Upcoming Best Buy Sale Has $49 Centro

Many, MANY folks----young'uns and curmudgeons alike---absolutely REFUSE to make any kind of "major" purchase such as signing over 2 years of their life to a telco without being able to walk in the store and fondle the device first. Add to that the (perceived?) security of buying from an established brick & mortar retailer and/or the easy returns and the BB RewardZone cashback system and it's still a fairly compelling deal.

Remember, the Centro is a TINY-SCREENED, TINY KEYBOARD device. It would definitely be in one's best interest to fondle it prior to plunking down $ and signing the line on a contract.

P.S. Letstalk.com seems to have had their site's design heavily influenced by Amazon. A mere coincidence?

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P

> Many, MANY folks----young'uns and curmudgeons alike---absolutely
> REFUSE to make any kind of "major" purchase such as signing over
> 2 years of their life to a telco without being able to walk in
> the store and fondle the device first...

My apologies for not responding to this earlier - this article and comment thread was sorta a "Make a remark and promptly forget the whole thing" to me since I really couldn't care less how much the Centro costs where...

However...

Before using Letstalk to buy those two phones I actually HAD fondled the same phone from a (now former) collegue - and he was the one who suggested Letstalk to me.

Thx for the positive feedback. Now waiting for the unlocked GSM version as I am in Hong Kong.

rpa
Palm Pilot >> Palm Tungsten E user

...it'll show up at Worst Buy as soon as they figure out how to sell you their mandatory "extended warranty" and/or have their "receipt checkers" (or managers) assault you after buying it. Horrible company in my experience, many employees appear to be trained straight out of Chappelle's "Popcopy" video. They must hold their recruiting fairs at prison release gates - I've NEVER visited a chain that was so aggressively violent toward their *paying* customers (observed at several stores, so it's consistent).

Seriously - even though it's nice to see Palm expanding their product presence at retail locations, spend your money anywhere but BB even if you need to pay the entire $99.

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**Another vote for a >100MB RAM Treo**

We just added a rough scan of the ad, a better one will come soon...

http://www.palminfocenter.com/ss.asp?f=bb-centro-sale-l.jpg

A full hundred bucks more expensive than that very reliable site mentioned in the first comment.

Why?

[ob-disclosure - I am a quite satisfied customer of Letstalk, if you can call someone who got two phones free from there a customer...]

> I am a quite satisfied customer of Letstalk

I had never heard of Letstalk until you mentioned them, but resellerratings.com says their average satisfaction rating is very low.

While that complaint site is interesting, my personal experience with Letstalk was superlative - I online surfed over to LetsTalk, ordered, and received exactly what I ordered (2 new SE520As) within a very short period of time (like days?). The phones worked, the phone numbers worked, I was and remain a Happy Camper still almost two years after the event.

That is to say, =my= experience with Letstalk.com has been exactly as I would want with any online website.

[BTW - note that Best Buy, the store mentioned in this PIC article, was rated much worse than Letstalk...and, as noted in my comment above, sells the Centro for a full hundred bucks more than Letstalk]