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Apple's Black Friday Event Underway in Some Countries, Begins in U.S. Tomorrow

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Apple's annual four-day Black Friday through Cyber Monday shopping event has started in Australia and New Zealand, with customers able to receive a free Apple gift card with the purchase of select products through November 28.

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The offer is available for select iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple Watches, AirPods, Beats, and accessories. As usual, many of Apple's latest products are excluded, such as the iPhone 14 series, Apple Watch Series 8, Apple Watch Ultra, and Mac Studio.

Apple's four-day shopping event will also be available in the United States, Canada, the UK, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and select other countries starting tomorrow.

In the U.S., gift card values will be as follows:
  • $50 for the iPhone 13, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 12, and iPhone SE
  • $50 for the iPad mini and iPad Air
  • $30 for the ninth-generation iPad
  • $250 for the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 chip
  • $200 for the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M2 chip
  • $150 for the MacBook Air with M1 or M2 chip and the 24-inch iMac
  • $100 for the Mac mini
  • $50 for the second-generation Apple Watch SE
  • $25 for the second-generation AirPods and third-generation AirPods with Lightning case
  • $50 for the second-generation AirPods Pro
  • $75 for the AirPods Max
  • $50 for the Beats Studio3 Wireless, Solo3 Wireless, Powerbeats Pro, Beats Fit Pro, and Beats Studio Buds
  • $25 for the Beats Flex
  • $25 for the MagSafe Duo Charger, second-generation Apple Pencil, and Smart Keyboard Folio
  • $25 for the Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro
The promotion is available on Apple's online store, in the Apple Store app, and at Apple's retail store locations. As usual, refurbished products are not eligible for a gift card, and the offer cannot be combined with educational pricing.

Black Friday is one of the few occasions per year that Apple offers deals on its products, but better deals are often available through resellers like Amazon, so make sure to check out our Black Friday roundup for the latest discounts on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, AirPods, Apple TV, accessories, and more.

Apple gift cards are now all-in-one and can be used towards the purchase of products, subscription-based services like Apple Music and Apple TV+, App Store apps, iTunes Store content like TV shows and movies, iCloud+ storage, and more.

Article Link: Apple's Black Friday Event Underway in Some Countries, Begins in U.S. Tomorrow
 
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Unless you have a lot of Apple gift cards or you're doing a customer order, why would anyone buy from Apple when you can get better deals from other retailers on almost every item? And that's even after factoring in the 3% daily cash back you'd get with the Apple card. Apple's Black Friday deals just aren't competitive.
 
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Gift card? Meaning I have to make another purchase?
This is good for Shareholders but bad for consumers.
 
David11 said:
Is this promo available on the edu store?
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Bearygoodfries1 said:
I second this question. I’ve been wanting a Mac mini and this might do it if the promo is available with student discounts.

It’s unlikely the Mac Mini will get a lower price once the M2 Mac Mini is released, huh? 🙁
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The article says “the offer cannot be combined with educational pricing.”
 
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The $150 gift card with the M2 MacBook Air sounds okay to me. I believe Best Buy has the total price $150 off. With my Apple Card, I‘d get that extra 3% back too. But, with the M1 MacBook Air, there are much better deals elsewhere.
 
Frixos said:
The article says “the offer cannot be combined with educational pricing.”
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David11 said:
Is this promo available on the edu store?
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i don’t actually see the education store excluded anywhere. The only this it says on the apple page is about the monthly payment plan:
“ACMI is not available for purchases made online at the following special stores: Apple Employee Purchase Plan; participating corporate Employee Purchase Programs; Apple at Work for small businesses; Government, and Veterans and Military Purchase Programs, or on refurbished devices”
 
sw1tcher said:
Unless you have a lot of Apple gift cards or you're doing a customer order, why would anyone buy from Apple when you can get better deals from other retailers on almost every item? And that's even after factoring in the 3% daily cash back you'd get with the Apple card. Apple's Black Friday deals just aren't competitive.
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Thats the problem in New Zealand though.....there really isn't anywhere else you can get them. We don't have Physcial Apple Stores here, the local resellers only ever do Cost+Tax sales on Apple good, and you can't get Cashback deals or an Apple Card. Plus you can't ship from Amazon here for Apple Products as they are typically excluded from shipping.

For me, I just brought a refurb 14" MBP today from the NZ Apple Refurb store, as a load more popped up today, so even though its excluded from the Gift Card promo, I still saved $900NZD compared to the price of buying it new even with the $450NZD gift card.
 
If I buy an Apple Watch SE could I then use the $50 gift card on a second purchase immediately? Thanks for any help!
 
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i don’t actually see the education store excluded anywhere. The only this it says on the apple page is about the monthly payment plan:
“ACMI is not available for purchases made online at the following special stores: Apple Employee Purchase Plan; participating corporate Employee Purchase Programs; Apple at Work for small businesses; Government, and Veterans and Military Purchase Programs, or on refurbished devices”
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It’s there…gotta dig deeper a bit:

“You must be an individual end-user purchaser to obtain this promotional offer. Resellers, public entities, government entities, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, education purchasers, enterprise purchasers, and business purchasers do not qualify, and Apple reserves the right to cancel purchases made by such purchasers.”
 
What about their refurbished items? $150 off a refurbished m2 MBA (so under 1k) sounds great to me.
 
If I place an order through the online Apple Store for this promotion, does anyone know how the gift card is issued? Is it a gift card code that’s emailed, or a physical gift card?
 
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can you buy on Apple's website and pick up in store on Black Friday? simply to avoid the rush and ensuring you get the item you want before it is potentially sold out.
 
Planning to buy a new Mac and take advantage of this deal…

Question though, when does this “officially” start? I’m on central time and would hate to buy at Midnight tonight only for it to be considered a 10pm purchase by Cupertino.
 
sdwaltz said:
Planning to buy a new Mac and take advantage of this deal…

Question though, when does this “officially” start? I’m on central time and would hate to buy at Midnight tonight only for it to be considered a 10pm purchase by Cupertino.
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I mean, it should show up in the cart if it’s active. If not, either you’re not buying it the right way or it hasn’t started yet.
 
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