student discount

Good Morning,
I have been accepted into the college and I start in july. I know I qualify for a student discount, but my mother will be the one doing the purchasing with her bank... Can I receive the discount if she is the one buying?
I have letters from the school if that helps.

Thanks,
Mario

Just show up with the letters and your mom (and her purse) and you shall be discounted.

Shouldn't be a problem at all. Coincidentally, while I was purchasing my MBP on discount, a family wasin the store with your situation where the parents were purchasing for their daughter and getting the discount too. Nice parents: got her a new MBP, Cinema display, iSight, printer, and iPod!

I didn't even need paperwork when I got the discount, I just signed in to my email account for the school as proof that I was a student.

Honestly, Im an advocate AGAINST buying through Apple. If you get the student discounts, the price after taxes is similar to the original price w/out taxes (maybe about $50-$75 cheaper) .

I recommend buying your mac from an AUTHORIZED reseller like MacMall. Macmall normally offers a rebate (around $150) for your purchases . Macmall doesnt charge sales tax either.

So in the end, youll end up paying almost regular price buying from Apple with the discount, but yoll end up saving much more buying from macmall and using the rebate. Heck, the price of a Mac from MacMall BEFORE the rebate is very close to the price of a Mac from the Apple store AFTER the discount.

lol..............no sales tax in my place

MDavid said:

Good Morning,
I have been accepted into the college and I start in july. I know I qualify for a student discount, but my mother will be the one doing the purchasing with her bank... Can I receive the discount if she is the one buying?
I have letters from the school if that helps.

Thanks,
Mario

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It's fine. My iMac goes through Apple finance which is through my mothers bank account as I wasn't old enough to have finance from the company Apple use.

As part of the discount they require you send off proof of enrolment and/or student card. Simple as that.

HKphotographer said:

lol..............no sales tax in my place

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You're probably not from the US, right?

Its US law to charge sales tax on a website if the company has a business license in that state (or something like that, just ask one of the associates in the online chat in apple's online store). Apple seems to have a license in each state because of their chain of retail stores.

Thanks for the information guys!
Ninjab3ar, thanks for the break down owe you big time!

Ninjab3ar said:

You're probably not from the US, right?

Its US law to charge sales tax on a website if the company has a business license in that state (or something like that, just ask one of the associates in the online chat in apple's online store). Apple seems to have a license in each state because of their chain of retail stores.

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yes, I'm from Hong Kong. It is one of the few places in the world that doesn't have sales tax. Cheapest place to buy electronics, I just love the low prices