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Amazon will pay you 5 dollars to walk out of the store
This is getting brutal. Amazon.com the 5 trillion ton internet marketing gorilla has come up with yet another ploy to attract consumers to their website. As you might know, Amazon sells everything already; more books than anybody, just about anything else you could imagine. But they still want more. Lots more. It won’t be enough for every person in the world to have the Amazon Kindle eBook reader. No, now they want us all to have 5 dollars… click HERE:
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By Marketing
December 6, 2011 2:07 PM | Link to this
Of course it’s a ploy. They are a for-profit business, and doing a good job of it. They are trying to find new innovative ways to grow their client base. I’ll take $5 for something I was going to buy anyway.
By Run Forest Run
December 6, 2011 1:55 PM | Link to this
You have to buy something to get it. By walking out of the store you will not just get the $5. Ploy.
By lmj
December 6, 2011 1:47 PM | Link to this
I’m old(er). I’m unemployed and my husband is too. I have made it a mission of mine, since the closing of our local bookstore earlier this year, to direct people to brick and mortar stores to find books. Most books that people who ask me about can be found through WalMart, Kroger or Target stores in local communities which are employing locals and paying local taxes.