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Microsoft employees get a discount at the apple store for showing their badges. Not so much at the MSFT stores... Edit: note - this is the retail MSFT stores,
by jmspring 13y ago
Microsoft employees get a discount at the apple store for showing their badges. Not so much at the MSFT stores...
Edit: note - this is the retail MSFT stores, not the on campus stores in Redmond or Silicon Valley.
- philwelch 13y agoAside from being cheeky, why do Microsoft employees get a discount at the Apple Store?
- jmspring 13y agoMicrosoft has a program known as Microsoft Prime. The extent of what it covers, I am not 100% sure of. One company in the program is Apple -- that said, companies, rules, and amounts change. Given I can go to the Stanford Mall and get a discount, then walk a hundred+ yards and not get a discount on a comparable Surface is a bit uneven.
- jhenkens 13y agoMicrosoft employee's get a discount of about 7% iirc by showing their Microsoft Prime card, which is just a 'Passport' card. Many credit unions and other business provide 'Passport' discounts as well.
- jmspring 13y agoThat sounds about correct. Apple, specifically, is pretty tight on discounts it grants (including educational). Still silly that there is no similar discount at MSFT company retail stores.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoI'm not even sure if the prime card is needed. I got a discount on a laptop at an Apple store by just showing them my badge (I don't qualify for Prime because I'm not a Microsoft USA employee).
- ibmthrowaway218 13y agoIBMers get a discount at the Apple Store (online) via a rewards gateway. Any company that uses something like rewardgateway.com will get discounts at a similar set of places.