{"id":410303,"date":"2010-03-09T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/bdf54d245f816047d386b0d98e34fd3a"},"modified":"2010-03-09T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T23:05:00","slug":"article-retailers-slash-prices-on-palm-prepixi-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/410303","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: Retailers slash prices on Palm Pre\/Pixi Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you were undecided about the Plus versions of the Palm Pre or Pixi, here’s some news that might tip the scales for you: Various retailers are practically giving away these phones, in an effort to bolster sluggish sales. <\/p>\n

First, Verizon ditched the mail-in rebates and is offering a BOGO promotion. (Buy one Pre Plus or Pixi Plus, at $150 or $80, respectively) and get another of equal or lesser value for free. <\/p>\n

Budget-conscious WebOS fans can do even better with third-party stores: Certain Wirefly affiliates (like PreCentral’s<\/a>) and Amazon<\/a> are charging only $39.99 for the Pre Plus and the rock-bottom price of zero<\/a> for the Pixi Plus. (Well, okay — Amazon’s technically selling it for a penny<\/a>.) <\/p>\n

That should help a little in offsetting that pricey 3G Mobile Hotspot feature, no? At $40 (for 5 GB, with 5 cents per MB overage), users could use all the help they can get. So is anyone buying? <\/p>\n

Via: PreCentral<\/a><\/p>\n

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UPDATE: And the prices keep on dropping: Walmart<\/a>‘s selling the Pre Plus for $30, and giving away the Pixi Plus for nothing. (Wow, wonder how much longer it will be before retailers start paying<\/em> customers to take these off their hands…) <\/strong><\/p>\n

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If you were undecided about the Plus versions of the Palm Pre or Pixi, here’s some news that might tip the scales for you: Various retailers are practically giving away these phones, in an effort to bolster sluggish sales. First, Verizon ditched the mail-in rebates and is offering a BOGO promotion. (Buy one Pre Plus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410303","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\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}