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Paperwhite with no special offers?
Hi Community,
I picked up a PW on sale at Radio Shack. The original sticker price was $119, so I assume it was supposed to be a special offers model. However it does not have special offers. I wondered if it might have been because it's registered to my under-13 son's account and they don't put adds on kids devices or something? But I'd never heard of that, so I don't know what's up. Is there a way to tell from serial numbers or something if a device was initially a SO or not? Or am I just out of touch for too long and I'm missing something obvious? Thanks, ApK |
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If you want the special offers, and you have a non-SO model, you can turn them on and off via Manage Your Devices.
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I know. I just expected to have them because of the price and was surprised that I didn't. Not complaining, just curious to look in the mouth of this little gift horse I seem to have been given.
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The person who bought the PW for $119 might have cancelled the ads and paid to upgrade to the "no special offers" on line.
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Knowing Ratshack they probably had it mislabeled. If it isn't a cellular phone they probably didn't know what it was.
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Well lucky me then if that's so. Is there a way to tell from the box if it was supposed to be an SO unit or not?
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Not sure about retail like Radio Shack, but directly from Amazon the boxes are identical whether they are SO or not. At least my Voyages were generic - they been originally SO when ordered.
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