I've got AppleCare on my MacBook. Hard drive failure; call phone support; take MacBook into service center; No drives in stock (backordered, they'll be in stoc

I've got AppleCare on my MacBook. Hard drive failure; call phone support; take MacBook into service center; No drives in stock (backordered, they'll be in stock in 14 days); Me - "Just put a larger drive in and I'll pay the difference."; Apple - "No."; In the end I asked for my MacBook back, went round the corner to the whitebox computer store, bought a drive for $90, restored my backup and got back to work. Apple sent me a new drive in the post. AppleCare - bah.