Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

On Thu, 07 Feb 2002 04:26:04 -0000, emufreak1 wrote,

> --- In xl7@y..., Jeff <drumcorps@e...> wrote:
> 
> > he said looking at a 2 month old mp7 with a ZR installed.
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> On this one, you should call your salesman @ GC and see if he/she
> (gotta be PC)will honor your purchase or give you the promotion for 
> your less than 2 month old purchase of the MP-7.

Heh... email crossing paths.  Yup, I did call this afternoon.  You send a
rebate style coupon to EMU (with a sales receipt).  So this one is outside
the hands of the dealers.  This kind of factory perk is usually not
retro-active, but I'm going to give it a shot.

At least someone at EMU is paying attention to the lack of meat and potatoes
sounds in the box.  ;-()

> My situation was similar after buying the P2K in the late summer 
> of "99".  There was a promotion for a free ROM which in my case was 
> the 16mb Protozoa a month after my purchase.  I received a call from 
> my salesman alerting me of the ROM deal.  I then asked him about 
> upgrade possibilities to the Techno ROM that I really wanted and he 
> said no problem.  I picked up the new Rob Papen ROM just paying 
> the "cost" difference.

Yup... music stores are one of the few places where a long term cash carrying
customer can dicker within the stores cost structure.  Somehow though, I
don't quite see EMU applying the "dealer cost" difference between the old ZR
price & the new ZR price to the [new] price of, say, a World Expedition ROM.

Sheesh, that made my head hurt.  ;)

> It's little things like that that make repeat customers so less than 
> a year later I went back and got the XL-1.

Yup.

> (Don't you just love the little "Thank You"
> cards that they personally send you?)

LOL!  A musician with money *is* an oxymoron...

Jeff