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Is everyone actually a student?

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Dun Properly

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Nov 10, 2011
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Are all you guys getting "Student" discounts actually students or is this an easy way for everyone to save a couple hundred bucks? Is a student ID required to get the discount?
 
I can go corporate or staff.. price difference is minimal between the too, but they extra 100 for the educ. promo was the deal sealer.
 
I attend 1-2 classes per semester at a local community college. I also work for a large corporation. My corporate discount was quite a bit better than the student one so I went with that.
 
leenak said:
I attend 1-2 classes per semester at a local community college. I also work for a large corporation. My corporate discount was quite a bit better than the student one so I went with that.
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the more things I buy it got better too... but the applecare was quite a bit less on edu. then corp. TB cable was 6 bucks cheaper with EPP..

all and all for the items I chose ..edu was 20 bucks less then EPP, but I get a 100 gift card...so I upgraded shipping :D
 
You HAVE to have a student ID to get the discount, or you have to be an employer. I'm pretty sure the credit card has to match the name for employees, otherwise it'd bring up a red flag on Apple's side. I forgot how they do the checks online, but I had to bring my student ID to the Apple Store to buy my MBP with the discount.
 
Yeah, I'm a student but they have not asked me for confirmation of any sort yet. Maybe since I have a .edu email address they're not going to?
 
I work for the board of education and take some classes at night, so I used the student discount for the $100 iTunes card.
 
Apple has always asked for some kind of proof. In my case I don't have a student ID since I am with Phoenix so I just showed the apple rep my status page on the Phoenix website. In the past I was of the impression the online store would request some sort of proof to be sent in that you are a student, but I dunno if they do that anymore.
 
I'd hazard a guess and say most aren't students but have access to a .edu address and/or a student ID number.
 
I'm legit. Got the student discount with my valid student id. No problem.
 
If you order online you may or may not be asked to provide documentation. You don't need to have a .edu address or anything like that. My rMBP order was held waiting for me to fax a student ID. This is the first time they ever did that after probably 5 or 6 educational discount orders over the last few years. So they probably won't..but they might. If they do and you can't produce documentation they'll cancel the order and you go to the back of the line.
 
Online

I ordered online and clicked on my former college. No ID was required. It got me $100 off my 13" Pro and the $100 iTunes Gift Card.

Really it was a pretty good deal. $100 of laptop, $100 iTunes card and free upgrade to new OS.

I noticed the discount for Air was a paltry $50, but the Retina Pro had a $200 discount.
 
I'm currently enrolled in a cal state but havent started yet.. I ordered over the phone and was never asked for proof once I told the guy i was a student. My apple Care sales specialist guy has been EXTREMELY helpful btw. His name's Raul. Maybe I'll write a glowing commendation for him once I get my rMBP :)
 
I'm staff at a Canadian University and it worked fine. They did do a quick verification through a school e-mail account thought. I know in the US they sometimes need you to send it from a .edu e-mail to confirm.
 
At an Apple store, they will ask for a student ID. I brought a friend once who went to an overseas school (was here on vacation) and they couldn't find it in their system so after a few minutes instead of researching the problem they just said "Congrats, you just went to Harvard" and gave him the discount anyway.

Online, they do not ask you for any proof what so ever. I have bought a few things with the student discount (fretting that they were going to e-mail me asking for proof or they would jack the price up but it never happened). Things just came in and all was fine.

So the answer is clearly no, you don't need to be a student. If you are caught somehow, the worst that they'll do is cancel the order and you can try again or find someone who is eligible to place the order for you. I have never heard of anyone getting into real legal trouble for trying to order via the student discount online.

Of course if this gets around and people abuse it too much, Apple may clamp down on the discount. But this is not likely. Apple likes to err on the side of making customers happy and they clearly make enough margins to cover the discount to not make it worth their while going strict on this.
 
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