An apple a day keeps the doctor away, BUT what if the apple has a worm in it?

OK, so I've had my macbook for some time now... probably like two or three years.
This is my baby:



I've never had ANY complaints with it at all, or with apple for that matter.

I have infact, been fighting the good fight against windows and your normal PC's since that first day I touched a MAC.

And yes I do believe that a MAC is far superior to pc's running stupid windows (the new windows is to me personally like a very lame attempt at copying OSX. While everyone is raving about it they forgot that many of these "new" features have been in OSX for some time)

Sorry for the rant but yah... to get back to my point and what this post is ACTUALLY about.

So no complaints, up untill now!

My charger for my macbook gave in so I have to have it replace, fine! That's not the problem...

The problem is the price.

While I understand that mac products are more expensive and I do believe that you get what you pay for, I do not understand how they can charge R1200 for the charger!

Here is a screen shot from a respected local apple retailer.



I had a look at some online shops selling the same charger for anything from 39$ to 60$
So is that not a WHOLE lot cheaper, even with the great exchange rate?

I'm giving apple (in the V&A waterfront) a call later when I get home to hear if a replacement is even slightly possible... According to their international support site it should be.
Here is what I found:



Read the first paragraph where it says additional information.

If this does not work and they are not going to replace it for me then I am going to have a friend of mine look at it (he is a qualified electrician).

My LAST hope I guess will be to shell out the R1200, but that really just seems like to much.

Lets hope that the apple people will play nice... :)

oh... or does anyone have any other ideas that I might try?