My sentiments exactly. It's a bullshit scam and I've had 3 rejected. Dean
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Woods > Sent: Tuesday, 27 September 2005 1:18 PM > To: Discussion about mythtv; John P. Hoke > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Source for drives > > On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 12:54 -0400, John P. Hoke wrote: > > > I have had good luck with outpost.com lately, seagate 400gb drives > > with rebates ... > > This is way OT, but a word of warning: watch out for rebates. It is very > easy for them to just deny paying the rebate, and unless you very > carefully documented every rebate offer you sent in, making copies of > everything and keeping careful track of which receipts went with which > rebate, you're kind of screwed. And doing all that administrative work > is more hassle than a $10 rebate is worth (at least to me it is). Even > then they can deny an appeal. I had one rebate denied (on a Seagate disk > drive, which makes it relevant to this thread) because they claimed that > the original sales receipt was required. Since I already sent them the > original, my appeal was also denied because the receipt I sent on appeal > wasn't the original. The companies that administer the rebates for them > make a lot more money the fewer rebates they actually pay out, so there > is a strong motivation for them to pull this kind of crap. And now, of > course, there is no way for me to prove that I already did send them the > original, and since I no longer have it, I can't send it to them now. > Classic. > > I hate rebates and avoid them like the plague. > > --Greg >
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