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And we didn’t even get a happy meal toy with it! Let’s see if Mr Chow can beat that with his $60 hamburgers!
So yeah, we didn’t really pay $500 for the quarter pounder with cheese, fries and coke, but here’s what happened:
We woke up this morning, like we do every morning, and decided we’d go into town to do some window shopping since it was a nice day and we didn’t want to get hooked playing Halo 3 for another seven hours straight like yesterday!
Too bad we passed the Apple store because now we have to type this post on our new 24′ iMac! Yes, we finally decided we should get it after having thought about it for a couple of months now. The fact that everyone that buys from this week onwards gets a coupon to download Leopard for free when it comes out in a couple of weeks was enough to get rid of our last excuses not to buy.
So, in the first Apple store we asked if they had the 24′ iMac in stock. Unfortunately they didn’t and we told them that we’d go check out the other shops and if it was possible for us to buy the model they had on display if there was no other option. The girl that helped us said she had to ask the manager and so she did. Three minutes later she came back with a smile on her face, telling us that she was just told that they actually did have one in stock after all! It was ordered by someone but the order was canceled last minute or something. Whatever it was, they had one and we were gonna buy it.
So here’s weird thing number 1:
She scanned the box and it came up with a price of $2,299.00 which is what you pay for the top model. Our model is $1,799.00 and not a penny more since we feel the minimum upgraded can’t justify the extra $500. Anyway, the girl called one of her colleagues, telling them this was the box with “the weird bar code” that displayed the wrong price and that she needed to change it in the system. We were thinking that this was probably the iMac extreme but that the staff would have checked this so we let them do their thing. As long as we could take it home.
Now, here’s where we could have made $500.
We didn’t have any lunch yet so we asked the girl if she could keep on to the box for an hour so we could go eat something without having to carry it around. No problem, we could leave it there and pick it up whenever we would be ready. Since McDonald’s was around the corner, and we really didn’t want to waste a whole hour eating when we could play with the new toy, we walked back into the shop after about 20 minutes — Guess who was standing next to an empty box, reinstalling and polishing the demo model? OOPS! Did we come back at a bad time?
Yes, they were giving the demo model a nice shine, clean drive and were timing to get it into our box before we were back — in an hour.
It turned out the box they sold us did contain the iMac extreme like we had thought when the jackpot price popped up. Both the girl and her manager went red in the face when we walked back into the shop to pick up the iMac we had paid for. Ya, so what are you gonna do in a situation like this? To be honest, we were quite amused with all the apologies and excuses that were made. Even though we felt cheated because of the way they were trying to get the demo model prepped. We had never agreed to buy that one, just asked if that would be a possibility if we couldn’t get another one anywhere else. We ended up with the demo model and a $100 discount. Not a problem really since there’s nothing wrong with the machine.
So what’s the lesson to be learned here? Assumption really is the mother of all fuck ups. Make sure you double check anything you do if it involves your money.
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*LOL*
The only thing missing is a few dozen pictures of you scarfing down that Quarter Pounder.
Nice One Mr Moo
Lets see some pics of your new toy then
Yeah can we see the pictures? I have been wanting a Mac for a while but for their prices might have to wait a little, lucky you
That is actually pretty serious, despite your feeling that it was not a big deal. If I were you I’d write a letter to Apple Customer Service to inform them of this bait and switch. Perhaps you’ll get something free out of it. I personally don’t stand for this type of occurrence.
I don’t think this is a bait and switch. He got what he went in for. Plus he got a discount. How is that a bait and switch?
moron, you shoulda stopped being lazy and left with it the first time.
who is we?
You really could have gotten away with more than just a $100 bux, I can haggle more with my Business Manager at Pc World, and they tried to screw you over. You should have taken pics told them this will be on digg, and emailed to Steve Job’s and than you should have told them you are John Cow, and seen them sweat. You could have walked away with at least a $500 discount.
McDonalds??? Gross Cow. You should take that hundred bucks and go somewhere a bit nicer
Congrats on your purchase, I need one too..
Dude,well done on the Mac purchase. I have recently added a Macbook Black to the fold and it totally rocks. I also run WindowsXP PRo through Parallels on it(for compatability with work), so cool……. hmmm.. macca’s for lunch, now that is a good Idea!
Lol, that must of have been awkward. Good story Cow, 5 stars, made me laugh.
That act shows an extremely poor set of morals on their part. I would never have taken that as lightly as you seem to have.
Big Mac dum in milk and eat… should be good
yeah I agree with geologyjoe, I would never buy from them ever..demo set are never the same as new out of the box feeling..
Money Blue Book beat me to it, but that is a terrible bait and switch. I as well would not have stood for it. Something about demo models, you don’t know which snotty 6 year old has mucked up the keyboard and poked at the screen and turned up the volume too loud and stuck something gooey in the ports and…
Also you really should have gone for Wendy’s! Do square patties come from square cows?
Haha, cheeky sods!
there’s a reason these people make minimum wage…but anyway I hope you are happy with the new machine.
Off topic: 91 pages have been sold on the MEW…when’s the next ipod drawing?
the ipod drawing? who won the second draw? I know the first one is Chow..
You can normally get 25%-35% off for an ex display item. You were had.
Wow, that’s horrible. One time that happened to me too. Those people working at the store should be ashamed! Well, I will not say further other than that they are the “lowest” of all..
I use to work in a customer service environment, one that has high demands in customer service, and anyone who has ever worked in a customer service setting, typically will have some kind of higher demand of the level of service they receive elsewhere (generally speaking).
If I was in that situation, I would argue that I paid for the unit that was in that box, that THEY sold that unit to me, and now they’re trying to rip me off. I don’t care if it was a mistake or not, the fact is they already sold it to me, and trying to swap it out and opening the box is theft. Even worst, trying to pull a fast one. Of course if you’re nice enough, you’ll let them slide. I would obviously be pissed, even more so at the fact that I didn’t personally get to unwrap the present myself (aka be the first to open it or be the only one opening it for that matter).
There really is no way to rectify such a situation like that unless they ordered a new iMac extreme and replace that in my opinion. Others may be nicer and accept something less or even go with the original iMac (now removed from the box) or do what the Cow did and take the discount, but personally I think they deserve what they get for being dirty. If they had been honest and told me they made a legitimate mistake, I would have been understanding. But since they wanted to be dicks, I’d gladly take it the whole nine yards to get the unit I paid for.
Guess we’re not cow enough to bother them people in the store any further. We went in for an iMac and we went home with an iMac. For a bit less than we were expecting too.
Sometimes you just have to be happy with the little breaks you get in life. Going out of our way to get more discount, that souped up iMac or something else could and eventually would turn around and bite us in the ass. Its called karma.
Can I have 5 Mac Karma please..
This post has me craving Wendy’s… not McDonald’s.
We don’t have Wendy’s in Europe.
Since McDonald’s was around the corner, and we really didn’t want to waste a whole hour eating
Um that would make you guys cannibals…
You are lame. Maybe it’s because after eating people are more satisfied with everything, and you wanted to get home.