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What's the Best Apple related deal you've gotten?

SamIchi

SamIchi

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Someone give you a Mac for free or an iPod? Found a great deal in the Marketplace Forum? Great Deal on Craigslist? eBay? Please tell, cause I'm interested.

I've just been looking through the Marketplace forum and craigslist a lot, although I haven't gotten one yet, I think I'll come across something good soon :D
 
I got a CD Macbook on Craigslist back in October for $600. The guy said it was 1.83 Ghz and had a Combo drive, but when I took it home and checked out the specs more closely it turned out it was 2.0Ghz and had a Superdrive.
 
£225 for an 800MHz eMac. It was just after the G5 PowerMac came out, they we're going for about £400 at the time and they guy needed to get rid because of his new purchase. It even came in the PowerMac G5 box, shipping was £50. :eek:
 
SamIchi said:
Someone give you a Mac for free or an iPod? Found a great deal in the Marketplace Forum? Great Deal on Craigslist? eBay? Please tell, cause I'm interested.
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Uh.. not really applicable to people looking to buy but I've had 4 Macs in my lifetime, 3 of them brand new, and only spent around $1200 total.

iBook G3- used, $500 at a pawn shop.
PowerBook G4- New, Won via scratch off card at Tiger night. $0
Mac Mini- New, $700. Bought it for my family.
MacBook Pro- New, AppleCare replacement to my PowerBook. $0

I have weird luck. Heh.
 
katie ta achoo said:
MacBook Pro- New, AppleCare replacement to my PowerBook. $0

I have weird luck. Heh.
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wow, that's awesome, I hope in two years I can get a free new MBP of the current time


anyway, my ipod photo broke 5 times so I called up applecare and they gave me a 5.5gen ipod, I was so happy! :D
 
Bought a refurb isight at the apple store for $70

sold it 2-3 months later for

$230.00 on ebay
 
techlover828 said:
wow, that's awesome, I hope in two years I can get a free new MBP of the current time


anyway, my ipod photo broke 5 times so I called up applecare and they gave me a 5.5gen ipod, I was so happy! :D
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Ehh! My Photo broke twice and was replaced by AppleCare. Then it broke a third time 2 months outside of AppleCare. :rolleyes:
 
I was with a friend at his friends house and the guy had a dead 12" powerbook 1.33ghz super drive. I asked him about it and he told me its just dead. I offered him 100 bucks for it and he accepted the offer. I figured it was the logic board and I could just buy one off ebay for 3 or 400. I took it home and booted it and it chimed I think 3 times maybe 4. I took out the 512 stick of ram and it has worked perfectly ever since. I gave it to my dad and he loves it.


:apple:
 
A guy at school got a 15" 2.2ghz SR MBP for $200. He said it was owned by a business I think and they found out they couldn't use it and were just wanting it gone. His brother actually bought it and gave it to him for Christmas. It was only a couple months old.
 
I thought I got a good deal getting my MBP and an iPod nano for $1700 no tax :(

Guess I was wrong. Sigh.
 
I got my macbook pro for the education discount + an additional $130 off due to a bug in the online apple store. When the SR MBPs first came out (and the store came back online), if you configured a MBP with a Glossy display, it lowered the price by $130, so I got the middle configuration for like $2160 i believe.
 
I recently ordered a refurb'd iMac from the the Apple UK refurb store and after using it for a day or so I noticed that it had an intermittent video fault, I'll cut a long story short by saying that after much cajoling with Apple I ended up getting a brand new iMac for the same price and a set of Harman Kardon Soundsticks II for free as a gesture of goodwill for all the inconvenience it had caused me :D
 
Last week or the week before at the Apple Store online, they had a few black or white 1Gb first generation nanos, refurbs, for 59 bucks a pop.

I got one of each for gifts, I always thought their simple lines were so cool looking in the small, shiny black or white plastic form.

But those models do scratch easily if you're not careful, so I also got a pack of nano tubes for them. I liked those for their pale translucent colors, they look quite different depending on whether you put them on the black or the white nano.
 
I bought a refurb iMac this last week... Apple lowered the price the day before it arrived so they agreed to refund me the difference ($54)... BUT who ever issued the refund messed up and it didn't go through.. SO I called them again. They looked over my account and voluntarily gave me another $50 back for the inconvenience. So ,basically, I got my 20" Alu iMac 2.0 for about $899 (before tax). I think it's a pretty good deal, anyway. Especially since I'm a recent ( last 2 years) switcher.

Ang
 
I won a free 5G iPod, 30 GB... from Microsoft! (Office 2004 for Mac sweepstakes) I believe it's a refurb, but I've never had a problem with it.
 
Always getting deals..

A few years back, a "Blue colored Mac with monitor $500". This was when the G4s had just come out, the Blue & White Power Macs were still very decent machines. I called the guy and he said the monitor was "Flat" but I figured he meant like a Sony Flat Faced Tube monitor.

When I arrived, it was a Blue & White G3 Tower, with matchine 15" LCD. At the time, the LCDs still cost $999.

I used the computer for 8 months, and sold it for $1200 total. Net Profit: $700.

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I bought at the time a current Mac Pro with dual processor. Got home, unpacked it and it was a Quad. The computer was less than 2 months old. I paid $1000 less than the Apple Store price. Got that one off of CraigsList. (Locally). The Guy got it for XMas from his parents, and he wanted a PC.

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Most of my other mac's I've bought new and sold within a year so they don't lose too much value and then I upgrade. Generally, it's not such a bad deal if you do it just before the cycle is about to switch.
 
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