Crazy for the Palm Pre

Sprint has pulled a US$100 service credit for new Palm Pre buyers just hours after it made the offer.

(Adds information on the offer being pulled, in the first through fourth paragraphs.) NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) pulled a $100 service credit offer that would have halved the price of the Palm Inc. (PALM) Pre.

This just in from Sprint : After further internal review today, the offer of a port-in service credit of $100 to new customers who buy the Palm Pre has been pulled, because it was put into the system in error. [More to follow ]