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May 6

Written by: Justin James
5/6/2008 8:54 PM

I cannot imagine any other IT vendor offering to ship, for free, a server (even pay the shipping & handling both ways!), provide support on it, and let me hold onto it for 60 days. And after all of that, give me a 25% discount if/when I decide to keep it.

Sun is.

http://www.sun.com/specials/g/tryandbuyspecialoffer.xml

I am suddenly reminded of my younger years, when this was essentially the business model that Columbia House followed for cassettes and CDs. Remember their flyers? You send them a penny and select 6 or 10 albums, they send them to you, and you are now a member. Each month they would send you an album if you didn't send the card back, and you had a week or so to decide if you wanted to keep it. Some folks I knew would use the address of a vacant house for the shipments, so they could get free CDs. Me personally, I just used a lot of fake names, since if you closed your account as soon as you fulfilled your commitment, it was a good deal (if you bought more than a CD or two past your commitment, it was a bad deal, since they charge so much for each album, plus S/H).

In any event, I am almost tempted to take them up on this offer, if not for nothing else than to check out their latest products.

J.Ja

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8 comments so far...

Columbia House? Man you're taking me back!

Lol, I remember taking advantage of those deals along with my roomate to get some cheap CDs. This was before you could pirate music via P2P and before the days of broadband.

By host on   5/7/2008 12:13 AM

Re: Is Sun the Columbia House of servers?

I believe they have this at Wal-Mart. Yeh, that's right. ;)

By dietrich on   5/7/2008 6:08 AM

Re: Is Sun the Columbia House of servers?

WalMart isn't *quite* that all encompasing. Yet. :)

J.Ja

By jmjames on   5/7/2008 8:20 AM

My new idea for a temporary boost of my folding farm++++

Now I never again have to buy a computer to cure cancer.

By nuCrash on   5/7/2008 8:37 AM

Re: Is Sun the Columbia House of servers?

I hope you have a few thousand different addresses to mail them to! :)

J.Ja

By jmjames on   5/7/2008 9:24 AM

CH made you pay to ship back though, didn't they?

This is class. Except I'm in a part of Europe where it's not available. They list Great Britain, but not Northern Ireland. Oh well. *chuckle*

By mattohare on   5/7/2008 9:54 AM

Problem resolved...

One Large Blade Center and away we go. Not for sure where I am going to wire in the 220 though.

By nuCrash on   5/7/2008 10:04 AM

Re: Is Sun the Columbia House of servers?

If you didn't open it (at least in the US), you could write "Return to Sender" on the box and it would go back for free. If you *did* open it, you learned to become an expert at either obfuscating the original "to" address (so the Post Office couldn't bring it back to you), or re-sealing it so it looked unopened. Wow, I am suddenly remembering my youthful willingness to bend/stretch rules and laws all too well now!

That's a shame about them not covering your area, I wonder why that is? In any event, good to have you here!

J.Ja

By jmjames on   5/7/2008 10:16 AM

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