Originally Posted by
gster78
This is what I did when I recently bought my MacBook Air. Went to Staples and bought Visa gift cards. Then went to Apple Store and converted those Visa GCs into an Apple gift card. Then went to Apple.com via Chase UR mall, and bought with gift card. The latter is YMMV but you're at least guaranteed the 5x from the Staples GC purchase.
Id rather have the free 1 year warranty purchasing it directly with AMEX.