lingerke@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ken Linger) (04/12/91)
Here's my question: When I bought my Mac, the registration card said I could check off one of several items I could receive. One was a T-Shirt, one was a mouse pad, one was some Mac magazines. Well, I turned it in last October, and haven't received anything (the mouse pad). Has any- one else had this problem? Its not like its a big deal, I've already got a mouse pad, but come on! I bought an Apple IIgs about four years ago and the same happened. I was supposed to receive some issues of A+ Magazine and they never came. I can live without the magazines or T-shirt or mouse pad, but if they are going to offer it, I would hope that they have them to give. I'm sure that there are others who feel the same way. Ken
strange@sprite.berkeley.edu (Steve Strange) (04/12/91)
In article <10193@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> lingerke@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ken Linger) writes: >Here's my question: When I bought my Mac, the registration card said I could > check off one of several items I could receive. One was a T-Shirt, > one was a mouse pad, one was some Mac magazines. Well, I turned it in > last October, and haven't received anything (the mouse pad). Has any- > one else had this problem? > This topic came up a month or two ago -- at the time, a number of people said they did not receive their 'free gift'. I got a IIsi in Nov, I have not gotten my mouse pad yet either. I remember someone mentioning that he finally got his gift after waiting almost a year! So perhaps it will eventually come, but I'm not holding my breath.... Steve
dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Race Bannon) (04/12/91)
I have owned two macs, and never received the 'gifts' (mouse pad, or t-shirt, or whatever) that I was supposed to get with either of them. The first was purchased over 3 years ago, and the second over a year ago. I've given up hope. I guess either they lied or they mis-printed the address on the registration card or something. <shrug> -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Dan Walkowski | To understand recursion, Univ. of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci. | you must first understand recursion. walkowsk@cs.uiuc.edu |
irwin@galton.uchicago.edu (Mark Irwin) (04/12/91)
In article <1991Apr12.042333.26107@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Race Bannon) writes: >I have owned two macs, and never received the 'gifts' (mouse pad, or t-shirt, or >whatever) that I was supposed to get with either of them. The first was >purchased over 3 years ago, and the second over a year ago. I've given up hope. >I guess either they lied or they mis-printed the address on the registration >card or something. > ><shrug> > >-- >_______________________________________________________________________________ >Dan Walkowski | To understand recursion, >Univ. of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci. | you must first understand recursion. >walkowsk@cs.uiuc.edu | I guess I got lucky. When I purchased my SE/30 in October '89 I sent in the card asking for a free issue of MacWorld. I ended up getting 4 or 5 issues free starting in January or February '90 (along with the subscription offers). Mark Mark Irwin Dept of Statistics, Univ of Chicago irwin@galton.uchicago.edu irw1@midway.uchicago.edu mark@stat.ubc.ca
ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) (04/12/91)
In article <10193@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> lingerke@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ken Linger) writes: >Here's my question: When I bought my Mac, the registration card said I could > check off one of several items I could receive. Well, I turned it in > last October, and haven't received anything (the mouse pad). I bought a IIcx last May and also requested a mouse pad. Several months later it arrived. BTW, it is one of those plastic (teflon?) pads, not the soft kind. Maybe they're just backed up due to the popularity of the new macs? |||| Boyd Ostroff / Tech Director / SUNY Oswego Dept of Theatre / 315-341-2987 |||| Sys Admin at cboard.UUCP / Serving the Performing Arts / 315-947-6414/8N1 |||| ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu / cboard!ostroff@natasha.oswego.edu
bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) (04/12/91)
I opted for the 6 issues of MacWorld or MacUser or whatever it was. This was in November. My free subscription is almost up, as I have received 4 or 5 issues so far. (I guess I won't renew it, if it's not got enough in it for me even to remember the name of the magazine :-) -- Paul DuBois "The 'C' shell usually doesn't dubois@primate.wisc.edu have job control." -- LAN TIMES
pekkala@convex.com (Rick Pekkala) (04/12/91)
i got my mouse-pad for the LC i bought 2 months after i
purchased it. it's a great pad.
