On 9/27/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dean Collins</b> <<a href="mailto:Dean@collins.net.pr">Dean@collins.net.pr</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
My sentiments exactly. It's a bullshit scam and I've had 3 rejected.</blockquote><div><br>
Some manufacturers are worse than others. Seagate has been pretty good,
I bought at least 5 of their drives at Fry's over the last year (the
ones in white-and-blue boxes, 5 years warranty) and they always sent
rebates, and pretty quick. Western sent all rebates in the end but some
took several months.<br>
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</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Dean<br><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: <a href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org">
mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:mythtv-users-">mythtv-users-</a><br>> <a href="mailto:bounces@mythtv.org">bounces@mythtv.org</a>] On Behalf Of Greg Woods<br>> Sent: Tuesday, 27 September 2005 1:18 PM
<br>> To: Discussion about mythtv; John P. Hoke<br>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Source for drives<br>><br>> On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 12:54 -0400, John P. Hoke wrote:<br>><br>> > I have had good luck with
<a href="http://outpost.com">outpost.com</a> lately, seagate 400gb drives<br>> > with rebates ...<br>><br>> This is way OT, but a word of warning: watch out for rebates. It is<br>very<br>> easy for them to just deny paying the rebate, and unless you very
<br>> carefully documented every rebate offer you sent in, making copies of<br>> everything and keeping careful track of which receipts went with which<br>> rebate, you're kind of screwed. And doing all that administrative work
<br>> is more hassle than a $10 rebate is worth (at least to me it is). Even<br>> then they can deny an appeal. I had one rebate denied (on a Seagate<br>disk<br>> drive, which makes it relevant to this thread) because they claimed
<br>that<br>> the original sales receipt was required. Since I already sent them the<br>> original, my appeal was also denied because the receipt I sent on<br>appeal<br>> wasn't the original. The companies that administer the rebates for
<br>them<br>> make a lot more money the fewer rebates they actually pay out, so<br>there<br>> is a strong motivation for them to pull this kind of crap. And now, of<br>> course, there is no way for me to prove that I already did send them
<br>the<br>> original, and since I no longer have it, I can't send it to them now.<br>> Classic.<br>><br>> I hate rebates and avoid them like the plague.<br>><br>> --Greg<br>><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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