The offer is very interesting. I think I want to buy this notebook

Where can i get a netbook with similar specs for 500$?? Remember that specs are also size and weight!
I personaly thinks that what justifies the price of the Vaio P, is that it is a lot smaller and lighter than the typically netbook – Halfe the weight of my HP 2133, for example! I would categorize the Vaio P as a “Sub-netbook”, and I think it justifies the price, just like “Sub-notebooks” costs a lot more than larger and heavier notebooks.

REBATE ROULETTE!!! You may get it, but is it worth it?

First, let's get this straight… Verizon does not process rebates – they outsource this to a bottom-of-the-barrel company in El Paso, Texas. I have been told that these companies get to keep the rebates that somehow never find there way to customers. Don't act so surprised! Did you really think that Verizon doesn't know exactly which customer bought every phone they sell under what promotion and exactly for how much and when and where they bought it? Of course they do – they're not idiots. So why is the rebate process so convoluted and fraught with missteps?

Bought two Droids on the 2-for-1 offer (subject to a 2-year contract of course). When you dig deeper you find that each phone cost $200 with a $100 rebate per phone if you buy both phones and fill out the rebate forms and include the original UPC sticker cut from the box. Is it just me, or does this already sound unnecessarily complicated?

They gave us one rebate ($100) on a debit card (?) but they said that they never received the other submission. This means that they lost it since we sent both rebate requests via certified mail and we have the delivery receipts. Yeah, yeah yeah – I know they get tens-of-thousands of rebate requests every week: Then why do they use such an archaic method for processing them?

The rebate offer states unequivocally that it must include the UPC label from the box, and they will absolutely NOT accept COPIES of the UPC label, so we mailed in the UPC label from the box. Now they say that we have to re-submit the rebate form and UPC label… So, I ask them, where am I supposed to get a UPC label from if I mailed them the original which they lost? They replied that only ORIGINAL submissions require the original UPC code label. Re-submissions may use a COPY of the UPC label. Ahhhhhhhhhh! You actually can't find that out unless you have this particular complaint as it's not posted anywhere. Also, I asked Verizon about this, and a representative said that copies are definitely not acceptable. So, if I mailed the original UPC label, where do I get a copy of it? You mean that you didn't make a copy of the UPC label?!!! Well, no, actually I didn't because the UPC label doesn't tell you anything unique about the phone that can't simply be written out. I did copy, by hand, the MEIN and SN of the phone off of the label, but what good would a copy of the label be if you state that you won't accept it?

This went on and on ad nauseum – I couldn't afford to spend any more time on it: they won. The constant sing-song of blaming me for not being prepared for their incompetence stands as strong as a wall around the castle bailey – the last line of defense. It's as Schiller stated: “Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain.”

BOTTOM LINE: NEVER fall for a rebate offer. If they can't give you the discount up front, then evaluate the opportunity at the face price without the rebate because there's a very good chance that you'll never see it, and a better chance that the final cost in terms of your time and aggravation will far exceed the value of the rebate.