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

[Michael Hawkins <downsized99@xxxxxxxxx>]

As long as I still have a grumble left on the topic, Staples is notorious for advertising products with their rebate prices, then you find out that nobody read the package to see that the rebate had already expired prior to their ad.  Duh!  They also love to repackage items that have been returned and sell them as new.  Nothing like cookie crumbs in the box and fingerprints on the CD to remind you how valued you are as a customer.
   
  Mike

Bob Young <youngbob53@xxxxxxx> wrote:
  I don't know about other places but I bought something at Circuit City a few 
months ago and they didn't give me the rebate coupon, I went back and they 
gave me two others (which were not the correct ones. I never sent them in 
and have learned a lesson, these places will do anything in their power to 
keep you from sending in the rebate. It was excruciatingly difficult for 
them to find my coupons, was a long arduous task which took such a long time 
that I was willing to take what ever they gave me, I did and realized that I 
was probably wasting my time and never sent them in which I'm sure is what 
they were counting on. No it wasn't for an IBAC device either.

Bob Young


>From: "W. Curt Deegan" 
>Reply-To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of 
>America
>To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of 
>America
>Subject: Re: [IRCA] HD Radios - snap them up!!
>Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:31:03 -0400
>
>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
>-------
>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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