Liz,
Following your post on Students may steal Office (see comments below), I found this one also. This is rich with humor, but it paints Zune into a corner. - Herb
September 21, 2007 9:02 AM PDT
Zune gets a Jobs-esque price cut
Posted by Ina Fried | 13 comments
Deal-a-day Web site Woot.com is offering Microsoft's Zune player for $129, just a month after it offered the same Zune for $20 more.
Having learned a thing from Apple's iPhone mess, the folks at Woot are taking no chances (or rather, seizing a chance to poke great fun at the turtlenecked one), the company is reaching out to those who paid the higher price.
The site posted an "emergency open letter" and is offering a coupon to all those who bought the Zune last month for $149.
"Being in technology for 1+years, give or take a year, I can attest to the fact that the technology road is bumpy," Woot "CYA Officer" Larry Stalin said in the faux-pology. "There is always some idiot changing lanes without signaling, and the potholes never seem to get fixed. If you always wait for the next price cut or to buy the new improved model, you'll never buy any technology product. I mean, why should you? Truth is, you don't really need any of this junk. We're afraid you'll catch on to that fact and overpaid frauds like me will have to go back into fields like telemarketing and burrito construction."
Customers who bought the Zune the last time around can get $10 off their next $40 purchase.
"We want to convincingly pretend to do the right thing for our valued Zune customers," the site said. "We'd apologize for disappointing some of you, ...
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Emphasis mine. - Herb
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Re: Microsoft says college students can 'steal' Office
Microsoft said students have to be "actively enrolled" in a higher education program and have an e-mail address from that school.
I wonder, once the "active enrollment" is over, does the student Office thief have to purchase another copy for use in the real world? |
