Screwed by Canon Rebate

Charter is now limiting x-posting to 4 groups. Bummer.

m II wrote:

John wrote:
I know that the institution of rebates is meant to rip you off so I'm
quite anal about paying attention to the details and ALWAYS sending in
the rebate with delivery confirmation. The delivery confirmation at
least minimizes the "Sorry, we never received your rebate" or "Sorry, we
didn't receive your rebate in time" excuses.

I read the rebate forms several times looking for the "gotcha's". I know
I go through way more trouble than I should for $20-$50 but it's the
principle. They make it as annoying as possible to claim a rebate so
that most people won't bother. I'm the one that bothers.

I send in my rebate to Canon along with all the rebate form, purchase
receipt and I cut out the UPC code from the box and put that in the
envelope. My new tactic is to use wide tape and tape the UPC code to
the rebate form.

I always staple the UPC to the receipt and staple the whole mass of paper
together.

I checked on my rebate status just now.

Error(s): An original qualifying UPC was not included

Yep. No matter how hard I tried, Canon still managed to screw me over.

Since they want "an original" qualifying UPC", my copy won't suffice.

Canon, the next time I'm in the market for a product I'll remember this
incident.

I had a similar problem, but it worked out OK. It seems that the data entry
droid had fed in the wrong offer number, so the UPC didn't match. I got a
rejection slip that made no sense (I hadn't bought that brand thingy from
that store) so I called. The phone-guy figured out what happened and when
I read out parts of the actual rebate slip (which I had OF COURSE copied) he
authorized the check on the spot and it came within a week.

Maxtor hard drives screwed me out of a 40 dollar rebate a few years ago.
I haven't bought another one since.

Did you phone Canon or Maxtor? Phoning works. Sometimes they mail the
check to the wrong address (dumb data entry droid again).

Partition Magic, a software program from Symantec Corp. screwed me out
of a fifty dollar rebate. I haven't bought ANY Symantec software since
and sold my copy of Partition magic for twenty dollars. That cost them a
sale. I hope a software pirate bought it.

I'm eager to share my misfortunes with anyone who will listen. Word of
mouth advertising will do more harm to these thieves than anything else.

I bought something at Fry's last year. When I contacted the company about
my missing $5 rebate, they said I'd included the 'rebate receipt' instead of
the actual regular receipt and denied my claim. I took all my paperwork to
Fry's, who called the company and sent me a $5 gift certificate when the
company confirmed my story.

I want that company (KWorld in Irvine, CA) to go belly up really badly.
They're apparently a world-wide company, with this particular office
composed of cheesy sons of bitches.

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Cheers, Bev
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