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From: chou@cs.washington.edu (Pai Chou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple educational discounts
Message-ID: <14891@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 91 00:45:44 GMT
References: <15590011@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>
Reply-To: chou@june.cs.washington.edu (Pai Chou)
Organization: University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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In article <15590011@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> kmcintyr@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Kevin McIntyre) writes:
>
>Can anyone tell me if Apple Educational discount is the same everywhere?
>I live in Boise, Idaho and went to the local store to see what the 
>prices where and the salesman was a total jerk.  When asked about
>the pricing (I thought it was 50%) he said, "well this is a good 
>price, not 50% and if you don't like it, don't buy it".  Boy some
>people!  Also I noticed that the monitors (apple of course) were
>hardly even discounted.  What gives?  Any help is appreciated.
>					--Thanks,
>                                            Kevin.
>
>e-mail:
>kmcintyr@hpbsl88.boi.hp.com

No, they are not the same, and it is no where near 50% off.
It's more like 20% off.  Here are some of the latest pretax prices
here at University of Washington:

School                      UW(after tax,8.1%)
------                     --------
Classic 1MB		    777.00
LC 2MB 40HD		   1634.00
SE/30 1MB 40HD		   2153.00
SE/30 4MB 80HD		   2921.00
IIsi 2MB 40HD  		   2456.00
IIsi 5MB 80HD 		   2968.00
Portable 1MB 40HD	   2731.00
12" RGB Monitor		    414.00
13" RGB Monitor		    686.00

I found the prices here are generally less than, say,
UC Berkeley, even though the sales tax here is higher.