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Old 01-19-2012, 02:45 PM   #981
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Originally Posted by geoffwood View Post
Amazon gave you a discount on the device in exchange for advertising. They may call them "special offers" but they are advertisements. It's not a good business model to give people a discount upfront just in order to give them even more discounts as time goes buy.
Au contraire, they gave both a device discount and future exclusive discounts in exchange for displaying ads. But that was then and this is now. The Special Offers are slowing down. I suspect Amazon has reached a saturation point and we'll see fewer SO's as people no longer need to be enticed with additional incentives to buy these very low priced ad supported models.
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