N900 on Amazon USA - 50$ Rebate
 

Look like nokia is giving away a 50 usd rebate if u create a ovi account when u buy the n900

http://maemoarena.com/2009/11/nokia-...-nokia-rebate/

Re: N900 gets a 50 usd rebate on amazon
 

Just had another thought of why I can only find this rebate from Nokia on Amazon's website ( note it's not listed on Nokiausa.com ).

Perhaps Nokia won't be sending Amazon any units till after Christmas and because such, as a conciliation, is giving all Amazon N900 orders an extra $50 off.

It doesn't say on the rebate form that it's solely Amazon, but I'd bet if someone, who ordered from Nokiausa sent in the information they'd get an error processing or not valid response back from Nokia ( had the same issue with my E90, found a rebate form on a different website when I had ordered it through Amazon, rebate form didn't say particular companies were excluded, but after I sent it in, Nokia said I didn't qualify ).

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Hmm... getting close to "impulse buy" levels now...

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Considering the rebate must be postmarked before 1/18/2010, My hope is that Amazon will ship sooner than Christmas. In my experience mail in rebates normally allow for plenty of time for submission on the order of 1-2 months...

If I don't get my N900 before the end of November someone is losing an Eye!

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For anyone else interested, here's Amazon's response about the return policy for the n900.


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In general, we issue a full refund when an item is returned in new condition as long as the carrier receives the returned package within 30 days of the day you received it from us. During the holiday season, we'll accept returns of items shipped between November 1 and December 31, 2009 until January 31, 2010.

Re: N900 gets a 50 usd rebate on amazon
 

Folks, looking more and more like the only places getting these first deliveries are Nokia and their direct market channels (official resellers).

N900 on Amazon USA - 50$ Rebate
 

For all the other folks who purchased (pre-orderd) the n900 on Amazon. com they recently posted a 50$ rebate from nokia. I don't think it is necessarily specific to Amazon purchases...But it IS specific to purchases in the USA

Link:
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/image...227192481_.pdf

Re: N900 gets a 50 usd rebate on amazon
 

And who are these, exactly? The NokiaUSA folks would only say "we do apologize but we have no available list of retailers and Amazon is not an authorized retailer of Nokia".

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I thought that the only "authorized" retailers besides Nokia shops is Dell.

Re: N900 on Amazon USA - 50$ Rebate
 

This is a duplicate thread.

Re: N900 on Amazon USA - 50$ Rebate
 

No way, just like discussed on this one?

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...ht=amazon+n900

Re: N900 gets a 50 usd rebate on amazon
 

This is apparently correct. I thought Newegg was but they are not.

Dell is it in the US.

Re: N900 gets a 50 usd rebate on amazon
 

Yeah and I ordered from newegg. Who knows when they'll ship.

N900 Rebate $50 from Nokia
 

I see the following offer on Amazon (USA) now:

Rebate Offer: Receive $50 from Nokia with this (in-box) mail-in rebate. Offer valid through December 31.

This is very attractive!

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PLEASE USE THE SEARCH BUTTON!

Sorry for yelling. But this is the 3rd thread with more or less the exact same subject.

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Thanks MountainX. I had not come here searching for rebates, so I would have never known if not for you. I appreciate the (re)posting. It's that kind of helpfulness that makes the Maemo community such a pleasure to deal with.

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Threads merged, and for your own sake, please contain all future discussion of this rebate to this one thread. I'm all out of tranq darts for TA-t3.

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Its a bad economy folks. As much as this device kills, the general public does not even know it exists here in the states.

Nokia is taking a viral approach. This takes users and word of mouth. Thus, needing it priced appropriately for consumers in this current market/climate.

If wholesale is truly in the $400's, then this lines up with every discount we have seen here. (Dell, Amazon, Newegg) Unfortunately, for those on the other side of the pond, Nokia has advertising costs and an Apple like allure that builds/firms up the price.

I suspect we will see deals on the N900 throughout the holidays season, then a permanent price cut shortly there after.

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The n900 has to get out of the gate before you can even start selling it. Unless Nokia is intending more people to get on the pre-order rollercoaster for the Christmas holidays :rolleyes:

Anyway though, it was interesting to see how Dell reacted to that coupon knocking the n900 into the $422 range a while back. It seems to indicate that the wholesale price is somewhere between that and $519 (the price Dell was offering before that). Or Dell is uncomfortable with making a teeny tiny profit. I can't imagine the prices being dropped off that quickly though. Maybe by April or May.

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I think it is great that they are making some effort to knock the price down, but they are still talking $500+ with no available subsidy in the US, a market where a lot of the heavily advertised smart-phones can be had for $100-200 under contract. The high entry cost, lack of serious retail brick and mortar presence and no advertising to speak of pretty much consigns the n900 to the Internet Crowd. And lets face it, the Interwebs is one big echo chamber that doesn't interface with the general public to any great degree. If you don't get the N900 in significant numbers of people's hands, you aren't going to attract commercial developers.

Apple has sold 1.6+ million 3g/3gs Iphones.
Verizon sold something like 250,000 of its new Droid phones in the last couple weeks and there are a plethora of other Android offerings now available at low low prices.

Anyone want to take a guess how many n900's Nokia will sell in the US market? Worldwide?

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shopblt.com has ordered 25.000 of the N900. That is a single wholesaler in the US, primarily to smaller stores, and cannot be more than perhaps 1-5%* of the total for Nokia. So Nokia has probably sold at least half a million units already.

* Number completely pulled out of my arse, but hey, Nokia´s not big in the US, Dell has their own thing as well as Amazon and Newegg and Bestbuy and Brightpoint (Nokia) so it can´t be that big of the worldwide marketplace.

Re: N900 on Amazon USA - 50$ Rebate
 

I can't imagine Nokia relying on word of mouth now, especially considering the way they've been with the people who've pre-ordered.

Re: N900 on Amazon USA - 50$ Rebate
 

Note that mobilecityonline also has the $50 rebate. So I think it's possible to assume that the rebate applies to other resellers as well.

A couple things worry me though...It says the device has to be purchased between Nov 16 and Dec 31; I'm assuming that pre-orders do not constitute as a purchase.

Another thing for Canadian buyers. Would this rebate still be applicable if someone buys it using a Canadian credit card but have it shipped to an American address? The terms and conditions states that it is not valid "if it is purchased outside of the United States." But I don't think it is possible to tell if the method of payment is a Canadian or American credit card.

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Retailers only charge your card when you ship the device. Thus if they were to say ship it out today your card would be charged 11/06/09 and your invoice would show you were bought the item that date. So you would probably be eligible for the discount.

Re: N900 on Amazon USA - 50$ Rebate
 

It looks like newegg has a rebate as well. I guess it doesn't matter where you buy the N900, you can still get the rebate.

http://images10.newegg.com/uploadfil...ec3109ls41.pdf

Re: N900 gets a 50 usd rebate on amazon
 

I thought that the only "authorized" retailers besides Nokia shops is Amazon.They offer a cheap price and their service are also good.And recently I came to know that there is a website named AmazingWatcher.Com which is a free website that will “watch” items for you on Amazon and let you know when amazon has them in stock at regular retail price.It got so awesome!
Good luck everybody!:p
http://www.amazingwatcher.com