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Re: New Expansion ROM prices updated

2002-02-07 by emufreak1

Good luck Jeff,  I hope you can get something out of it.

Goodnight,

M2



--- In xl7@y..., Jeff <drumcorps@e...> wrote:
> 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

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