Apple launches annual Back to School program

Or you could just wait a week or two until Best Buy begins to honor this instore, and they just give you the iPod at time of purchase, without all the rebate nonsense Apple makes you deal with, even if you purchase it from their retail stores.

a response to a few comments above.

apple will honor the rebate if you purchased in within 14 days.

i purchased a 13" mbp on sunday morning (and i love it)

brought the receipt in today and they just "returned in" and added the ipod on (as they both have to be on the same receipt) but everything was fine.

no restocking fee, no hassle

I even applied for the rebate check on one of their laptops in store and received a confirmation email about it in 5 minutes.

cheers!

Can this be applied to an iPad?

It looks like Amazon and Micro Center and other Apple Authorized Resellers are disqualified this year. :( :(

Two years ago when I took advantage of this I was able to take that discount.

In previous years, the rebate has never been applied to "new" products.
It only applies to the models available when the promotion is first announced.
sorry...but you can always sell your older unit, keep the rebate, and then just buy the newer one.

But I already have a 16GB second-gen, so it wouldn't do me any good. It would be a step down. Glad to see you can apply this to bigger models (confirmed that with an Apple Rep on the Store Chat). Of course, I want the 4th Gen model, not a 3rd Gen. I know they won't keep this going long enough for the 4th Gen to be covered (September 7th it ends) but I'm going to hold out and save up some money for a new MacBook Pro this summer. Hopefully I can find a way to get the new iPod touch into this deal. I should talk to an Apple Rep and see what their policy is on that kind of thing. I saw a sign in the Apple Store that if a product is updated within like 2 weeks of you buying it you can get an upgrade for free or cheap or something. I'll have to see about iPods and this promo and how they fit into that.

And anyone who wants an 8 GB iPod touch, new and unopened, keep an eye on Craigslist and eBay in the coming weeks. I'm sure plenty of people will sell the iPod if they don't want/need it and treat it like an additional discount. I did last year. :-)

I'm just hitting this up in case someone replies they have.

Summer is almost always the slowest quarter, sales-wise, for a company like Apple. The holiday sales and "real" back-to-school rush in the fall dwarf summer sales, so Apple encourages people to pick up a computer earlier in the year to boost their quarterly revenue.

Does anyone have any experience with getting apple to give you an ipod rebate for the macbook you purchased 2 days before the promotion?