[Kati Compton]

Originally Posted by rpommier

Why don't you try going through the Higher Education link? That's what I used, yes, I'm a student. I don't see the other scenerio happening. Your school purchasing them and then you in turn purchasing from the school.

But are you K-12? For Higher Ed I think they either require you to have an .edu email address (which jd4science may have... it's been a while since I was in high school, so I don't know where they're at technologically) or to verify where you're a student.

[Kati Compton]

Originally Posted by rpommier

Why don't you try going through the Higher Education link? That's what I used, yes, I'm a student. I don't see the other scenerio happening. Your school purchasing them and then you in turn purchasing from the school.

But are you K-12? For Higher Ed I think they either require you to have an .edu email address (which jd4science may have... it's been a while since I was in high school, so I don't know where they're at technologically) or to verify where you're a student.

[rpommier]

But are you K-12? For Higher Ed I think they either require you to have an .edu email address (which jd4science may have... it's been a while since I was in high school, so I don't know where they're at technologically) or to verify where you're a student.

I'm not K-12, I do go to school and am in the USAF, so Higher Education and Federal Gov't. I ended up calling HP and they verified me over the phone. There's another thread on here about ordering the 2210. The guy I talked to on the phone, Dan I believe, said they were in the process of moving the ordering of those to another office/branch I believe.

If I were you jd4science I would call HP's education support number and nicely explain my situation. Here's the number I called to get help:

1-800-696-4662

Once you order, call them with your web authorization number. Maybe you got someone on the phone and they misunderstood how the program worked. Perfectly possible, we've all been mistaken before... Give it a shot.

[Excalliber]

I'm also in 9th Grade, and ordered mine through the educational store, though I never had the issue of the conformation email. Everything went smoothly from the online ordering, even though I was forced to leave many of the fields blank, with no question as to what school I attend. It's on it's way now...

I guess I was lucky to avoid the massive crunch of orders after they were changing servers, or they entered it by hand immediatly after I sent it to them. I saw the link for K-12 students on the right, but ignored it, as I wanted the lower price (the student store said $359, or something close to that). So i went to the K-12 dropdown menu, selected buy online, and chose the national educational pricing after selecting the state.

After that, I just checked out normally, but left alot of the fields either blank, or put an N/A... I can't beleive they accepted N/A for the PO# :lol: . So currently I'm staring at the UPS site, watching the package crawl from Indianapolis to Bloomington...

Edit: BTW, it's shipping to my home address. They never got which school (or the address of it, for that matter) that I was/am attending.

[jd4science]

You know what? I just figured I'm am so tired of this I'm not gonna buy it through HP. I am goning to make sure my order is cacelled, then buy a brand new one on Ebay. This is because, even with all of your help, I don't want to go through this agian. Anyway, thanks, all!

[solus]

This will probably work. Call govconnection.com. The number is 1-800-800-0019. When you go through the touch-tones and whatnot, you'll get to the proper sales rep. If your interested in the 2210, tell them that you are a student - give them your school name (they asked for my school name, address, and some stuff you _should_ know if you are a student or teacher [would be on your school webpage] ), and then they will give you a price quote. The first quote they give you may be like $363 or $383, or some other equivalently meager discount. Just mention that you've heard that you can get the 2210 direct from HP for $293 with their educational program... GovConnection then acts as an intermediary between you and company to get the educational discounts. This way you order from GovConnection, and they do all the educational mess for you :wink: and you get your brand spankin' new 2210 for $293. I don't think they charge shipping either, but I'm not sure. Still trying to decide between 2210 and 5550.

For future reference for students, anything you see on pcconnection.com can be ordered through govconnection.com with a student discount. They share the same warehouse and part numbers... so if you know the part number of what you're looking for, you can give the sales rep that number and you can go from there.

Hope this helps!

-Tarak Upadhyaya

[Rocketeer]

I just ordered my 2210 through an "inside sales representative" from HP and paid only $254. I couldn't pass up that deal. I guess our company negotiated that great price for the employees because we buy exclusively from HP for our computer needs. (I work for a large company) :?: