Would you give a rebate for the I-Phone?

[bernie]

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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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[tuq]

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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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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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.

[bernie]

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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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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.