Best place to buy iPads

[Maxell]

Hello,

 

I need to source 10 iPads for our school. This sounds easy enough, but I was wondering if anyone knew of the best place to buy from? Are there special education discounts anywhere that people know about?

 

Buying direct from Apple using a purchase order wasn't easy in the past, so I think that would be best avoided...

 

TIA,

 

Mark.

[IWDave]

We farm out quotes out to suppliers, BT Business, NS Optimum, MISCO, Softcat, VeryPC etc. and see who comes back with the best pricing. They can normally apply education discounts on all products. We've had great pricing through BT Business recently. Edited October 12, 2016 by IWDave

[sparkeh]

I use @VeryPC who have always been awesome.

[ICTDirect_Dave]

You can give me a try

 

We can get pretty good education pricing on new Apple kit!

[JordanT91]

I purchased some from Jigsaw24 last week. I'd never used them before but because my account manager at Stormfront appeared to have left and they didn't answer the phone when I rang or reply to my email in a timely manner, I decided to give them a try. I had a quote, account set up and order gone through within an afternoon and the iPads came the next day.

[HBPS]

I only use BT my account manager is ace

 

We farm out quotes out to suppliers, BT Business, NS Optimum, MISCO, Softcat etc. and see who comes back with the best pricing. They can normally apply education discounts on all products. We've had great pricing through BT Business recently.

[MrPstv]

I purchased some from Jigsaw24 last week. I'd never used them before but because my account manager at Stormfront appeared to have left and they didn't answer the phone when I rang or reply to my email in a timely manner, I decided to give them a try. I had a quote, account set up and order gone through within an afternoon and the iPads came the next day.

 

Have been in talks with these guys and they are on the money..we are purchasing iPads from them soon..

[GrumbleDook]

If buying iPads, try to remember to get them onto your DEP so that they can be managed better.

[RLR]

We usually go out to multiple company's for quotes. We find Jigsaw24 to always be the cheapest. Other companies we have bought from are AMC computer supplies. You want to make sure which ever company you use that they are familiar with DEP.

[Maxell]

Thanks for all the advice everyone. I will make a few calls.

 

Mark.

[john]

Jigsaw 24 for sure they are great folk I got quite a lot of media kit from them and some apply bits

[Stevecee]

Hi

 

I would look to using an Apple Education reseller, GBM Digital are who we use but Academia and KRCS both are good, they can help and will be able to add these to your DEP (if you have one?)

 

It must be noted however that their hands are pretty tied regarding prices from apple (everyones are!). You should get a good deal and they should also offer good support - pretty useful if you are doing this for the first time

 

Hah

 

Steve

[paulellam]

We use XMA, been great for years, DEP sorted straight away and have knowlegable education people.

[Willott]

Interestingly no one has mentioned Insight,I've not got a cheaper iPad quote for several years

[DJ-1701]

In the past we have used Toucan Computing. They seem to have good deals when comparing.

 

I'll have to make sure I contact @ICTDirect_Dave next time we need any quotes.

[DavR]

+1 for Toucan, they've been great for me and given me so much support for deployment etc. They know their stuff.

 

Interestingly, last time I went out to get quotes on iPads, all three suppliers came back within about a fiver of each other, it was the additional items like cases and leads that made the difference. Unless you find someone running a loss leader, I think they're pretty tied with pricing for the actual devices.