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or the view out my window are purely coincidental."paixao@ug.cs.dal.ca (Nuno M. Paixao) (04/12/91)
I got a Classic a ouple of months ago, and promptly asked for the half year subscription of MacWorld. I haven't received it yet.... I am actually getting quite annoyed with Apple. If I hadn't had my mind set on a Macintosh, Apple would have cetainly lost my purchase. (I actually know people that have bought PC's instead of Apples because Apple just doesn't care about its costumers.) What really frustrated me was that I had a two-half month wait for a Classic.That would have been OK,if I was told right from the begining that I was going to have to wAit that long, but my dealer told me it would be in the next shipment several times, and I ended up waiting for it a lot longer than I expected. TRhe question is - the the dealer not know what was going on - or was Apple giving them the run around too. I suspect the latter. To top it off, both my keyboard and mouse have had to be replaced, because Apple shipped faulty ones with my machine. Am I having bad luck with Apple, or is everybody had similar problems? Nuno -- *----------------------*---------------------------*------------------------* | Nuno M. Paixao | paixao@ug.cs.dal.ca | dexter@ac.dal.ca | *----------------------*---------------------------*------------------------* | McIntosh Jr ... The Power to Crush the other Kids!!! (SNL) |
palmer@whistler.sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer) (04/12/91)
You guys are clearly newcomers. I bit twice, back in '85. I bought two Macs about six months apart. Each time I sent in my card for a free copy of MacWorld and didn't receive it. It's an Apple custom, and when you finally learn that they don't make good on promises, you're ready to wait an extra year for System 7.0! It's called "operant conditioning", I believe. Leigh Hunt Palmer Simon Fraser University
j1whalen@handel.helios.nd.edu (Jon Whalen) (04/13/91)
Well, I got my free gift. I got a new SE/30 last Fall (for work) and asked for the mouse pad. I received it a month or so later. I bought an LC (for home) a couple of months ago, and I am currently receiving my copies of MacWorld, so I guess it does work, at least sometimes. My sympathy to all who haven't gotten their fair share. :-( --jon -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Whalen @ U. of Notre Dame | At the moment, I have absolutely nothing to j1whalen@handel.helios.nd.edu | say, which is probably for the best. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
drewster@orion.oac.uci.edu (Andrew T. Laurence) (04/13/91)
Interesting thread. When my dad bought his mac, we received floppy boxes (two, holding ten floppies each) within the usual six to eight weeks. just my $.02, --Andrew Laurence drewster@orion.oac.uci.edu
dct@mdaali.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David C. Tuttle) (04/13/91)
Yow! So *that's* why I got a mousepad in the mail a month ago! I got a IIcx a *year* ago, and must've checked the mousepad box for my free gift. (It's an OK mousepad, with "Apple" in big Apple-font. Too bad the Apple mouse on top of it is flaking out, but that's another story...) Hang in there, you might get your gift sometime next year :-). -- David C. Tuttle dct@mdaali.mda.uth.tmc.edu Software Systems Specialist Department of Biomathematics University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas
jacobson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (R J Jacobson) (04/13/91)
I purchased a new IIsi near the end of January and my T-shirt that I selected for my "free" gift did come about a week ago. So they do actually ship these token gifts. When I purchased my SE/30 several years back I got my free gift over what seemed to be a slightly longer period as I recall.
