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Dell Offers $100 For Old iPods
Mz6 writes "Dell unveiled an offer that grants music player customers a $100 rebate on a
15GB Digital Jukebox when they
send in an Apple iPod music player to be recycled. 'We want to help drive further awareness of the products we have available and...the plusses we have to offer,' said Dell spokesman Jess Blackburn. Thus the iPod offer 'is a way to call out what separates us from the understood leader in this particular market.' Dell is also offering free shipping, free software, and 25 free songs through MusicMatch and brings the overall cost for the DJ down to $99." Helpful tip: If you have a dead iPod, do the rebate offer, and sell the Jukebox on eBay.
Suddenly taking the burden of my friend's dead iPod off his shoulders doesn't seem so bad...
Its all fun and games until someone loses an eye... then its just fun.
Helpful tip: If you have a dead iPod, do the rebate offer, and sell the Jukebox on eBay.
Why, thats dishonest!
PS: Anyone have a dead iPod they want to send to me?
But can the Dell unit seamlessly plug into a BMW? That is the question!
/. woo hoo... even tho I am a coward. ;)
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Step 1: Buy dead iPods from eBay
Step 2: Buy crappy Dell player from Dell w/ rebate
Step 3: Sell crappy Dell player on eBay for more than purchase price of dead iPod + crappy Dell player
Step 4: Profit!!!
Lather, rinse, repeat
There is no mod option "-1: Disagree" for a reason. "Overrated" is not an acceptable substitute. Post something instead.
Anyone want to wager Dell won't get more than a thousand submissions for this offer?
How about a hundred?
Three?
Bueller?
--R.J.
Electric-Escape.net
whoever runs the reverse engineering dept at dell is gona feel so stupid when he finds out you can buy them brand new at apple.com even if you do work for a rival company.
when they come to pry it out of my cold, dead hands, and win the fight with my raging teenage daughter.
Flourescent (adj): smelling like ground wheat.
But when you sell it on ebay, how can you be sure that the buyer will recycle it? I don't think my conscience could take that kind of uncertainty, so I'm going with Dell's offer.
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
This is a brilliant plan for Dell employees to get iPods. Give that promotion manager a raise!
Man I just threw away mine too.
Joke all you want, it's all fun and games till someone looses an iPod.
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
....which you can apply to the Dell Ford Explorer
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
The Dell employees just wanted an easy way to get cheap iPods. Can you really blame them for that? :)
I present you with the Tinfoil Crown.
All hail the King!
You don't seriously think 10% of the population own a BMW, do you? :)
You mean the goal of their marketing is to SELL their PRODUCTS?! What kind of SATANIC FREAKS would do a thing like THAT?! I always thought marketing was supposed to be a purely selfless PUBLIC SERVICE!
I've never yet met anybody who'll admit to posting on Slashdot. So who are all these people?!
If it was broken...
And on fire...
...I mailed my old iPod, my friend told me "dude, you're getting a Dell", I received it with the $100, turned it on, loaded some mp3s and it was like BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP. My music was gone!
So with the $100, I bought a pink iPod mini. Life is good again. My name is Ellen Feiss. I'm a switcher.
there's no place like ~
Hey... with all that unbiased analysis, you're giving Raving Apple Zealots a bad name.
Tim
This would be such a classic Steve Jobs thing, too. Have all AAPL employees send in a busted iPod. Cash in all the rebates. And crush all of the Jukeboxes into a big cube. Send the cube back to Dell for "recycling."
Hey freaks: now you're ju