At 02:39 PM 2/11/99 -0500, Brett Lorenzen so eloquently stated:
>George Matyjewicz wrote:
>>
>> Hey:
>>
>> Another company is "giving away" 25,000 free iMacs at
>>
<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/tc/story.html?s=v/nm/1999021
1/tc/free_>> 2.html>
>>
>> Of course, the first statement in the article is...
>>
>> "A start-up company Wednesday offered 25,000 free iMac computers in exchange
>> for one little
>> thing. Money."
>>
>> Since when has money become free?
>
>This one truly blows me away. You have to spend $100 a month for 36
>months at their mall (which has all of three functioning storefronts so
>far, from what I see) that is located in Israel. If you don't spend it,
>they charge you $100 anyway.
>
>You have to spend the $100 in at least 4 $25 increments at 4 different
>stores (of the three *grin*), which I would assume means you're more
>likely spending $30+ (since we all know few will have items priced right
>at $25). Shipping estimates, anyone?
>
>And you have to do this via their proprietary $19.95 a month dial-up
>service.
>
>By applying some math, we get:
>
>36 months x $100 minimum ($120 realistic if you actually buy things)
>$3600
>36 x $20 for the access
> $ 720
>
>Total cost of Free IMac
> $4320
>
>Cost of an Imac bought with a credit card at 21% interest over 3 years
>$1799
>
>What you can buy at varesearch for all those bills:
>
> Dual PII 450 with 128 megs RAM, 4.5 gig scsi drive, ethernet, cdrom and
>full linux redhat with corel office suite :P
>
>Weird stuff happens when you put the words 'free' and 'internet' in the
>same sentence . . . ("I've got this land in Florida . . . I'll give it
>to you for $40K an acre, and will throw in a FREE Imac with unlimited
>Internet access!") :P
>
Throw in the Brooklyn Bridge and you got a deal ;-).
G
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