Am I really too late for the free Mountain Lion upgrade?

Hi,
I bought my new MBP retina on June 13th, and just discovered I should've ordered Mountain Lion before August 26th.
Is it really true I have no chance of getting a free upgrade to Mountain Lion anymore?
I just can't imagine this being true. 30 days is not a long time (I was on vacation for 3 weeks in August!), and I've
never gotten a message or an alert from Apple to order within 30 days when it came out.
I hope someone can enlighten me.

Terms and Conditions
http://www.apple.com/osx/uptodate/
This program entitles the purchaser of a qualifying product purchased on or after July 26, 2012, to upgrade to OS X Mountain Lion.
Completed order form and dated, itemized sales receipt must be emailed within 30 days of product purchase to qualify for this program.

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Right now it is rumoured that Apple is outsourcing the verification of our claims to DogBert's Elbonian workers at 31 cents an hour. They get to read our personal proofs of purchase and decide if they look real or fake. But because that process would be too involved, it has been reported that the Elbonians instead print out each claim, fold it into a paper airplane, and judge the validity of the claim by how far the paper airplane flies. Because it is Dogberts Elbonian workers who are using mountains of paper in this futile exercise, Apple can deny that they are personally responsible for mowing down whole forests to print these millions of proofs.
If we all showed up at the Genius bar, Apple would instead be forced to have $8.45/hr. workers deal with our requests. And all they would be able to tell us is send a claim to Dogbert, so we wouldn't adversely impact Dogbert's workers. The Apple store blue shirts, unable to solve our problem, would at least be able to ask us how it feels to be an Apple owner, and offer consolation why trying to sell us a nano....
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http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Elbonia%20Dogbert

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I recently purchased a macbook pro and qualified for the free Mountain Lion update. Now that I've received the very long content code from Apple, where do I go to enter this information? Is there a link within apple.com? This is my first apple computer so I'm not a proficient user. Thank you
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Sorry for yet another "Which MBP should I buy" post but I have read through all the of the discussions I can find on this topic as well as around the web.
I am a digital designer who is currently using a PC only because up until now I have never been in the financial position to transition over to Mac.
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kytim wrote:
I need to be rational about my needs.
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Therefore lack of "upgradability" in Retina
No optical drive in Retina.
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I am from india. I am looking to buy macbook pro 15inch base version today.
As,the macbook comes with lion preinstalled will i get mountain lion a free upgrade ?
Or should i buy the mountain lion.
Please tell me.

The free upgrade program ended some months ago, so if you buy a MacBook Pro with OS X Lion, you will have to pay $19.99 to upgrade to OS X Mountain Lion.
In that case, and if you don't want to pay for Mountain Lion you have two options:
1. Buy a MacBook with OS X Mountain Lion.
2. Get your Mac with OS X Lion and upgrade to OS X Mavericks when it's released this fall. See > http://www.apple.com/osx/preview
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Free mountain lion upgrade

Im just wondering, who will get the mountainlion upgrade for free. I read somewhere from june 11th on. Is this correct? Hmmmmmmm

I haven't received a redemption code yet, and I started this as soon as the site came up. Waiting an hour to save $20 doesn't make sense to me. My time is worth more than that. I think it's best just to purchase it, especially if you have more than one Mac.
Apple seems to forget that 40% of the US population lives in the Eastern time zone, so if they release an update at 6:00 am their time, it's 9:00 am our time, when we are all hovering over our Macs waiting for the software to become available and hitting their servers at the same time. The load on their servers would be spread out better if they released it at 3:00 their time, 6:00 ours. I'm sure that can be automated, so no one has to get up early.

Am I really too late for the free Mountain Lion upgrade?

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