New Macbook, or return?

sounds fishy to me


just tell her to go back and make up an excuse for another one

 

Employees are forbidden to "help" open since that's too big of a liability.

 

Bring it back...fight the restocking fee, then buy it from the Apple store.

 

All MacBooks come with an iLife 09 upgrade CD in the box. Sounds like she may have gotten a return...

 

I got mine from ebay 2 weeks ago and I got ilife 09. I will def check with them.

 

I would never buy an apple product from anything other than an Apple store. There really isn't any point. I mean, you might save 5 bucks from amazon or something, but then you have delivery, and besides. I like the experience of going to an Apple Store and getting it. Lugging the product home can be a bit of a pain though.

But yeah, I'd go for a return and either get it from apple.com or your local store.

 

Maybe he/she doesn't have a local Apple Store.
The closest Apple Store for me is a 4 hours drive, but there is a BestBuy just 15min away.

To the original question:
I never had a similar experience at BestBuy and I bought some stuff over there,...

How many cycles did the battery have?

 

As long as the box is sealed I'd prefer to get it from Best Buy. Over here the Apple Store gives 14 day return with 15% restocking fee. Best Buy gives 30 day return no questions asked with no restocking fee. Since Applecare works no matter where you buy from, it's a no brainer imho. Just make sure the seal isn't broken before you take it out of the store!

 

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I'd take it back to the Best Buy and tell them. However, if the machine seems new, the battery is new, and it's in perfect working condition, I'd be happy with a copy of iLife 09.

 

Return it without a doubt. Go to another Bestbuy and pick up a new one. If they ask you why you're returning it just say you're not satisfied. You don't like the shinny screen, or you hate the keyboard. It's a satisfaction guarantee. I returned one because of a keyboard issue and they tried to palm an open box off on me. It was retaped but you could tell. I called them on it and they got a sealed box.

 

This is an excellent way to check. Especially with a possible BB return.
However, if it didn't have iLife 09 I would take it back and request it.

 

You should definitely go back to the store with it. My MacBook Pro I got 2 weeks ago had the iLife 09 DVD inside the box, and many other people I asked reported the same.

 

Is that canadian apple only? I got my apple store to price match down to 1150 USD from 1299.

Also WTF? I should be buying all my stuff from canada lol... 1399 CAN is still only like 1106USD and 1749 is only 1384 usd for the 2.4ghz aluminum. Even when I price matched my lappy down it's more expensive than the retail in canada... does that include tax?

 

Hehe the next time it comes close, drive a little farther to new hampshire... and get no sales tax.

I'm curious as with my other thread. Is the sales tax in alberta 5%?

 

GST is actually goverment sales tax, the PST (provincial sales tax) is determined from province to province and it makes up the other part of our sales tax