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Yahoo & Google Testing Pay-Per-Call Ads
khundeck writes "'Internet giants Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are testing a new form of online advertising that encourages people to pick up the phone rather than click on a link, lending credibility to the 'pay-per-call' ad model.'" From the article: "Google is testing a variant in which users click on a phone icon and type their number into a box. Google then dials the user, who hears ringing until the merchant answers. Google says the service is free for callers even on long-distance calls, and it promises not to divulge the caller's number to anyone."
Pete and repeat sat on a fence, Pete fell off and who was left? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/23/233620 3&tid=217&tid=99
I cannot remember a single dupe that hasn't been posted by Zonk.
I couldn't disagree more with Mr. Baker's viewpoint. Sounds to me like he has never had the privilege of submitting rebates himself! His statement "very few [Rebates] are rejected", is not in touch with what is really going on in the consumer arena. One example; I have shopped on black Friday for four straight years and out of an average 15 rebates per outing that I've filled out, each time I had three rebated rejected. Three rebates! That's a 20 percent rejection rate! I followed all the guidelines on each rebate too, copied everything, mailed them the day after the purchase, and even went as far as to purchase delivery confirmation on several of the submissions. And still I ended up with rejections! I can't imagine what the average Joe who doesn't have a copy machine and doesn't double check his rebates goes through. Through lengthy correspondence with the companies and re-submitting the rebates (with copies of the original material I sent), I was able to resolve all but one of the rebate rejections. The one which I never got was *drum roll please* a $20 CompUSA rebate, which by the way, I sent two resubmissions for. Both times I contacted the company a month after I mailed the resubmissions, and both times I was informed that they had never received the letters. When I finally told them I was able to produce delivery confirmation for the last mailing, they said the resubmission deadline was up and to "have a nice day". *click*. I wasn't going to spend $50 to file a claim so I didn't pursue it any further. This year I did all my shopping at Staples, which, as mentioned, has the "Easy Rebate" system for almost all rebate purchases at the store. It's nice not having to send in forms and UPCs that can get "lost"; now they have no excuse as to why they can't fill my rebate! I advise skipping stores like CompUSA which have shady rebate (and retail!) practices.
I'm sick of THESE dupes.
You know what's fifty times worse than reading dupe stories? Reading frickin' "This is a dupe!" posts. If I had some mod points right now, you'd all be modded down -1 as trolls. Jesus, if a story's posted twice, why can't people just fickin' ignore it!?
Oh yeah, because complaining about how a story isn't very useful or entertaining is so useful and entertaining, right?
sigh... Dammit, now I'm a troll. You people suck.