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Best Buy have begun selling MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops with $100 discounts from the list-price. The deal is not limited to the older plastic MacBook, but the new late-2008 unibody aluminum version and its more powerful Pro sibling. According to some sources, Apple stores will be matching the Best Buy pricing “for the next few days”.
The situation is unusual because Apple hardware seldom is seen at below-MRSP levels. Apple is particularly strict about pricing, and there’s usually no good reason to shop around. It’s unclear whether this move by Best Buy has had Apple’s blessing or even if the company was aware of it before the promotion launch.
It seems likely that Best Buy are looking to present a strong challenge to suggestions that holiday sales this year will be poor. No indication of how long the sale prices at Best Buy will last, so if you’ve been thinking of picking up a new MacBook or MacBook Pro then now looks like the time to do it.
[via Gizmodo]
There’s a good chance Best Buy has negotiaded something with Apple, and the MSRP may be adjusted to assume a sale-drop like this, or they just allow BB to do it regardless. I can see BB having a big of a negotiating upper-hand in this case because they are such a large retail outlet and they do have some well-documented best practices.
$100 off a $1200 pricetag isn’t a whole lot when you make that up with an extended warranty of some sort also.
Dudes and dudettes,
Best Buy sells Apple crap for the same price Apple does, period. If you check the “sales” at Best Buy (and note that not all BB’s carry Mac) you will find that the prices tend to be exactly the same as Apple’s “education discount” price. Don’t hold your breath waiting for anything better, unless you risk the weird world of the apple resllers, and they won’t beat it by much. Order it from Apple. Bundle the heck out of it. If you have any connection to a kid, use their school code and get a hundred bucks off. It’s Apple – it’s good but it’s overprices, and does expect miracle deals. If something does sound too good to be true, you can bet it is.
It’s not much, but this Squidoo lens here (http://www.squidoo.com/apple-s.....nt-coupons) gets you a 1.8% cashback rebate at the Apple Store. You can also get an even larger rebate at MacMall and MacConnection. HTH!