[MacDV] Re: $80 120Gb drive at circuit city

[Gerhard]

The reason they don't mark the product down is because they can
advertise the low price knowing that a large percentage of purchasers
will not bother with the rebate forms. Companies also take advantage to
do some consumers surveys since people will fill out the questionnaire
to receive $50 were they probably would not to register a newly bought
item.  
Personally I have been lucky on getting my rebates the only thing is
they take the maximum time to send your rebate.

Gerhard Kuhn
suspice at hay.net


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Sent: May 4, 2003 4:29 PM
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Subject: [MacDV] Re: $80 120Gb drive at circuit city

on 5/4/03 11:48 AM, ShirleyK at ShirleyKat at cox.net wrote:

> How do the rest of you fare when it comes to actually getting rebates?
> I just got a post card from Canon saying I would not be getting a
> rebate because I didn't include the original UPC. Of course I did
> include it and I have a scan of exactly what I sent as well as the
hole
> in my box. But so far, my batting average is far from 100% in getting
> rebates.
> 
> I personally think this whole rebate thing is ripe for some
> investigation into some very shoddy practices. For one thing, if you
> live in an area that the Post Office does not deliver to, you have to
> get a PO Box to get any mail at all. Almost all rebate forms say they
> will not send a check to a PO Box. In the case of the ZR40 rebate, I
> didn't even know there was a rebate and I didn't know how much it was,
> so I decided to use the PO Box anyway and tell them that this is a
home
> address and the box number was required. I suspect that is the real
> reason I got the post card and they just have a standard card that
uses
> "no original UPC" as the reason for everything.
> 
> At any rate, I am no longer swayed by the promise of a rebate.
> 
> Shirley

I agree.  They're time intensive, Comp USA makes them contradictory and
drawn - out.  ("Music Lovers' Pack" had three items requiring the
original
UPC from one of the items!)

Although I've always gotten my rebates, I'm taking most of this stuff
back
to comp USA.  The items are not worth the effort.

They should just mark em down on temp sales and that's that.