Release Day Promotions at Microsoft Stores?

[the92playboy]

So to confirm, nobody has found a bundle deal in regards to accessories yet?

 

[Po_MD]

Nobody's found a Surface for the accessories bundle xD

 

[tonyz3]

Nobody's found a Surface for the accessories bundle xD

I can confirm that I did get my 128gb at my local MS store this morning after shoveling 12 inches of snow to get out of my driver.
I did receive the bundle as stated above. $309.00 The additional items were a book. Tshirt- lol and they only charged me an additional $25 for the new surface wedge mouse.

 

[Po_MD]

My local MS store is an hour away..

 

[kittengirl]

I can confirm that I did get my 128gb at my local MS store this morning after shoveling 12 inches of snow to get out of my driver.
I did receive the bundle as stated above. $309.00 The additional items were a book. Tshirt- lol and they only charged me an additional $25 for the new surface wedge mouse.

Interesting on the Wedge discount! Hmm - I may have to check into that and see if I'm due a rebate. I paid full price for that. However, they had two bundles available. For $199, you got a year of Office 365, the Incipio sleeve, a screen protector and the 2-year "Complete" service package. For $100 more, you got a touch cover with that, but since I was getting a Type cover, I went with the lower end one. The funny thing is that sales person didn't know about these bundles until he walked back with me while I picked out a sleeve and saw the sign. He said they had apparently just put the signs out.

My store experience was good. I made a personal shopping appointment for the first slot of the day, since I was not allowed to get a reservation due to the fact that I'm a family member of an employee. When I got to the Seattle store, I was about 70th in line (this was 1/2 hour before opening. And very soon, it appeared that there were about 200 people in line. One of the people next to me in line was an employee of that actual store, so I asked him if he was surprised by the turnout. He said that initially, they had not thought they would have this situation, but then when the demand for the reservation cards was so high that they gave them all out in basically one day, they changed their minds! Since I had the appointment, once they opened, and employee came out and got me so I got to cut the line. I was in and out in 15 minutes. HAPPY. The MS Tech Ready conference just ended last night, so there are employees from all over the world leaving Seattle today, and some of them had the conference shuttles drop them off at the store so they could get in line too. That was pretty funny - they were on their way to the airport so they all had their suitcases with them. There were at least two busses that stopped by - dropping off around a dozen people, I would say. They appeared to be mostly from their Japanese offices. I guess they ran shuttle service over to the store from the conference all week long too (the conference is downtown and the MS store is in a neighborhood about 5 miles northeast of there).


EDIT - well crud - I was just looking at my receipt and see that the extended service plan in this bundle is for the RT, not the Pro (the base rate for the two plans is different) so I'm going to likely have to contact them and pay for an adjustment. It really did seem too good to be true! Oh well. If there's one item I'll pay for an extended service plan on, it's a computer! I've learned from past experience, and been very happy to have had them...