Re: [IRCA] HD Radios - snap them up!!

[Michael Hawkins <downsized99@xxxxxxxxx>]

I wonder how many people out there (I being one) have been screwed royally on rebates that never arrived, and as a result refuse to buy anything whose competitive price is determined by use of mail-in rebates.  There is almost always a better price out there from a legitimate vendor.  Give it to me at the register, or I'll give it to someone who offers me a good price without the smoke and mirrors.  In lieu of that, eBay is a wonderful place.
   
  Mike

"W. Curt Deegan" <WWWR@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  Let me explain.

Rebate coupons are a form of consumer satisfaction survey. By counting the 
number of coupons that are not returned, compared to the number that could 
have been returned -- a complex statistical process that involves marketing 
concepts like WTF (wishful thinking factors) and SNAFU (sales numbers after 
failing utterly) -- marketeers [sic] can measure the joy with which their 
product has been received. So appreciative are the customers they wish no 
rebate, instead they wonder where they might send more money.

To simplify it for the layman: the fewer the rebate coupons returned, the 
better everything is going. Don't'cha know.

And of course, as Sir Z. has so astutely observed, the need for the rebate 
coupons is not to boost sales, rather strictly for market research to plan 
the next big success...story.

Curt
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W. Curt Deegan
Boca Raton, (southeast) Florida


At 08:31 PM 10/12/2006, you wrote:
>Bob -
>
>Don't believe this scurrilous agitprop. Sounds like a false-flag op to slow
>HD sales by, as you astutely perceive, implying that without rebates HD won't
>sell.
>
>Truly I tell you today, you will not find HD radios in any RatShak, VladMart,
>Tar-Zhay, BigSlop, etc. HD sells at digital speed. Once people caught the
>aroma of flatul...er,..got wind of HD's attributes - and they are without 
>limit -
>stores can't keep 'em onna shelves.
>
>In comes tractor trailer from Very Big HD Radio Corporation of America, LLP.
>Customers 'demand' crummy sound on FM and sorta-FM sound on AM. Harried store
>managers direct customers to truck driver. He swipes their card, hands them
>The Gateway to 'our inevitable digital future' - a new HD radio.
>
>Driving up Manasota Key Road at usual flank speed, approaching BuyGlutton
>Mall, you can feel the 'Buzz' from these exciting new radios. Rebates? For 
>why?
>
>Anyone implying rebates are needed is a saboteur from Antique Modulation
>Bund, a shadowy gang of miscreants who want to return radio to the era of
>compelling programs.
>
>Do not be found in company with them. They are a devious and dastardly lot.
>
>
>
>Yours in earnest,
>
> Dr.
>Paul V. Zecchino
>
>pvz
>mk fl


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