Free Blackberries with a set of tires?
I heard on the radio yeaterday that NTB was giving away free Blackberries with the purchase of a complete set of tires. After the commercial, the DJ’s were talking about what they paid for their blackberries: about $300.
So I am wondering how can a set of tires installed with all the bells and whistles that will cost about three hundred bucks, or less, offset the cost of giving away a free blackberry? Then the small print at the end of the ad (or would that be small talk?). One year subscription to blackberry service required… or something like that.
So it seems we are about to see the same model that made the cellular phone ubiquitous do the same for wireless PDAs. Once about a gazillion blackberries are dropped on the market behind this promotion, others will follow suit. Marketers are like sharks in a feeding frenzy. Almost worse than lawyers.
Let’s face it. With the miniturization and convergence of technology happening at such an astonishing rate, in five years we will be wearing the equivalent of a small computer room on a wristband.
EvilWhiteGuy points out that you can also get a free blackberry with a pizza order. He also noticed the NTB give away.
And you can get free iTunes with a Fruit & Salad purchase
The dot com bust in 2001 had nothing to do with the Internet revolution that everyone used to rave about. It is still coming. Most everybody just had it wrong in the nineties.
(Thanks to Basil for the open trackback)