Best Buy to Match Back to School Promo with $100 Store Gift Card

[dukebound85]

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.

Yes, if someone wants solely an apple gc, go through apple. However, and I imagine many others, would rather have the versatility to have more options as when I get a gc, I hardly know what I want to get with it beforehand, be it a apple gc or hardware gear from bb.

As far as the edu discount, there have been cases of bb matching it

 

[xxBURT0Nxx]

Yes, if someone wants solely an apple gc, go through apple. However, and I imagine many others, would rather have the versatility to have more options as when I get a gc, I hardly know what I want to get with it beforehand, be it a apple gc or hardware gear from bb.

As far as the edu discount, there have been cases of bb matching it

why do you keep saying the same thing to me, I agree with you, the bb gc is a waaaaay better deal.

The original poster said he would use and preferred the apple gc, you suggested why not still get it at bb since you can buy an apple gc there too.

I'm simply telling you that's a waste of time, if you want the apple gc, there is no point in buying the machine at bb, just to turn around and swap out the gc's..... stop trying to argue, i never told you the apple gc was better, or that you shouldn't get the bb gc. I said, if you already know you want the apple gift card (in the case of that original poster) then why would you not buy it from apple.....

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.

buy the software through your uni, it is usually very cheap to get CS5 from the school.

 

[dukebound85]

why do you keep saying the same thing to me, I agree with you, the bb gc is a waaaaay better deal.

The original poster said he would use and preferred the apple gc, you suggested why not still get it at bb since you can buy an apple gc there too.

I'm simply telling you that's a waste of time, if you want the apple gc, there is no point in buying the machine at bb, just to turn around and swap out the gc's..... stop trying to argue, i never told you the apple gc was better, or that you shouldn't get the bb gc. I said, if you already know you want the apple gift card (in the case of that original poster) then why would you not buy it from apple.....

I merely pointed out that you can get the same apple gc with a bb gc as many people probably did not even realized that was an option with the bb gc (you know, for those who didn't know you could do that..)

I interpreted that response as "I would rather get something from apple than from bb" and that he didn't realize you could get the same thing through bb as well as other options if he wanted. You were under the impression he already knew this

But seeing how you like to respond to each one of my posts due to you having a different interpretation than I, have at it....

I was just pointing out the option

 

[xxBURT0Nxx]

I merely pointed out that you can get the same apple gc with a bb gc as many people probably did not even realized that was an option with the bb gc (you know, for those who didn't know you could do that..)

I interpreted that response as "I would rather get something from apple than from bb" and that he didn't realize you could get the same thing through bb as well as other options if he wanted. You were under the impression he already knew this

And another poster said that at his local BB, they don't allow you to purchase GC's with other GC's..... I know that's not true everywhere, just pointing it out (you know, for those who didn't know you might not be able to do that..)

I never argued with you, I just stated it's dumb to get a BB gc just to turn around and try to use it to buy an Apple gc when you can just buy from apple and get the Apple gc from the get go. Stop trying to argue with me, I never said you were wrong, I just said you telling the OP to use his BB gc to get the Apple GC was a waste of time since he already knew he wanted the apple gc.

 

[dukebound85]

And another poster said that at his local BB, they don't allow you to purchase GC's with other GC's..... I know that's not true everywhere, just pointing it out (you know, for those who didn't know you might not be able to do that..)

I would be very surprised if that was the case. I am willing to bet that that poster was merely misinformed as if it were true, it would be BB wide.

I never argued with you, I just stated it's dumb to get a BB gc just to turn around and try to use it to buy an Apple gc when you can just buy from apple and get the Apple gc from the get go. Stop trying to argue with me, I never said you were wrong, I just said you telling the OP to use his BB gc to get the Apple GC was a waste of time since he already knew he wanted the apple gc.

