[mythtv-users] Source for drives

[Fedor Pikus]

On 9/27/05, Dean Collins <Dean at collins.net.pr> wrote:
>
> My sentiments exactly. It's a bullshit scam and I've had 3 rejected.


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.



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 <http://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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