Originally posted by: Devistater
Dont give this guy any referrals if you insist upon shopping at a crappy place with less than 4.6 lifetime rating, and about 1.3 over last 6 months (looks like they have REALLY gone downhill, and since almost 15% of the total ratings were in last 6 months, this is not just a small recent downtick):
http://www.resellerratings.com/seller1932.html
In fact, from reading one of the reviews, it looks like they are mixing up personal info from people's orders and "accidently" putting it into other people's accounts. Another review mentions an order not shipping for 3 weeks, and them not letting the person cancel it until almost half a dozen calls. Yet another person got charged with phantom membership fees 5 months after he ordered (remember the tigerdirect phone card scandal?). And apparently they are shipping open box stuff to people who order new (at least thats what at least one review seemed to say).
use this link without the referral if you want to screw yourself at ecost:
http://www.ecost.com/ecost/ecsplash/shop/detail~dpno~601398.asp
Or, use amazon they are at
$184.95 with free shipping (and no tax to most places). Which is even better and cheaper than this guy's lame referral deal.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007Y79AI
Amazon also has the white version for $179.95
And as mentioned you can get a student discount at apples website if you are a student. But being as the price for black or white is $179, you might as well go with amazon.