[BNM] Buying a macbook & haggling for extras

[Guy Tierney]

Ahh yes I forgot about student discount - that IS good - I work with a uni
and have an ID card for there and use this as proof of my student /
teachershipness ;D

Gt



on 1/3/07 12:43 pm, Rob Morrissey at robmorrissey at gmail.com wrote:

> 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
>> 
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