[comp.sys.mac.wanted] Clarification: recommendations wanted on buying an inexp. mac

podlozny@csli.Stanford.EDU (Ann Podlozny) (03/16/91)

I seem to have done a really poor job wording my request, and while I
thank the people who responded to me about the ethics of misusing the
student discount, I was interested in the *alternatives* to the
student discount that came up as a result of recent ethical
discussions  that I mentioned in my original post.

  I personally used my student discount while I was still a student
8), but have several friends who are alumni and who didn't have the
cash at the time.  They are now seeking other discount dealers, and I
remembered (perhaps incorrectly) a few people mentioning these types
of things.  What stuck in my head was someone saying, 'There's no need
to ever pay retail for a mac' or some such thing...      


--ann podlozny
podlozny@ai.sri.com

eaeu137@orion.oac.uci.edu (Andrew Theodore Laurence) (03/16/91)

A friend of mine's mother was shopping for a Mac a while back.  I gave her
the prices I could get via the UC Irvine, and she simply told her local
dealer (Sun Computers, as I recall) that "someone quoted me this price, can 
you match it?"  They did.

--Andrew Laurence
  eaeu137@orion.oac.uci.edu