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| Re: other companies said by NoAppleCustServ :
Apple has done this for years thats why I don't
buy their products!
They tick off their customers every time they
come out with a new product.
They will see none of my cash!
LOL, its a wonder you buy from anyone then. I have yet to see *any* electronics that don't degredate in price over time.
It's funny. Apple leapfrogs conventional electronics sales methods by offering a feel-good free store credit...and you're saying that their customer service sucks. You can't have your cake and eat it too, I'm afraid. | |
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| Re: I wonder said by Gandalf4503  :So, there's a $200 price drop, but they only get $100 back. Yea, that sounds fair. I'll stick with verizon. What?! Someone bought a car 3 months ago and the car went on sale now? OMG!
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| said by Gandalf4503 :So, there's a $200 price drop, but they only get $100 back. Yea, that sounds fair. I'll stick with my samsung. And not in cash. So, Apple doesn't even return $100, but whatever the average cost is for a product selling for $100. So, maybe they are losing $60.
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| Re: I wonder well also don't forget... AT&T is selling it not apple. so apple didn't make $200 profit necessarily then vs now. AT&T made some form of profit.
cell phone prices fluctuate by $100+ easily in the first few months of coming out. my $300 blackberry that i bought 2 months ago can now be bought for $99.
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join:2002-04-24
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| Re: I wonder said by HUH :
When the price of your Samsung drops, how much are you going to get back?
Exactly nothing, but these Apple bashers wouldn't stop bitching about money they never lost in the first place unless Apple decides to refund 200% of the difference. On second thought, they would probably find something to complain about that too. | |
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join:2002-02-07
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4 edits | Re: I wonder said by Nemokrad : but these Apple bashers wouldn't stop bitching about money they never lost in the first place unless Apple decides to refund 200% of the difference. On second thought, they would probably find something to complain about that too. THESE Apple bashers?
Precisely whom are you referring to?
Because the whining, cry baby early iPhone owners are the ones who caused Apple to issue the bullshit credit in the first place. Guess what folks? Apple is a business who's #1 priority is MAKING LOTS AND LOTS OF MONEY. If they didn't believe that the stupid "credit" would bring them more money, they wouldn't issue it. Sorry, but I have no sympathy for the stupid. People need to grow up and spend their money wisely and maybe not throw it away every time a new gadget hits the shelves.
Personally, I like to bash Apple and the fanbois because they both make me sick.
Apple for being such a disgusting, predatorial company that preys on the stupid and gullable consumers (& fanbois) who buy their overpriced products oftentimes without any actual need for a particular product - and they'll often pay any price. Yes, because phones are not available for free, right? And everyone needs amazing products such as Apple TV... LOL! - another total and complete waste of time and money. Of course, Apple also preys on the unfortunate... Who do you think makes all the shiny new gadgets they so savilly market? Can you say nearly slave-level Chinese labor boys and girls?
Also, I love how the fanbois defend the mothership. Its soooooooooooooooooooo very amusing!!!
The press is bought and owned by Apple and they fawn over the company - they practically fall over themselves to cover the news every time Steve Jobs farts.
Face facts, Apple is now and will always be behind the big boys - no matter what the fanbois or press says. It's reality. Deal with it.
And just when is Steve Jobs going to retire anyway? What a loser... Take your frickin' money and buy an island somewhere. Why continue to put pants on in the morning when you are so friggin wealthy? ?
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I find it extremely amusing that the people making the loudest noise about it are those who (over)paid for this thing in the first place, not the so-called "bashers". None of them are that stupid.
And then there is the usual rush to defend Apple no matter what they've done. Ha!
So much for being customer-centric here.
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| said by WileEC :Personally, I like to bash Apple and the fanbois because they both make me sick. Apple for being such a disgusting, predatorial company that preys on the stupid and gullable consumers (& fanbois) who buy their overpriced products oftentimes without any actual need for a particular product - and they'll often pay any price. Yes, because phones are not available for free, right? And everyone needs amazing products such as Apple TV... LOL! - another total and complete waste of time and money. Of course, Apple also preys on the unfortunate... Who do you think makes all the shiny new gadgets they so savilly market? Can you say nearly slave-level Chinese labor boys and girls? You mean like Microsoft, right?
said by WileEC :Also, I love how the fanbois defend the mothership. Its soooooooooooooooooooo very amusing!!! The press is bought and owned by Apple and they fawn over the company - they practically fall over themselves to cover the news every time Steve Jobs farts. You are talking about your buds at Microsoft, right? You just got the name wrong. | |
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join:2005-03-09
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When the price of your Samsung drops, how much are you going to get back?
