Free Sprint PCS phone (Not Spam)

[Seth Dimbert]

James,

Don't you think it's presumptuous of you to assume that we thought the offer
was an error?

Cell Phone companies give phones away for free all the time, with service
activation. This was a sprint-branded cell phone; might it not have been
possible that this was simply similar "Free Phone" offer, since the
instrument itself is useless without a hefty monthly fee?

I don't mean to "judge or sound rude" either, BTW.

-SD

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of
email2jamez at covad.net
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 2:55 PM
To: KcLUG
Subject: Re: Free Sprint PCS phone (Not Spam)

Personally, I'm glad that Amazon.com didn't honor these orders.  While you
guys were busy trying to take advantage of a system error, did you ever stop
to consider how much money it would actually cost them to send you the stuff
if they ended up having to honor the orders?  Amazon.com has been in the Red
for years now, and it's only because a few companies have enough faith to
give them backing that they are able to continue operating.  If they ended
up having to honor the orders, they very well could have gone out of
business.  And you would've had yourselves to thank in part for that.  I'm
not trying to judge or sound rude, but it's something I'd think about.

James

----- Original Message -----
From: "B. Liggett" <brad at liggett.org>
Subject: Re: Free Sprint PCS phone (Not Spam)

> A co-worker and I each ordered one the other day.  Mysteriously last night
> we noticed on the site that our orders had been cancelled.  We did not
> receive e-mails from Amazon stating that our orders would be cancelled.
> Guess it was too good to be true...
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> Brad
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> > Has anyone that ordered one of these been contacted yet that it was a
> > mistake and that you will be charged the $499.00 (before REBATES) price?
> >  Guess paranoia is getting the best of me!!
> > I did a bit of digging into the shipping charges issue and found that it
> > was for orders of $25 or more.  since this item SHOULD have been over
> > $25 it was listed with the free shipping notice but when the TOTAL  came
> > up as $0.00 i guess that didn't exceed the $25.00 threshold!! Oh well
> > $10.00 shipping on $1000.00 worth of phones isnt really that bad of a
> deal!!
> >
> > just wondering if any one has heard otherwise yet?
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