I just purchased OS X.1.3. Question about upgrade.

[Healthy Stealthy ;]

Comp USA sold me OS X.1.3. Since I just purchased this version, can I
get a free upgrade to Jaquar from Apple?
By the way, don't shop at Comp USA. They are a bunch of schmucks!

[Tim McNamara]

In article <8898fc46.0307151932.54346b42@posting.google.com >,
[email]healthystealthy@yahoo.com[/email] (Healthy Stealthy ;) wrote:

> Comp USA sold me OS X.1.3. Since I just purchased this version, can
> I get a free upgrade to Jaquar from Apple?

No. No one got a free upgrade to Jaguar from Apple. It was full
price all around. A lovely way to treat the loyal customers. You can
get a free upgrade to 10.1.5, though.

> By the way, don't shop at Comp USA. They are a bunch of schmucks!

If you knowingly bought 10.1.3, it ain't CompUSA that's the schmuck.
If you unknowingly bought it from them and it was sold to you as the
current OS, then take it back and demand a replacement with the really
current OS- Jaguar.

But if you're smart you'll take it back to CompUSA, get your money
back, and wait for the release of Panther.

[Larry Fransson]

In article <8898fc46.0307151932.54346b42@posting.google.com >,
[email]healthystealthy@yahoo.com[/email] (Healthy Stealthy ;) wrote:

> Comp USA sold me OS X.1.3. Since I just purchased this version, can I
> get a free upgrade to Jaquar from Apple?
> By the way, don't shop at Comp USA. They are a bunch of schmucks!

I sure hope you didn't pay much for it. Jaguar was a full price upgrade
- $129. You would have been well advised to wait a few more months for
Panther.

Like you said, don't shop at CompUSA. You need to have a really good
idea what you're doing if you do.

--
Larry Fransson
Aviation software for Mac OS X!
[url]http://www.subcritical.com[/url]

[GrapeApe]

<< > By the way, don't shop at Comp USA. They are a bunch of schmucks!

Then why did you buy from them? >><BR><BR>


Jaguar has leopardy spots on the X

Some people want the older version of X for one reason or another however. And
a store might discount it, and a customer might see a bargain and snap it up
without thinking, etc.

To some degree, it is the customers job to know what they are buying.

It is very possible to buy one of their stock macs without Jaguar installed...
they sell with what was shipped on them, and only get upgraded as newer stock
comes in shipping with Jaguar. Most retain what they had placed on them, and
in their packaging as manufactured, or what they were released with even, even
if they were built last week.

[Healthy Stealthy ;]

Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote in message news:<timmcn-E39A50.00403216072003@gemini.visi.com>...

> In article <8898fc46.0307151932.54346b42@posting.google.com >,
> [email]healthystealthy@yahoo.com[/email] (Healthy Stealthy ;) wrote:

> If you knowingly bought 10.1.3, it ain't CompUSA that's the schmuck.
> If you unknowingly bought it from them and it was sold to you as the
> current OS, then take it back and demand a replacement with the really
> current OS- Jaguar.
>
> But if you're smart you'll take it back to CompUSA, get your money
> back, and wait for the release of Panther.

I UNKNOWINGLY purchased OS X 1.1.3 thinking it was the latest version.
I DID TRY TO BRING IT BACK to Comp USA, hoping they would allow me to
exchange this version for Jaquar, since I was a former Comp USA
employee from another store. But they would not allow it. In fact, it
is Comp USA's return policy that you are not allowed to return any
software, unless it is defective; and then, you have to do an even
exchange for the same software. The manager was a real dick! And they
didn't even have Jaquar if I wanted to get it.

Yes, Comp USA are schmucks. I know because I used to work at one. The
management there are a joke. The people who work there are anti
semites. Believe me, I know.

IF Oliver and Seade are reading this, blow it out your ass. Are you
guys still working at Comp USA refusing to service jews? Assholes!

[chrisr]

In article <8898fc46.0307160654.4840904@posting.google.com> ,
[email]healthystealthy@yahoo.com[/email] (Healthy Stealthy ;) wrote:

> I UNKNOWINGLY purchased OS X 1.1.3 thinking it was the latest version.
> I DID TRY TO BRING IT BACK to Comp USA, hoping they would allow me to
> exchange this version for Jaquar, since I was a former Comp USA
> employee from another store. But they would not allow it. In fact, it
> is Comp USA's return policy that you are not allowed to return any
> software, unless it is defective; and then, you have to do an even
> exchange for the same software. The manager was a real dick! And they
> didn't even have Jaquar if I wanted to get it.

Take it back and start a fight, if you argue long enough they will give
in. If that doesn't work, take it to the regional manager. If that
doesn't work, put a light coat of clear spray paint on it and take it
back to a different comp-usa and tell them it doesn't work. It is
almost certain that they don't have 10.1 and will exchange it for Jaguar.

Chris

[jemmy ducks]

In article <crex-1998AB.23333117072003@news.bellatlantic.net>, chrisr
<crex@bellatlantic.net> wrote:

> Take it back and start a fight, if you argue long enough they will give
> in. If that doesn't work, take it to the regional manager. If that
> doesn't work, put a light coat of clear spray paint on it and take it
> back to a different comp-usa and tell them it doesn't work. It is
> almost certain that they don't have 10.1 and will exchange it for Jaguar.

I don't know how such things are regulated by Apple and its dealers,
but it seems to me that no dealer should be selling 10.1 long after
10.2 has been released (unless they offered a discount on 10.1).

[Scott Ellsworth]

In article <20030716101538.04816.00000022@mb-m26.aol.com>,
[email]grapeape@aol.comj[/email]unk (GrapeApe) wrote:

> << > By the way, don't shop at Comp USA. They are a bunch of schmucks!
>
> Then why did you buy from them? >><BR><BR>
>
>
> Jaguar has leopardy spots on the X
>
> Some people want the older version of X for one reason or another however. And
> a store might discount it, and a customer might see a bargain and snap it up
> without thinking, etc.
>
> To some degree, it is the customers job to know what they are buying.

To some degree, but merchantability does, in theory, hold. I fought a
battle with M.A.C.in Berkeley about this, and my credit card company was
quite firm - if the "current hardware" would not run the product, and
the labelling did not claim it would not, then a reasonable person would
expect the product to work. They ended up giving me a store credit for
a competing, working, product.

Thus, if you in any way indicated that you wanted "OS X', you might well
be able to argue that a reasonable person would have known that you
wanted the most recent version. They are, after all, merchants of the
product, and thus the onus of it working does fall to some extent on
them. If, of course, they had copies of both on the shelf, and the
10.1.x copies were much cheaper, then your case gets slimmer.

Scott