You already get a discount on the hardware, all year 'round. I can't believe I have to tell you this.
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You already get a discount on the hardware, all year 'round. I can't believe I have to tell you this.
Then Go back. There must me something else to learn.
The poster you're replying to doesn't realize they probably went to school for 1/5 the cost students have to pay now.
Ha. Hahahaha. Please buy the earbuds, so that there are more quality (oh, and free) headphones left for the rest of us.There is a reason why they are giving away "$200" headphones and it's because those headphones have a 1000% markup. I rather get the apple in-ear headphone that actually sound good, over any beats product.
Are olympic competitors really that hard up for cash? I find your anecdote hard to believe.
I can't speak for that anecdote or anything like that, but plenty of Olympic competitors are just 16 year old kids from down the street from regular families that go to school and then pay for gym or coaches or whatnot. Often they aren't people who have sponsors or commercials or the top 3 or 10 or however many in subset of sports that get usual TV and other media coverage.
During the last Summer Olympic cycle, I read an article that detailed how athletes would defer much-needed dental care until they were named to the US Team, at which point they would be covered by the US Olympic Committee group plan. So, yeah, many of them are hard up for cash.
i find it comical that you even have to ask that. Lol. Half of these people just want to complain about everything.
Yes, we received goods that would have cost more than $300 more than what we paid. That's a discount of $300 _to me_. I don't care what they cost to create or how much R&D was put into them... purchasing the same items without the student discount would have resulted in me paying over $300 more... that's a benefit to me.
You question "worth"... I know the smile I saw on my brother-in-law's face on Facetime when I told him he was also getting a pair of Beats headphones to go with his laptop. That smile was definitely worth $200 to me. So, bugger off and bring your negativity somewhere else.
LOL, I bet this is all hearsay, A pawnshop will give them at the most $50 for them. All these kids use headphones for practice and downtime and $50 is not enough IMO to go back to some $5-10 headphones that will break faster or some fake beats. And, if the market was flooded w this, they would maybe offer $10-20 for them, do you really think they would sell them for just that, nope IMHO.
And yet people sell all kinds of things they get for free or otherwise. As mentioned many Olympic competitors are basically just average teenage kids, and if they already have headphones or something else that they like and use, and could always use some extra money (and most teenagers can certainly use that, even if it's just $50) why not? I mean it's not to say that this is a fact or extremely likely, but it's to say that it's a ways off from strange or weird or unlikely.
I did not mention the word 'replace', but merely stated that a discount or GC, which could be used for many different things a student might need or want, including Beats headphones if so desired, might have been more welcomed by many students. At least that would give (usually cash-strapped) students the option to choose.
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Understood, but a GC or a little extra 'back-to-school' discount, in addition to their regular student discount would have given students choices. I realize it's free, a gift. All I'm saying is 'not everybody needs new headphones'.
I apologize, it was my mistake, I was under the impression that you made it sound like Apple was doing something different compared to previous years or even taking something away from customers. So simply, you're just missing another extra few bucks .
Apple doesn't do this to give college students choices. They do it to visibly populate college campuses with a bunch of Beats headphones and Mac laptop computers, which in turn leads to the purchase of MORE Beats headphones and Mac laptop computers.
Speaking as a long-time former Apple employee and significant current investor, I'm thrilled with the program, and frankly am surprised that we even saw a BTS program this year given the lateness of the rollout. I thought it was gone forever, which I know has been a consideration in the past.
I understand that, and from their perspective that makes perfect sense of course.
Maybe, but lets be real, a poor teenager gets some original beats headphones they will keep it. Prob the nicest set they could afford maybe ever and athletes need their pump up music and cheaper sets break all the time. Even the fake beats are expensive for what they are. If they already had some nice ones then I don’t think they would have to worry about selling these to get $50, they will prob give them as a gift for someone else. Poor or Rich $50 will not be worthy to sell to pawnshops, they know the value and they will sell it to someone else. Usually pawnshops are for people that need quick money or a loan. They can sell it for much more themselves online, personally, school, etc. In 2015 $50 won’t get you much, maybe they could pawn them off for trade for new shoes/equipment. Even the cheapest equipment is expensive. I think this story of pawnshops is just an excuse for them to move older or fake inventory etc from their pawnshops lol.
In Mexico they are NOT free. Far from actually since Apple charges you 120 USD for pair of wired headphones, and if you want the wireless headphones they charge another 120 USD for a whopping total of 240 USD + the "discounted price" Mac you buy, which, by the way, are more expensive here than in the US by about 5-10%.
We all know you got your abacus on sale freshman year 15% off.
My Ababacus came free with my typewriter!
The one who benefits the most from this deal is Apple's bottom line. It's much cheaper for them to offer a pair of headphones which cost $15 to make than a $50 or $100 gift card.
What I don't understand about the education discount, my kids are booth Middle School and High School. I would like to buy their own macbook to get started early. This would be a good opportunity for Apple for the young generation to adopt their technology at a very young age. They are the future customer once they started using their product early. I'm just wondering if this is only exclusive for college students only.