Sprint’s 100$ credit – whac a mole, reloaded

We know why we were skeptic about the recent rumors of a rebate for the Pre – it turned out to be yet another instance of Palmary whac-a-mole.

Reuters reports the following:

Sprint Nextel Corp on Tuesday withdrew an offer on its Web site of a $100 service credit for new subscribers that buy a Palm Inc Pre smartphone, saying it was published in error.

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“The offer of a port-in service credit of $100 to new customers who buy the Palm Pre has been pulled, because it was put into the system in error,” Fisher said.

For us, this translates into a 200$ Pre and no interesting changes. Palm and Sprint, on the other hand, most definitely got a nice bit of free press…

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