I am not arguing with you. I just pointed out the option to the poster in question about something he may not have known about and then you started to argue with me! Yes, you are right, if someone wants an apple gc, get it through apple. My post, while quoting that poster, was more for having other readers know of the option

Do you think everyone knows they can buy apple gc via bb gc's? No, and hence why I wrote my original post on the matter before you started getting all "combative" lol

 

[mccldwll]

Yes, if someone wants solely an apple gc, go through apple. However, and I imagine many others, would rather have the versatility to have more options as when I get a gc, I hardly know what I want to get with it beforehand, be it a apple gc or hardware gear from bb.

As far as the edu discount, there have been cases of bb matching it

You're babbling again. This is not rocket science. If BB in fact matches aapl's edu price AND the printer offer (if you need it) AND you need $100 of BB stuff more than you need $100 of apps, etc., get it at BB. But, if BB won't match the edu discount price first (and there are lots of cases where they won't) then BB is a worse deal. Those who can't understand that should take their parents shopping with them.

 

[xxBURT0Nxx]

I would be very surprised if that was the case. I am willing to bet that that poster was merely misinformed as if it were true, it would be BB wide.

I see you like to mock. lol

It's all in fun

we are both agreeing on the same thing, no sense to this and I wasn't "combating" you.

 

[Ozbotic]

Wow I wonder if the people in this thread realize they have been talking in circles going back and forth.

People should just realize it's someones preference whether they want a BB gift card or apples gift card. I personally don't need $100 itunes/app store gift card so the Best Buy gift card proves more useful to me because of the accessories that I could purchase from there(cases mainly) and if I do want an app store/itunes i'll spend the remainder of what I have on the card and get a $50 or maybe a $25 app store card. It's not that complicated.

 

[kugino]

would be nicer to have the BB gift card, but most are discounting the up to $100 discount for education. if BB could give me $100 off plus the gift card, i'd probably do that, even though there's the $100 free printer through apple as well...

 

[xxBURT0Nxx]

would be nicer to have the BB gift card, but most are discounting the up to $100 discount for education. if BB could give me $100 off plus the gift card, i'd probably do that, even though there's the $100 free printer through apple as well...

Some best buys are offering the edu discount, others are stating that the gift card is in place of the edu discount. Your best bet is to call the BB's in your area and find out because everyone seems to be having different experiences.

There are also some promos on printers through BB, $40 off a $100 or less printer, $60 off a $100 or more printer.

 

[kugino]

Some best buys are offering the edu discount, others are stating that the gift card is in place of the edu discount. Your best bet is to call the BB's in your area and find out because everyone seems to be having different experiences.

There are also some promos on printers through BB, $40 off a $100 or less printer, $60 off a $100 or more printer.

cool. nice to know...if BB matches the edu discount and then gives $100 gift card on top, that's a pretty good deal...

 

[xxBURT0Nxx]

cool. nice to know...if BB matches the edu discount and then gives $100 gift card on top, that's a pretty good deal...

indeed, probably the preferable deal compared to an iTunes GC. However if your local BB won't give you the edu discount, you would be spending more money to buy the machine at best buy.

 

[DBAlex]

Best Buy... UK?

Hi,

7 pages of posts... and I noticed, no one asked, will this work for Best Buy in the UK?

Anyone tried it yet?

Can we get the Edu discount + BB gift card in the UK?

Alex.

 

[mccldwll]

Wow I wonder if the people in this thread realize they have been talking in circles going back and forth.

People should just realize it's someones preference whether they want a BB gift card or apples gift card. I personally don't need $100 itunes/app store gift card so the Best Buy gift card proves more useful to me because of the accessories that I could purchase from there(cases mainly) and if I do want an app store/itunes i'll spend the remainder of what I have on the card and get a $50 or maybe a $25 app store card. It's not that complicated.

No, it's not that complicated. But apparently you still don't understand that if BB doesn't also give someone an edu discount, then BB probably is the worse deal no matter what one does with the stupid card.

 

[GREEN4U]

I think the point of all this is that, HARDWARE > SOFTWARE. and Best Buy gc = hardware, where iTunes gift card = software

Apple failed big time with their gift card move. Their educational discount of =< 5% off is measley. Even without an edu discount at Best Buy, Best Buy still has the better deal. To break even with Best Buy, I'd have to sell the iTunes gift card for more than $50. It's probably not that easy. Only fools would buy that gift card from me.

