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BEWARE Apple Store bait & switch pricing

JPack said:
All third party batteries, including OWC are poor quality. You'll get 6-12 months of usage before it goes bad. Stick with the Apple Store for $159.
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I replaced my 2015 MacBook Air Battery with $40 dollar Amazon one. I don't really are if it goes bad with 12 months of usage, since I can just purchase other one. It is pretty good in my book for $40 dollars.

I have replaced many battery on iPhones by myself, all sourced from Amazon. They tends run pretty well, the one I am using on my iPhone 11 Pro Max which I replace beginning of last year still hold 90% of battery health.
 
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EMBRACE Apple Store bait & switch pricing​

Last year I brought my 2015 Macbook Pro Retina (which was bought as a refurb) to the Apple Store for a battery replacement. The battery was swollen to the point that the bottom case had expanded wildly, and the top case as well, pushing the trackpad up. I looked into doing the battery replacement myself but watched a couple videos on the process and wasn't that into the idea. I checked online pricing and saw the battery replacement would cost $200.

After a diagnostic, they confirmed the $200 quote for the battery replacement, and that it could take a few days. I said okay.

It took less than a day. They replaced the battery, the keyboard, the trackpad and the entire top case. Which was great, as the previous owner had apparently dropped it and even though it worked great, there was some nasty impact damage. All of that was fixed. For the original price quoted, $200.

I like the fact that I got more than what I asked for, and better service than expected, at the price I was initially quoted.
 
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DouglasCarroll said:
I said..."And also, the reason I’ve been replacing the Apple OEM batteries is because they had all swollen. The OWC batteries haven’t done this to me yet."

...hmmmm...I don't see the words "Apple OEM batteries are junk"...that's clearly you putting words in my mouth since I didn't write that. What I was responding to was another post where someone else attacked batteries OTHER than OEM who DID write..."All third party batteries, including OWC are poor quality."

This is clearly an opinion only, which I strongly disagree with having bought many OWC batteries in the past.

Lastly the "reason" I was willing to have Apple replace the battery at first for the ORIGINAL price was I couldn't be certain that there wasn't something else wrong with the laptop and I figured during the diagnostic for the replacement they would figure that out and let me know and I could decide if an additional repair was worth the expense...what I wasn't expecting was their pricing to be OVER $100 more than the stated price on their website. I recently had Apple replace a battery at the same store in my iPhone and it was EXACTLY the price listed on the website. Hence my hesitation and then rejection of their service. Just thought people might want to know about this ahead of time before they made an appointment if a store is far from them.

Look people, if you want to attack me for bringing up that Apple doesn't follow their own battery prices on their website because of some bizarre love relationship you have with Apple then by all means pay no attention to how much you are charged for anything, I could care less. And if you also want to attack other people for not acting in a way that YOU think is how they should act (argue with an employee in a busy store) then be my guest and act like an ass in front of everyone else in the store to "prove you're right", sorry not for me.
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That last bit about acting like an a**… to ”prove you’re right” is a nonsensical argument. Perhaps you were having an off day when you visited because of the distance, who knows? But a discrepancy in a listed price vs a quoted price is hardly being argumentative when I have seen REASONABLE people misquoted (in person) and they simply referred the employee to Apple‘s OWN website for verification and said employees acquiesced and they moved on from this perceived “powder keg” moment. You could have handled it better, IMHO.
 
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