Mine had a maxed out 16” with the 8tb almost ordered it by mistake as I had both in my cart.
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MacBook Pro 2021 Launch Day Store Stock
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This is what happens when you try to add AppleCare at the time of purchase with installment payments.
That’s why I picked the 13” for order rehearsal purposes—it’s available for immediate collection.
Just ordered the 16” for in-store pickup. There was no option to add an in-store trade. In fact, there’s specific mention that I cannot trade in-store (at least when ordering online and adding a trade to the order).
I’d considered ordering without a trade at all, then showing up with one, and seeing if they’d apply it to my order. But I didn’t want to hang my hat on that.
I’d really rather not deal with Phobio, so hopefully my local store still can work with me on one of the noted workarounds (e.g. return and immediately repurchase, or refund to Apple Cash Card).
Does your pick up order still show the time for pick up in the order status section of the website/app? I am worried... I placed the order for Apple Card installments, and the app simultaneously buzzed and said payment failed, and then showed me my order number and the said it would be ready for pickup.
I got an email with the original time I had selected, but now the order status page just says available "Today" and "your order will be available shortly" with no check in window.
Is that how yours looks? My Apple Card was charged the tax...
I got an email with the original time I had selected, but now the order status page just says available "Today" and "your order will be available shortly" with no check in window.
Is that how yours looks? My Apple Card was charged the tax...
i cancelled an order days ago, my order wouldn't go through, called the apple card people, they didn't have a clue what was going on and couldnt help me, apple card is worthless.
I was just posting that.
I noticed that as well. I have no idea what changed.
Was looking on the website for the chat, and couldn't find it. Was thinking of calling later today to double check if this is true.
I see them available in store now on the east coast but as soon as I selct 64 gigs of ram it says unavailable
So I could wait that was a lie, hit up Apple to cancel my order. Glad I don’t have to wait till next month and trust phobio. Launch day pick up trade in for the win
doesn't matter, i didn't add apple care and the payment failed. i even called the apple card people, been up since 4am, and almost missed out, had to use another form of payment,
They ship a trade-in kit to your house. I was told by Apple that it’s better for their operations for their mail channel to handle people’s old devices, instead of the retail folks.
I did a trade in in-store the other day. Not toward a purchase but standalone. They did have the option to select prior purchase. Most likely you couldn't do trade in as it is an in-store pick up vs delivery. I'd bring anything you're trading in and ask. Never hurts.
Exactly. For my iPhone I had spoken with someone in chat, and they confirmed I could trade it in physically.
Was able to cancel my online order that wasn’t expected to ship for a few weeks and do in-store pickup today. Just got the base 16-inch. Had used gift cards online so I was concerned those would take awhile to process back, but order hadn’t been charged so smooth process. Excited to pickup later tonight.
When you initiate a trade online, apparently you’re consigning yourself to mail-in trade, even if you’re picking up your new Mac in-store (I know, it doesn’t make sense to me, either).
I’ve heard mixed stories on what happens if you show up with your trade anyway. Some are told that they MUST mail their trade if they want credit toward the new Mac, as that’s what’s on the order. Others get some workaround, like returning and immediately repurchasing (assuming adequate inventory, since returns technically must momentarily return to it) or a credit to an Apple Cash Card. Still others get lucky and are able to have their trade processed en site with a credit to their original payment method.
This could—and should—be made a little more elegant.
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It's literally how I purchased my phone, was by trading in my old phone. I don't know if it's suddenly on phones only. I had traded it several Apple products when they first allowed physical trade ins, which is how I got my gift cards to apply towards the new MBP. Not sure what changed.
As you said, it can't hurt to bring it in. Only problem is if you bring it in, when they expect it, they gave me gift cards for my phone. As the system won't allow the trade in to be applied to the current purchase.
If that happens, I had decided to get Apple Care there, I will take the gift card and apply it towards that and see if there is something else to get on hand.
Ya I had to use another card which will net me a little bit less cash back, but better than waiting well over a month for - for me at least.
As I've mentioned. I've gone thru that. They took my product & gave me a gift card.
They will still send the box for the product, but you are told to ignore it. It's followed by an email saying you didn't send the box or product back, but if you already traded it in, you can ignore the email.