How I got a free MacBook Pro during Mercury Retrograde!

Do you want to know how I got a Free Macbook pro during Mercury Retrograde?

Okay, am about to let you into a little secret and share with you how I managed to a free Mac book pro (and accessories) during Mercury Retrograde.

No, I didn’t get a replacement Macbook like other people claiming they got a MacBook Pro for free, I was trying to buy a brand new MacBook (and other accessories) but ended up getting them all for FREE!!!!

So, you should know that screw-ups, failures, technical glitches, miscommunications, and delays are the keywords woven into the horror stories of Mercury retrograde.

People will tell you not to buy technology, not to sign contractual agreements, not to write any new articles/essays, not to undergo surgery, and avoid purchasing new forms of transportation/not to travel.

You more or less have to put your life on hold for what seems like an eternity, all this for a planet only ”appearing” to go backward in the sky.

Unfortunately, society has now come to dread planet Mercury, but fear not, good can come when Mercury is retrograde/ or even during the pre-retrograde season.

However, you should use Astrology/ astrologers as a predictive tool. As a rule of thumb, add two/ three more weeks before and after the date astrologers relay to you about Mercury Retrograde, because a fortnight before and after will be as equally vital as the actual starting and ending dates, and here’s why!

Two weeks before Mercury appears to go backward (retrograde) Mercury enters a phase known as Pre-retrograde, and as it so happens, my real-life story starts two weeks before Mercury went retrograde.

My Story!

I finally decided to buy a new MacBook Pro for Christmas.

It was a gift to myself.

If you read my other Mercury retrograde article, I talk about the issues I had trying to place my first order. I clicked the blue ‘add to bag’ button, reviewed my order, checked out, and filled in my delivery and payment details.

I thought everything was okay, but there was an issue, and when I tried to resolve it I was met with bureaucracy surrounding what had happened; PayPal blamed Apple, and Apple blamed PayPal.

My money was in Timbuktu, and I had to sit it out until my order got canceled.

Once I was finally refunded, I was apprehensive about reordering because I knew that I would have to repurchase another laptop a few days before Mercury went retrograde.

Nevertheless, I needed to order the computer within a limited timeframe because Apple was offering a reduced (soon to be discontinued) MacBook Pro and free accessories with the MacBook. I didn’t care for the headphones and additional accessories, but I thought I could sell them on eBay.

Furthermore, Apple had promised to give me a ‘goodwill gesture’ because of the issues I had faced with my first order, although Apple never divulged what the complimentary items/ amount were.

Reluctantly, six days later I found myself logging back into my Apple account attempting to purchase a new order. Although I felt uncomfortable motions in my stomach, this time, my order went through.

However, I hadn’t renewed any of my photo IDs, so, I had to arrange for them to send the package/s to my home address.

Big mistake, but I did not know that at the time.

Anyway, Apple provided me with a date of the shipping details – when my items were supposed to arrive and mentioned that the delivery man would need my signature as proof of delivery.

However, after my first failed attempt at purchasing, I was skeptical if I was going to receive my Christmas present.

Anyway, the day of arrival came, and I kept pressing my nose up against my glass windows like a dog waiting for his owner to return home.

I scanned the whole road to see if I could spot any evidence of the driver, and finally, I saw the courier company, but they only did a ‘pit stop’ and sped off.

My blood boiled as an alert came through my phone, and when I opened the message, the driver had taken a picture of three plain brown boxes, left in someone outside storage.

There was no way to make out the location because there wasn’t a door number in sight.

In truth, there were more clues in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd than there were in that picture.

I tried to calm down before I called Apple’s Customer service. And when I finally spoke to someone, they told me the driver would come back and [re]trieve the item, but he never did.

Then Apple said the driver would [re]visit me the next day; it never happened.

Instead, my next day was taken up with me answering a barrage of calls from Apple accusing me of signing for the delivery of goods that I had only seen in a picture.

At this point I was beyond looking at the sky, I looked up at the ceiling and asked it if I was cursed, of course, there was no reply.

Two or three weeks of accusations continued until Apple finally [re]funded me -when Mercury was still retrograde. But they only did so after having to prove to them that I did not have a storage unit, I gave them proof of my signature, and showed them I would not lose my cool.

Anyway, something strange happened when Apple ended up sending me an email which was a receipt, not proof of my refund (PayPal had already sent me the documentation) but ‘Proof of Purchase’. I thought this was odd, but I guessed it didn’t matter because I imagined they were going to attempt to get compensation from the delivery company.

Christmas had now come and gone, and Mercury was about to go direct.

I decided to switch on my phone, which I had turned off because of all the drama with the missing technology.

To my surprise, there were a ridiculous amount of voice messages, several messages were from an old lady, she said she and her husband returned from their holiday (vacation), and there were boxes in the entrance hall.

Her ‘grown-up daughter found them in their outside storage unit and brought them in thinking they belonged to her parents.

However, the older lady had not been expecting any items neither had her husband, and when they checked the name on the box my name, address, and number were visible. She decided to ring the number to tell me that there were boxes in my name in her house, and I should call her back to discuss collecting my goods.

At first, I didn’t even think of the MacBook because so much time had passed but I decided to call her back.

It turned out the couple lives in the gated community just around the corner where I lived, and they have the same door number.

I would never have thought my goods would be delivered there because it’s gated up (I’ve never seen what’s beyond the gate), so, I didn’t recognize the location when the courier texted the image.

I collected the Items, but at this point, I could no longer stomach Apple. However, my conscious told me to contact them, although they had previously said ‘the goods wouldn’t work if it’s switched on as they would ‘disable it’ remotely’ lol.

I decided to see if that was true and guess what they did not disable it.

Anyway, I called customer service, and they must of been having a laugh when they said I could drop it off at an Apple center; as if!

The woman on the other end must have sensed I was not going to go into the City and she said they could not resell the stuff because the items were no longer for sale.

After all, newer models were now in stock. And in light of facing issue after issue, and with Apple already claiming compensation from the delivery company (the driver should have never have left the item in a safe place’ without getting a signature), I was told I could keep the items.

And there you have it, that was the nightmare I went through to get a MacBook, Beat headphones, and a USB SuperDrive, during Mercury retrograde.

You don’t have to go through all the stress I went through if you read other Mercury Retrograde posts published on this site.

However, everyone else will still be prone to making mistakes and having to reverse their misfortunes.

Either way, make sure you read how to take advantage of Mercury going retrograde.