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Best Buy to Match Back to School Promo with $100 Store Gift Card
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That's the problem with buying from best buy.... you only get to order base configs. If you want the high end 15" for example, you cannot get it at BB, and you cannot upgrade the processor and gpu on your own.
welcome to the rest of the world and start paying for things
Clearly you're an Apple zealot! haha. Dude, Apple is NOT a religion or your girlfriend. You can "sin" or "cheat" on it every once and a while. Apple can make good products AND SIMULTANEOUSLY have a weaker promotion. IT'S OKAY. BREATHE. haha. Since when is a BB gift card seen as more restrictive/least desirable vis-a-visa MAC APP STORE gift card?! given all the $h*+ (e.g., hardware) in Best Buy? or all the hardware in the regular Apple store?!
Heck, even the strongest/ordinarily blind/biased Apple fans bemoaned this promo by Apple.
Listen, dude, get yourself some Apps. And let the rest of us get a cheaper MBP and some money off a PS3 or ATV with our $100. And find our apps via utorrent.
Actually, no. BB is attempting to match aapl's BTS $100 card offer. Consequently, for those who can't get aapl's edu discount BB doesn't offer anything.
obviously, but if someone wants the apple gift card why would they buy the best buy computer to get their gift card just to turn around and buy the apple card like you suggested? That's just a waste if someone already knows they want the apple card.
I never supported apples promo.... i simply said dollar for dollar if you don't get the edu discount from bb, you are actually losing money. Argue that. Because I have even said multiple times that the bb gift card is more appealing, a better deal, and that most people will definitely prefer it (myself included) but if you can't get the edu discount, you are not gaining anything from buying from best buy even though you prefer their gift card. You obviously don't know how to read because i never said an apple gift card was better, i actually said the bb one was.
Go back and look at all of my posts if you are going to try to tell me how i think. I was arguing a point that a guy said "no company that is in the business of matching prices 'half asses' their price matches" Nowhere was I supporting apple, i was saying that BB DOES NOT ALWAYS pricematch, and that is a proven fact. Apple doesn't always price match, etc. etc.... get over yourself because I haven't EVER one time in this thread said that an Apple GC is preferable to a BB one.... you made that up yourself, so good job...
****ing people who have no reading comprehension.....
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I believe I read earlier in this post that BB will honor or match the educational discount...as far as the free printer I am going to check tomorrow...it makes no sense to go through BB if they don't match the Apple deal and BB wouldn't make much unless they got people who didn't qualify for the education discount.
I'm going to print out what it would cost me through apple and then present it to the salesman and see if he can get his manager to comply.
Fingers crossed...
And thanks for the info about changing the HDD...not sure what I'll do...the only upgrade I was thinking was 750 @ 5400 and replace it to a 500 @ 7200, but not sure if it's really worth the loss of space for the uptick in speed...may do nothing or eventually go with 8GB RAM ... thoughts
BB does offer the 100 dollars off student discount.. I went in and checked recently... So let me get his straight.. If i purchase a mbp from BB, I am eligible for the student discount and 100$ BB gift card ?
Also, if I purchase the mbp from BB, do i get the osx Lion for free too when it comes out??
Also, if I purchase the mbp from BB, do i get the osx Lion for free too when it comes out??
Yeah, how? You're going to pay slightly over a hundred dollars MORE for the Mac at Best Buy. Saving a $100, is the same as getting $100, so it COSTS your money to get it at Best Buy.... they don't give the educational discount.
Apple Store Best Buy
MacBook Pro $1099 $1199
Gift Card -$100 -$100
Bonus
Credit For -$99 None
Printer
Even if you don't want a free print, you still get much more buying from Apple.
Can they be stacked?
I have not had a chance to read the details.
Can I buy from BB and turithe rebate to Apple and BB? That would be a deal. Even if there was no BB discount
Does Apple offer the program if you buy a Mac from any authorized retailer? I vaguely recall this being the case years ago. Don't know if it still is.
But I would gladly forgo the education discount for a BB gift Card if I needed accessories. Perhaps this is why BB is offering the program,tooffset the pricing they cannot offer.
I have not had a chance to read the details.
Can I buy from BB and turithe rebate to Apple and BB? That would be a deal. Even if there was no BB discount
Does Apple offer the program if you buy a Mac from any authorized retailer? I vaguely recall this being the case years ago. Don't know if it still is.
But I would gladly forgo the education discount for a BB gift Card if I needed accessories. Perhaps this is why BB is offering the program,tooffset the pricing they cannot offer.
Best Buy discount on printers
At my Best Buy, if you purchase a computer you can get a discount on WIFI printers when you purchase a new computer. If the printer is under $100 you get $40 off a printer, if the printer is over $100 you get $60.00 of a printer.
Also Best Buy store is redoing the layout of the stores, ours was just done, more tablet computers with iPad have a big display , more e-books. It is a great layout and more Apple related products.
