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[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reading the tag it's saying you can spend $99 to upgrade to the latest model every two years as you would a cellphone, fulfilling the promise of you never having an obsolete pc.

[–] gopher@programming.dev 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fine print. Probably didn't work out well.

Special eMachines™ Upgrade for $99 to eMachines™Network Members Only

Subscribe to the eMachines™ Network for 24 consecutive months and we’ll upgrade your eMachines™ for only $99 (plus shipping)!

Here’s how it works: If you live in the contiguous U.S. or Canada, we’ll contact you after you’ve subscribed to The eMachines™ Network for 24 months and offer to upgrade your eMachines™ PC to whatever processor technology is built into whatever eMachines™ PC you can buy at the time of the upgrade for whatever you paid for your original machine. For example, let’s say your eTower* PC was priced at $399 (not including promotional discount) and runs a 366 MHz processor, but at the time of the upgrade $399 would buy an 800MHz eTower. We’ll upgrade your eTower* to 800MHz.

All you have to do is ship us your PC within 90 days, plus $99 (or Canadian equivalent), proof of purchase and payment for return shipping. We’ll promptly upgrade it and return it. Note: you’ll have to back-up your data to avoid accidental loss, and use the original packaging (we have replacement packaging available). See more detailed information"

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 11 points 1 day ago

whatever eMachines™ PC you can buy at the time of the upgrade for whatever you paid for your original machine

"All our current PC's are priced higher than your was, eat shit"