Great point. I don't have $2500 to just tie up for that time.

It's stupid. Just fix it in store.

Have you seen the procedure necessary to do a battery replacement on one of these stupidly-designed things?

I'm ecstatic to see what hopefully amounts to a financial penalty for Apple horrible policy of making these unserviceable things.

I guessing OP is using a credit card, so no money is tied up.

Only for the fortunate souls whose billing cycle is in the other half of the month.

And those who live in places where credit cards are a common thing.

Here, most people have so-called credit cards with no actual credit lines tied to them

And no, they aren't debit cards. Those are yet another's thing over here, apparently.

Nothing to do with the original subject, but does anyone else feel like opacity is the core of retail banking's business model?

These cards exist in the US as well. They're called "charge cards" here. The classic American Express card is one example. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure that anyone else still issues them.

You can pick what part of the month you bring the laptop in, it doesn't have to be tomorrow.