Welcome to the MacNN Forums.

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

You are here: MacNN Forums > Software - Troubleshooting and Discussion > macOS > Best price on OSX Jaguar including shipping?

Best price on OSX Jaguar including shipping?
Thread Tools
Dan Szwarc
Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Southfield, MI, USA
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Jul 26, 2002, 08:05 AM
 
OK, folks. Been looking around a little and I am trying to find out who has the best price for Jaguar, with or without rebates.

ClubMac: $119 plus shipping ($10 for UPS. Yikes!)
MacConnection: $119 plus shipping
OWC: $129

Anyone out there selling it for $99 after rebate (that's how I got 10.1)?

Bundles do not count (I don't want to buy anything else).

And upgrades do not count either.

<small>[ 07-26-2002, 08:07 AM: Message edited by: Dan Szwarc ]</small>
Dan
"I guarantee that I am correct."
(not a guarantee)
     
BrunoBruin
Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Northampton, MA USA
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Jul 26, 2002, 08:58 AM
 
MacZone also has it for $119, plus $5.39 for Airborne ground.
"I'm an award-winning creative, the rules of society no longer apply to me."
     
OwlBoy
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Madison, WI
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Jul 26, 2002, 12:46 PM
 
Damn, I bought it through, apple. Had no clue the Catalogs would have it already... Thats ok though...

-Owl
     
mchladek
Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2001
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Jul 26, 2002, 12:56 PM
 
I believe SmallDog has a deal going on where Jaguar is $127 and you get a free pint of Ben & Jerry's ice cream. What could be better than that--chatting with friends in iChat and munchin' on some 'Chunky Monkey' Ice cream?
     
BZ
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2001
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Jul 26, 2002, 01:01 PM
 
Thinking about going down to the new Apple store in SOHO and picking up my copy. They should have it and while it will be $129, at least I will get the satisfaction of reading all the cool stuff on the way back on the subway.

BZ
     
Proudest Monkey
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Mini-Apple, Minnesota
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Jul 26, 2002, 01:37 PM
 
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by mchladek:
<strong>I believe SmallDog has a deal going on where Jaguar is $127 and you get a free pint of Ben & Jerry's ice cream. What could be better than that--chatting with friends in iChat and munchin' on some 'Chunky Monkey' Ice cream? </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">THATS A DEAL, i'm serious, thats a great way to attract people to purchasing Jag through them. however ... i would have munch on some 'One Sweet Whirled' while chatting on iChat and listening to One Sweet World (Live @ Luther) by Dave Matthews Band, but we all have our prefs
MacBook 13.3" C2D 2.0ghz 2gb/160gb
     
yuliang
Forum Regular
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Seattle, WA
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Jul 26, 2002, 03:46 PM
 
Go to your campus Apple dealer if you're a student, and place a pre-order for $69 academic price. =) Shipping's free cuz y'kno, you'll walk there.

I placed my order on Apple.com for $69 and it'll get shipped to me for free!!! =)
Anthony Wu
- - - - - - - - - -
Titanium PowerBook G4/550 - X 10.2
Beige PowerMac G3/500 - X 10.1
HP 751n P4/1.8GHz - XP Pro SP1
     
yellar
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Mar 2001
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Jul 26, 2002, 07:26 PM
 
Originally posted by Dan Szwarc:
OK, folks. Been looking around a little and I am trying to find out who has the best price for Jaguar, with or without rebates.

Anyone out there selling it for $99 after rebate (that's how I got 10.1)?
***************
&lt;wishful thinking&gt;
Now that Apple has revised its X up to date policy, as a purchaser of 10.1 (regardless of the date) you are entitled to order 10.2 directly from Apple for $19.95. Ben and Jerry's or not, that is the best price you can find.
&lt;/wishful thinking&gt;

<small>[ 07-26-2002, 07:34 PM: Message edited by: yellar ]</small>
     
Synotic
Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Jul 26, 2002, 09:28 PM
 
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by yellar:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by Dan Szwarc:
<strong>OK, folks. Been looking around a little and I am trying to find out who has the best price for Jaguar, with or without rebates.

