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Apple Walks Back UNiDAYS Verification Requirement for U.S. Education Store
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I think generally it is software that has deep educational discounts, not hardware.
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 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.
I must tell you....
My purchases using these discounts are most certainly LEGIT.
Too legit to quit. ?
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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
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!
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!
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!
That seems to be the norm for Unidays:
UNiDAYS is rated "Great" with 3.9 / 5 on Trustpilot
Do you agree with UNiDAYS's TrustScore? Voice your opinion today and hear what 3,448 customers have already said.
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How in the world did Apple think this was a good idea?
maybe with Unidays they "Thought different?".....That seems to be the norm for Unidays:
UNiDAYS is rated "Great" with 3.9 / 5 on Trustpilot
Do you agree with UNiDAYS's TrustScore? Voice your opinion today and hear what 3,448 customers have already said.
How in the world did Apple think this was a good idea?
now they're "thinking differently?".....
well anyways.
Think different.
What is up with Apple just backtracking on their announcements? Does it have anything to do with the recent firing of their Head of PR in less than 1 year?
Just to note, these are the major announcements that Apple recently backtracked on:
Just to note, these are the major announcements that Apple recently backtracked on:
- Apple Says Option to Stay on iOS 14 Was Always Meant to Be Temporary
- Apple EDU UniDays verification for edu pricing
Because not all educational institutions are universities. Public school districts qualify for this and don’t use a .edu address. The school district my children are in, as well as the one my mother has been a teacher in since 1970 are all under .org. They wouldn’t qualify with UniDAYS.
See the above with school districts under .org. UniDAYS would have shut them out, despite having 10s of thousands of students and staff.
My first professional job was as a Unix systems administrator for my university. If the student wasn’t current, then after 3 semesters of no enrollment, the account would be deleted, regardless of undergrad or graduate status. Even when the faculty and staff left, their accounts were deleted.
BL.
They've been really good actually.
Education pricing minus the cost of AirPods ($159). No way Costco or Best Buy could beat it.
It only applies to higher educations, not K-12. Otherwise it will pretty much include every family.
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.
Only for institutional K-12 teachers, not K-12 students. For students, only post-secondary counts.
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.
If I recall... and it's been a long time.... I'm pretty sure you need/ed proof of enrollment at a university to get EDU pricing here in Australia. Or presumably proof you're a teacher... Don't know how that works. But I know it's not something you could just easily fake and get around!
good luck finding a retailer that has a M1 MacBook Air 16gb ram with 2tb SSD.....
as well as offering it with a discount...