Educational Discount at the retail stores?

sledgehammersledgehammer
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Thesubject pretty much says it all. Can you get the educational discount at the retail stores that you would shopping at the education store online?

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  • Reply 1 of 9
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    As far as I know, you can on hardware but not software. Or at least that's how it used to be.
  • Reply 2 of 9
    sledgehammersledgehammer Posts: 505member
    EmAn, what happened to your post count?!? Did you hit the max and start over or something?



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  • Reply 3 of 9
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Last I checked, the max was something like 65535.



    Anyhow, I had thought that you could not get the discount on anything from the Apple retail stores, that they would enter your order online if you wanted the educational discount. That's what I've heard in the past.



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  • Reply 4 of 9
    filfil Posts: 16member
    eman is correct, edu discount is only for apple hardware.

    I can't understand why they can't offer apple software at edu prices, oh well.
  • Reply 5 of 9
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by SledgeHammer:

    <strong>EmAn, what happened to your post count?!? Did you hit the max and start over or something?



    [ 11-29-2002: Message edited by: SledgeHammer ]</strong><hr></blockquote>



    this is pissing me off!



  • Reply 6 of 9
    spartspart Posts: 2,060member
    Long story short, Brad was getting jealous of EmAn's post count, and so to become the biggest loser in all of AI he artificially reduced said EmAn's post count to zero.



    Why on Earth he would want to do this is up in the air, however.



    <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
  • Reply 7 of 9
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by Spart:

    <strong>Long story short, Brad was getting jealous of EmAn's post count, and so to become the biggest loser in all of AI he artificially reduced said EmAn's post count to zero.



    Why on Earth he would want to do this is up in the air, however.



    <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Actually, it was reduced to 7, not 0.
  • Reply 8 of 9
    idudeidude Posts: 352member
    I asked the genius about this last night at the Oakbrook opening, and he said the discount was only available on Apple products. Hope that helps.
  • Reply 9 of 9
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    And this would make sense, because it is much easier for them to mark down and sell their own products at EDU prices to EDU customers.



    Furthermore, applications like Photoshop and Macromedia ware comes in special educational versions... and 1) I think you have to be licensed to sel EDU versions... and if not 2) Apple retails stores probably aren't planning on doing a lot of EDU business.



    For software discounts like that, your university should have a store on campus, or you can mail order.
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