Moral of the story: don't deal with the Apple Store. The amount of people I know who have had their data trashed (after possibly being cloned) is quite high. The solution to most problems is wipe the machine. They usually come to me after telling them to fuck off. I haven't had to destroy a single machine yet. We're talking trivial shit like an HP printer driver thrashing the CPU or corrupt mail folders. Seriously, 1…
Also treat your computer like a credit card That's the best comment in this thread.
Eh, in that case, what OP did was perfectly reasonable. I would hand my credit card to Apple much quickly than I would hand it to a friend of a friend that knows how to fix computers (which is what it sounds like d0 does, fix computers for people). And I certainly don't think you would sit there and watch someone while they work on your computer for a hours. I would just do it myself if I was going to waste that time.
The real moral of the story should be "treat your bitcoin wallet like a wallet.... because it is one".