Re: Belkin F5D7230-4 for $20(after rebates) at Compusa if purchased by 22nd(yes, day after today)

	I think i read that same article.  Anyone buy one of these, & have 
success getting their dough?  I always get cautious & send in my rebate 
w/delivery confirmation or what have you.
	I have a love/hate relationdhip w/compusa, I love their range of 
products(Have you seen those gonzo 7db Linksys omni antennas, Comp's 
got their own brand which are these crazy 9db omnis, you'll have to put 
a bible on top of your WRT54G to keep it in the horizontal) but hate 
them patting me down on the way out & the "we don't give a frig vibe".  
I've been in there & some alarm attached to a PDA or whatever went off. 
  No one did anything about it for at least 10 minutes, I would swear it 
was more, but don't want to sound like I'm exaggerating.
	I was in there last week they had 512mb PC2700 SODIMM, PNY memory for  
$89.99 w/an instant rebate plus, of course, some mail in rebate.  I was 
down with half a gig of RAM for about $50 or less, later I check my 
receipt & see that I was charged $119.99, the cashier had managed to 
add $30 not subtract.  And now that I think about last night I had a 
coupon for $5 any purchase of $25 or more when they guy rang me up(I 
was only getting the Belkin) after returning the aforementioned RAM, & 
the cashier overwhelmed by the coupon rang me up the router twice.  I 
had too point out the mistake, otherwise I'm sure they would have let 
me walk out of there.  Sorry, now I'll have inadvertently started a 
CompUSA nightmare thread.  I just wanted to give a cautionary tale... 
or two.

On Jan 21, 2005, at 9:55 AM, Ryan Hodges wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 06:36:49 -0800, crispin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>         Check out their website for all the details.  Have to 
>> purchase by
>> 22nd, but you have until next month to send the rebates in the mail.
>> I just purchased one today, it was the 2000 model, which I though was
>> great in that to take a look at the board, you didn't have to break 
>> any
>> seals or stickers(thereby voiding your warranty).  Just thought I'd 
>> put
>> this out there for ant wanting to make a mad dash.  One per customer,
>> family, address etc.,
>>
>
> I read an article a while back about this rebate BS all the stores are
> doing now and it rated several of the larger ones such as CompUSA
> which happened to receive a very poor score on success rate of
> actually getting your rebate back.  CompUSA, Officemax and a few
> others had outsourced their rebate handling to one company in
> particular that was the worst about it.
>
> I've personally had 3 rebates never returned to me and one was from
> CompUSA for some dvd-R's (which are horrible) and two from OfficeMax.
>
> They might have changed companies to handle their rebates by now but
> I'll never purchase a product from them that has rebates to be
> processed.
>
> Just my 2cents.
>
> Ryan
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