3rd Party Retina Macbook Return to Apple Store

So I bought an 8gb retina macbook pro from a 3rd party, and want the 16gb version (No captain hindsights please, I know, shoulda thought ahead, didn't =/). Would the Apple Store be at all helpful as far as returns and replacing goes?

Was it from a person or company. I would not think any company that was not an authorized Apple Reseller would have any Retina MBPs as Apple can't get any to there own stores let along authorized reseller.
So I'm guessing it was from a person and he had bought it and sold it to you.
In any event your Mac has a 1 year warranty which is good world wide. Unless of course if it was stolen like from a truck shipment or something.
Along with that 1 year warranty you can get the extended Applecare that will give you 3 total years of warranty.
Have you tried to register it on the Apple web site?

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