Coastside Services
Half Moon Bay,#2Consumer Suggestion
Mon, April 29, 2013
It becomes quite clear that Gainsaver is out to gain more at less savings for the consumer. Take any deal you see for an iMAC. So the new cost at any apple store or online for a 27" is around starts at $1799. and thats complete with 2.9GHz quad-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz, 8GB (two 4GB) memory, 1TB hard drive1, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M with 512MB Video Ram. Complete out the door at the Apple Store or online (+tax and any shipping of course).That does nclude the standard Wireless Apple Keyboard and Wireless Apple Mouse. Thats worth nearly $120 alone if you bought them separate, How nice of Apple to include them!
Now lets look at Gainsaver "Deals"...:
Take this one for instance - iMac Desktop 27" 2.93GHz Intel Quad Core i7. - Apple Computer A1312-2390, its a Mid-2010 model so already 3 years old. NOT NEW, ITS USED!!! Looking at the specs provided, The hard drive included is a 40GB, OH WAIT! What? a 40GB ? really?, thats a lot smaller than the original 1TB it came with. Ok, so lets choose that from the drop down list. Shabang! the price jumps from the stated deal price of 1232.10 to 1421.10. But wait, we just getting started... It comes with 512MB Ram, WTF? The original has 4GB! It won't run on 512MB worth a crap if at all! Ok fine! we'll take the bait and upgrade the memory BACK to the 4GB. The price just jumped to $1490.10. I guess they have to charge extra for reinstalling the Airport Extreme card they removed, thats another $29 added, so now at $1519.10. Lets see, oh yeah... They jerked out the standard Apple Super Drive Dual Layer and stuck in a cheap wannabe. So there's another $99.00 to get back to the apple drive we all love. I don't want their cheap crappy non apple mouse and keyboard that they substituted, so that just raised the price another $108.99 to get BACK to the Apple wireless keyboard and mouse. So now that the darn thing is back to being an iMAC, let see, that's $1727.09 totalled up. Oh for crying out loud... its only got a 30 day warranty... So lets see what we have to pay to get the 1 year warranty we would expect from Apple. Thats another $100.00, so now the total is $1827.09 before tax and shipping. But wait... I see they offer shipping insurance... now thats really unsettling... that means if they ship it and it never makes it here, I'm screwed unless I pay the insurance of $25.32 so NOW the price has jumped to $1852.41. but wait, they ARE being nice and offering a discount of 198.03! So now the total is $1790.38. Again, I'm confused... thats only a discount of $62.03. huh?? I guess the "discount" was BEFORE I started shopping? Oh I almost forgot something, there's another option... for another $25 they'll "test it" Really? Does that mean they WON"T test it after putting all the parts back in they freaking removed to begin with? Give me a break! Fine I'll pay that $25 just to be sure the darn thing hopefully works when it arrives. By the way, not one inference that the parts I'm buying (back) are new or just used... The price for these parts looks like the price for NEW, but I wonder... SO now the price is 1812.88 after mystery discounts, from the now shown total of $2,014.31. WOW! What a savings!!!! Oh wait, thats $215.31 HIGHER than a NEW computer at the APPLE STORE! and I have not even found out the tax and shipping.. COME ON! DON"T BE A SUCKER!