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From: fiatlux@ucscc.UCSC.EDU.ucsc.edu (David Vangerov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple Univ. Discount
Message-ID: <773@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 22:09:37 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 10 22:09:37 1987
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Keywords: how much is it?
Summary: What it is at UCSC

In article <2284@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) writes:
>In article <1504@killer.UUCP> bobk@killer.UUCP (Bob Kmak) writes:
>>Can anyone tell me what the Apple University Discount (percentage) is?
>>The UTD bookstore sells them at what looks to be about
>>30% off retail...Is this normal? I guess I just don't trust campus bookstores,
>
>Okay, this is from the Cornell University Microcomputer & Office Systems
>price list.  You can figure out the percentage discount yourself.

[price list from Cornell deleted for space]

>LaserWriter 		4999	3249	; not for sale to students (Why?)
>LaserWriter Plus	5799	3827	; not for sale to students (Why?)
>
>Can students at other Apple University Consortium schools buy LaserWriters
>and LaserWriter Pluses?  They used to be purchasable by students at Cornell
>until about a year ago when they became avaliable only to staff and faculty.

The story on the LaserWriters, as I have heard it, is that
students might buy them and then use them to go into the bussiness
of desktop publishing. In other words, they want the computers
being used for personal purposes and not for bussiness purposes.

Here's what our policy is and what our prices are at UCSC. Any
registered full-time student, faculty or staff member may make up
to one (1) major purchase a year of Apple stuff. A major purchase
is one of the Macintoshes. Anything else (disk drives, printers,
etc) may be purchased as often as you want because the discount
is less on those items than on the Macintoshes themselves.

Our Bookstore (Baytree) quoted me these prices. However, campus
units, such as departments like the Computer Center (where I
work) or a division get their stuff via the purchasing department
whereas the Bookstore tries to turn a profit on their sales of
the following equipment. That's one of the reasons that the
prices will differ. The best thing to do is check what the actual
discount is before markup by your campus Bookstore. So the
Bookstore's prices will be higher than what the University (and
the bookstare) get them at before markup. The discount to
Universities is very big! Typically the bookstore does a markup
of around 10 - 12 per cent after they get them and the
super-duper cheap rate.

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Product Name 		       List Price     Campus Retail
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Mac 512KE			$1699.00	$1149.00
MacPlus				$2199.00	$1499.00
Mac SE, 2 800K floppies		$2898.00	$2100.00
Mac SE, HD20, 1 floppy		$3698.00	$2795.00
Mac II, w/std keyboard		$3898.00	$2800.00
   & 800K floopy
Mac II w/std keyboard		$5498.00	$3900.00
   & HD40, 1 floppy

An Extended Keyboard adds $175 to campus retail for
the SE or Mac II.

High Res Monochrome		 N/A		$ 299.00 
   Monitor for Mac II
High Res RGB Color Monitor	 N/A		$ 750.00
   for Mac II
Mac II Video Card		 N/A		$ 370.00
Mac II Expanded Video Card Kit	 N/A		$ 110.00

LaserWriter					$3650.00
LaserWrite Plus					$4300.00
Toner Catridge					$  80.00
ImageWriter II					$ 495.00
ImageWriter II Sheet Feeder			$ 199.00
External 800K Disk Drive			$ 320.00
Hard Disk 20					$ 999.00
Hard Disk 20SC					$1099.00
Personal Modem					$ 295.00
Apple-Talk Cable Kit				$  59.00
Apple-Talk Connector Kit			$  59.00
Apple-Talk System Connector Kit			$  59.00

That's the story from our end. Remember, the bookstore sets it's
prices and certain Universities will get equipment for less than
other universities. In any case, the discount is very substantial
and is a very good deal. I'd go for it if I were you.

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