There were 53-hundreds and 6-oh-3-oh’s.
There were 83-hundreds and C-4-oh-no’s.
Yes, what wonderful days and what wonderful claims.
Sometimes products had numbers, sometimes they had weird-sounding names.
There was Cingular, Verizon and AT&T.
And there were other wireless operators that are now history.
You buy one feature phone now, and you get one for free.
Yes, everywhere in the U.S. was BoGo territory.
All mailboxes were stuffed with an offer or two.
We like you so much, so here’s what we’ll do:
Come in today and sign on this line,
then do it again as we had such a good time.
Bring a sister, a friend, a father, a mother.
Two years and a day for one, then the other.
And of course we’re eager to seal the deal,
so we give you some hardware and call it a steal.
Two handsets that could be identical twins,
and we’ll be happy to tell you that it’s you who win-wins.
No, your kindness doesn’t go unrewarded:
two commoditized phones, and you thought you could never afford it.
And so it was about half a decade ago.
My gosh, how the two-fer offers did flow.
But now the smartphone age is now upon us,
and those double-up deals don’t seem quite numerous or plush.
But wait... are BoGos making a comeback?
I admit that I have no real solid stats to back this up, but using eyeball evidence, it really seems to me that the buy-one-get-one offers have dried up quite a bit as operators began pushing higher-end smartphones. I do remember BlackBerry BoGo deals and perhaps a few for Windows Mobile devices. But as the smartphone market exploded, solid two-for offers for Apple and Android phones seemed non-existent.
But now, suddenly, I’ve been seeing more BoGo smartphone deals from American operators. For example, here is one from Sprint. And here was a two-for iPhone offer from Best Buy.
To me, BoGo deals are a solid signal of market commoditization. It’s happening a second time.
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