kmcintyr@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Kevin McIntyre) (02/04/91)
Can anyone tell me if Apple Educational discount is the same everywhere?
I live in Boise, Idaho and went to the local store to see what the
prices where and the salesman was a total jerk. When asked about
the pricing (I thought it was 50%) he said, "well this is a good
price, not 50% and if you don't like it, don't buy it". Boy some
people! Also I noticed that the monitors (apple of course) were
hardly even discounted. What gives? Any help is appreciated.
--Thanks,
Kevin.
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kmcintyr@hpbsl88.boi.hp.comrsfinn@athena.mit.edu (Russell S. Finn) (02/05/91)
In article <15590011@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>, kmcintyr@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Kevin McIntyre) writes: |> Can anyone tell me if Apple Educational discount is the same everywhere? |> I live in Boise, Idaho and went to the local store ... To obtain an Apple educational discount, you usually have to be a registered student (or perhaps an instructor) at a university which offers such a discount program; you then purchase equipment through the university. For instance, here at MIT we go to the MIT Microcomputer Center, which sells at a slight markup from the educational price (which presumably goes to support the service center). Going to your local dealer and asking for an educational price probably won't work (as you discovered); he's probably annoyed at Apple and the university for selling equipment at a price he can't match, thereby drawing away customers he thinks he would have been able to sell computers to. (Of course, I bought my IIsi from the Microcomputer Center, and couldn't have afforded to do so from a regular dealer, so no sale was lost in my case...) -- Russell S. Finn rsfinn@{athena,lcs}.mit.edu
chou@cs.washington.edu (Pai Chou) (02/05/91)
In article <15590011@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> kmcintyr@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Kevin McIntyre) writes: > >Can anyone tell me if Apple Educational discount is the same everywhere? >I live in Boise, Idaho and went to the local store to see what the >prices where and the salesman was a total jerk. When asked about >the pricing (I thought it was 50%) he said, "well this is a good >price, not 50% and if you don't like it, don't buy it". Boy some >people! Also I noticed that the monitors (apple of course) were >hardly even discounted. What gives? Any help is appreciated. > --Thanks, > Kevin. > >e-mail: >kmcintyr@hpbsl88.boi.hp.com No, they are not the same, and it is no where near 50% off. It's more like 20% off. Here are some of the latest pretax prices here at University of Washington: School UW(after tax,8.1%) ------ -------- Classic 1MB 777.00 LC 2MB 40HD 1634.00 SE/30 1MB 40HD 2153.00 SE/30 4MB 80HD 2921.00 IIsi 2MB 40HD 2456.00 IIsi 5MB 80HD 2968.00 Portable 1MB 40HD 2731.00 12" RGB Monitor 414.00 13" RGB Monitor 686.00 I found the prices here are generally less than, say, UC Berkeley, even though the sales tax here is higher.
chou@cs.washington.edu (Pai Chou) (02/05/91)
Oops --
>..some of the latest pretax prices
^^^^^^
I meant after-tax.dhansen@ogicse.ogi.edu (David Hansen) (02/05/91)
>In article <15590011@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>, kmcintyr@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Kevin McIntyre) writes: > Can anyone tell me if Apple Educational discount is the same everywhere? > I live in Boise, Idaho and went to the local store ... > While the educational discount may vary from school to school, the Apple Educator Advantage program which allows teachers to purchase Apple computers and peripherals IS the same everywhere I believe. The program IS administered through local dealers who should be able to provide a price list and ordering materials. And NO, the discount isn't 50%. We just purchased a Classic 2/40 through the program for $1199 + $35 which the local dealer gets for acting as the middleman.
rgonzal@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez) (02/08/91)
I heard a similar story as that David Hansen reports: You can obtain educational discounts from local dealers if they are afiliated with Apple's program for educational discounts. You may call Apple to find the name of a local dealer who can do this. The pricing in my area using this approach was not quite as low as that obtained by going directly through the university, but its available to educators (not students) in grade school as well as educators and students in higher education. I think the pricing, for example, for a no-frills Classic 1Mb (no HD) was about $800 whereas I could get it for $709 (before tax) through the university. -Ralph