Now that the hounds of publicity have been released, lets cover the fine points of what this promotion is and better yet how to qualify
The Great Appliance Exchange AKA "Cash For Clunkers" is a Federally sponsored stimulus package. It mandates $250 for qualifying dishwashers, $200 for qualifying refrigerators, $175 for qualifying washers and $50 for qualifying freezers from April 22-May 5. It is an exchange program meaning you buy a qualifying EnergyStar product for your old inefficient products
Couple of fine points:
1. You must register at masssave.com or 1-877 Ma Swap at 10 am Thursday April 22
2. You must register multiple times for multiple products
3. Purchases must be consummated in store, not online or on the phone
4. If you register for a particular product, you cannot apply it to another product
5. Product must be delivered by a qualifying dealer...Customer cannot pickup(Not our rules, sorry)
6. The program ends when the money is depleted
The skinny AKA My Advice AKA Do this please
1. Be First on Masssave or 1-877-masswap1
2. Be first in choosing products. We are amongst the last state to execute this program. The manufacturers have shortages due to demand
3. Be first on delivery...Trucks will be bogged down
4. Fill out the paperwork properly
Look at our website at Yaleappliance.com for more information...Good luck tomorrow. It will be interesting
will the 877 # be connected at 10? right now it says that number is not in service...thought there would be a recording to tell you to call back at 10
ReplyDeletewhat a waste of time ...website crashed, phone does not answer,
ReplyDeleteAnother screw up by Patrick and Bowles
we all have better things to do than deal with this admionistrative incompetence.
website is very busy and can only connect a certain number of calls. I got through after trying for an hour and now have my reservation number At 11 am half of the money was gone
ReplyDeleteI have tried since 10am and the site has been shut down. This just shows you how government works, for the people who pay the taxes. By the way, as of 12 o'clock,all the money is gone! Again, the hacks dropped the ball!
ReplyDeletewaste of time money is almost gone, now
ReplyDeletestill cant get through, bought washer and fridge, but money is almost gone, will return for credit, was of time.
ReplyDeletetried for 3 hours on masswap1.com and cant even connect to site. i will have to try another way to get money out of the gov. this sucks everyone should have until may 5 to purchase. half the idiots will not even use their voucher.
ReplyDeleteLooks like this promotion was not too well planed. Or it was planed so well to benefit YALE ELECTRIC.
ReplyDeleteIt doesnt benefit me when people are shut out of any promotion...They no longer are customers, so pretty much the opposite is true
ReplyDeleteI can't believe people are saying they tried to connect non-stop and then saying the governor of all people is wasting taxpayer money since, essentially, they personally could not connect. Geniuses: if you were trying to connect non-stop, EVERYONE was. Did you want them to hire 50,000 operators? Then you'd all whine even more about wasted money, and you'd STILL BE ON HOLD. Sure there were glitches, big ones that have nothing at all to do with Deval Patrick, but quit whining, because in the end this program will have the GREAT benefits it was supposed to. It was going to be a zoo no matter what. A million calls!!!
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