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Hah! Apple's Black Friday Sales are Disappointing!

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PaulWog

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For anyone interested in a 2015 Macbook Pro, $200 (or $150 USD) is not a bad gift card to get.

But I wanted to see how it looked in checkout.

They've already screwed up. The $200 gift card is added for an additional $200 to the cart total, and going to checkout details causes an error!
 
They just updated it. If you apply the education discount, you cannot receive the gift card. So basically, there's no sale at all for students.
 
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They should have included the gift cards for all purchases and not just on the older products.
 
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LiemTa said:
Of course not. This is just Apple cleaning house. A garage sale.
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Apple is going to have a tough time cleaning house with all the new products they're making... new iPad size, tons of different colors in different iWatches, too many configurations and variations of this and that.

They need to go back to simple. Not "courage" levels of simple (the word for that level of simple is "dumb"). The proper, clean, refined kind of simple. As in, what Steve Jobs envisioned and did.

Apple used to use the word "Magic". Now they don't even hint at the word. They don't have it.
 
PaulWog said:
They just updated it. If you apply the education discount, you cannot receive the gift card. So basically, there's no sale at all for students.
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Apple's never allowed the combining of education discounts with gift cards... same for military/government discounts.

This Black Friday sale is disappointing, but infinitely better than last year's.
 
vipergts2207 said:
Anyone expecting a discount/gift card on brand new items which are still on back-order for people who pre-ordered is delusional.
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it is always the same with every items - "doesnt apply purchases made before..." ring a bell?

i dont know what is the problem here. if you order it today, a promotion or whatever start tomorrow, you are not eligible to get that.
 
mrex said:
it is always the same with every items - "doesnt apply purchases made before..." ring a bell?

i dont know what is the problem here. if you order it today, a promotion or whatever start tomorrow, you are not eligible to get that.
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Apple has no reason to offer promotions on something they can't even keep in stock as it is. Second, everyone who has received one is likely still within the return period, which means Apple would have people returning MBP's just to buy another one to get the gift card. And people who've ordered, but haven't received one yet could easily cancel and reorder.
 
you can do it for everything and forever, not just for apple stuff... you can always cancel your order when the business launch a promotion on the next day, week or so.. whether is apple, ms, amazon, koolaid or whatever. apple isnt an exception here. it is your choice if you want to wait another month to get your order. there is always waiting return periods etc... i quess some are returning their stuuf right after xmas when the sales start on january :p

i placed my mbp order and getting in on 4.1.17 or so... so 14days return policy and if i see any discounts, i send it back! (not!)

and this debate is endless. people, who bought their laptops before bf and were still waiting them, could have done the same thing. it is not just new things, the same can be done with old stuff aswell.
 
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