Dell Announces Music-Player Replacement, Recycling Offer; Customer Choice, Value Center Stage in a New Dell DJ Offer
ROUND ROCK, Texas --(Business Wire)-- June 30, 2004 -- It'll be a bright summer for digital music fans tired of fading batteries.
In "A Deal that Rocks," Dell (Nasdaq:DELL) is offering 15 Gigabyte (GB)(a) Dell(tm) Digital Jukebox (DJ) music players for $99 after mail-in rebate to customers who send in an iPod for recycling for a limited time(b). Customers can also get free DJ shipping, 25 free Musicmatch downloads and a copy of Microsoft(R) Plus! Digital Media Edition and Windows Media Player 9, for a limited time.
The Dell DJ(tm) has up to 20 hours(c) of battery life before needing a charge, about two times that of the iPod(d). DJ users also can choose to download their favorite music from the many MP3 and Windows Media-based download services on the Web.
With A Deal that Rocks, music fans simply buy a 15GB DJ at its regular price of $199, download a $100 mail-in rebate form(e), and send in their completed mail-in rebate form with the discarded iPod to be recycled..
Dell last fall launched 15 and 20 GB versions of the DJ. The players each hold over 7,000 and 9,000 songs(f), respectively. For more information on the DJ, go to www.dell.com/dj.
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(a) One GB equals 1 billion bytes; actual formatted capacity will be less.
(b) Limit one Dell DJ mail in per rebate per customer. Request must be postmarked within 30 calendar days of product ship date. Any claims postmarked after 30 calendar days of product ship date will not be processed. If terms and conditions are not met, rebate will not be sent. Any purchase that is returned or exchanged is no longer eligible for a rebate, and amount of rebate may be deducted from credit for returned item. Only actual purchaser of the qualifying products may participate in this rebate program. This offer can be combined with select other offers.
(c) Battery life is based on continuous play.
(d) Battery life estimates as of 6/24/04. Check Web sites for current information.
(e) Rebate coupon must be postmarked within 30 calendar days of your system ship date and rebate checks are ordinarily processed within 8-10 weeks. See www.dell4me.com/rebates or call 1-800-624-9897 for rebate coupon and details at www.dell4me.com/ADealThatRocks.
(f) Assumes audio format is 64kbps WMA encoding with average song length of four minutes.
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