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How to buy your Zune half price |
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Written by Kostas Tzounopoulos
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Monday, 02 April 2007 |
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Before continue reading, Yes there is a catch here. You can get your Zune 50% off its retail price (for $125) but you'll have to signup with 3 sponsors of the site. But in case you are interested in a couple of them you shouldn't miss this on HalfMania. EDIT: Read the user comments below, maybe things are not as good as they seem...
HalfMania is a website offering normal products in half price. The rest is paid by sponsors. For example if you want to apply for a Black Zune you will pay $124.99 and you'll have to sign up with 3 of their sponsors. In level 1 there are 16 available sponsors. Level 2 has 7 sponsors and Level 3 has only 4 sponsors. You should know Zune's suggested price is $249.99 but currently in the market costs about $220-230 and you can find it on some retailers for as low as $199 . If you don't care if this is a returned, opened product, from another customer the price can go even lower to $179 . So before going for Half Price, check if you are interested in the offered sponsors, because at the end it may cost you more than normal price! Zune products page
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Last Updated ( Monday, 23 April 2007 )
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My brother had the same experience, as have others who I've found on the web. Some people who don't know any better speculate that Halfmania can afford to do what they do because advertisers give them so much money that they can pay for half the product themselves. I think they can afford it because they don't bother sending the product. I signed up for this thing, and the only thing that happened is that I LOST money on things I DIDN'T want and never got what I DID want.
Their terms and conditions pretty much relieve them of responsibility for holding up their end of the deal in any situation, but if they can say that your offers were never verified, they're even more free and clear. Relevant portion of terms and conditions below (the original has no bolding):
(b) Failure to be credited for an Offer
(i) HalfMania does not guarantee that a User will receive credit for an offer. We reserve the right to refuse crediting a User for an offer completion for a variety of reasons, including, but not limited to, unsuccessfully completing an offer within 90 days of receiving initial offer credit, lack of appropriate information, improper sign-up method, improper browser settings, failure to meet advertiser/offer requirements and/or a history of manual credits issued. Manual credits are offers that are credited through emailing confirmation of completion.
(ii) We are not responsible for delays in reporting offer completion or failure to receive offer credit. (smooth loophole) The time it takes to receive credit varies greatly.
(iii) The User is responsible for saving all of the confirmation emails they receive associated with offer completion. We will not manually credit a User for an offer without receiving a confirmation email from the User. A confirmation email is an email that a User receives from an offer provider after their offer requirements have been fully satisfied. However, presenting a confirmation email does not guarantee that a User will receive credit.
(iv) If a User believes that they have fully completed an offer and yet, has not been credited, the User should once again make sure that they have in fact met all of the requirements stipulated by the offer provider and should verify that he or she has waited the appropriate amount of time for offer completion to be reported back to this website (this amount of time varies per offer). If the User confirms that they have performed all of the necessary actions, and have waited a sufficiently appropriate period of time, he or she should contact us via our customer service form on our website (to which they never reply!). The User should note, however, that HalfMania reserves the right to deny credit for an offer.