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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.
The result is win-win for the consumer because, assuming the Dell players are nice in their own merit, owners of older iPods are receiving a good deal on a nice upgrade while at the same time helping to wrest the industry from a virtual monopoly. If Apple is scared enough, it will respond as best it can by making appropriate adjustments to product/service price/quality in order to get everybody a better deal. Therefore, whether your loyalty is held with Dell or Apple, this is a move that would seem improve the standing of both companies' clients.
iPod is a piece of shit. It is a rip-off and is only meant for fscking apple zeolots. Dell DJ is a far better value for money. You can download and buy music from various stores, instead of being tied down to one.
iPod is for losers. Buying Dell DJ, Rio-karma or HP-120 from iriver makes far more sense.
Dump iPot
Bad Biz think about it. Its like when the Chinaese enter into a market and make a product and lose money on every sale untill they have driven every other company out of bussiness and they control the whole industy, can anyone say Hyndai or Toyota?
Linux is like living in a teepee. No Windows, no Gates, Apache in house.
Put 'em out of their misery. Apple's market share keeps shrinking; one of these old recessions come along and they aren't going to make it.
send in Broken iRaq and get back shining Afaganistan
why do people expect apple's stuff to work with anything else? there is not exactly much of a history of that happening...
What's sad about the GP's post isn't the content, but that it was modded up, meaning people have found his views intriguing, and would like to subscribe to his newsletter.
why you corporatist ugly motherfucking pandering sonuvabitch asshat cocksucker! you ignorant mentally stunted terrible cunt! you worthless pile of warmed over shit on a stick with delusions of grandeur! how dare you make such assertions without presenting so much as an aol keyword or respectable web link! may the penisbird of doom descend upon the house of your family and claw out your unbelieving eyes! dell is the savior of this nation and will likely be the svaior of your sorry ass in the election this year. they are going to be making the biggest contribution to make sure that the right man is elected as president. and that man is george w bush! why do you hate america so much that you would buy from a fag friendly, soft on terror company like apple? answer me when i'm talking to you goddamnit!!!
If Dell's terms say they'll accept any iPod, dead or alive, it's not the least bit dishonest.
Their TOS neglects to state the condition the iPod must be in for this offer, so you're discussing exploiting a loophole or oversight and it is dishonest.
I feel like a moron for explaining this to you*. Any eight-year-old on the planet would know that sending Dell a broken iPod is _wrong_. If they accept it or not as a trade-in is up to their upper-management (perhaps they'll bite the bullet,) but damn-it-all, it's unfair to take advantage of them and you know it!
* You = the original poster, all who moderated him +5 Insightful, all who could moderate him down, but didn't, and all who could have replied to this saying, "That's bullshit" but decided instead to make redundant jokes about taking broken iPods off others' hands.