[BNM] Buying a macbook & haggling for extras

[Rob Morrissey]

Yep, the student thing works great (I got about £500 off in total, including
3 years cover).  I also told them I was 'disillusioned' by the long delivery
time, and so they let me pick £60 worth of accessories (I got a nice
bluetooth mighty mouse).

Plus, they never asked me to prove that I was a student.  I think I may be a
student for many years in Apple's eyes... (of course, I'm joking).

Rob

On 1/3/07 12:33, "Mat Walker" <lists at four0four.net> wrote:

> On 1/3/07 12:12, "Mark Ng" <bnm at markng.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Considering buying a macbook (though I may go for a Dell instead, but
>> I don't want to make this a flamewar about what's the best idea) -
>> however, I'm interested in whether people have had any luck going to
>> the stores and haggling to get extras thrown in (things like DVI
>> adapters, mice, keyboards, etc) and/or knocking prices down, or
>> whether that's a fruitless idea and I'm better off just ordering one
>> online if I choose to go with an Apple.
> 
> You might be able to get a few extras thrown in from a supplier like Cancom
> but generally speaking the price is fixed. The only way I know of to get
> discounts from Apple is:
> 
> 1) Get a student to buy you one from the Education section of the Apple
> site. (You could pretend to be a student yourself and just buy one but that
> would be naughty ;))
> 
> 2) Buy through a cashback site like Quidco and get something like 5%
> cashback.
> 
> Mat
>