Who cares.. it will always be cheaper then the whyPhone anyway.  It just cracks me up that those who paid all that money is crying about the difference in price. Suck it up and consider keep bragging about being the 1st to get it.. | |
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Seriously, for someone who'd be verse in cutting-edge electronics, maybe they shouldn't be so b*tchy about the inevitable price drops that follow their purchases. | |
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join:2006-02-01
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| Hmmm.... I wonder what's happening for those who bought an iPhone at original price, and sold it on eBay (or other sites) for more than it was worth.
There should be a stipulation that the person receiving the credit be the original owner. 
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| Re: Hmmm.... said by MattBC :I wonder what's happening for those who bought an iPhone at original price, and sold it on eBay (or other sites) for more than it was worth. There should be a stipulation that the person receiving the credit be the original owner. Matt It should be the original owner should pay the ebay buyers $150.00 Sinced the ebay bayers payed more then original buyers.
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join:2000-05-11 | Re: Seeing all the mortgage stuff..... ATTingular already gives you 30 days to change hardware without penalty. Too bad Apple didn't allow them to include the iPhone (for obvious reasons), just like the phone insurance debacle.
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| cheap plastic stuff $100 is nothing when given in store credit. People going to spend $100 on iPhone accessories actually worth $10 to $20. The markup on accessories is sometimes 300 to 500%. A real deal would have been a $300 credit or $100 cash. $200 price drop is a crazy seems like they are trying to help At&t get people signed up, Apple got there money when At&t signed contract with them. Glad I waited and instead bought a treo 755 for $200 off craigslist. | |
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| Re: cheap plastic stuff said by ossito16 :A real deal would have been a $300 credit or $100 cash. An even better deal would be if they paid the customers $2000. Granted, that'd be terrible for the company, but it'd be a good deal for everyone else. 
Again, part of buying cutting-edge electronics is price degredation. It always has been, and always will. The fact that Apple is giving back "shafted" customers *anything* is well above and beyond what the customer is entitled to. | |
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| Re: cheap plastic stuff said by AquaBlaze :said by ossito16 :A real deal would have been a $300 credit or $100 cash. Again, part of buying cutting-edge electronics is price degredation. It always has been, and always will. The fact that Apple is giving back "shafted" customers *anything* is well above and beyond what the customer is entitled to. Ok, Ignoring your sarcasm, I agree with you. But don't you think that $100 store credit is not really a good will effort. Go to the apple store and look at the stuff you could buy for an iphone, that stuff probably cost $2 to $3 and they charge $20 to $50 for most things. So it is possible you can spend $100 store credit and actually have a product worth $6. I would rather not receive anything at all instead of be insulted with a $100 store credit not actually worth $100. My experience working at BestBuy for 2 years has shown me just how much electronics are marked up by companies. | |
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| Re: cheap plastic stuff said by ossito16 :But don't you think that $100 store credit is not really a good will effort. *shrugs* They could pick up a free iPod Shuffle and pawn that...or go hog wild on iPhone accessories. Getting anything back at this point, however, is a good will effort considering the outright shafting customers usually get from cutting-edge price degredation. Apple could've been like any other company and told customers to get bent...but they chose a PR move to offer something to their customers, even if it is a token amount of store credit.
I apologize for the previous sarcasm, but complaining about the amount of store credit issued, or demanding cash back certainly seems like looking a gift horse in the mouth here. | |
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1 edit | So I buy a computer.. So I buy a computer top of the line, the next week there is a new model that bumps my model down by $400..should I go bitch and moan that my computer is now worth $400 less? No, I just eat it and take it in stride.
Its the same concept here, you bought into the "LATEST GREATEST" thing when it first came out and 3 months later another product has come into play so they drop the price. I don't see anything wrong with it, and quite frankly I think they have absolutely no right to a refund of any kind or store credit.
