[CUBE] Marbella Technologies New Major Discounter of New Macs

[Erik Ableson]

There was a slew of discussion on this elsewhere.  If it looks too good 
to be true - it probably is and these guys are not necessarily exactly 
a scam, but read the fine print carefully as they don't actually 
guarantee that price...

There's some interesting stuff over at:
http://forum.cubase.net/forum/Forum1/HTML/013136.html

Most interesting is the back-end whois research that uncovered the site 
of a certain fred lackey who appears to be the source of much of this 
data, who, despite his evident brilliance (hee hee - whatever) can't 
read time zones.

Think of this - someone can't afford a full priced machine - they put 
in a $250 deposit and the best price is maybe $50-100 off the list 
price (assuming they manage even that).  So they can't pony up the 
balance... they're out $250.

 From my work (historically) with resellers and distributors I can 
pretty much guarantee that nobody out there is getting anywhere near 
$1000 off a computer these days.

Erik

On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 03:17 AM, Thubten Kunga wrote:

> <http://www.applepurchaseprogram.com> and 800.310.2256
>
> Anybody notice this program that claims to be able to sell us new dual 
> 1.25 GHz Macs for $989?
>
> New Full Page ad is in the April MacAddict (p.69) Magazine.
>
> Must put up a $250 non-refundable deposit toward the purchase price to 
> be included in the deal.