Apple Increases its ‘Secret’ Loyalty Program Discount for Customers [Report]

Apple’s ‘secret’ Loyalty Program, which is not much publicised by the company, kicks in when a customer spends more than $5,000 or more per year with Apple. According to a report by TechCrunch, Apple has quietly updated this program with several improvements, offering greater discounts to qualifying consumers which include IT departments of companies and education customers.

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The program is broken into three tiers. ‘Red tier’ is for customers who spend more than $5,000 per year, ‘Green tier’ is for customers who spend more than $35,000 per year and ‘Blue tier’ is for those customers who spend more than $200,000 per year. Apple has now improved the discounts of several items across all of these tiers. Discounts for Macs, for instance, have gone from 5% to 6% in the lower tier and as much as 8% at the higher tier.

Third-party accessory discounts have gone from 5 percent to 10 percent on the low tier and higher on the upper tiers — though these discounts exclude certain items from sellers like Jawbone and Beats.

iPads continue to be discounted roughly 2-4 percent based on model and quantity broken down by ranges up to 50. In addition, Apple has added unlocked iPhones to the mix — the first time the device has made an appearance in the program.

Apple has been pushing to capture more of the education and enterprise markets, and these new discounts are a clear extension of company’s efforts in this regard.

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