"If there are shortages, some analysts, as reported earlier, are putting it down to Palm deliberately keeping the supply down to create a âsell outâ device."
OK I am aware of this notion of limiting supply to increase buzz but let's think this through.
I am a customer salivating over the new iPhone but I am also intrigued by the Pre. So June 6 rolls around and I stroll into my Sprint store to check it out only to hear "Sorry we're sold out…this device is soooo hot." "When will you have more?" I ask. The rep responds "We don't know, I would check back with us in a week or so when we get our next shipment" So while I am being jerked around by this "false demand" scheme cooked up by the marketing geniuses at Sprint the new iPhone gets released. "Can I get one now?" I asked the AT&T retail rep. "Sure thing, here you go, we'll have you set-up in a few minutes"
So riddle me this Sprint Marketing folks, where do you strike the balance between getting that 'sold out buzz', and jerking around potential customers to the point that they just wait on the new iPhone (rumored to be released within weeks of the Pre). And remember you only have a six month window of exclusivity to work with so if you play this game wrong I'll just wait for Verizon to carry the device so I can have the Pre but a decent network to run it on.
While you scratch your heads over that one let me tell you about me (a potential Pre customer). Screw your cute little marketing tactics because I am not even going to play them. Just knowing that your artificially limiting supply is enough for me to not even waste my time venturing to your store to play your little game. I can wait a few weeks for the iPhone.
Previous poster is obviously an idiot. Getting worked up and flipping out on Sprint because you read some fluff posting on the Internet? Please, don't reproduce.
Went into a sprint store today and got jerked around by the store rep about people have been telling him that they will be camped out in front of the store all night. If I go into the store in the morning at 8 am when they open and they tell me that they dont have the phone then I'm gonna come back home buy a unlocked blackberry storm and go over to tmobile. Sprint is a joke for even being a company….
I don't understand the hype. I went in this morning and there were plenty of Palm Pres available. I didn't camp out and got there about 20 minutes after the store opened. And I was told there was a small line of about 10 people when the store opened but that was it.
More big talk about the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre from Sprint (NYSE: S), the device
"If there are shortages, some analysts, as reported earlier, are putting it down to Palm deliberately keeping the supply down to create a âsell outâ device."
OK I am aware of this notion of limiting supply to increase buzz but let's think this through.
I am a customer salivating over the new iPhone but I am also intrigued by the Pre. So June 6 rolls around and I stroll into my Sprint store to check it out only to hear "Sorry we're sold out…this device is soooo hot." "When will you have more?" I ask. The rep responds "We don't know, I would check back with us in a week or so when we get our next shipment" So while I am being jerked around by this "false demand" scheme cooked up by the marketing geniuses at Sprint the new iPhone gets released. "Can I get one now?" I asked the AT&T retail rep. "Sure thing, here you go, we'll have you set-up in a few minutes"
So riddle me this Sprint Marketing folks, where do you strike the balance between getting that 'sold out buzz', and jerking around potential customers to the point that they just wait on the new iPhone (rumored to be released within weeks of the Pre). And remember you only have a six month window of exclusivity to work with so if you play this game wrong I'll just wait for Verizon to carry the device so I can have the Pre but a decent network to run it on.
While you scratch your heads over that one let me tell you about me (a potential Pre customer). Screw your cute little marketing tactics because I am not even going to play them. Just knowing that your artificially limiting supply is enough for me to not even waste my time venturing to your store to play your little game. I can wait a few weeks for the iPhone.
Previous poster is obviously an idiot. Getting worked up and flipping out on Sprint because you read some fluff posting on the Internet? Please, don't reproduce.
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Went into a sprint store today and got jerked around by the store rep about people have been telling him that they will be camped out in front of the store all night. If I go into the store in the morning at 8 am when they open and they tell me that they dont have the phone then I'm gonna come back home buy a unlocked blackberry storm and go over to tmobile. Sprint is a joke for even being a company….
I don't understand the hype. I went in this morning and there were plenty of Palm Pres available. I didn't camp out and got there about 20 minutes after the store opened. And I was told there was a small line of about 10 people when the store opened but that was it.