UberTree: Click a button, get a Christmas tree
Click a button, get a Christmas tree -- in minutes. Maybe.
Uber will kick off a promotion in about 30 minutes for slam-bang delivery of Christmas trees requested by customers through its smartphone app. All you have to do is click the tree icon, set to appear at 11 a.m. And shell out $135.
Uber, an on-demand ride service, warns that your “timing” needs to be right and that there are a limited number of trees. How many?
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An Uber representative in L.A. tweeted the Los Angeles Times on Thursday: “We don’t have the exact numbers but trees are being delivered all over Metro LA and 9 other cities in U.S.”
The UberTree promotion is from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
Here’s what you’ll get, according to Uber, a 7- to 8-foot Fraser fir (San Diego and San Francisco customers get a Noble fir), netted, with a tree stand and unspecified “Uber gift.” The tree is charged to your credit card or whatever is tied to your Uber account.
Also the tree is dropped off at “the first point of entry at your delivery location,” so nobody will be taking it into the living room and adjusting it so the bald spots are all to the back.
Merry Christmas!
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