I love how Apple has the store within the store, we do not have a Apple store in our town and the nearest stores are hours away, and with the price of gas it is great to be able to put your hand on the computers and try them out. The Best Buy store people were friendly and knowledgable about the Apple products, they also have a official Apple Rep that is in the store most of the time.
Also, i saw the store had discount a couple of hundred dollars off on closeout price on the previous version of the iMac, so if ask and look around you can find a good price on a new Mac or a return or Display model. A customer I saw was getting the last version of the iMac and got a good discount on the older model.
At my Best Buy, if you purchase a computer you can get a discount on WIFI printers when you purchase a new computer. If the printer is under $100 you get $40 off a printer, if the printer is over $100 you get $60.00 of a printer.
Also Best Buy store is redoing the layout of the stores, ours was just done, more tablet computers with iPad have a big display , more e-books. It is a great layout and more Apple related products.
I love how Apple has the store within the store, we do not have a Apple store in our town and the nearest stores are hours away, and with the price of gas it is great to be able to put your hand on the computers and try them out. The Best Buy store people were friendly and knowledgable about the Apple products, they also have a official Apple Rep that is in the store most of the time.
Also, i saw the store had discount a couple of hundred dollars off on closeout price on the previous version of the iMac, so if ask and look around you can find a good price on a new Mac or a return or Display model. A customer I saw was getting the last version of the iMac and got a good discount on the older model.
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Last year they matched the iPod touch and the edu discount for me. You just have to ask around! I went to 5 different best buys...
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When I purchased my MBP from Best Buy I asked if they had edu pricing and they said they didn't.. mm
Last year they matched the iPod touch and the edu discount for me. You just have to ask around! I went to 5 different best buys...
I went in yesterday and they said the $100 gift card was them "matchin" the student discount price.
So I bought through Apple.
It would have been $1799 + Free $100 BB gift card.
At Apple it was $1699 + Free $100 App Card.
So Apple has the better deal.
But if you somehow ge BB to match the $1699 + $100 BB gift card that'll be the better buy.
Even if BB would match the edu price, what about the Adobe discount?
If Best Buy matches the discounted price ($100 less) of the iMac I'm going to buy and offers this card, then it's a no-brainer for me to buy at BB ...
A grocery store in my region has a loyalty program that offers 10 cents off a gallon of gas for every $50 you spend, including on gift cards. Since I'm going to be buying more than $2,300 of iMac and iPad, I'd buy that much in BB gift cards, get $4.60/gallon fuel discount, get edu pricing and the BB gift card. And since I'd be buying those gift cards with a credit card that has 21 months interest-free financing, I'd pay it off at about $105/month. That would amount to $60-80 in free gas on top of the two $100 incentives.
The only problem is that I was considering getting Adobe CS5 with the purchase. Anyone know of a way to get the significant Adobe edu price cut ($200 for the CS5 Standard Design edition) if you buy somewhere other than Apple? That's $100 less than the standard edu price, so if I couldn't get that, I'd come out $20-40 short, even with the fuel discount.
If Best Buy matches the discounted price ($100 less) of the iMac I'm going to buy and offers this card, then it's a no-brainer for me to buy at BB ...
A grocery store in my region has a loyalty program that offers 10 cents off a gallon of gas for every $50 you spend, including on gift cards. Since I'm going to be buying more than $2,300 of iMac and iPad, I'd buy that much in BB gift cards, get $4.60/gallon fuel discount, get edu pricing and the BB gift card. And since I'd be buying those gift cards with a credit card that has 21 months interest-free financing, I'd pay it off at about $105/month. That would amount to $60-80 in free gas on top of the two $100 incentives.
The only problem is that I was considering getting Adobe CS5 with the purchase. Anyone know of a way to get the significant Adobe edu price cut ($200 for the CS5 Standard Design edition) if you buy somewhere other than Apple? That's $100 less than the standard edu price, so if I couldn't get that, I'd come out $20-40 short, even with the fuel discount.
A destructive presence?!? What, exactly, are the destroying? I shop for the best price/deal when I want to buy a particular piece of technology, and BB has often been one of the best places to catch a deal.
I went to Best Buy yesterday and purchased the 21.5" iMac (MC309LL/A). My wife's education/teacher discount is $50 off on the Apple site. Best Buy had this on sale for $1160. They gave me the education discount which brought the price down to $1110. They also gave me a $100 Best Buy gift card which matches the Mac store gift card . I didn't ask anything about a printer because I didn't need one. But they do have some deal where you can save $40 on a printer. The main reason I went with Best Buy was for the no interest on the Best Buy card. If it wasn't for that, I would have bought from Apple.
Yes, the Apple Store will ask for documentation and I know this from personal experience.
As for non students using the education online store, if Apple checks up and find that they are not students, then they will charge the discount savings to the credit card.
Huh? You would rather pay full price at BB and get a free $100 gift card than pay Apple $100 less with education discount AND get a free $100 iTunes, etc. card? Best Buy needs more customers who think like you.