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Old 09-07-2007, 08:09 PM
bernie bernie is offline
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Default Would you give a rebate for the I-Phone?

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"If they told me at the outset the iPhone would be $200 cheaper the next day, I would have thought about it for a second - and still bought it," said Andrew Brin, a 47-year-old addiction therapist in Los Angeles. "It was $600 and that was the price I was willing to pay for it."

The hullabaloo arose over Apple's price-slashing only because it came a few months sooner than expected, said Fareena Sultan, an associate professor of marketing at Northeastern University.

Enjoying that period of being among the first - before the price drops and the product reaches the masses - is part of the pleasure, Brin and others say.


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The looks of envy and attraction are an elixir.

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Envy and attraction aren't what come to my mind.

I wouldn't give these lemmings a rebate. They'll still buy the next one.

People can be pathetic.

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Old 09-07-2007, 09:02 PM
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Default Re: Would you give a rebate for the I-Phone?

That's so dumb. People feeling "betrayed" and "used". WTF. They put a product out at a certain price. They willingly paid that price for it. The price later drops (albeit fairly quickly) and they think they're getting screwed?

Then again, these are probably a lot of the same people who waited in line overnight for it, so it's not like they're capable of thinking rationally on this subject.
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Old 09-07-2007, 09:45 PM
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Meh. Apple wanted to release the new iPods now so people will be thinking of and buying them for Christmas. The price points they wanted to use required them to drop the price on the 8G iPhone. They probably caught more crap for it than they thought and are going to get the people pissed at them to spend more money in their stores. I'm going to guess that well over half the people getting this rebate will spend more than that in the store. I know it's going to let me get the 160G iPod instead of waiting for the next generation to come out.

People are [censored] stupid and given the chance they will whinge about getting exactly what they wanted.
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Old 09-07-2007, 11:59 PM
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People are [censored] stupid and given the chance they will whinge about getting exactly what they wanted.

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These are the type of people that I hope I am friends with never. Some people are just going to bitch and moan and exploit every corporate leak to their benefit. Like the customer-friendly Costco return policy.

Does anyone remember that show "American Casino" set at Green Valley Ranch? There was an episode where they were giving away something, no strings attached. It was nice, like a legit $50 value, but I can't remember what it was.

Anyway, their idea was to get folks into the casino where they could spend money, although hey, if they leave that's fine too, maybe they'll come back another time. But so many people who were taking advantage of the freebies were obviously such bottom-feeder coupon-cutting leeches that I doubt they got their ROI on it. Here's this place, handing out something nice and they set up this elaborate party-like display, and almost everyone who took advantage of it just walked up like a zombie, took the freebie without any eye contact or a "thank you", and left. Ugh those type of people bug me so much.
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Old 09-08-2007, 12:19 AM
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People are [censored] stupid and given the chance they will whinge about getting exactly what they wanted.

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These are the type of people that I hope I am friends with never. Some people are just going to bitch and moan and exploit every corporate leak to their benefit. Like the customer-friendly Costco return policy.

Does anyone remember that show "American Casino" set at Green Valley Ranch? There was an episode where they were giving away something, no strings attached. It was nice, like a legit $50 value, but I can't remember what it was.

Anyway, their idea was to get folks into the casino where they could spend money, although hey, if they leave that's fine too, maybe they'll come back another time. But so many people who were taking advantage of the freebies were obviously such bottom-feeder coupon-cutting leeches that I doubt they got their ROI on it. Here's this place, handing out something nice and they set up this elaborate party-like display, and almost everyone who took advantage of it just walked up like a zombie, took the freebie without any eye contact or a "thank you", and left. Ugh those type of people bug me so much.

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On that note, at the casino where I play they were giving away free throw blanket things. Value was about $5. People lined up for about 1/2 mile down the hill in their cars to get one. This was when gas was pretty high also. So god knows how much they spent in time and gas to go get their 'free' crap.

It was kinda funny to see the line of people. Many of whom fit the description you gave above. The Zombies...LOL

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Old 09-08-2007, 12:36 AM
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bernie,

Yeah man I can't explain it. I was a grocery store cashier a long time ago and I had no problem if people used coupons. I mean hell, I was going home at the same time whether they used them or not. This was even back before we could scan them, we had to manually enter the savings.

The problem was that it's a very real stereotype that heavy coupon users are usually extremely cheap people who will milk the system to their benefit to the point of exhaustion. The zombie comment was no joke, those people had no life in their eyes as they grabbed their free gift and scurried out.

