Well you can also often get .edu email addresses as an alumni.Not sure why they can't just require the purchaser to have a university E-mail address from an approved list. That's how other sites have been verifying university affiliation for years.
I think generally it is software that has deep educational discounts, not hardware.How deep are the student discounts?
As folks have already stated - it's different for each product line and not a flat xx percent or yy dollars off. However, I've always gotten good discounts even on launch day of Macs. The latest discount I got was $260 off a MBP 14 M1 Pro configuration that sells for $3099. Not huge but basically paid for taxes so why not?How deep are the student discounts?
I got $300 off my 16" Max. Pretty much covered the tax too. I had been selected for verification before under the old system, it does happen. But not too often apparently.As folks have already stated - it's different for each product line and not a flat xx percent or yy dollars off. However, I've always gotten good discounts even on launch day of Macs. The latest discount I got was $260 off a MBP 14 M1 Pro configuration that sells for $3099. Not huge but basically paid for taxes so why not?
I must tell you....So... presuming people no longer in college using a .edu email to get illegitimate discounts is alright? Honestly.
Nope! I haven't been in any sort of school for like a decade and buy everything with an education discount. The EDU price is the real base/list price!Wait...there is no verification process for the EDU pricing??
That seems to be the norm for Unidays:Being in the UK you have to use UNIDAYS if you want to order online.
First problem, the school isn’t in their list. So you need to contact them. Second problem staff ID doesn’t have an expiry date so it’s rejected.
It took over 3 months dealing with their support staff to get the ID verified on their system and they set it to expire in 12 months.
You guys in the US are lucky!
maybe with Unidays they "Thought different?".....That seems to be the norm for Unidays:
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How in the world did Apple think this was a good idea?
Not sure why they can't just require the purchaser to have a university E-mail address from an approved list. That's how other sites have been verifying university affiliation for years.
FYI all you need to get verified on unidays is a .edu email...
And universities actually delete emails once the student graduates?? Sure…
How deep are the student discounts?
unidays or not, apple.com discounts have historically been bad. you can get better deals from costco and bestbuy. just keep your eyes on slickdeals
It only applies to higher educations, not K-12. Otherwise it will pretty much include every family.As a homeschooling parent, I don't particularly care, but would prefer that the make a path for us as well.
unidays or not, apple.com discounts have historically been bad. you can get better deals from costco and bestbuy. just keep your eyes on slickdeals
That’s not really effective. What if you have graduated already?Not sure why they can't just require the purchaser to have a university E-mail address from an approved list. That's how other sites have been verifying university affiliation for years.
It only applies to higher educations, not K-12. Otherwise it will pretty much include every family.
Only for institutional K-12 teachers, not K-12 students. For students, only post-secondary counts.Not true. K-12 qualify for the educational discounts.
BL.
Considering the education discount at Apple just gets you the price you can often find from Apple Resellers, it’s kind of a weird system anyway. For example, B&H is currently selling the base MBA for $899, which is exactly what the education discount gets you at Apple. It would be cool if Apple offered sales like their resellers do. Clearly there’s some flex in the pricing. Not endorsing cheating the system, just pointing out that you can often get the same discounted price by purchasing elsewhere.Wait...there is no verification process for the EDU pricing??
good luck finding a retailer that has a M1 MacBook Air 16gb ram with 2tb SSD.....Agree, BUT if you want a custom build, the education store has typically been the ONLY way to get a discount.
For example, lots of retailers were offering the base M1 MBA 8GB/256GB for $799 around Christmas (down from $999 retail price). If someone simply wanted 16GB of memory vs. the base 8GB, they'd have to pay the full $999 retail to Apple PLUS another $200 for the upgraded memory. That's a $400 difference vs. the sale price which is R I D I C U L O U S.
At least with the education store pricing, you'd get a small price break.