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When will the new MacBook Pro be refurbished?

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Re: When will the new MacBook Pro be refurbished?

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He's openly admitted to that, since for the most part Apple will not sell him the official OEM components.

If he wants official parts, he can join Apple's one of service/repair provider programs.

Apple's repair providers don't perform board repair, you're promoting a false equivalency. It's like telling someone with a flat tire to take their car back to the dealership.

Re: When will the new MacBook Pro be refurbished?

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If he wants official parts, he can join Apple's one of service/repair provider programs.

Apple's repair providers don't perform board repair, you're promoting a false equivalency. It's like telling someone with a flat tire to take their car back to the dealership.

No, it's like telling someone with a flat tire to take their car to a tire shop, which gets tires from Goodyear but not patch repair kits.

Rossman could get real Apple parts but he doesn't want to because it'd hurt his views.

Re: When will the new MacBook Pro be refurbished?

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Apple's repair providers don't perform board repair, you're promoting a false equivalency. It's like telling someone with a flat tire to take their car back to the dealership.

No, it's like telling someone with a flat tire to take their car to a tire shop, which gets tires from Goodyear but not patch repair kits. Rossman could get real Apple parts but he doesn't want to because it'd hurt his views.

For the record, Rossman cannot get the specific parts that he wants, you're saying that he could pay $600 for a first-party logic board replacement when the only thing wrong is a blown capacitor that costs a nickle.

Re: When will the new MacBook Pro be refurbished?

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Yeah, well there definitely isn’t a requirement for third party sellers to weigh the parcels - in almost all instances the shipping weight field is just calculated based on the packing list and known weights for each item and the packaging material. All large Amazon sellers I’ve worked for did this. An exception to this is if it’s shipped by Amazon, as I believe they have in-line weigh scales. Amazon as a company tho…

It was fulfilled by Amazon, so hopefully at whatever end of this they figure that out and realize they've made an error. I have certainly hit that point, for whatever reason :/

Good luck! They are a nightmare.
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