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When does the Back to School promo usually start each year?

iloveair said:
I went to grand central station apple store and the guy told me i had to bring in the mac return it and then re-sell it to me. To me that doesnt make sense. But he said that they would need to put it into the system.
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If you bring your receipt then they will be able to scan the barcode and do it. They did it for me at least.
 
I just called Apple and got it no problem. They went by when I received mine (the 18th) and said I would get the gift card within 3 weeks. :D
 
I searched through Best Buy forums and someone had posted the same question two yrs ago and the response was:

As a best buy employee I can tell you that the way it was printed to everyone is "we will PM apples everyday student pricing and PM the $100 Mac app store gc with a $100 BB gift card" so that tells me (& my store) we PM both the student discount and the $100 gc. We were given a sku for it so it shouldn't be that big of a deal for all the stores.
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http://forums.bestbuy.com/t5/Computers-Tablets/Apple-Back-to-School-Offer/m-p/291404/highlight/true#M29918
 
Collider said:
Adding my voice to the others pointing out that you can claim the gift card if you're within the 14-day return period of a previously-bought Macbook, but also thought it might be worth adding that as well as calling, as most seem to have done, from my experience they were just as happy to offer the gift card credit when contacted by email -- I only had to supply my Apple ID (not even any order info'), and that was enough for them to confirm and give me the same "within three weeks" that everyone else seems to be getting. :)
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What email address did you use? Thanks :)
 
aschi said:
What email address did you use? Thanks :)
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Since my account is a UK one, I used their UK address -- contactus.uk[@]euro.apple.com. I assume a similar address is available for other countries -- I know a Swedish variant exists if you replace 'uk' with 'se', for example -- but I'm not sure about non-European customers.

Hope that helps, anyhow.
 
Anyone else get their code yet? Received mine via email last night. Perfect timing because my shiny, new MBA arrived yesterday afternoon!
 
I picked up my CTO macbook air on June 14th. Today I came back to the store where I picked it up to ask about the back to school promotion. The store manager manually returned and then reselled it to me. Got my 100 gift card even though I had to make 2 trips here. If anyone want to give it a try, remember to bring your macbook with you.
 
tqbao27 said:
I picked up my CTO macbook air on June 14th. Today I came back to the store where I picked it up to ask about the back to school promotion. The store manager manually returned and then reselled it to me. Got my 100 gift card even though I had to make 2 trips here. If anyone want to give it a try, remember to bring your macbook with you.
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I just had to bring a copy of the receipt.
 
trife said:
Anyone else get their code yet? Received mine via email last night. Perfect timing because my shiny, new MBA arrived yesterday afternoon!
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What did the email look like ?

I deleted without even looking what I thought was a back to school ad email announcing it.

I wasn't even looking since they said 3 weeks.

Subject of email would be awesome if you have it ...

Thanks!
 
udflyer said:
What did the email look like ?

I deleted without even looking what I thought was a back to school ad email announcing it.

I wasn't even looking since they said 3 weeks.

Subject of email would be awesome if you have it ...

Thanks!
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I actually thought they were going to mail a physical app store gift card like in the past. They just e-mailed me a code today after they said it would take 3 weeks. The subject was "Your Back to School App Store Gift Code is ready."
 
amitdoc2b said:
I actually thought they were going to mail a physical app store gift card like in the past. They just e-mailed me a code today after they said it would take 3 weeks. The subject was "Your Back to School App Store Gift Code is ready."
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Thanks. I really hope I did not delete mine by accident.

When did you call Tuesday ?

I called at 10am EST and had a rep from AZ take my call.

Others - Have you all gotten your code if you called Tuesday ?
 
DisplacedMic said:
so what are you kids going to spend your $100 on? movies/music or apps?
school books?

/just curious
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If I get one probably the occasional song. Also Mavericks when that's released.

Probably end up renting/buying some movies too.
 
I just sold mine for £50 last year, used that towards an ssd.
i may put both my pro and air up for sale this week to get a 15" retina now the promotion is back on.
 
I bought a BTO MacBook Air from Apple.com on June 10th, am I screwed?

I tried calling Apple, but they said they were only going back 14 days from July 2nd.

Disappointing, especially after the thousands of dollars I've spent on Apple products.
 
duelingdragons said:
I bought a BTO MacBook Air from Apple.com on June 10th, am I screwed?

I tried calling Apple, but they said they were only going back 14 days from July 2nd.

Disappointing, especially after the thousands of dollars I've spent on Apple products.
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This happened to me. Take it to the store and do a return... then reorder. Let them know it's for the BTS promo. Annoying but it was the only way.
 
duelingdragons said:
I bought a BTO MacBook Air from Apple.com on June 10th, am I screwed?

I tried calling Apple, but they said they were only going back 14 days from July 2nd.

Disappointing, especially after the thousands of dollars I've spent on Apple products.
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They go by when you received it, not when it was ordered.
 
duelingdragons said:
I bought a BTO MacBook Air from Apple.com on June 10th, am I screwed?

I tried calling Apple, but they said they were only going back 14 days from July 2nd.

Disappointing, especially after the thousands of dollars I've spent on Apple products.
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sucker ;)

j/k
 
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