{"id":394612,"date":"2010-03-05T16:39:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T21:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"14907 at http:\/\/www.precentral.net"},"modified":"2010-03-05T16:39:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T21:39:40","slug":"verizon-drops-mail-in-rebate-on-pre-plus-pixi-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/394612","title":{"rendered":"Verizon drops mail-in rebate on Pre Plus, Pixi Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightbox2\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/sites\/precentral.net\/files\/articleimages\/Dieter%20Bohn\/2010\/01\/palm-pre-plus\/thumb_450_palm-pre-plus-verizon-01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boygeniusreport.com\/2010\/03\/04\/starting-tomorrow-verizon-palm-devices-to-go-mail-in-rebateless\/\">rumored at BGR yesterday<\/a>, today Verizon has dropped the mail-in rebate on the Palm Pre Plus and the Palm Pixi Plus. The price for the Pre Plus is $149.99 with a new two-year contract, the Pixi Plus clocks in at $79.99. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wirelessweek.com\/News\/2010\/03\/Carriers-Mail-In-Rebate-Palm-Pre-Pixi-Verizon\/\">Wireless Week reports<\/a> that a Verizon spokeswoman said they were responding to consumer demand: &quot;there was &#8216;a brief period where we tested mail-in rebates on some phones. We have found that online customers expect instant rebates and since this is a very competitive arena in which to do business, we responded accordingly.&#8217;&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">Whether this is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/ceo-jon-rubinstein-details-plans-accelerate-webos-sales-company-email\">response to poor initial sales on Verizon<\/a>&nbsp;or just a sign that Veriozn is doing right by getting rid of a source of annoyance for customers is an open question &#8211; but either way we&#8217;re pleased to see the mail-in rebate go away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteright\"><em>Thanks to everybody who sent this in!<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=inlaNLjvHiQ:qlIVJy0GWl4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=inlaNLjvHiQ:qlIVJy0GWl4:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=inlaNLjvHiQ:qlIVJy0GWl4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?i=inlaNLjvHiQ:qlIVJy0GWl4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=inlaNLjvHiQ:qlIVJy0GWl4:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Precentralnet\/~4\/inlaNLjvHiQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As rumored at BGR yesterday, today Verizon has dropped the mail-in rebate on the Palm Pre Plus and the Palm Pixi Plus. The price for the Pre Plus is $149.99 with a new two-year contract, the Pixi Plus clocks in at $79.99. &nbsp;Wireless Week reports that a Verizon spokeswoman said they were responding to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}