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A special electronics show aimed at enticing people in Taiwan into spending special economic stimulus vouchers ended Monday in Taipei with many people picking up new gadgets on the cheap.
The Taiwan government last month started handing out NT$3,600 in vouchers to every citizen in the nation to stimulate the consumption. The multi-billion dollar program was aimed at stimulating growth by getting people out and shopping. To that end, the government gave vouchers to ensure people used them ahead of their expiration dates in September, instead of handing out cash that might be put in the bank.
The voucher program prompted fair organizers in Taipei to open a 3C
(computers, consumer electronics and communications) shopping
exhibition at the Taipei World Trade Center.
Each day, people were enticed to the event by offers of desktop PCs
for a set of vouchers from one adult, or NT$3,600 or laptops for
NT$7,200.
Not everyone got such great deals, however. These deals were
designed to bring people to the show and were limited to 20
desktops and 10 laptops, including Asustek Computer's Eee Box
mini-desktops and Asustek Eee PC 904HA netbooks on the laptop side.
Hewlett-Packard offered among the best deals of the show, HP
Officejet L7590 all-in-one printers, which normally retail for
around NT$13,999 in Taiwan, for just NT$3,600 at the show.
The voucher program in Taiwan is similar to the program the U.S.
launched last year to stimulate shopping via US$600 tax rebates.