ESR@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Ed Russell) (04/15/91)
We selected a mouse pad too. It hasn't arrived yet but I'm not sure it matters that much. The mouse is such a piece of crap I'm not sure any kind of mouse pad would help.
ashelton@encore.com (A. Roberts) (04/19/91)
From article <10193@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, by lingerke@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ken Linger): > Here's my question: When I bought my Mac, the registration card said I could > check off one of several items I could receive. One was a T-Shirt, > one was a mouse pad, one was some Mac magazines. Well, I turned it in > last October, and haven't received anything (the mouse pad). Has any- > one else had this problem? > > Ken I purchased a IIsi last December and ordered the 6 free issues of MacWorld. It took a few months to get the subscription started, but I have received the April and May issues. Amy Shelton ashelton@cshu.encore.com
wjb@tantalum.eds.com (Bill Biesty) (04/19/91)
In article <1991Apr12.042333.26107@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Race Bannon) writes:
->I have owned two macs, and never received the 'gifts' (mouse pad, or t-shirt, or
->whatever) that I was supposed to get with either of them. The first was
->purchased over 3 years ago, and the second over a year ago. I've given up hope.
->I guess either they lied or they mis-printed the address on the registration
->card or something.
I opted for a (or two) free issue of some magazine (MacWorld I think) which I
think I got. Iwas receiveing it at the time, but I think I was credited with
an extra issue or two. I already had a mouse pad, and the T-shirt wasn't
offerred :-(.
Billwjb@tantalum.eds.com (Bill Biesty) (04/19/91)
Reading all of these complaints about not getting free gifts for sending in the ergistration card reminded me about a passage in Guy Kawasaki's book "The Macintosh Way". Basically Apple uses registration cards as a way to audit sales in a region (he explains this is the most relaible way to credit sales people--all of the details I can't remember). This incentive may just be a smokes screen to get this method to work. Comments from Apple? Bill
dhansen@ogicse.ogi.edu (David Hansen) (04/19/91)
In article <131065@csftl1.encore.com> ashelton@encore.com (A. Roberts) writes: >From article <10193@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, by lingerke@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ken Linger): >> Here's my question: When I bought my Mac, the registration card said I could >> check off one of several items I could receive. One was a T-Shirt, >> one was a mouse pad, one was some Mac magazines. Well, I turned it in >> last October, and haven't received anything (the mouse pad). Has any- >> one else had this problem? >> >> Ken When this thread started it got me thinking that I hadn't received the mouse pad I'd requested back in November. Maybe it's just a coincidence but no sooner did I begin to wonder if I'd ever get it then there it is! It is a _very_ nice mouse pad.
russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) (04/19/91)
In article <1991Apr18.213720.13310@edsr.eds.com> wjb@tantalum.eds.com (Bill Biesty) writes: >Reading all of these complaints about not getting free gifts for sending >in the ergistration card reminded me about a passage in Guy Kawasaki's >book "The Macintosh Way". Basically Apple uses registration cards as a way >to audit sales in a region (he explains this is the most relaible way >to credit sales people--all of the details I can't remember). This >incentive may just be a smokes screen to get this method to work. I have always gotten my free gift (used to be a MacWorld mouse pad, this time it is an Apple mouse pad, teflon coated.) -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.
chai@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Ian Chai) (04/20/91)
If it's any consolation, with some companies, I actually got product upgrade notices and tip sheets when I turned in my registration (and with Alladin/StuffIt, they even sent me an upgrade disk once without me asking for it and without charging me for it!) I don't remember how I got started with Central Point Software, but I must say, their tech support people are nice about answering letters. (Graduate student and unconnected with Alladin nor CPS other than being a more or less satisfied customer...) -- Ian Chai | "God loves you just the way you are, but Internet: chai@cs.ukans.edu | He loves you too much to let you stay that Bitnet: 2fntnougat@ukanvax | way." - Harry Poindexter
wjb@tantalum.eds.com (Bill Biesty) (04/22/91)
The folks a T/Maker (WriteNow) and <Minds gone blank> (Think C) have been really great about keeping me up to date on updates of new versions of the software. But I do agree about the questions about marketing info though. One appliance I bought had "registration" card with the marketing questions but also had a statement that said it was not required for registering the product. P.S. If you like receiving Pre-Approved Credit Card offers, check of the really high salary boxes! ;^) Bill