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Apple Back to School Promo Starts Tomorrow with iTunes Gift Cards: $100 for Macs, $50 for iPad
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Students already get discounts on Mac's, separate from this. The deal used to be a free iPod with a mac during the summer, now it is iTunes gift cards.
you still get the printerkind of lame that apple isn't offering an iPod though. Nobody wants them anymore, might as well get rid of stock.
no they ended the printer program. that was announced months ago
...literally just arrived 15 minutes ago...as I'm super psyched, and syncing it for the first time, blahblahblah, what are the odds I can get the $50 retroactively?
I'd say pretty good, I believe last year they counted purchases made 2 weeks before the start of the promo. (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong)
Well, however unlikely, it is 2012 not 2009 and they have made some changes to the back to school program (transition from free iPod to gift card), so you never know. Guess I will wait until someone has the full terms and conditions for this year's promotion.
I had a feeling it'd start tomorrow
If I get a new Mac this summer, I'll probably go through Best Buy. They match the student discount and give you a $100 Best Buy giftcard as well. This would be much more useful for me than an App Store discount (but that's just me, of course).
Additionally, my credit card gives 5% back, so perhaps that's an option too (but it'd have to be ordered online).
Then again, if I go BTO, Apple.com is my only option. Might go corporate savings though, as it's a tad better than the education discount.
If I get a new Mac this summer, I'll probably go through Best Buy. They match the student discount and give you a $100 Best Buy giftcard as well. This would be much more useful for me than an App Store discount (but that's just me, of course).
Additionally, my credit card gives 5% back, so perhaps that's an option too (but it'd have to be ordered online).
Then again, if I go BTO, Apple.com is my only option. Might go corporate savings though, as it's a tad better than the education discount.
I'm assuming that the iPad itself isn't going to receive a discount, is it? In the UK it receives about £1 off with student discount but if they're actually doing it as part of the Back to School range... I'd be interested to see whether they'll do a discount on the product itself.
I had a feeling it'd start tomorrow
If I get a new Mac this summer, I'll probably go through Best Buy. They match the student discount and give you a $100 Best Buy giftcard as well. This would be much more useful for me than an App Store discount (but that's just me, of course).
Additionally, my credit card gives 5% back, so perhaps that's an option too (but it'd have to be ordered online).
plus if you use your Best Buy Rewards Zone card you get a whopping rewards certificate back from your $2,000 purchase
it's a better deal overall to buy it from Best Buy
iPod vS. Gift Card
I'd like the iPod over the gift card. I have received 4 free iPods in the past through this deal Apple offered and its a real help to resell after making a big purchase. I have heard of decent success selling gift cards though. You get about 95% of there value on eBay.
Hoping the new MB Airs offer a lower price. Rumors are going around there may be a $799 11" model offered. Then again, I'd like a 13" 8gig RAM, 512 HD, retina display model. We'll soon know....
I'd like the iPod over the gift card. I have received 4 free iPods in the past through this deal Apple offered and its a real help to resell after making a big purchase. I have heard of decent success selling gift cards though. You get about 95% of there value on eBay.
Hoping the new MB Airs offer a lower price. Rumors are going around there may be a $799 11" model offered. Then again, I'd like a 13" 8gig RAM, 512 HD, retina display model. We'll soon know....
it gives all of the customers who returned/exchanged 8 iPads before giving up all together a little incentive to overlook the yellow tinted screen and single pixel failures for the $50 card
I have been considering getting a mac since I am going back to school in a couple of months. This is gonna be a huge bonus!
Student discount works out in the region of 15% which is quite substantial if you ask my honest opinion.
I'm a student myself and I think this discount offered is pretty great by big multi national corporation standard, surely?
So anything extra offered in the way of vouchers is icing on an already icy cake
BTW I'm taking the big financial plunge and getting a mac pro after today's refresh. I'm a ProTools HD user and need the card slots and workload grunt from the xeon CPU's.
I also have to say I am nervous as s@it about the potential for this all to go belly up and the 'concrete rumours' regarding the refresh to be nothing more than bullsh@t...
Little over an hour to go
Hope everyone gets what they were after from todays events!
I'm a student myself and I think this discount offered is pretty great by big multi national corporation standard, surely?
So anything extra offered in the way of vouchers is icing on an already icy cake
BTW I'm taking the big financial plunge and getting a mac pro after today's refresh. I'm a ProTools HD user and need the card slots and workload grunt from the xeon CPU's.
I also have to say I am nervous as s@it about the potential for this all to go belly up and the 'concrete rumours' regarding the refresh to be nothing more than bullsh@t...
Little over an hour to go
Hope everyone gets what they were after from todays events!
It used to be buy a mac get $100 off, a free ipod (or similar credit to a higher priced iPod), AND a free printer, AND large discounts on software.
I think the discounts on software might still be there.
Refurbs do not qualify for any of the educational benefits. No edu discount, no freebies.
$100...if I'm buying a $4k MBPro...I better get more then a $100 gift card.
First world problems...
If you can afford a $4,000 laptop for school surely you don't care about a gift card... You could always get a Dell...
you still get the printer
There is no more free printer, that ended some time ago. I was quite psyched for that too believe it or not, as my not-too-old Epson bit the dust shortly before they announced the end of the promo. Ended up buying an HP with Airplay on my own dime.
This is the first I'm hearing about large discounts on software. What sorts of titles, and how large are the discounts? (I'd head over to apple.com/store to check, but...
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Funny
I like most of you were disappointed in the B2S last year (expected this year, but $50 on an iPad is great!).
However, look at the facts. Last year, Apple outsold Windows laptops nearly 2 to 1 for college students buying new laptops. That's the target for the B2S market. This deal is HUGE and costs Apple only $70 (which is great for me as a stockholder).
I like most of you were disappointed in the B2S last year (expected this year, but $50 on an iPad is great!).
However, look at the facts. Last year, Apple outsold Windows laptops nearly 2 to 1 for college students buying new laptops. That's the target for the B2S market. This deal is HUGE and costs Apple only $70 (which is great for me as a stockholder).
Makes sense. So would the Apple store come back up today with info, and then sales start tomorrow?
You missed a few. It was a LARGER student discount as well. They have been cutting it does for years now.