[dafischer]

With yesterday's mail, we got a "Happy New Year" card from Dell, (I guess they like us since we bought a honker of a system for the business last year) urging us to "Celebrate the New Year with special savings from Dell". $20 off accessories purchase over $200, and 20% off desktops and notebooks over $999...time to pick up that additional note book we've been thinking of.

Long story short, go to check out and apply the discount code, and WTF?....5% off! Pick up the phone, call Dell to ask what the deal is, and get to listen to come smug little snot explain to me that the card was a "marketing error". And no, they don't have to honor that discount, because if I read their legalese, Item #12, paragraph 16, subclause 12, sentence 16, I'll clearly see that they are not responsible for making good on "marketing errors".

Needless to say, cancelled the order, and as I'm hanging up on him, I can hear the perky twit asking if there's anything else he can do for me today.

Is it just me, or does this sound like a classic bait and switch?

Anyway, I'll share the codes out of spite:

$20 off is: PSCHN6680TH5D2
5% (not 20%) off is: 9?CR79?CLTN2LV

Pass them around...they're good till 01/31/06. Maybe they won't give the 20%, but maybe a lot of people will make it up in volume.