On May 1, 3:13 pm, kony <s...@spam.com> wrote:
I dunno...seems like it would generate publicity, a kind of
advertising in itself, not to mention consumer good-will (assuming the
product isn't a POS)...certainly better than spending more money
destroying it...
True -- I was just thinking that no matter what, it's going to cost
some money, so why not give it away for the positive publicity? I
mean, Atari spent millions, I read, to bury those E.T. carts! Heck,
for that, they should have just given it away. General Mills cereal
was giving away one-episode DVDs a year or two ago inside its cereal
boxes of classic TV shows...certainly made me much more likely to
purchase the whole season set (I still think "Barney Miller" is corny
but I could appreciate a bit more such that I would have bought a few
seasons)....
Well, I suppose brighter minds than mine has pondered and thoroughly
resolved this matter already, yes....
Well, I just didn't figure on them not making it anymore -- I mean, I
expected bigger capacities, but they totally changed the outside
shell, and I don't know if the current ones would stack with what I've
got, much less look right with it!
LOL, true story: just last week a local computer shop opened up, and I
saw in its window a sound card I'd been looking for to no avail for
about a month! The exact same thing!
True; I just thought that I'd save all my effort locating the original
version, instead of playing "mad scientist!" Oh well, this will be
the excuse to buy a new desktop...I've long had Dell's water-cooled
gaming rig in mind, but was waiting on Windows Vista...but it looks
like that's a dog of an OS!
BTW, I've got an old Pentium II machine running Win2000 or
something...I don't know 'cause I got it from someone who got it from
her job...like, what am I supposed to do with it, eBay it for $50?? I
took it 'cause it's a computer, after all, and she would have dumped
it in the trash and I'm such a pack-rat, even when it comes to other
people's stuff...I doubt even the local Salvation Army would want it
(did you know many a library do not want donations of used books?
It's true! Those library book sales they hold...they can't get rid of
old books as it is, never mind take on more!).
On May 1, 9:46 pm, Michael Black <et...@ncf.ca> wrote:
Huh? There was an "unfairness" controversy to rebate coupons??
I think they did it as a kind of guerrilla marketing technique...at
least that's how it appeared to me as a consumer. If they really
wanted to give it away for free (or whatever low price it was
advertised) they'd have done it on the spot. Making a big deal out of
redeeming the coupon (who reads instruction manuals, much less keep
the UPC around??) seemed like a great way for them to advertise low
prices while usually charging more.
I still see rebates...I think they're not as prevalent because the
"marketing wars" have been fought and done with...once one competitor
loses enough money and can't afford to offer rebates (despite all the
little hoops involved), the other needn't offer any either in order to
counter what would have been on offer...I remember around 2000, 2001
when there were lots of DVD offers online, like buy three and get a
fourth title free or something, and it got better and better with less
and less restrictions from more and more e-tailers....
Well, yeah, someone has to pay -- games need losers!