I never say this but
Best Buy FTW.

 

[LSUstang05]

i dont think you get an education discount. and i also dont think you get a $100 towards a printer. so between the $100 for a printer and $100-200 for a computer apples is still better but limits you when it comes to the giftcard. now if bestbuy added a printer and education discount we would be talking. that would bring back some of their loses and compete with apple at the same time.

Depends on the store that you shop at. My local BBY honors the apple edu discount and the $100 gift card. No, you don't get $100 towards a printer, but you can get $40-60 off a printer depending on price. I just bought my Mac there and got this deal. Just have to ask for it all. Also helps if you have an Apple Store in the area since it's really just a price match and BBY is supposed to honor competitor's pricing as long as the store is within 50 miles (brick and mortar stores).

 

[mccldwll]

I think the point of all this is that, HARDWARE > SOFTWARE. and Best Buy gc = hardware, where iTunes gift card = software

Apple failed big time with their gift card move. Their educational discount of =< 5% off is measley. Even without an edu discount at Best Buy, Best Buy still has the better deal. To break even with Best Buy, I'd have to sell the iTunes gift card for more than $50. It's probably not that easy. Only fools would buy that gift card from me.

I never say this but
Best Buy FTW.

No. It doesn't. The edu discount is more than $50 on most offerings. And only a fool who had no need for Mac apps, or iPhone/iPad/iPod apps, or iTunes media would sell a $100 card at half price.

 

[xxBURT0Nxx]

I think the point of all this is that, HARDWARE > SOFTWARE. and Best Buy gc = hardware, where iTunes gift card = software

Apple failed big time with their gift card move. Their educational discount of =< 5% off is measley. Even without an edu discount at Best Buy, Best Buy still has the better deal. To break even with Best Buy, I'd have to sell the iTunes gift card for more than $50. It's probably not that easy. Only fools would buy that gift card from me.

I never say this but
Best Buy FTW.

lol best buy loves people like you who can't do math.

So with no edu discount at BB, your prices for a 13" look like this

$1200 paid gets you a $100 Best Buy gift card

At the apple store it looks like this

$1200 - $100 EDU discount = $1100 paid gets you a $100 App store gift card, and $100 off a printer.

So basically, I can also buy the $100 BB gift card with the money I saved through the edu discount, then I get the computer, the software gc, the hardware gc, and a printer.

You're right, Even without an edu discount at Best Buy, Best Buy still has the better deal. Best Buy FTW.

 

[GREEN4U]

lol best buy loves people like you who can't do math.

So with no edu discount at BB, your prices for a 13" look like this

$1200 paid gets you a $100 Best Buy gift card

At the apple store it looks like this

$1200 - $100 EDU discount = $1100 paid gets you a $100 App store gift card, and $100 off a printer.

So basically, I can also buy the $100 BB gift card with the money I saved through the edu discount, then I get the computer, the software gc, the hardware gc, and a printer.

You're right, Even without an edu discount at Best Buy, Best Buy still has the better deal. Best Buy FTW.

Trust me I know what you mean.

But for the record, I was talking about a Macbook Air which is what I want. The Apple Edu discount for Airs are $50 all around. The $100 iTunes card is worth $0 to me, so I'd be happy to get $50+ out of it. The pain of trying to sell it isn't worth it though. Finally, I don't need another printer. That's where I was coming from.

 

[tigress666]

I would be very surprised if that was the case. I am willing to bet that that poster was merely misinformed as if it were true, it would be BB wide.

You've apparently never worked retail. It's as simple as this. It may not be BB's policty to let you buy other gift cards with their gift cards (or match Apple's edu pricing).

But, stores do leave some stuff up to the manager's discretion on if they want to waive policy. Your store could have a manager who has decided it is better to waive policy. Some one else could go to a store whose manager is very strict on that rule.

So, yes, easily one BB could allow it and another could not.

Shoot, it could even be a policy by that is only for stores of that district (group of states in one section of the country) or state (more likely as some states won't allow certain policies so they won't have a policy like that in that state).

