How long after you buy something will Apple accept a refund?

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Hello all,

About a week or so after the new MB's came out I purchased one along with Apple care and a case + a plane charger and paid £1500 or thereabouts.

Times are tough so I might have to get rid until I have an income again....I'm assuming it's too late for Apple to accept a refund on the laptop now?

It's in mint condition and I still have the original box etc.

What do people think?

Many Thanks,
Jake
 
I think Apple have a 7 day or 30 day return policy at the very most so out of luck I guess!
Apple stuff holds its value well and if it really is in mint condition, all boxed etc then you can expect 80-85% of price paid.
But a lot of people can get the HE discount which is about 17% off. A friend had trouble shifting his macbook because everyone was offering about 35% off new price as they could get the HE discount and then wanted atleast 10% off as it wasn't brand new.
 
I purchased a new 15" MBP last wednesday, so I asked before I even bought it, how long I had to return it. I will be returning this one soon, as to be quite honest OS X isn't all it's cracked up to be as far as I am concerned, and this machine really runs a bit too warm, also meaning I am reliant on SMC Fan control to stop it crashing when gaming ...which isn't really ideal.

A Clevo M860TU should do the trick for me, although I will miss the lovely keyboard, fantastic touchpad and really very nice display on this MBP, not to mention the construction, fit and finish is fantastic.
 
Instead of repeating what you say about your MacBook Pro, why don't you ask members on this forums how to make it worthwhile?

I gave a reply to you in this thread which you seem to haven't noticed :o
 
I noticed, and thank you very much for the tip, I did look at several of the videos on Apple's website, it's just all really obvious stuff for the most part though. Nothing of any real interest. It would seem I just made the wrong decision with this one is all.

As for the podcasts, I am reading down the list now;

"Select All Mail Messages"
"Volume Adjustments"
"Easy Photo Edits"
"Managing Browser Tabs"
"Snapshots of Your Screen"

^ I appreciate your effort I really do, but that is hardly going to help me very much, I have figured that several of my favourite games do not run as well on Mac OS as they do on Windows. Also, I do not find the OS X "user experience" any better than Vista, actually I think it's slower than Vista 64. As I have said, it's a lovely machine, but not really for me I think. I'm an overclocker (not laptops obviously) a pc enthusiast if you will, I like playing around in cases, fiddling with stuff and tinkering here and there and then playing games for long hours. Mac's do not seem so suited to that kind of use.

A Mac would perhaps have seemed a foolish endeavour from the start, but I wanted to give it a chance, try it for myself. Unfortunately what it makes up for in portability and sleek user friendliness comes second to outright performance to me.

As for repeating myself, well only the general gist of it, it's not as if I did a carbon copy of my original post, that would not have been appropriate. Although now you brought it up it's ending up that way.
 
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Why on earth would you expect Apple to return, for a refund, an item you've been USING for over a month!? What are they supposed to do with it when they get it back, they can hardly resell it as new?
 
[TW]Fox;13223478 said:
What are they supposed to do with it when they get it back, they can hardly resell it as new?
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That's a hit Apple should (might) take. At least they did for me. I suspect they review these kind of returns from a case by case perspective.
 
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