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Retina Pro Student Discount Price? (UK)
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awesome thanks for that.
Thanks for the other replies guys i had some trouble getting onto it though! i always order over the phone. Is there a way I can order with my full uni discount online? It always tells me i need to be on my uni network which i cant be as im done for the year now.
http://store.apple.com/uk_edu_5000737
Change the last 3 digits to your university. They go up in alphabetical order so you can cycle through them.
do they not check the uni? I legit go to Bournemouth uni.
Also i already bought a mac for my dad on student earlier this academic year, will they check and stop me buying a 2nd? I can always run it through a friend who dosent buy apple so not a big problem.
you have to be logged onto your unis wifi or any form of internet access when purchasing the retina macbook pro online i think.
They say they do random checks on student orders so that's why I would recommend cycling through the last 3 digits on the URL to find Bournemouth just in case they check which would be very unlucky. But it is something like 1/1000 and considering you're an actual student you will be fine. I think you will be fine over buying another. I think it is 2 Macs per year and even then I doubt they will check (unless it is done automatically). It's worth a try anyway, the worst that can happen is you get your order cancelled and you have to use your friend.
Here is the Bournemouth link btw: http://store.apple.com/uk_edu_5000623
cheers, yea ill use that bournemouth link to order. Its 1 mac per year as I called them to check. I can just get a class mate to order it for me though so legit checking isnt an issue, just harder to make it up over the phone compared to online!
Cheers guys.
Do you think they'd do that? And potentially lose a sale? Or do you think (as I suspect) they'd simply turn a blind eye?
Really just curious.
I can't see anything happening over it, its probably just there to try and prevent people from mass ordering.
Not the brightest idea in the world to post the off campus links on a public forum. Please us a little sense and PM them, this loophole has been left open for years, if people hammer it then they will close the door for sure.
Of course they realise, and the number of people that use the links is relatively small in the grand scheme of things. But posting them on public forums, especially on one as busy as this can make number using the link spike big time. After all at no point are you ever asked to prove you are a student, and who doesn't like the idea of 13-15% off their mac?
I dont think its anything your going to need to worry about it, this probably isnt the first thread on the forum about it and im sure google would be peoples first stop for it
It has been posted on this forum countless times. It's no different if I explained how to do it or linked it. Its been a loophole for years and I doubt Apple are going to change specifically. The only time it will be changed is the next time rhey redesign the store. Nothing to stop any non student walking into the library of their local university and buying online there with a laptop.
Tbh I think it's a benefit for Apple which is why they turn a blind eye for it. Apple make huge product margins and there are no doubt lots of examples where non students have bought a mac where they wouldn't if it wasn't for the discount. It's the case with me (although I am a student) I can only buy the MBPR with the discount as I couldn't justify £1799 on a laptop. So that's a bigger profit for Apple either way.
I doubt Apple are going to change it unless it happens at a huge widespread institutionalised level, and posting it on a niche mac enthusiast forum is going to do that.
Tbh I think it's a benefit for Apple which is why they turn a blind eye for it. Apple make huge product margins and there are no doubt lots of examples where non students have bought a mac where they wouldn't if it wasn't for the discount. It's the case with me (although I am a student) I can only buy the MBPR with the discount as I couldn't justify £1799 on a laptop. So that's a bigger profit for Apple either way.
I doubt Apple are going to change it unless it happens at a huge widespread institutionalised level, and posting it on a niche mac enthusiast forum is going to do that.
yea im of the same opinion, also lol at the people exploiting it getting angry at legit students. we actually need these discounts...
There isn't but it doesn't take long. Takes about 5 minutes 737 is N so you just work up and down from that. All in alphabetical order.
And yeah I know. Even if they close the loophole the discount will still be available, Apple were the ones who won the HE contract to offer.