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Apple Store Discounts
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I got elements which i can't wait to start experimenting with, as i am new to photoshop. Got a new case for my ipod and iklear (that stuff is amazing!)
I think this was a fair variety of savings. I couldn't help myself with the prices of .Mac and Airport Express. Very nice indeed. I think Apple should have advertised this sale a bit more; tv, e-mail, magazine/newspaper ads.
Nice Apple Store day for me. This morning, at 10:00am when they opened, I went to the Saddle Creek store and got a new keyboard installed on my sons iBook. My three year old had "fed" the keys to our puppies! Anyway total cost with tax was $61.00 and they did not charge me for installation (which is very easy, I know) I also bought some iPod mini cases for my kids for Christmas. I brought home the sale brochure and looked at it later in the day. $98.00 AE's... Back in the car to the Apple Store. I couldn't resist. Also picked up a "refreshed" Kensington Wireless USB mouse for $29.00-- works great.
edwins said:I almost had a $600 bank error at an apple store in NJ today! Salesman rang up my 20'' iMac at $1198, the sale price of a 17 w/o superdrive... I said, is that the right machine you rang up? He said yes and started to ring up the rest of the order. Conscience broke in and I said, I think you better double check that. He did, and apparently there was a problem with the bar code! I wonder if that was an isolated issue, or what... I know some people will think I'm crazy for reporting the bank error, but I'll be able to sleep tonight! (If I can stop playing with the computer, that is!)
Good for you...I know I would have done the same in the moment. I have more of an understanding for the employee doing his job right then making sure I pay full price to apple. Odd how I feel that I want to help an employee to do his job right, but at the end of the day could care less if apple losses $600 at my expense. It's like when I corrected a black jack dealer twice in one night when she payed me by mistake, I mean who cares if a casino losses a few bucks?
If an ATM was shooting out twenty dollar bills, would you tell people at the bank? I'd like to say I would, but I wouldn't. Big companies won't notice, the bank's probably foreclosed so many homes on old people. Anyways, that's awesome Apple was giving out discounts. Was it online, or did you have to be at a retail store?roadapple said:
Me so giddy. today i paid for airport xp and socks at ala moana store. anyone wanna pay for my AMEX? I'll throw in the green sock for any takers.
Well I thought this was great!
Well my brother bought himself a U2 Edition iPod, which was a couple bucks off which was great. Then he got a $29 InCase iPod sleeve for only $18. I collected 3 flyers from the events - one advertises the sale and shows the prices of items, if anyone wants to see them I'll post them. I thought the sale was great. Unfortunetly I was wearing a red Apple hoodie I got in California so some people almost mistaken me for one of the employees that worked there.
Well my brother bought himself a U2 Edition iPod, which was a couple bucks off which was great. Then he got a $29 InCase iPod sleeve for only $18. I collected 3 flyers from the events - one advertises the sale and shows the prices of items, if anyone wants to see them I'll post them. I thought the sale was great. Unfortunetly I was wearing a red Apple hoodie I got in California so some people almost mistaken me for one of the employees that worked there.
The hard drive in my daughter's 3G iPod died so, instead of getting it repaired for $249, we got her the U2 iPod (she really likes the Goth-y black and red color scheme) and added the JBL On Stage speaker. She'll have a happy Christmas morning, but that eill be preceded by a month of misery, thinking we wouldn't spring for the repair bill.
Sometimes being a parent is just plain fun!
Sometimes being a parent is just plain fun!
phreakout13 said:
Yes, I'd tell the bank. Just because a big company wouldn't miss it doesn't make it okay for you to keep it. Besides that money might have been coming out of the account of some elderly person on a fixed income.
It's a Thanksgiving Sale!
Do you have Thanksgiving there? Is there a time of year where a one-day sale is traditional in Britain? If so, I'll bet Apple has one.
davebach172 said:No discount at Regent Street store
Do you have Thanksgiving there? Is there a time of year where a one-day sale is traditional in Britain? If so, I'll bet Apple has one.
yeah... i was going to buy an imac on sunday, at my newly opened neighborhood Apple Store, but i was in Chicago shopping on Friday, decided to drop by the Michigan Ave store... when we found out about the discounts, we wound up buying an iMac on the spot, and an iPod mini just to splurge
They were out of internal bluetooth modules though... pity. man, that store was backed shoulder-to-shoulder.
paul
They were out of internal bluetooth modules though... pity. man, that store was backed shoulder-to-shoulder.
paul
To be honest, I'm surprised that people are still posting in this thread, 2 days after the sale ended...paulwhannel said:yeah... i was going to buy an imac on sunday, at my newly opened neighborhood Apple Store, but i was in Chicago shopping on Friday, decided to drop by the Michigan Ave store... when we found out about the discounts, we wound up buying an iMac on the spot, and an iPod mini just to splurge
They were out of internal bluetooth modules though... pity. man, that store was backed shoulder-to-shoulder.
paul
Anyway, the AirPort Express I bought "shipped" yesterday. That means, since I chose standard shipping, it'll be here 1-5 business days after that. It's intended as a Christmas present for myself, so I'm not going to open and use it until then.
double up
I logged in from home to pickup an air port express (which was sweet at $105 shipped!) and my wife spilled the beans today, she was logging in at the same time, bought me a 23" cinema display for Xmas. She must have used her student discount. I'm frothing at the mouth now to see that humongous monster of a display.
I logged in from home to pickup an air port express (which was sweet at $105 shipped!) and my wife spilled the beans today, she was logging in at the same time, bought me a 23" cinema display for Xmas. She must have used her student discount. I'm frothing at the mouth now to see that humongous monster of a display.
winprogrammer said:
What, she couldn't go for the 30" that would definitely earn her some kind of reward.
Given that it requires a special and rather expensive graphics card to drive the 30", I'd say the smaller one is probably just dandy.
Plus there's the whole gift horses and mouths thing.
~J
Plus there's the whole gift horses and mouths thing.
~J
I finally got to see a 30" display on Black Friday while I was waiting in line at the CompUSA. WOW! Suddenly the price tag seems very reasonable!
I hope people like you get busted. The EDU discounts are a nice way to promote products to students, giving them an added incentive to buy a Mac over a PC. Hopefully people like you abusing the blatantly abusing the discount won't ruin it for everyone.NEENAHBOY said:
I know that when I buy at an Apple store, they always ask to see my student ID... as they should.