Best/recommended place to buy a MBP?

Is there a recommended/good/best place to buy Macs? People are like "i'd never let BestBuy/geeksquad touch my mac"

HollisterApple wrote:
People are always saying dont bring your mac to best buy/geeksquad.
There was a poster on here about a week or two ago who had purchased multiple iMacs from Best Buy...one had to be taken back for service almost immediately, then repeatedly, finally called Apple Support requesting a replacement machine.  Result: BB did virtually nothing in the way of support, did not fix things right, Apple did not recognize the service as valid against their approach to try three times at repair then give a new machine.
If you go there, buyer beware.
And no one is going to undersell Apple on Mac computers, anyway so why bother...go where you get the experts to help setup if you need that, answer questions, teach courses, provide certified service.

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