I just punched the Submit button. I paid extra for the next day shipping
because if I'm lucky it'll show up before I go away for the weekend. But
I deleted the "free" music pack because Palm wanted another shipping
charge for that. Since I already own P-tunes Deluxe 4.0 ...
The trade-in is gone. You said December but they must have
reinstated it for awhile because the guy I talked to at Palm about why
it's not on the site said because it went away "last Monday."
Now I'm looking forward to a new toy.
Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:
> Hello, J Messeder.
>
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:22:11 -0400 you said:
>
>
>> Treos and Blackberries have to be on the $39 data plan to qualify for
>> the $100 rebate.
>>
>
> And that is exactly why I went and bought an unlocked 680 directly from
> Palm, last December.
>
> I'm in the middle of my contract, it renews in June. To qualify for
> any of the Cingular discounts, I'd have had to reup my contract early
> (not a big deal to me in and of itself), and get a data plan I don't
> need nor want at $39/month. My voice plan is $39/month, so I'd be
> doubling my monthly rate for a service I don't actually use that much
> (the data service). I use data so infrequently that I spend less on it
> paying a la carte than if I had even the cheapest MEdiaNet plan. And,
> at the current rates, I'd have to use 5 megabytes per month for it to
> be worthwhile to get a data plan at all.
>
> On top of that, the full, unsubsidized price for a Cingular locked 680
> from Cingular was $449, the unlocked from Palm was $399, which included
> the "Music pack", free shipping, and then on top of that, a trade-up
> deal where Market Velocity would buy my old device for $125 bringing my
> total cost to $274. (BTW, I just finally got that check yesterday.)
>
>
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/The erasure of a human subspecies is largely painless -- to us -- if we
know little enough about it. A dead Chinaman is of little import to us
whose awareness of things Chinese is bounded by an occasional dish of
chow mein. We grieve only for what we know./
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