No in-store pickup for online ordered MacBook Pro

[davidgnomo]

What is an extra trip for you might be a perfectly well desired trip for me. Who are you to tell me what a superfluous trip is and isn't for me? Why can't I go down to my local store to pick it up at my leisure and get some assistance doing so? Isn't that once of the pros the Apple itself states on the website when covering the ship-to-store option?

Last edited by maflynn; Today at 12:46. Reason: removed insult

Whoah, the thread is getting hot in here ... removed insult ? By the way, who am I to make fun of people who argue about NOTHING just because they don't know how to spend their precious time ?

 

[NewbieCanada]

Since Apple hasn't made a blanket change in policy on shipping to stores, we can draw two logical conclusions:

1. They have a valid reason for not shipping rMBPs to stores at this time, and this reason has nothing to do with a desire to inconvenience their customers.

2. We have no way of knowing what that reason is, and any conjecture is probably making those in the know giggle uncontrollably at how absurdly wrong it is, and is tempting them into coming up with new ways to confuse us for their own amusement.

 

[Trey M]

And for what demented reason, might I ask? Are they worried that lunatics will try to steal from someone as they come to collect? I would think that that is mostly no longer the case, most stores seem to have at least the base model available most weeks.

Why does it matter to them if the laptop gets shipped to someone's home or to a store? In fact, shouldn't they welcome shipping it to a store so any immediately apparent issues can be dealt with in a more controlled environment? It eliminates the "he said she said" aspect of returns when it could be debated whether it was indeed the FedEx guy who dropped the box once too many times or if it was actually a clumsy owner getting all kinds of hot and bothered by their new rMBP only to have it fly out of their sweaty palms in the midst of a baby oil massage party.

They sell this shipping to store thing so well on the website, and then I find out it can't be done? Great. I was about to migrate from the Windows world to a Mac.

Now I don't think I will because of this completely nonsensical decision to deny this great convenience for people like me who travel a lot and can't and don't want to have to worry about when FedEx comes to their residence with a $3300 package.

Bite me, Apple. I am getting a Lenovo next time I have a free week instead. At least they know how to ship something within a week of ordering.

I'm sure Apple will be very concerned that you didn't want their product for a dumb reason. They'll probably go cry in bed cuddling their $100 billion cash.