Apple can't spare a piece of string

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notfred

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Feb 12, 2001
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Originally posted by: RichieZ
Originally posted by: notfred
They probably make the exact same amount of lanyards as ipods, so they don't have any spare ones in stock to use as replacements.

Anyway, I brought in an out-of-warranty laptop to one of thier stores last week with a dead motherboard, and they decided to not charge me the $300 replacement fee, jsut cause they felt like giving me the repair for free. That was nice of them.

was it your ibook, cuz the logic board problem is unoficially covered

Yeah, it was, he said there was some program to replace them, but he didn't go into detail.
 

helpme

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Feb 6, 2000
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Originally posted by: notfred
Originally posted by: RichieZ
Originally posted by: notfred
They probably make the exact same amount of lanyards as ipods, so they don't have any spare ones in stock to use as replacements.

Anyway, I brought in an out-of-warranty laptop to one of thier stores last week with a dead motherboard, and they decided to not charge me the $300 replacement fee, jsut cause they felt like giving me the repair for free. That was nice of them.

was it your ibook, cuz the logic board problem is unoficially covered

Yeah, it was, he said there was some program to replace them, but he didn't go into detail.

http://www.apple.com/support/ibook/faq/