So I think the people that bought the iPhone first and are now complaining should be grateful they are even given a $100 store credit. | |
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join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA
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| Re: So I buy a computer.. Yeah, what they should be complaining about is going through the "Latest Greatest" hassle without getting the latest greatest. Why would you EVER get an Iphone when you can get an Itouch with twice the space, Wifi, at half the thickness, and NOT be saddled with a monthly contract. (which triples the price by the way, +$720 more/yr) | |
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| Cry babys win It's what, 8 weeks or so. Big deal... Should I complain when I buy bread from the A & P and 3 weeks later that same bread has a price cut?
Price drops happen all the time, the more hyped something is the faster it will crash. At least it’s store credit, hopefully apple will make even more money now. Anyone who complains is just a spoiled brat. Is it apples fault you bought the iphone and a lot of other people saw it for what it was (an over priced phone) so their sales slumped and they needed the price cut? No company is going to cut the price on something they are selling well. | |
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Portland, OR | Why should they get a break. It kind of silly to complain. it like the a man who buys an a new car at the beginning of the model year then complains and demands a refund at the end of the model year because thats when the dealer drops the price to clear out the old cars. | |
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| Steve Jobs.. Is my hero. And I don't even own an iphone..nor any apple product for that matter.
Really folks..what he's doing is unheard of. Especially on such a widespread basis in public company corporate America.
This was a very hot new technological product and people stood in line for it. It then sold on ebay for a whole lot more.
I once bought a toshiba 486dx laptop for 4 something thousand dollars that not all that long after was made practically a doorstop pricewise by the rollout of pentium computers.
Toshiba didn't refund me that 4 grand..nor 100.00 even.
And, bear in mind that 100.00 represents a pretty big percentage of the purchase price of this phone.
Yes...the price dropped quick on this phone. But so too did most people think it would as it became much more mass marketed. And so too does the price of video cards..memory..and everything else.
But, the apple lovers crowd cried..and his royal Steveness answered your call.
He flew to your nest and dropped the worm right in your open beaks.
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| Re: Steve Jobs.. said by Rick :Really folks..what he's doing is unheard of. Especially on such a widespread basis in public company corporate America. Yeah, it's fun to watch dime store elites with a little stock (or not) laugh at people that overpaid for an over-hyped product that has 30% of its price lopped two months post launch. Funny stuff.
said by Rick :This was a very hot new technological product and people stood in line for it. It then sold on ebay for a whole lot more. What does ebay have to do with it? As to the standing in line thing. Yeah, we all noticed that, too. Now we can read in the Apple forums (All Things Macintosh on this site) where the regulars watched and clapped in glee as the lines and sales went through the roof; defended the high price, and fought anyone who 'whined' about gouging. Funny thing again, now those same people are calling the early adopters "buttmonkeys," a name, it turns out, that's been used before by your friendly Mac using buddy. Some buddies there, wow.
said by Rick :I once bought a toshiba 486dx laptop for 4 something thousand dollars that not all that long after was made practically a doorstop pricewise by the rollout of pentium computers. Does the phrase "apples and oranges" have any meaning for you? We're talking 30% in 60 days and no newer, or comparable, product has been released. Get with it.
said by Rick :Toshiba didn't refund me that 4 grand..nor 100.00 even. And, bear in mind that 100.00 represents a pretty big percentage of the purchase price of this phone. No sh*t. The apples thing again. When did you buy the 486? When did you buy your pentium? No, the $100 doesn't represent anything more than another sale for Apple. It's not cash; it's a credit to purchase more 'stuff' from them.
said by Rick :Yes...the price dropped quick on this phone. But so too did most people think it would as it became much more mass marketed. And so too does the price of video cards..memory..and everything else. More analogy. Sigh. Here's one, and I'm amazed you didn't go for the 'car' in the first place. Your 60k Lexus gets you 40k sixty days later. Think so? I've got beach front in Nevada ...
said by Rick :But, the apple lovers crowd cried..and his royal Steveness answered your call. He flew to your nest and dropped the worm right in your open beaks. His royal what? Oh, I should rest my case here and finish my coffee ...
I don't own an iPhone and never will. Having said that, however, I do own Apple computers. This isn't about Apple lovers; it's about PR and very, very poor decisions on a price cut that was tantamount to a slap in the face of those who waited to buy the phone that made the stock holders now laughing at the 'whiners' a lot of money.
