Sell 15 Palms, get one free
In another effort designed to move Palm's inventory and spur demand, Palm Inc has launched a new Sell & Win promotion.
The offer extends to brick and mortar retail employees in the US and Canada. Participants must simply sell 15 Palm handhelds by June 24, take a six question online survey & mail in a claim form to win a free Palm m500.
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RE: DESPARADO
Peace Out
Alan
RE: DESPARADO
Ohhhhhh...
RE: Ohhhhhh...
The quiz is SO easy - even a moron like yourself should be able to answer, fill out the form and get back your FREE Palm.
READ!
RE: Ohhhhhh...
Great Idea & Incentive for sales-people, and YOU TOO!! :)
First off, we help Palm sell more Palm Pilots. So what is the big deal with that - they practically sell themselves.
Then we take the quiz online.
Has anyone tried it yet?
It is IMPOSSIBLE to get the quiz WRONG!!!!!
If you do happen to answer the quiz wrong, it tells you which question you got wrong and lets you try again!
Finally, after getting all the questions right, you simply fill out the form, send in the proof of purchases, and have your manager sign it.
I think it is a great idea.
I'm going to tell all sales-people I know everywhere so they can now finally get a product they sell for FREE!!!
Good for them!
Help out your friendly sales-person today by telling them about this great deal - you'll make a friend who will treat you right the next time you come in, and when they're enjoying their Palm Pilot as well, they'll be happy you told them about this and will work to get great deals for you in the future.
This IS really a GREAT IDEA!!!!
Thanks PALM!!! :)
RE: Great Idea & Incentive for sales-people, and YOU TOO!! :)
- Joe Horton
Got my free Palm already!!
Nothing New
First was Handspring, a little before Christmas (maybe a month before) they made an offer of Sell 5 Visor Deluxes, get a refurbished one free.
Next Handspring offered us to sell 25 Visor Deluxes and get a New Visor Edge Free.
Third was HP, sell any 5 Jornada's and get a Jornada 525 Free.
Now palm, who has been going on for over a month, is with sell any 15 Palm brand devices and get a m500 Free.
With HP, there was nothing that took place online. With HandSpring, go to http://www.thedemolounge.com/
There you will find a number of other offers, based on sell x of an item, get 1 free.
As many people that say this is sad should really look think about what this does. HandSpring had a great Christmas season for 1 reason: everywhere a customer went, they were told to buy HandSpring instead of Palm. Palm saw what HandSpring did, and decided to follow once again. (such as with finally adding USB and expansion support to the m50x line).
If you go to a brick and mortar store, you will see more people carrying a Visor Deluxe while pushing a Palm instead, telling of thier newfound love and pushing people to buy a Palm. It is truly sad for the customer to be pushed towards a product only because the salesman gets something extra out of it, but it happens anywhere you go.
- Joe Horton
btw, Sony will be starting a program like this with the new Clie from what I hear as well. That leaves Compaq and Casio as the only other high-end companies not to give away product to sell more.
Congradulations JOE!
I think the deal is great for sales-people like yourself(?), and you guys (and girls?) deserve these freebies from such companies.
RE: Nothing New
RE: Nothing New
The reason I disagree with all of this is that it screws the customer. The salesman will sell the customer whatever he will benefit the most from, even if the customer is getting a worse product overall. I admit that I am guilty of it; I found myself telling someone to get a Palm over HandSpring the other day when given no other reason.
Do I refuse to take the free product? No, I will get most of it without pushing one product over another, just from normal sales. Will I complain if all of the sudden the companies say: "Sorry, we decided to stop the promotion." I'll bitch some from the time I put into getting copies of the receipts and all necessary documentation. But although I'll be disappointed, I'll wholeheartedly agree with it, and in a way be glad. I hate it when I see a customer buy an inferior product just because whoever is helping them gets something extra to sell it.
Disclaimer: I am not saying that Palm, HandSpring, or any other company offering incentives are better or worse than any other company, just that it sucks to see inferior products sold that otherwise wouldn't have been.
- Joe Horton
The REASON you guys (and girls) deserve the Freebies! (duh!)
The REASON I feel you guys (and girls) deserve these freebies is because you guys (and girls) who work for Staples, Fry's, retail stores in general, blah..blah..blah.....
IS because you're only making between $5 and $8 per hour.
You really can't afford to go out and buy these toys when you have all your other expenses to worry about (rent, food, utilities, car payments, car insurance, gas, etc...). Its the economics of the whole deal. You need your "extra" money for the "needful" things in life. Having a freebie at retail is not a "needful" thing - its nice to have, but not REALLY needed.
Do you see now why I think you deserve these freebies?????
Secondly, you mentioned about pointing the customer to the Palm PDA just to "earn" your freebie - you think you're doing the customer a "disfavor"?
NO! Not at all! These customers are looking for you to guide them in your purchase. These customers "want" something for them. You're to help them find this thing they "need". If you didn't point them to these, then they might pester you all day looking for something to fill their "need" for something. I know - it happens to me all the time in Fry's when I'm shopping there - I don't work there!, but people are always asking me for help them decide which Palm is right for them. Since I don't work for Fry's I usually help them a bit and then give them the addresses to this web page and other great Palm sites on the web so the can decide for themselves. You could do the same thing. Tell them that this model (the one that you're going to get the freebie on) and then tell them to go home and do some research on it before they buy the one that you're going to get the freebie on!
RE: Nothing New
On the other hand, by pointing the customer to a PDA to "earn" a freebie is a disservice to them. The customers will not be pestering me to help them find a PDA. What should happen is that the salesman helps the customer find the best PDA for the themselves, by asking what they plan on using it for, any PDA background they may have, and explaining benefits and features of getting a better model.
Unfortuantly what happens is the salesman will leave out some of the better features of one they don't get rewarded for selling (at least until the customer asks about them). I have seen it happen many times. But I digress...
Suggesting an inferior product to a customer over another IS doing a disservice to the customer, no matter how well the salesman gets rewarded for doing so, or how deserving the salesman is of the reward.
- Joe Horton
Now I understand why the sale associate jumped on my receipt
Insane
my 2¢ worth.
written with pen on my Palm IIIxe
to the 5% who 'have' brains but are forced to work retail, my apologies.
-oldtimer
RE: Insane
Not new
It's about time!
Sounds like the perfect customer for a Palm M500 / M505? Well, that's what he seemed to want, but the salesman spent about 40 painful minutes (to me) bashing Palm to get him to buy a $600.00 PocketPC. The HP Jornada in fact.
This is really ridiculous. PDA's should be no-hassle. Handspring should have worked on LOWERING the price of the VDX than giving out free promos, but nonetheless, this is how you compete.
whare did this come from???
And another thing, you may not even win the m505!!!
I got one
Wish I could participate!
Get a life PDA geeks!
RE: Get a life PDA geeks!
You guys don't get it
RE: NT
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