 

[Ozbotic]

No, it's not that complicated. But apparently you still don't understand that if BB doesn't also give someone an edu discount, then BB probably is the worse deal no matter what one does with the stupid card.

Oh trust me I understand basic math but, I was talking personally about my situation. In my case it doesn't really matter if I get the Best Buy gift card "deal" because my $1000 dollars for my macbook pro is being matched by my parents so whatever I don't have they're paying the difference. So pretty much for me the best buy gift card deal is much more useful as I can get an app store gift card and more.

 

[xxBURT0Nxx]

Oh trust me I understand basic math but, I was talking personally about my situation. In my case it doesn't really matter if I get the Best Buy gift card "deal" because my $1000 dollars for my macbook pro is being matched by my parents so whatever I don't have they're paying the difference. So pretty much for me the best buy gift card deal is much more useful as I can get an app store gift card and more.

So if BB doesn't match the edu discount, you don't care because your parents are paying it?

You realize you could save them $100 which could be used to buy that BB gift card you want, and you would also receive the free printer, and the $100 iTunes gift card, right?

But who cares, if it's your parents money hahahahaha

 

[ten-oak-druid]

The reason I dislike BB and similar stores is that they are usually staffed by young people who do not have good knowledge of the products or an interest to ever gain that knowledge. And even worse they tend to answer your questions based on what they think the answer to be. Instead of telling you they don't know, they take a shot at it believing any answer is good enough. It is the sort of response you expect on an exam where the student doesn't know the answer but hopes that by appearing confident in the answer there will be plenty of partial credit coming.

If you'd like to see this in action, go to one of these stores and ask something you know the answer to and see what you get. Here is an example. Go ask about the USB port on the back of a Directv receiver. Ask if you can connect a USB hard drive to it for extra storage. Most of the time they won't know the answer is no but will say "yes" because it is a USB port after all and it is reasonable to assume you can do this.

I don't mind people telling me they don't know an answer to a question. But it infuriates me when people just take an educated guess and offer it as a knowledgable answer.

If you want another example of this phenomenon, ask a waiter or waitress if a certain food is in a dish because you are allergic. I've had people hear me state that I am allergic to a certain food, and then answer my question without checking because they can't imagine it being in there. On being told to ask the kitchen they come back amazed that it is in the dish and who would have thought such a thing? Better waiters and waitresses will know to ask if they do not know.

Circuit City used to have well paid employees who actually took the time to know the product they were selling. You could see they took the job seriously because the pay was good. Except for the annoying attempts to sell warranties for everything, I enjoyed shopping there. When they laid off most everyone in order to hire people back at small wages I wrote their corporate office a nasty letter telling them how much money I had spent their and how I would not be shopping there anymore knowing the service was about to become bad ad that I supported the quality employees they just discarded without a thought. I finished by saying I sincerely hoped their business suffered for this so bad that they had to close shop. I got some bogus reply about their rationale for firing those people. It didn't take long for my vision of their demise to come about. They were in bankruptcy not many years later. I guess I was not the only one who stopped spending my money there.

 

[mccldwll]

Oh trust me I understand basic math but, I was talking personally about my situation. In my case it doesn't really matter if I get the Best Buy gift card "deal" because my $1000 dollars for my macbook pro is being matched by my parents so whatever I don't have they're paying the difference. So pretty much for me the best buy gift card deal is much more useful as I can get an app store gift card and more.

You said the following earlier:

"Though I'm kind of disappointed in the fact that they're not giving us an ipod touch for the BTS promotion, I'm actually quite glad that I'll be receiving a $100 itunes card. Spending money on that macbook pro was probably going to halt my itunes purchases for sometime, but now it seems like i'll have plenty of money to purchase ipod touch apps as well as apps in the mac store."

 

[Dionysus2112]

My local Best Buy store matched the ED and gave me a $100 BB gift card.

I also used their 18 month zero interest financing good deal.

I had actually purchased this on Saturday of last week spoke with the General manager and he agreed to the match. So for me it worked out well and the BB gift card was more useful.