHz and €550 if you buy the DualGig Beast.
 
Originally posted by Aqua OS X
Who knows if this program will vene be offered in the US. People in russia are broke...remember that.
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This rebate program is already offered by other European Apple websites, so it is NOT a Russian Special at all !!

BTW.: Russians are far from being broke. European cities and resorts are full of heavy spending Russian tourists, who replace Japanese and Arabs, who were the spenders in the 80s and 90s ... ;-)

In Vienna the people with the highest spending rate per day are tourist from the Ukraine, who spend on average 400$ PER DAY...
 
Originally posted by mstur
In Vienna the people with the highest spending rate per day are tourist from the Ukraine, who spend on average 400$ PER DAY...
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ok, so the corrupt personnel of the former oppressive system and the family of organized crime throw their fortunes at pleasure and travel.
what does that have to do with half a continent being so very broke to the bone? I'll tell you: It's the difference between taking and giving the very last.

but after all, this seems to be rather off-topic.
let's all keep anticipating the new mobo architecture and the case design:D
 
motivation: the death of the Classic OS

this was mentioned in an earlier post to this thread, but I think it's worth pursuing further...

does it seem like it would be worth it for Apple to pay to the machines running OS 7, 8, & 9 so they can further the funeral procession for the Classic OS? in other words, is this offer somehow tied in to pushing OS X?

something about this idea makes sense to me, but something doesn't quite fit--why wouldn't they just end support and tell developers to do the same?

also, I wonder if this could work to their advantage in the Education market where they're quickly losing ground to Microsoft. maybe they have a plan like this in place already?
 
Why would anyone want to sell their old machines to Apple when you can sell them on eBay? Couldn't you make more than, say, $200 there?

I think Apple is trying to ban the auctioning world from the internet. :)
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Originally posted by King Cobra
Why would anyone want to sell their old machines to Apple when you can sell them on eBay? Couldn't you make more than, say, $200 there?

I think Apple is trying to ban the auctioning world from the internet. :)
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I guess it depends upon the machine. Most of the machines listed there are not worth much of anything. The only machines there that are worth the most are the 9600's and the Biege G3's. Everything else you would get more from Apple than you could get off eBay. With every new realease from Apple, the demand for old machines goes into the cellar. The offer that Apple is extending is a valid one IMO (no eBay troubles either).
 
This might have been brought up earlier, but what exactly does Apple plan to do with older machines that do not support OS X? (I have seen that the Beige G3 supports OS X.) It doesn't seem right that Apple is going to accept older machines without a use.

BTW, mc68k, you do bring up a point I missed. But if you were lucky enough you could always try to sell a late PowerMac xxxx model for $400 on eBay and get extra profit. I mean, you never know what will happen with eBay these days.
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Originally posted by King Cobra
This might have been brought up earlier, but what exactly does Apple plan to do with older machines that do not support OS X? (I have seen that the Beige G3 supports OS X.) It doesn't seem right that Apple is going to accept older machines without a use.
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Same thing that happens when you trade in an old clunker towards the purchae of a new car— scrap. There are a lot of dangerous/precious metals in there that either need to be taken care of or used as a tax write-off.

They can recycle the plastic, dispose of lead, gather precious metals from connectors/traces/wires (copper, silver, gold, etc.).

They're really not going to use the computers for anything, as Apple is trying to push beige g3 and higher (and more recently, sawtooth and higher).

Yes, you can run OS X on beige G3 and lower. Unofficial support stops at the x1xx series of DT and <3400 series of laptops. I run OS X on my s900 and I am going to post my benchmark results in that benchmark thread and see how I stack up.
 
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• $265 ÑÅÑÇÑy ÑÅÑÄÑ{ÑÖÑÅÑ{Ñu Power MacG4/933 (M8666LL/A)
• 355 ÑÅÑÇÑy ÑÅÑÄÑ{ÑÖÑÅÑ{Ñu Power Mac G4/1G/DP (M8667LL/A)
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That doesnt look like russian to me.
 
Originally posted by dualburn001
That doesnt look like russian to me.
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Someone probably did a copy/paste and the original characters got lost somewhere and were replaced with something else (probably the vBulletin system, it doesn't even let me use the opt-k for the apple symbol :().
 
Re: winxchange

Originally posted by jaykk
What if apple gives wintel users give a chance to trade-in their pcs for a brand new Mac? just a thought..
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hehe:) i like it.
 
Originally posted by dualburn001
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• $265 ÑÅÑÇÑy ÑÅÑÄÑ{ÑÖÑÅÑ{Ñu Power MacG4/933 (M8666LL/A)
• 355 ÑÅÑÇÑy ÑÅÑÄÑ{ÑÖÑÅÑ{Ñu Power Mac G4/1G/DP (M8667LL/A)
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That doesnt look like russian to me.
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According to my copy of the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Apple have opened a store on Alpha Centauri and this is the Nonan enclosure model.
 
What Apple SHOULD do...

...is offer a rebate/discount trade-in program for used PC's. They could do the same thing as far as recycling/recovering precious metals, etc, and it would be a great marketing technique to pitch to ne Mac users. "Give us your Dell and we'll give you $200 off a computer that actually works!" :D
 
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