How to sell a Zune: Give away an iPod gift card
Here's a chuckle from the forums over at MacRumors. Poster GFLPraxis, who works at the Spokane CompUSA, scanned this advertisement tag for the new Zune special. For only $249.99, you'll not only get a spankin' new Zune but also a $15 iTunes Gift Card. Now that's an inducement to buy the Zune! If only Apple would license FairPlay.
Although these tags should reflect what's printed in the circulated advertisements, this one didn't quite match. It was caught by the store manager, who passed it around the store for laughs.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Brady J. Frey said 11:55AM on 2-08-2007
If that's not a compliment to Steve Jobs arguement, I don't know what is!
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JOhn said 12:29PM on 2-08-2007
Wow, an iPod gift card! Can you tell me where I can get one? : )
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(01) said 2:01PM on 2-08-2007
Yeah, I definitly need to pick up one of those iPod cards :-)
The only thing I can imagine better than this will be the free HD DVD when you buy s PS3...hey, as we can see, stranger things have happened.
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Tony Roberto Zorzi Silva said 2:26PM on 2-08-2007
ow is it illegal to buy songs from iTunes, burn them, and re-encode them? The iTunes TOS explicitly allows you to burn music (not video), and as far as I can read, you're only subject to standard copyright law beyond that.
Granted, audio quality will suffer, for audiophiles, but there's nothing illegal about buying a song from iTunes, burning it, ripping it, and using it on Zune, unless Microsoft has placed restrictions on imported music.
(iTunes TOS: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/service.html )
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mripley said 7:42PM on 2-09-2007
Audiophiles wouldn't be buying itunes tracks in the first place :)
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matt said 10:59PM on 2-08-2007
nor would they be buying a zune! ;-)
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john russell said 1:40AM on 2-09-2007
And they certainly wouldn’t be shopping at CompUSA.
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Tom said 8:29PM on 2-09-2007
Yeah, audiophiles will buy $500 POWER CABLES instead.
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