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Comment MBNA and Apple Partnership (Score 0, Offtopic) 318

by djhanson on Sunday February 29, 2004 @10:25PM (#8425944) Attached to: Just What is a Custom Configured Server?

MBNA is the other side of my story.

I appreciate the suggestions to get recourse through the credit card company. However, Apple does not offer credit card purchases for the Xserve. So, the same Apple web pages that I used to purchase the Xserve, also suggested that I apply for credit through MBNA to purchase the Xserve. So, I did. Unfortunately, for me, this "Apple Loan" from MBNA does not offer the same protections that a credit card purchase does.

Just one more reason not to do business with either MBNA or Apple.

Journal Journal: Apple Vs Little Guy 4

Journal by djhanson on Wednesday February 25, 2004 @02:12AM

I just got back from a small claims court proceeding against Apple Computer. They successfully won their argument in front of the court that adding additional memory and disk drives to a computer/server constitutes a "custom configured computer built to the customer's specifications". And therefore is not eligible under the company policy to be returned. Has anyone else heard of such a thing? As near as I can tell, Apple is the only company that has such a restrictive policy. I called both IBM a

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