The salient point here is that maybe people will wake up to being corporate owned and in the hologram of the TV light (gotta have it, gotta have it now ... buy it, charge it ... pay later pay later) AND that Apple's 'fanbois' are truly the worst of the worst in this game of consumerism for stockholders sake. These guys cheer you on to buy it and then say F you if you don't like anything about it -- including watching its value drop 30% in sixty days. Here's wishing their stock values drop the same.
How you defend the phone and its price at the outset only to turn around and call the same people you cheered on to buy it then 'whiners' and everything else now is extremely telling about many things. Too many to list.
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Does the phrase "apples and oranges" have any meaning for you? We're talking 30% in 60 days and no newer, or comparable, product has been released. Get with it.
I guess you missed the iPod Touch announcement that effectively dropped the iPhone price. The iPod Touch is a comparable item even if you don't like it, and its in fact some ways better than the iPhone. (WiFi)
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No sh*t. The apples thing again. When did you buy the 486? When did you buy your pentium? No, the $100 doesn't represent anything more than another sale for Apple. It's not cash; it's a credit to purchase more 'stuff' from them.
Really? Apple doesn't pay 3rd parties for their iPhone/Ipod Accessory products they just pull it out of their ass? Could have fooled me. The only limit with the $100 gift card is you have to buy it at a apple store, there are plenty of products there that aren't apple branded if you've been to one before. Apple in essence is still giving it to you for free and taking a cut.
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More analogy. Sigh. Here's one, and I'm amazed you didn't go for the 'car' in the first place. Your 60k Lexus gets you 40k sixty days later. Think so? I've got beach front in Nevada ...
Heres a real analogy, you buy the top of the line computer and pay some $2,500 for it..I would bet you that in 60 days something new would come out and cut that price down $500 for the model you bought. Same thing has happened here, a new product has come out 60 days later which effectively drops the iPhones value. I don't see whats so hard to understand about that. iPhone buyers pay the premium to have the latest and greatest then bitch when something else comes out that devalues their precious phone...Welcome to technology evolution. Get used to it. This is the first time I've heard of a company giving a bunch of whiners some compensation for bitching.
Its really simple, next time these idiots go and pay $600 (which I thought was ridiculously overpriced in the first place) for a product maybe they better think twice and make sure the product is worth their money. | |
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| Re: Steve Jobs.. You must have missed 'salient' in my post:
The salient point here is that maybe people will wake up to being corporate owned and in the hologram of the TV light (gotta have it, gotta have it now ... buy it, charge it ... pay later pay later) AND that Apple's 'fanbois' are truly the worst of the worst in this game of consumerism for stockholders sake. These guys cheer you on to buy it and then say F you if you don't like anything about it -- including watching its value drop 30% in sixty days. Here's wishing their stock values drop the same. | |
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join:2004-10-26
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| Unless he planned it from the beginning, now he has an extra hunge of your money, another guaranteed hunge in apple store sales, a fat monthly contract fee (thanks AT&T!), all for half the performance of what you can get for the same $399 out of an Itouch that had to be ready 60 days ago. Not to mention people like you to lick his balls for ripping them off.
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join:2007-04-11
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Both were assembled by god knows who.
Both are vapid pieces of modern technology, where style somehow supercedes all other concerns.
Both sell like hotcakes.
Both are fluffy, meaningless objects of desire by a certain population of this world, and patently ignored by others.
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Tulsa, OK | Re: iphone >= Britney Spears yeah, but Britney has a nasty C section scar and her twat looks like 5 day old chopped salami. I don't think the iPhone has that at least.
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that is the price I paid for being an early adopter. Does it suck? hell yes! Did I cry? no.
The point is, this is just how technology works. When you're an early adopter, you can bet that something greater and cheaper will be out within months. What Jobs did is UNHEARD OF, PEOPLE! He did not have to do ANYTHING. He risked the backlash from the shareholders to do what HE THOUGHT WAS RIGHT. I applaud Jobs for this move. All of the whiners need to STFU-Apple did not need to do ANYTHING.
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| Re: stop the crying Maybe you just proved another point, and perhaps some of Apple's early adopters now know they're "buttmonkeys" to Apple Elites® , eh? Get out and read other forums (ATM is koolaid city) and note that the reaction is trending more towards the early adopters and not the Apple Elite®
Maybe there won't be too much in the way of early adoption from this point forward (one can hope). Tell the folks in ATM with stock to put that in their f'n pipe and toke. Because something tells me that these 'next time' moments to cheer on the 'monkeys' to buy and then flip 'em the bird after they made some pocket change w/Apple stock may become a thing of the past.
