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Amazon.com offers $50 credit on HD DVD purchases
Following similar moves by Best Buy and Wal-Mart, Amazon.com is also trying to make up for HD DVD’s failure by offering a $50 store credit to those who purchased an HD DVD player from it before February 23.
The offer is good through April 9, 2009 so you have a full year to use the credit. Sure, it's not as good as getting your cash back, but unlike Wal-Mart’s offer which requires buyers return their HD DVD hardware and have the original receipt, with Amazon at least you get to keep your HD DVD player and use it as a DVD upscaler. This is surely a smart way to build goodwill with your customers when a technology becomes obsolete.
The offer is good through April 9, 2009 so you have a full year to use the credit. Sure, it's not as good as getting your cash back, but unlike Wal-Mart’s offer which requires buyers return their HD DVD hardware and have the original receipt, with Amazon at least you get to keep your HD DVD player and use it as a DVD upscaler. This is surely a smart way to build goodwill with your customers when a technology becomes obsolete.
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User Comments (4)
Post a comment| funkmesideways on April 10, 2008 6:50 AM | Although Amazon seem to have to do this from a competetive
point of view, personally, I think the people who bought HD
DVD players should pay for their mistake.
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| icye on April 10, 2008 11:13 AM | People who invested in Blu Ray aren't in the clear either.
There are still lingering doubts whether the so-called
winner of this particular format war between them and HD-DVD
will be widely accepted or not.
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| phantasm66 on April 10, 2008 2:13 PM | LOL maybe HD-DVD will win the format war after all because
people will be giving the players and disks away for free.
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| jesse_hz on April 10, 2008 9:31 PM | Ah, so you think this whole "Blu-ray has won" is set up by
the HD-DVD camp?
LMAO. [OFF-TOPIC] funkmesideways - nick of the year!
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