![]() Did you you mention the published battery service cost? No way should it be $299, even if they have to send it out. Maybe added shipping to your home/business if it has to be sent to a central facility. So actually looking at the battery was not done. They can't replace a 12" MacBook battery in-store, I was told it had to be sent to the service center. I too had seen the $199 cost on the web prior to my visit. However, the most I'd expect is that maybe there would be a small discount should the battery be showing such wear early. ![]() I'm kind of surprised that they don't have anything like this any more. I brought it in and with the obvious swelling they didn't even check the diagnostics and sold me a "service replacement" battery for $99. When it started swelling I still only had less than 100 cycles on it. But they didn't have it in stock and I just used it for a couple of more years until it started swelling. With the service replacement I had to return my old battery. I think Amazon also sold the retail version for $119. I was told I had the option to get a "service replacement" battery that came in a brown box for $99 or a retail battery that came in a nice box with photos for $129. I got a Genius Bar appointment and the employee ran a special diagnostic check on an iPod through the USB port. When I brought it in I had a weird issue where it was variously going in and out of "replace now" warnings reporting negative battery capacity (something like -159 mAh) to going back into "normal" and reporting several thousand mAh - all with maybe 29 cycles reported. Back then the user-replaceable battery was $129 retail. I remember I had an issue with my 2007 white polycarbonate MacBook battery. Where is this? It should be $199 in the United States. So, they made profit selling me a Lemon, and then want to profit from selling me the Lemon part again. No negotiation, full price battery replacement for $299 is all that is offered.
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