Anyone out there selling it for $99 after rebate (that's how I got 10.1)?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">&lt;wishful thinking&gt;;
Now that Apple has revised its X up to date policy, as a purchaser of 10.1 (regardless of the date) you are entitled to order 10.2 directly from Apple for $19.95. Ben and Jerry's or not, that is the best price you can find.
&lt;/wishful thinking&gt;</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Revised? BTW, HTML isn't interpreted here.
     
asxless
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 1999
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Jul 26, 2002, 09:29 PM
 
Calm down. Patience = $ in your pocket. But more importantly in this case, patience = $ in all of our pockets for every OS upgrade in the future. If we all rush like lemmings to buy 10.2 for $129, Apple will have established a precedent for future OS upgrade pricing. But if we pause and tell Apple we actually CAN live without 10.2 (as in, keep on breathing) they will think twice about upgrade pricing the next time. Even if Apple is too dense or arrogant to get the message, the savvy mail order vendors will get it.

Of course the price of 10.2 is high now, even at the mail order vendors. They are testing the market to see how many people will pre-order at this price. If they don't get a lot of pre-orders, one of them will lower the price to what people will pay or bundle it with something (e.g. utility software) they can afford to 'give away' to get the perceived price to what their customers will pay. Once one does that the others will follow. They know that 10.2 is 'hot' and that many people will order something else at the same time. So they are going to make 10.2 pricing as attractive as they can to get your business. It's a bundled pint Ben & Jerry's today but if you are patient, you will almost certainly be able to get 10.2 for $99 before your iDisk disappears on Sept. 30th <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

FWIW unlike hardware, there is almost never a real shortage of software. So you are very, very unlikely to be 'shut out' by waiting until after Aug 24th to buy 10.2. The full list price isn't going to go up. [BTW The only example of a real software 'shortage' that I can remember, is when M$ ran out of Office vX 'upgrades' because their state-of-the-art online sales system shipped dozens of copies to people who had actually only ordered one. DUH.]

edit: Based on the following post, the more aggresive mail order rebates/bundles/incentives have already begun!

asxless in iLand

<small>[ 07-26-2002, 09:58 PM: Message edited by: asxless ]</small>
     
TheMosco
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: MA, USA
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Jul 26, 2002, 09:40 PM
 
anyone see that Amazon.com mail in rebate that macnn.com posted?

<a href="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006ANW9.01.RB02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" target="_blank">http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006ANW9.01.RB02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg</a>

50 dollars off and amazon has a deal that if you spend over 50 dollars you get free shipping. That might apply here. You have to order Jag between 7/29 and 9/3 to get this rebate so you can't get it now becuase it is only the 26th. Seems like a good deal.

[edit for the date, I could have sworn it was the 27th]

<small>[ 07-26-2002, 10:31 PM: Message edited by: TheMosco ]</small>
AXP
ΔΣΦ
     
jfinete
Forum Regular
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: San Diego
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Jul 26, 2002, 10:01 PM
 
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by TheMosco:
<strong>anyone see that Amazon.com mail in rebate that macnn.com posted?
</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Amazon doesn't have 10.2 available for pre-order yet. There may be conditions on getting that rebate.
     
TheMosco
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: MA, USA
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Jul 26, 2002, 10:27 PM
 
Like i said, the promotion says July 29th and today is only the 26th. So i am guessing they will have it for pre-order on the 29th.

[edit for the date, I could have sworn it was the 27th]

<small>[ 07-26-2002, 10:30 PM: Message edited by: TheMosco ]</small>
AXP
ΔΣΦ
     
asxless
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 1999
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Jul 26, 2002, 10:38 PM
 
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by TheMosco:
Like i said, the promotion says July 29th and today is only the 26th. So i am guessing they will have it for pre-order on the 29th.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">It's available for pre-order today 'This item will be released on August 24, 2002. You may order it now and we will ship it to you when it arrives.' on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006F7S2/qid=1027737230/sr=8-5/ref=sr_8_5/102-0275243-0590569" target="_blank">this page</a> . But there is no mention of the 'rebate' yet. Probably because of the dates as you mentioned.

asxless in iLand

<small>[ 07-26-2002, 10:39 PM: Message edited by: asxless ]</small>
     
Dan Szwarc  (op)
Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Southfield, MI, USA
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Jul 26, 2002, 10:53 PM
 
$79 sounds like a bargain to me!
Dan
"I guarantee that I am correct."
(not a guarantee)
     
TomD
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jul 2002
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Jul 27, 2002, 01:29 AM
 
MacFixit sez if you buy a boxed OSX after July17,
you'll get 10.2 for $19.95..
So who has cheapest boxed OSX 10.1 today?
     
   
Thread Tools
 
Forum Links
Forum Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Top
Privacy Policy
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 04:35 AM.
All contents of these forums © 1995-2017 MacNN. All rights reserved.
Branding + Design: www.gesamtbild.com
vBulletin v.3.8.8 © 2000-2017, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.,