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Rebates Suck: The Palm Pre's Real Price
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05/19/09
If you want to avoid confusion, do this: 'I's or "I"s
I have a PhD in English, I know that doesn't make me right though.
Ed.
05/19/09
But more to the point, you've sadly fallen victim to the anti-grammar-Nazi internet dictum commonly referred to as "Frigg's law" (which, by the way, has nothing to do with me... any similarity between my own name and the so-called "Frigg's Law" is purely coincidental):
"Frigg's Law: Anyone who corrects someone else's grammar on the internet has a greater than 90% chance of 1) being wrong, 2) including grammatical mistakes of their own in the text of the purported correction, or 3) being a dick. The more the grammar-corrector pursues their correction in a thread, the closer that percentage approaches 100%."
You are 1) wrong, 2) include grammatical mistakes of your own in your purported correction, and 3) I have no idea if you're a dick or not since I don't know you.
05/19/09
Then I deleted it.
Come on Giz, you guys are really scraping the bottom of the barrel if you're firing off one-shots at Rush listeners.
Also, I'm happily going to plunk down my $199 if the phone is even slightly better than my Centro.
Death to the iPhone!
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Always hopeful, yet discontent, you know changes aren't permanent, but "Change" is.
05/19/09
Dude, check your messages already!
05/19/09
I am not sure why this is such a big shock and why you have taken upon you self to become a vigilante against rebates as they are nothing new.
The tedious process? Really? Every time I have bought a phone that had a rebate the employee at the store filled out all the paperwork for me, stapled it all together for me and even went so far as to put in into a envelope for me. Leaving me to just stick a stamp on it and mail it in. Hardly tedious.
05/19/09
So it must be at least a little tedious.
05/19/09
That being said, if you are worried about saving money, it by no means hard. And I actually appreciate these rebates because if only 50% of the people take the time to put the stamp on it and send in than that means a company can give a 100 dollar rebate knowing that on average its going to cost 50 dollars per item. For me, one who fills out rebates, this is great because I get a 100 dollar discount. If it were an instant rebate, meaning everyone got it, the company would only offer a 50 dollar rebate. That is still good, but not as nice as 100 dollars.
The idea of a mail in rebate feeds of laziness.
05/19/09
But it only works because it is, in fact, at least marginally tedious. Tedious enough that some people, for reasons that are difficult for me to comprehend, are to lazy to do it.
I mean, wiping my ass is actually kind of tedious too, but it doesn't mean that someone who couldn't be bothered to do it wouldn't also be all kinds of crazy lazy.
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05/19/09
What about the people who fill out the form and never get a rebate. There are many, many stories about companies that "lose", make it extremely difficult, or altogether ignore your rebate request. I wouldn't call the people who send in their rebates in good faith and never see the money losers yet they and their money have definitely been parted.
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