[mythtv-users] Source for drives

[Dean Collins]

My sentiments exactly. It's a bullshit scam and I've had 3 rejected.

Dean

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] 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
>