WARNING: SanDisk Rebate Scam

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I bought Turbo Tax and SanDisk Micro Cruzer from Office Depot last
Thanksgiving and sent in the rebate fome (Office Depot printed) in the
same day. I received a postcard five weeks later that claimed that
"Your Submission did not include an original UPC from a qualifying
SanDisk product". I called SanDisk rebate center and they said SanDisk
Micro Cruzer is *NOT* qualified for rebate and asked me to contact
Office Depot (you know the rest of the story).

I should have known better since the only file (encrypt.exe) in SanDisk
contained a virus (caught by Sophos). Lesson learned, you could never
trust rebate even if it is printed in black-and-white (I kept rebate,
UPC copies as instructed).

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I too ignore rebates. I even mention that to salesmen when they try to
pitch them, "You get a $100 rebate on this..." I reply, "BULLSHIT!" In
fact I now even lean toward the non-rebate product even if it costs more.
At least they are honest with the price. Like the newspaper ad for the car
at only $35,000. When you get to the dealer, "Oh we sold that ONE but we
have others at $40K."


"Sheldon" <sheldon@XXXXXXXXsopris.net> wrote in message
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>
> <shinn.wu@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1112581329.476052.270520@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
>>I bought Turbo Tax and SanDisk Micro Cruzer from Office Depot last
>> Thanksgiving and sent in the rebate fome (Office Depot printed) in the
>> same day. I received a postcard five weeks later that claimed that
>> "Your Submission did not include an original UPC from a qualifying
>> SanDisk product". I called SanDisk rebate center and they said SanDisk
>> Micro Cruzer is *NOT* qualified for rebate and asked me to contact
>> Office Depot (you know the rest of the story).
>>
>> I should have known better since the only file (encrypt.exe) in SanDisk
>> contained a virus (caught by Sophos). Lesson learned, you could never
>> trust rebate even if it is printed in black-and-white (I kept rebate,
>> UPC copies as instructed).
>
> While not right, I stopped buying things based on getting a rebate. For
> big numbers I send the rebate in with a return receipt. For the rest I
> just pray a lot. I'm still waiting for a rebate from SanDisk and one from
> Nikon.
>

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Only $35,000 for a car?I wanted to buy a Fiat Punto Van, which is necessary
for me (to carry all my equipment for work) and it cost 12,000 euro, which I
find outrageous for a professional's car.And it was the smallest
displacement version, and gas, not diesel!

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> I too ignore rebates. I even mention that to salesmen when they try to
> pitch them, "You get a $100 rebate on this..." I reply, "BULLSHIT!" In
> fact I now even lean toward the non-rebate product even if it costs more.
> At least they are honest with the price. Like the newspaper ad for the
car
> at only $35,000. When you get to the dealer, "Oh we sold that ONE but we
> have others at $40K."
>
>
> "Sheldon" <sheldon@XXXXXXXXsopris.net> wrote in message
> news:z62dnUxcX_irLc3fRVn-rw@comcast.com...
> >
> > <shinn.wu@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:1112581329.476052.270520@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> >>I bought Turbo Tax and SanDisk Micro Cruzer from Office Depot last
> >> Thanksgiving and sent in the rebate fome (Office Depot printed) in the
> >> same day. I received a postcard five weeks later that claimed that
> >> "Your Submission did not include an original UPC from a qualifying
> >> SanDisk product". I called SanDisk rebate center and they said SanDisk
> >> Micro Cruzer is *NOT* qualified for rebate and asked me to contact
> >> Office Depot (you know the rest of the story).
> >>
> >> I should have known better since the only file (encrypt.exe) in SanDisk
> >> contained a virus (caught by Sophos). Lesson learned, you could never
> >> trust rebate even if it is printed in black-and-white (I kept rebate,
> >> UPC copies as instructed).
> >
> > While not right, I stopped buying things based on getting a rebate. For
> > big numbers I send the rebate in with a return receipt. For the rest I
> > just pray a lot. I'm still waiting for a rebate from SanDisk and one
from
> > Nikon.
> >
>
>

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On 3 Apr 2005 19:22:09 -0700, shinn.wu@gmail.com wrote:
>I bought Turbo Tax and SanDisk Micro Cruzer from Office Depot last
>Thanksgiving and sent in the rebate fome (Office Depot printed) in the
>same day. I received a postcard five weeks later that claimed that
>"Your Submission did not include an original UPC from a qualifying
>SanDisk product". I called SanDisk rebate center and they said SanDisk
>Micro Cruzer is *NOT* qualified for rebate and asked me to contact
>Office Depot (you know the rest of the story).
>
>I should have known better since the only file (encrypt.exe) in SanDisk
>contained a virus (caught by Sophos). Lesson learned, you could never
>trust rebate even if it is printed in black-and-white (I kept rebate,
>UPC copies as instructed).
Perhaps a complaint to your local BBB would be in order. Especially since you
have the original rebate form (which I presume says that the product does indeed
qualify).