Hoist by thee own petard; I so love a parade!
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MarkyD
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| Re: stop the crying said by Titus Pullo :Maybe you just proved another point, and perhaps some of Apple's early adopters now know they're "buttmonkeys" to Apple Elites® , eh? Get out and read other forums (ATM is koolaid city) and note that the reaction is trending more towards the early adopters and not the Apple Elite® Maybe there won't be too much in the way of early adoption from this point forward (one can hope). Tell the folks in ATM with stock to put that in their f'n pipe and toke. Because something tells me that these 'next time' moments to cheer on the 'monkeys' to buy and then flip 'em the bird after they made some pocket change w/Apple stock may become a thing of the past. Hoist by thee own petard; I so love a parade! -- what you just said made very little sense. | |
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Titus Pullo
I came, I saw, I slept
join:2004-06-26
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| Re: stop the crying said by MarkyD :what you just said made very little sense. Really? Let me help you.
When the iPhone was released after months of hype, the lines formed and the arguments began on whether any phone (or device, for that matter) was worth waiting in line to pay what many thought was a ridiculous price.
The Apple faithful argued adamantly that (a) the phone was well worth the price and (b) that the throngs of people standing in line proved the product a huge success. Using ATM as an example, there were countless iPhone threads that inevitably invited someone in from the front page who claimed the iPhone overpriced, whereupon someone in the peanut gallery would point to the sheer number of early adopters as the proof in the pudding.
Fast-forward to the 33% lop in price 9 weeks (or 10) from release and what turns into a bunch of pissed-off customers wondering how Apple could/would reward them for standing in line to buy the phone at $600 when you can now buy it for $400. That's an unprecedented drop in price for a major release product by a company that claims sales numbers had nothing to do with their decision to lop the price by a third.
Back to ATM. The Elite® begin their defense of this price drop on Apple's part by referring to the early adopters used as reason to support the phone 10 weeks prior as "buttmonkeys" -- in other words, they threw them under the bus.
My point is/was is that you can't have it both ways. You can't cheer on the early adopters because you're an Apple fan or own stock or whatever, and then turn around and call early adopters "buttmonkeys" after the fact and expect the buttmonkeys to keep standing in line or being early adopters of anything with an Apple name.
Seems pretty simple to me: if you paid $600 for an iPhone then you're a worthy ButtMonkey according to the Apple Elite® Doesn't that seem like a contradiction in terms at the least?
Read a few for yourself:
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MarkyD
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clubs: | Re: stop the crying see, when you speak normally it makes a lot more sense. Thanks for clarifying. | |
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Combat Chuck
Too Many Cannibals
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Erie, PA
1 edit | And jobs marketing department wins again. You don't seriously think this all resolved in one day? It just makes apple look better when they frame it as "We heard your cries and the great Steve Jobs is here to make it right!" Instead of "Hey lets have a buy an Iphone get a $100 gift card deal." they didn't even have to print marketing materials.
They've gotta keep all the gnomes in line after all, what better way than to make them all feel screwed and then make partial restitution.
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Jon
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join:2001-01-20
Lisle, IL
2 edits | early adopters? You mean Sheep?
Bahhh Suckers!
Enjoy your $700 phone.
I'll be enjoying my $150 unlocked refurb in the spring. 
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ajac
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Norman, OK | so in 6 months so if they drop it another 100 bucks people will get 50 bucks ? Man talk about a way to make me some money! | |
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rayondw
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germany
| Re: Buyer's Remorse eff that 
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packetscan
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join:2004-10-19
Bridgeport, CT
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1 edit | Bluetooth Headset Cool Free STUFF!
I did want an apple iphone bluetooth headset..
My opinion is that i paid an early adopter tax it happens in all electronics why people decide to balk know, well good for them. Now in the End I make out.
Thanks for the Freebie Steve-o.
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North Andover, MA | Re: Bluetooth Headset For $200's I am also willing to give you a free $100 gift card to my store. We only sell used dirt, but it's all on sale, marked down to going out of business prices of $150. | |
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| Re: Bluetooth Headset said by Ahrenl :For $200's I am also willing to give you a free $100 gift card to my store. We only sell used dirt, but it's all on sale, marked down to going out of business prices of $150. hehehe
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Passing out the refunds!