I had a customer once, an old lady called Shirley, who chronically gave me coupons for items she didn't buy. It didn't bother me much because someone else certainly bought those items and didn't use the coupon savings so whatever.

But then Shirley got so bad that she was giving me piles of coupons and after spending about $10 I was punching in $12 in savings and supposed to give her money back? For stuff she didn't even buy? I ended up shutting that program down. Not long after that the system was upgraded to where you could scan coupons and it would determine whether you had purchased the item or not, but prior to that it was easily exploitable.
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Old 09-08-2007, 08:01 AM
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When it comes to giving free stuff away, I'll take the zombies over the people who COMPLAIN about the freebies.

A casino I worked at in Las Vegas had a FREE football pool for the employees. Repeat, FREE. No money. Employees had to pick all the NFL games each week, no point spreads. Whoever got the most right won $300. Second place was worth $150, third place was $50. Fourth place was a dinner comp for two. Fifth place was a pair of tickets to the floor show.

That's $8,500 in cash prizes over the course of the season. Add in the comps, and the casino is probably on the hook for ten dimes. I always thought this was a very kind gesture. Not many others did.

The sportsbook ran the contest and paid the winners. I worked in the sportsbook, so I had to deal with all these lulus.

Who would complain about such a thing, right?

EMPLOYEE: (presents ticket) Is this where I collect my prize?

ME: (checking ticket) Hey, congratulations, you won!

EMPLOYEE: How much did I win?

ME: (excited) $300!

EMPLOYEE: (suddenly turning angry) THAT'S IT??? For picking all those games??? I went 12-0! What a gyp!

ME: (sincerely) Madam, I apologize on behalf of the casino for gypping you. And I sincerely hope you don't win any more of the free money up for grabs in the remaining weeks of this contest, for we would hate to have to gyp you again. I can only suggest that you stop turning in your picks each week. That way, if you don't play, we can't gyp you any more.

EMPLOYEE: (realizing that she's out of line, but unable to keep from muttering about the injustice of the world) But only $300 for 12-0...

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Then there's the guy who won the Royal Flush trophy.

Tourist in a $1-5 stud game makes a Royal, and immediately wants to know, "What do I win?"

Most of the players laugh and tell him, "You win the pot, and that's it."

Mr Royal is upset. He's pretty sure he's supposed to win something.

Dealer calls the floor over, and asks if the house has anything for a player who just made a Royal.

"Absolutely!" says the excited supervisor. "I'll go get it."

Most of us are expecting the old "Cigarette Lighter/Money Clip, with the casino's logo on it!", which is just a rubber band wrapped around a book of matches ("Good for 20 lights!"). That's one of the oldest jokes in B&M poker.

So we were surprised when the floorman arrived at the table with a trophy. It was a nice trophy, about a foot high. The inscription said, "I made a Royal Flush at the XXX casino in Las Vegas". Everyone agreed that this was indeed a fine prize.

Everyone, that is, except the player who won it. "Yeah, that's funny. But seriously, where's my money?"

What money?

"The $1000."

The man earnestly believed that making a Royal had earned him a $1000 bonus prize, because "That's what the video poker machines pay!" He wasn't kidding, he was hot that we were screwing him out of his $1000.

This was on Friday afternoon. This guy played in this room all night Friday, all day and night Saturday, and all day and night Sunday. He told every single player who sat down at his table about how this casino had screwed him out of his $1000.
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Old 09-08-2007, 08:06 AM
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One more freebie story:

While cleaning out a closet in the sportsbook, we found some leftover Final Four t-shirts. They were about five years old, and the only sizes in the box were Small and Medium. Who wears small or medium?

I got on the microphone and announced that we were going to give them away, one per customer, to anyone who came up to the counter. As I was making this announcement, I was wondering, "Who'd want this junk?"

There were 50 people in line before I finished the announcement.
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Old 09-08-2007, 08:57 PM
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ytf,

Your posts aren't getting any love. Awesome stuff. The people in my stories and yours are cut from the same cloth in my opinion. Some are just more annoying than others.

I'd seriously love some more of your more bizarre stories from your time working in the sports book/casino, but this probably isn't the place for that. I know I like them when I see them in B&M, but I haven't been there in awhile.
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Old 09-08-2007, 10:23 PM
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going to buy one as soon as the price drops a little more
when I hear 200 bucks
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