Actually, your local state or federal consumer relations/protection agency may
also be interested in such questionable practices too.

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<shinn.wu@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I bought Turbo Tax and SanDisk Micro Cruzer from Office Depot last
> Thanksgiving and sent in the rebate fome (Office Depot printed) in the
> same day. I received a postcard five weeks later that claimed that
> "Your Submission did not include an original UPC from a qualifying
> SanDisk product". I called SanDisk rebate center and they said SanDisk
> Micro Cruzer is *NOT* qualified for rebate and asked me to contact
> Office Depot (you know the rest of the story).
>
> I should have known better since the only file (encrypt.exe) in SanDisk
> contained a virus (caught by Sophos). Lesson learned, you could never
> trust rebate even if it is printed in black-and-white (I kept rebate,
> UPC copies as instructed).
>
While I'm not crazy about rebates, I've gotten the check from every one I've
sent in. Allways follow the instruction to the T. A few years back, there
were scams. If you followed the instructions properly, I would complain.
John

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Kodak did this to me three times. After sending UPC, invoice ... just
nothing. The rebate was 10$C for three rolls of film so I guessed the
long distance calls would eat up much of it. From now on every time
shopping at walmart I head straight to the Fuji section.

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Greetings Thitilir,

Sorry to you did not get to take advantage of a special offer? Can you send
me your particulars? I will review and see what happened. We certainly do
not want you to go away unhappy. Of course there may be a chance that for
whatever reason, the offer did not work for you. I will try to sort it out
for you.

Talk to you soon,

Ron Baird
Eastman Kodak Company


<thithilir3r@jetable.org> wrote in message
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> Kodak did this to me three times. After sending UPC, invoice ... just
> nothing. The rebate was 10$C for three rolls of film so I guessed the
> long distance calls would eat up much of it. From now on every time
> shopping at walmart I head straight to the Fuji section.
>

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Same thing happened to me, Kodak claimed I had not sent the UPC... Pepsi did
the same too, I drink Coke.

Jean

"Ronald Baird" <ronbaird@kodak.com> a écrit dans le message de
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> Greetings Thitilir,
>
> Sorry to you did not get to take advantage of a special offer? Can you
send
> me your particulars? I will review and see what happened. We certainly do
> not want you to go away unhappy. Of course there may be a chance that for
> whatever reason, the offer did not work for you. I will try to sort it
out
> for you.
>
> Talk to you soon,
>
> Ron Baird
> Eastman Kodak Company
>
>
> <thithilir3r@jetable.org> wrote in message
> news:1112719902.197605.21820@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > Kodak did this to me three times. After sending UPC, invoice ... just
> > nothing. The rebate was 10$C for three rolls of film so I guessed the
> > long distance calls would eat up much of it. From now on every time
> > shopping at walmart I head straight to the Fuji section.
> >
>
>

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On 10 Apr 2005 16:04:21 -0700, shinn.wu@gmail.com wrote:

>Hi Ron,
>
>Sandisk Micro Cruzer is thumb drive (USB drive).
>
>The scam was that Office Depot printed out the rebate form clearly
>saying that purchasing TurboxTax and the SanDisk qualified for the
>rebate (I saw ad on Los Angeles Times on Thanksgiving so I went to buy
>TurboTax and thumb drive), but SanDisk refused to honor the rebate by
>telling me that it's not qualified. I did everything that was required
>and made a copy. I sent complain to Office Depot but no use. So I am
>going to follow Stacy's suggestion to go to Office Depot to ask.
>
>I have sent many rebate forms but this is the first time I got conned.
>Kodak has better service since they have people monitoring the net.
>
>Shinn
>

I got similarly screwed by Lexar. I bought a SD card from Adorama,
then they sent me this note:

>> Thank you for contacting Lexar. We're sorry for the
inconvenience that our rebate has caused you. The reason why you were
denied was because Amazon was not authorized to run the Shoot Like a
Pro rebate promotion and neither was Adorama. Please follow up with
Adorama if they were posting this rebate illegally on their site. For
a list of authoized retailers please go to www.rebate-zone.com/lexar.
If you have further questions, please contact 866-251-9541. <<

Of course Adorama is prominantly listed as a dealer. I'm done with
Lexar.

Kurt