This is for real. No wacky pyramid scams or other wise. This is a tutorial of how to walk into Future Shop and pay less than $1000 for a MacBook.
The 13" MacBook Pro retails for $1249. Apple has a promotion on right now for college/university students that offers $100 off any computer plus a free $100 Mac app store giftcard. They also always offer $100 off a printer when you buy a computer and since they have some that are only $99 you can get a free printer. Future Shop has the 13" MacBook Pro on sale for $1199 this week anyways but if you are a student they put it down to $1149 to match Apple. They don't have Mac app store giftcards so instead of giving those away they are offering Microsoft Office for Mac for free with the MacBook if you are a student. (Side note: they don't actually care if you are a student or not. I am not a student and still got this. They don't ask for proof. If you are visibly too old to be a student tell them you are shopping for your brother/sister/niece/nephew/son/daughter/whatever. They really don't care, especially since this offer is also available online.)
So now you are down to $1149 + free MS Office. The salesman is going to try to sell you all these extended warranties. Make it seem like you're interested but tell him that it just costs too much. Ask him if he can do any better on the price of the warranty or the computer. The 3 year warranty costs $299 but the salesman was able to knock $80 off the price of the computer when I agreed to buy the warranty. (This proves that they can for sure at least take $80 off. See if you can do any better.) He said something about how the discount is essentially coming off of the warranty but since they can't actually reduce the price of the warranty, he will take the discount off of the MacBook itself. This brings the price of the MacBook Pro down to $1069 and now you have MS Office for free and a warranty for $299.
Here's the catch: After purchasing an extended warranty at Future Shop, you have 30 days to "return" the warranty (they actually call it PSP- Product Service Protection), meaning cancel it for a full refund. Who wants that shit anyways? Since the discount was taken off of the computer, and not the warranty, when you cancel it you'll get your $299 back but still get the MacBook for $1069.
"What about a printer?!" I asked. "Apple will give me a free printer." Well Future Shop won't give you a free printer, but they will give you a Canon All-In-One for $10 when you buy a computer or tablet. $10? Why not! It retails for $59.99.
Well I took that little printer home and sold the shit out of it on Craigslist. $50 cash in hand. That's $40 profit to put towards the computer bringing the price down to $1019. And Microsoft Office? Who actually pays for software these days anyways? Suckers, that's who. But if the store can sell that for $130, why can't I? Craigslist, be my bitch. Someone will be swinging by tomorrow to grab that fucker for a smooth $90, which I of course will apply to the tab bringing your grand total down to $929!!!!!! Ring ring ring ring ring. Cha-ching, cha-ching. The price is right! Now if only sales tax in Ontario wasn't 13%.... son of a bitches.
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