...AAaaaargh, today I got this fancy little email from the apple store:
->"Thank you for your recent interest in Apple products. _We are unable to
fulfill your order. _At this time, the Apple Store U.S. is unable to
successfully process your credit card."<-
haha, right... but wait, here it comes:
->"PLEASE NOTE:
- We are unable to accept credit cards issued by banks outside of the
United States."<-
WTF is wrong with you, damn???
WHY do I have a credit card, huh? I'm from good old Germany and have my Eurocard/Mastercard from my home bank (of course, would be stupid if it wasn't so!!!) and I use it TO PAY FOR MY STUFF OVER HERE IN THE US!!! I'm not getting a second card just for the nitpicking folks at the Apple store...
O.K., so far so good, first I was mad, but then I calmed down and just checked http://www.powerbookcentral.com and guess what...
ClubMac doesn't charge sales tax, so I got the superdrive TiBook for almost the same money I had to pay for the 1GhzG4 WITHOUT superdrive at the Apple Edu online store (I actually didn't want to buy one with DVD-burner, but fine...).
conclusion:
sometimes things aren't that bad as they seem... now I can borrow a DV-cam from the college library, tape a day of my ridiculous life (muhaha, just kidding...), load it into iMovie, burn it on DVD and send it home across the pond to mum and dad (and my cute little girlfriend..).
Thanks Steve, lowered your margin but enhanced my digital lifestyle...

->"Thank you for your recent interest in Apple products. _We are unable to
fulfill your order. _At this time, the Apple Store U.S. is unable to
successfully process your credit card."<-
->"PLEASE NOTE:
- We are unable to accept credit cards issued by banks outside of the
United States."<-
WTF is wrong with you, damn???
WHY do I have a credit card, huh? I'm from good old Germany and have my Eurocard/Mastercard from my home bank (of course, would be stupid if it wasn't so!!!) and I use it TO PAY FOR MY STUFF OVER HERE IN THE US!!! I'm not getting a second card just for the nitpicking folks at the Apple store...
O.K., so far so good, first I was mad, but then I calmed down and just checked http://www.powerbookcentral.com and guess what...
ClubMac doesn't charge sales tax, so I got the superdrive TiBook for almost the same money I had to pay for the 1GhzG4 WITHOUT superdrive at the Apple Edu online store (I actually didn't want to buy one with DVD-burner, but fine...).
conclusion:
sometimes things aren't that bad as they seem... now I can borrow a DV-cam from the college library, tape a day of my ridiculous life (muhaha, just kidding...), load it into iMovie, burn it on DVD and send it home across the pond to mum and dad (and my cute little girlfriend..).
Thanks Steve, lowered your margin but enhanced my digital lifestyle...