I purchased Macbook air M2 15inch from apple online store with education discount and by using HDFC credit card but i am not able to receive any cashback of upto 8k as mentioned in site , Please help me out

From the website: *Instant savings, otherwise referred to as instant cashback on the Apple Store Online, is available with the purchase of an eligible product for qualifying HDFC Bank Credit Cards and EasyEMI Credit Cards only. Minimum transaction value of ₹10001.00 applies. Click here to see instant savings amounts and eligible devices. Instant savings is available for up to two orders per rolling 90-day period with an eligible card. Card eligibility is subject to terms and conditions between you and your card issuing bank. Total transaction value is calculated after any trade-in credit or eligible discount applied. Any subsequent order adjustment(s) or cancellation(s) may result in instant savings being recalculated, and any refund may be adjusted to account for instant savings clawback; this may result in no refund being made to you. Offer may be revised or withdrawn at any time without any prior notice. Terms and conditions apply. Offer cannot be combined with Apple Store for Education or Corporate Employee Purchase Plan pricing. Multiple separate orders cannot be combined for instant savings

The only "cash back" I see on this page is if you apply for Apple's credit card, are approved for it, and make your purchases with it. This sounds like a variation on the "cash back" that many credit cards offer.

I could be mistaken, but it sounds as if Apple issues their credit card in connection with Goldman Sachs. I don't know who "HDFC" is, but I'm pretty sure they are not the bank who issues Apple Cards, and so you wouldn't get any Apple-Card-specific cash back offer by paying with a HDFC card.

Education Pricing and Student Discounts - Education - Apple

Contact Apple, then.

All the U.S. education offers I've seen here recently involved Apple providing a "free" gift card if you bought and kept a qualifying machine. On the invoices, the deal was technically structured so that Apple was offering you a discount on the computer equal to the price of the gift card that you were buying at full list price. Whatever the details, I think they were trying to make it clear that you couldn't get the computer, return it, get all your money back, and get a free $200 gift card (on them) out of the deal.

None of the U.S. education offers that I've seen involved Apple sending you cash back. You paid $XXX extra on the invoice for the gift card at the same time you got a price adjustment of (-$XXX) on the computer. If you kept everything, what you had was credit (the gift card) for buying more Apple products. Not cash in hand.

In any event, you need to contact Apple and take it up with Apple, not with us. People posting here are mostly other Apple customers, like me, who either have technical questions or are helping others with their technical questions on a volunteer, no-guarantee basis.

Without regard to who advertises it, "Cash Back" is a credit card "perk" to get you to spend more money via the card. The CB programs I'm familiar with offer a set percentage that can be redeemed in various ways. You know, the "What's in your wallet" ad by actor Samual Jackson.

And you're very correct, Apple, and any competent business, will not offer a deal that allows you to buy expensive gear, request the "freebie", return the gear and still get the freebie.

HDFC is just an ordinary credit card issuing bank: https://www.hdfcbank.com/personal/pay/cards/credit-cards/credit-card-services

muguy wrote:

From the website: *Instant savings, otherwise referred to as instant cashback on the Apple Store Online, is available with the purchase of an eligible product for qualifying HDFC Bank Credit Cards and EasyEMI Credit Cards only.

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Offer cannot be combined with Apple Store for Education … pricing.

Good catch – both for finding the cash back offer, and for finding what seems to be a rather relevant condition.

Contact the card issuer who made the offer.