Best Buy was so keen to encourage punters to its Christmas sales it offered
them free software if they bought a CD from certain Interscope musicians.
According to the adverts if you bought the CD you could download Tweetdeck for
iPhone absolutely free. Gosh, what a generous deal. Of course you could
only get the software Free if you bought it with selected CD's but what did
punters expect? After all it is part of a promotion it wouldn't be free
if you could buy what you liked would it?
The answer is actually yes. Tweetdeck is totally free and you can
download it from the world wide wibble without hurting your holiday spending
money at all. To make matters worse the custom version of Tweetdeck comes pre-loaded
following sixteen Interscope musicians, so it's even less of a deal.
Not surprisingly the
Consumerist Magazine has dubbed the outfit “Worst Buy” .