Saturday, January 28, 2006

Why I hate rebates

This isn't meant to be directed towards one company in particular. Its more for the whole rebate system. But here's my story:

I bought a D-Link DI-524 wireless router from Futureshop. It was on sale and had a $20 rebate, so I bought it. The employee who sold me it said something along the lines of "Have you had much luck with these rebates? Because mine usually take months and sometimes I never get them!". I should have taken that as a sign.

I waited 2 weeks to make sure the router was working properly before I cut out the UPC bar code and mailed it in with my properly filled out rebate form in early September 2005. October and November pass with no activity. Finally in mid December I get a post card from D-link telling me that I bought my router outside of the offer date! I'm thinking, "How could Futureshop have printed me a rebate form when the offer had already expired?". So I came storming into Futureshop (or at least thats how I felt in my mind). And explained my problem to a very nice employee at the Courtesy Desk. She called D-link personally and, after about 45 minutes of talking, determined that my rebate receipt was dated 12/09/05. Futureshop prints their dates in the form of Day/Month/Year. D-link read it as Month/Day/Year. So they thought I purchased the router on December 9th 2005 instead of September 12 2005! So they reissued the rebate claim (or so I'm told).

So now its the end of January and I'm still waiting for any indication that I will get my rebate. I'll keep you posted.

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Changed my mind

Ok well Geoff convinced me to not give up on this blog. I may change over to my website at some point but for now I will leave this here. You win this round Geoff!

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Blog moved!

I have moved my blog to my official website. This will be my last post here.