J.Crew's Teacher & Student Discount

"Thanks!" to Julie who shared with us the following email response from J.Crew about the teacher's (and student's) discount:

We were able to review the current way promotions are supposed to be applied, since you have received correspondence from us containing conflicting information. We are able to provide the following information:

Promotional coupons are not combinable with any other discount. If, however, the coupon discount already on your order amounted to less than 15%, we would be happy to apply an adjustment of the difference to raise the overall savings to the 15% level you expect as a student/teacher. If a currently used promotion amounts to a value greater than that which you would receive using your 15% discount, it is to your advantage to keep the current promotion rather than replace it with the 15% standing discount.

We sincerely apologize that this information conflicts with recent information sent to you. We appreciate your business and certainly understand your concerns with not being able to combine coupons and have noted this as we appreciate your feedback and it is possible in the future that this could change.

If we can be of further assistance, please let us know by responding to this email at contactus@jcrew.com or calling a J.Crew Associate at 1-800-562-0258.

I truly appreciate J.Crew (and other retailers) offering a discount for teachers and students (it really is nice of them). Hopefully J.Crew policies will become a bit more uniform throughout their stores and online. :)