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    Are Apples cheaper at the apple stores?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by kabooky, Aug 1, 2006.

  1. kabooky

    kabooky Notebook Guru

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    If you drive to one of the official apple retailers, are the macbooks and macbook pros cheaper? or are there deals and offers not available online?
     
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    NB_Noob Notebook Guru

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    If I am not wrong prices at Apple Stores and Apple.com are the same. If you are looking for deals on Apple notebooks, well there are not too many of them. I know MacMall.com is offering a $100 mail-in-rebate...
    if you are a student then you get a discount from Apple (in-store and online) + a mail-in-rebate for an ipod if you get it with the MacBook...
     
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    vitog123 Notebook Consultant

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    As of yesterday they are the same. I went to the apple store in Mission Viejo, CA yesterday and they were the same price as online.

    Im not sure about tax though, you may have to pay more if you buy it @ the store vs online.
     
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    azntiger1000 Notebook Deity

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    If you are a college student, you might want to check your computer student store at your school. Like my school, they offer incredible discounts of macs and mac products. Customizeable options, I am not sure, most likely yes, but the prebuilt ones are pretty good too.
     
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    It's going to be the same price pretty much almost everywhere with the exception of MacMall, as MacMall does a lot of rebate kind of thing and whatnot, and I'm not sure how exactly they get around Apples rules.

    basically it goes like this, Apple prevents any price compeition with their products, simple as that, if you break this rule you will not be able to sell any of Apples products anymore and they pull the contract from you. Apple relies heavily on their hardware side of the business, any compeition could put Apple in trouble.

    Now you know why the iPod price is the same at every retail store you go too. However, when it comes to add-on assessories, the rules appear not to apply there, except it can't be cheaper than Apple itself, but can be more. I'm sure the same applies for the Mac computers, but it'd be dumb to charge more for the iPod/Macs than your compeititors.
     
    xbandaidx, Aug 1, 2006
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