'Student' prices

Syth

I'm writing this about'student' prices. Normally companies give students a bit of a discount because we're so poor (I am anyway), and normally the student price is a few eeks off, but the one thing that bugs me is that there isn't a student rate 24/7.

For example in cinemas the student rate is normally only from monday to thursday, when students are in college, when student are able to go to the cinema, ie at weekends, they have to pay full whack.

The only exception i know is the cinema on parnell street, they're student rate is 24/7. Fair play to them!

Jorinn

Originally posted by Syth
I'm writing this about'student' prices. Normally companies give students a bit of a discount because we're so poor (I am anyway), and normally the student price is a few eeks off, but the one thing that bugs me is that there isn't a student rate 24/7.

For example in cinemas the student rate is normally only from monday to thursday, when students are in college, when student are able to go to the cinema, ie at weekends, they have to pay full whack.

The only exception i know is the cinema on parnell street, they're student rate is 24/7. Fair play to them!

Just increased the price their I think though. But I went for the first time in months though last sunday. It's 6 euro now for a student, thought it was 5 or less.

simu

Yeah, because obviously they have no problem filling the cinemas at weekends.

It is annoying, though. Another example - I can get the Irish Times at the student rate in the shop at uni but I don't think it's possible to go into a normal shop and get the paper cheaply there too by flashing a student ID card.

talking_walnut

Heres one for you,

Friend of mine bought a graphics card in a computer store in galway. The student discount was something like 3%.

Hardly worth takin your ID out of your pocket.

Woden

yeah ugc is student prices all the time (i didn't know it had gone up to €6 though last week when i bought tickets it was €5 for a student and €8 for an adult). uci is student prices all the time too i think.

the likes of topshop, topman, burtons, dorthyperkins miss selfridge and whatnot all give student discount of 10% there part of the same group called arcadia just flash your student card. HMV do also and a bucket of other places i suppose.

drane2

To get it at HMV you need to pick up a card off them

Jorinn

Originally posted by Dataisgod
yeah ugc is student prices all the time (i didn't know it had gone up to €6 though last week when i bought tickets it was €5 for a student and €8 for an adult). uci is student prices all the time too i think.

the likes of topshop, topman, burtons, dorthyperkins miss selfridge and whatnot all give student discount of 10% there part of the same group called arcadia just flash your student card. HMV do also and a bucket of other places i suppose.

Yeah, I was quite suprised, was actually on a monday I went. I'm starting to think he just overcharged though as they're still 5 euro if you order you tickets on line.

Jorinn

Originally posted by seker16
Heres one for you,

Friend of mine bought a graphics card in a computer store in galway. The student discount was something like 3%.

Hardly worth takin your ID out of your pocket.

The Apple Store on Kildar street gives the same discount I think. The online Apple Store seems to give about a 10% discount.

drane2

Originally posted by Jorinn
Yeah, I was quite suprised, was actually on a monday I went. I'm starting to think he just overcharged though as they're still 5 euro if you order you tickets on line.

I just checked there... it's €6.

Typedef

To be honest I think for a broad ranging 'student' rate in the economy, there should be some sort of quid-pro-quo for the taxpayer and ordinary customers, who pay the full whack, in lieu of the fact that, eventually the 'students' will become Doctors, Nurses or fully qualified hair stylists.

What this quid-pro-quo should be, I can't say, perhaps a special 'tax' or a requirement for community service, to offset the benefits given to a person, by virture of their student status, once that person is said to have matriculated from student life.

In fact, Tralee IT, is just down the road, I'm going to pitch the idea to the students down there, that since my taxes are paying for their education, the least they can do in return is, say, clean my apartment.

*grin*.

Woden

Originally posted by drane2
To get it at HMV you need to pick up a card off them

yeah but you don't really have to apply or anything just show your student card and you can get one of there cards on the spot and use it. they don't let the cards be used on consoles though. well the guy wouldn't let me last year when i was getting the brothers ps2 last xmas.

Sarsfield

Originally posted by Syth
I'm writing this about'student' prices. Normally companies give students a bit of a discount because we're so poor (I am anyway), and normally the student price is a few eeks off, but the one thing that bugs me is that there isn't a student rate 24/7.

For example in cinemas the student rate is normally only from monday to thursday, when students are in college, when student are able to go to the cinema, ie at weekends, they have to pay full whack.

The only exception i know is the cinema on parnell street, they're student rate is 24/7. Fair play to them!

I used to be a student. I have 2 observations.

Even though I was always 'broke', I always had enough money to get totally bladdered on a Friday night.

Seconndly, I was always able to go to the cinema during the week simply by dodging lectures.

Have students become puritan swats since I was in college? :rolleyes:

simu

Have students become puritan swats since I was in college?

It's a pain having to get out of bed at all on weekdays.

ixoy

Where's L4?! This thread requires his attention!!!

Despite all the moans about student prices, it is indeed surprising how many students still manage to get pi$$ed at the weekend. I know, I was one before I became reformed and got a job. Pray tell, how do you afford the alcohol...

Woden

thats cause 6 cans of dutch gold doesn't really cost that much

ixoy

No, it doesn't - but those ARE students that I see in night clubs getting locked and the prices are much higher there. Explain that peniless students....

Ste.phen

What you saw was a weather balloon, nothing more.
</black helicopters>

Seriously, i think the point of student discounts is to attract students (i.e the 18-25 year old market) who otherwise might not buy something in a shop at all.

Better to make 90% of the normal price of something from a student, than to make 0% of it becuase the student fecked off somewhere that offered them a discount, eh?

simu

No, it doesn't - but those ARE students that I see in night clubs getting locked and the prices are much higher there. Explain that peniless students....

Maybe they have well-paying part-time jobs/are rich themselves/have rich relatives.

Hardly a case for the X-files.

Syth

The problem I have is that if a company/shop is going to have a policy on student prices then it might as well have a consistance policy, or a semi-descent one.

Woden

well its at any shops discretion whether to have any such policy. anywho i think shops that do have it are consistent. that 3% place mentioned is scabby but i suppose it would add up on a dear pc.

with regards to semi-decent 10% is good many stores only offer that type of discount to there employees.

Sleepy

It's funny, I only left college myself in May, but I swear I had a better social life then. Granted I was in college in Galway where everything is cheaper. No club in Galway (that I know of) charge more than a tenner in at the weekends and most are only about €4/€5 during the week, everything's closer together so if you HAVE to get a taxi it shouldn't go much above a tenner and a six pack of Dutchie is still €7. So a typical student night cost just under €30 (7 for beer in a house, 3 for your share of the cab, fiver into the club and a couple of pints in there).

Now I work in Dublin, even when you try and recreate the college style drinking (i.e. cans in a house first) you're still gonna go well over €50 for the night out. If you start in the pub, it'll be the best part of €100 to €140. That's as much as you feckin' rent for the week!

Sangre

Pfft, you suck at college drinking.

First, about 6 cans of Bavaria for 6e.
Then 1.60/1.40 for the bus into town or wherever.
Then free/2/4 into the club if you show the right society card or go on a student night.
Then spend max 20/25e on 3.50/4.50 pints

Thats about 30 and you'll be fairly drunk.