http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2004/11/16/bait-and-switch-the-skys-the-limit/ Sat, 04 Jun 2011 19:49:54 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2004/11/16/bait-and-switch-the-skys-the-limit/#comment-100 Switched and Baited Wed, 29 Jun 2005 06:02:50 +0000 http://stengazette.org/wordpress/?p=68#comment-100 I just got a new "smart phone" - a phone/pda, the Treo 600. Their package insert, and website, invited me to register my new phone, in exchange for which they offered me my choice of one of two software add-on products, free. So I bit, registered, and chose an MP3 player proggie, pocket tunes. Palm One sent me an email which read, in part, " To get your free Treo 600--optimized software application, please click below:" and I did, which initiated a download of my software. But it was, in fact, the free demo that anyone could download off the pocket tunes website, and it expires in 14 days without a registration code. I called customer support, and after a bit of time on hold was sadly told that, yes, it's the free demo. Well, bollocks to that, eh? So now I've been talking to their corporate office, and they're looking into it, see if they can help me out. It's not the $15...it's the outrageous nature of this scam, worthy of the bush "administration." I'll keep you posted... I just got a new “smart phone” – a phone/pda, the Treo 600. Their package insert, and website, invited me to register my new phone, in exchange for which they offered me my choice of one of two software add-on products, free.
So I bit, registered, and chose an MP3 player proggie, pocket tunes. Palm One sent me an email which read, in part, ” To get your free Treo
600–optimized software application, please click below:”
and I did, which initiated a download of my software.
But it was, in fact, the free demo that anyone could download off the pocket tunes website, and it expires in 14 days without a registration code.
I called customer support, and after a bit of time on hold was sadly told that, yes, it’s the free demo. Well, bollocks to that, eh?
So now I’ve been talking to their corporate office, and they’re looking into it, see if they can help me out. It’s not the $15…it’s the outrageous nature of this scam, worthy of the bush “administration.”
I’ll keep you posted…

]]> http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2004/11/16/bait-and-switch-the-skys-the-limit/#comment-99 Bollocks Wed, 29 Jun 2005 06:02:27 +0000 http://stengazette.org/wordpress/?p=68#comment-99 Safeway and Albertsons grocery stores are guilty of something like that, They advertise shrimp at 6.99 a pound, available in 2 or 5! pound bags only. Safeway and Albertsons grocery stores are guilty of something like that, They advertise shrimp at 6.99 a pound, available in 2 or 5! pound bags only.

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