Do they actually check for student ID for education discount?

wireless023 · wireless023 #1 (**permalink**)

04-07-2007, 04:03 PM

Hello,

I wanna buy a Macbook Pro. I'm student in Bermuda (a small island) and am going to NY soon. I just called the Apple Retail Store and asked if I can education discount there, they said yes. But it is only possible for U.S. Students and I am not a US Student. Now my question, if they see you are young so you must be a student, do they actually check you for ID? Or maybe is it worth to go try, or even show my bermudian student id hoping the cashier doesnt know?

I could also order online. Do you need to fax them a student ID?

PowerBookG4 · PowerBookG4 #2 (**permalink**)

04-07-2007, 04:07 PM

yes, they do check for id. you can try, but if its only for us students, then they will enforce that.

wireless023 · wireless023 #3 (**permalink**)

04-07-2007, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by PowerBookG4

yes, they do check for id. you can try, but if its only for us students, then they will enforce that.

Is that online or in the retail store?

PowerBookG4 · PowerBookG4 #4 (**permalink**)

04-07-2007, 04:22 PM

retail store.

iRye · iRye #5 (**permalink**)

04-07-2007, 04:25 PM

A person at a Mac place said that here in Canada, you can just call up Apple, and it doesn't matter who, or what grade, college or University you go to, if there's a person whose being educated in the your family, it's a discount for you.

trpnmonkey41 · trpnmonkey41 #6 (**permalink**)

04-07-2007, 04:39 PM

That is entirely false.

The discount used to be for students in K-12 but they changed it a few years back for only Higher ed students. The discount only applies for the student themself, and you can't use your discount to purchase items for other people.

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Member Since: Jul 22, 2003 Location: Hamilton College Posts: 7,003 Mac Specs: 20" iMac C2D 2.16ghz, 13" MacBook 2.0ghz, 60gb iPod vid, 1gb nano	04-07-2007, 04:39 PM That is entirely false. The discount used to be for students in K-12 but they changed it a few years back for only Higher ed students. The discount only applies for the student themself, and you can't use your discount to purchase items for other people. Don't forget to use the new User Reputation System
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wireless023 #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Feb 19, 2007 Posts: 6	04-07-2007, 04:03 PM Hello, I wanna buy a Macbook Pro. I'm student in Bermuda (a small island) and am going to NY soon. I just called the Apple Retail Store and asked if I can education discount there, they said yes. But it is only possible for U.S. Students and I am not a US Student. Now my question, if they see you are young so you must be a student, do they actually check you for ID? Or maybe is it worth to go try, or even show my bermudian student id hoping the cashier doesnt know? I could also order online. Do you need to fax them a student ID?
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iRye #5 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 01, 2007 Location: Cow Town, Alberta, Canada Posts: 1,991 Mac Specs: PowerBook G4 15 inch 1.5 GHz, iMac	04-07-2007, 04:25 PM A person at a Mac place said that here in Canada, you can just call up Apple, and it doesn't matter who, or what grade, college or University you go to, if there's a person whose being educated in the your family, it's a discount for you.
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