[ale] Reliable seller of refurbished MacBooks?

[Charles Shapiro]

Apple pretty much hates 3rd party repair shops (
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/28/ios_repairs/ ).  You might want to
factor that into your decision.

-- CHS


On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 12:55 AM, Ken Cochran <kwc at shell.theworld.com> wrote:

> Physical Apple stores don't have refurbished; that's all on
> their website (http://store.apple.com/).  Stock varies all the
> time but there's good stuff there.  That's where I get most all
> my Apple stuff.  Apple warrants them as new and offers their
> AppleCare as if new.  I've always been very pleased there.  -kc
>
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> > From: "Lightner, Jeffrey" <JLightner at dsservices.com>
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> > Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 00:05:53 +0000
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Reliable seller of refurbished MacBooks?
> >
> > I don’t know but I’ll check it out.   There’s an Apple store at
> Cumberland.
> >
> > Of course if its Apple doing the refurb/resell I’m guessing
> > they’re expensive as compared to others who might do it.
> >
> > I wonder if MicroCenter does it – I know they at least do
> > (or did anyway) for PCs/laptops.
> >
> >
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
> Kinney
> > Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2017 6:46 PM
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Reliable seller of refurbished MacBooks?
> >
> > Doesn't Apple have a refurbished area in their stores?
> >
> > On Thu, 2017-06-01 at 21:45 +0000, Lightner, Jeffrey wrote:
> > My 84 year old neighbor is looking to buy a refurbished MacBook
> > and asked me about it.
> >
> > I only work on Mac when she asks me about hers so was hoping
> > someone else would know.   She isn’t interested in doing
> > Linux.   Her main concern is to be able to print via her
> > wireless printer.   She could do that on an older Mac she had
> > but she got one of the MacBook air devices about a year ago and
> > for some reason printing from that isn’t working properly.
> > I worked with her on it for a while right after she got the
> > MacBook Air but never could get it to print properly.
> >
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