Another note on this deal: yesterday night I received the phone. I've set it up--I like it. However, when I (following the instructions of the friendly and helpful agent who sold me the phone) tried to enter the rebate code, summer280, at the Nokia Flipswap site, I found the code not valid--just as described a post or two up...

So, I called NokiaUSA and talked first to a salesperson, then a supervisor, then her supervisor, insisting each time that I'd been told that the summer280 code was valid. (The original ad, which I web-clipped, said it was valid 'til Aug 31st! and two different NokiaUSA representatives, both of whom checked with their supervisors, told me over the course of the week of Aug 20th that the summer280 code would be valid for an N900 purchased when I purchased it... sigh.) Each person today told me the code had only been valid on Aug. 13th... Thus putting me out $280. Double sigh!

The end result of this conversation is that the supervisor's supervisor is going to pull up the audio recordings of my sale and double-check that the agent talked with me about the code, which indeed they did. They'll call me back tomorrow. They haven't, though, told me whether (even if the agent did tell me the code was valid) they'll honor the code or no.

If anyone else is in the same situation, I'd love to hear about it. And if you are in that situation and the conversations I have with the Nokia folks offer any information that might be useful to you, I'll try and post them here tomorrow.

Lovely device, but what a pain buying it this way.

Cheers,
Jon