Leopard Education pricing update

JOURNEYED.COM is selling it for *retail* price...

Our University bookstore (like many) has outsourced it's software sales to journeyed.com. Well, Leopard finally appeared on the journeyed.com website today... at $128.98!

See it at:
http://www.journeyed.com/itemDetail.asp?ItmNo=40871211N

This is ridiculous. Journeyed requires proof of student status (and I bet they use purchase orders, cf #50), so why aren't they selling it for $69?

If you look around the web for colleges' bookstore/computer store web sites, you will find some that will sell you Leopard at $69 and ship it to you, no matter whether you're a student or not. Just like ordering from any other online merchant. I ordered my copy this way and should be receiving it tomorrow. (I'm a student at a school without an Apple reseller, so I don't feel like I'm ripping Apple off by going through another school to get the lower price.)

My university doesn't have a bookstore. They use a Barnes & Nobles, which I'm sorta doubting will have it.

For most apple stuff they just forward us to the education section of the Apple Store.

I guess no dice for us?

The reasoning doesn't make sense. Apple can't academically verify you online for their computers either (which, for the most part, have a much larger academic discount than $60), yet you don't see them charging less at a Campus Reseller because they can check your Student ID there. If Apple sets the Academic Retail on their products in online, they'll keep them elsewhere. Otherwise, they'll lose a lot of sales to the Apple Academic site where they're going to make a higher margin off their products than by going through a College B&M.

This is the case, as far as I'm aware, from my connections with my college bookstore (being an employee of their computer department and all). If any institution is selling Leopard for less, they're doing so not at the behest of Apple, but at a loss of their own profit margin.

When I read that "$69" I was all happy - that is an "Educational Discount"! My hopes were dashed, however, when I called our University of New Mexico bookstore, and heard they plan on selling it for $89 on "release day" (though they said they don't know when they will get it, maybe a week to ten days - they are taking advanced orders). After that it goes up to $99. Oh well, maybe Macmall? Once again, education just don't pay!

Just got off the phone with Apple Education - the $69 price is only available to Universities on University POs. IF the school has a bookstore that sells software, you can get it there, assuming they issued a PO to Apple to buy it. End users and students are otherwise out of luck.

Ohio State and University of Cincinnati (60,000+ students), both of which I have first hand experience with, do NOT sell Apple products except through the respective school's web sites. As a result, the only available student price is $116.

Talked to the local Apple store - they are not allowed to provide anything other than the 10% discount to students that show up at the store.

I guess it is not such a good deal for the school to use an Apple customized school store - the prices are not what they can get by stocking product.

i just ordered it from apple using my "iphone" credit...

That stinks. I attend an online University. We don't have an actual, physical school bookstore.

So I have to pay full price anyway, I guess.

At University of Kanas: $116
$99 only for the launch night


no good deal :(

$69 for a single seat is correct. No family 5 packs for education but you can pay $59 for 10-99 seats or $49 for 100+ seats. Good thing our Academic Dept. has a Visa card, we pre-ordered family pack from Amazon.com for less than Academic pricing. Anyone notice a trend? No more discounts on iPods, discounts on hardware are less and less each model and now the OS is going up in price.