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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Verizon / November 2005LG rebate scam
Does anyone else have this experience? Sent in the form for the LG rebate and they sent me a letter indicating they never received the UPC code. Well, it was definitely in there but I was in a rush and could not make a copy. Now I can't get the rebate. This is BS!!!!!!!! Companies typically make it very, very difficult to redeam rebates. Learned the hard way on a $50 rebate from Best Buy. I now make copies of everything :) > Does anyone else have this experience? Sent in the form for the LG > rebate and they sent me a letter indicating they never received the UPC > code. Well, it was definitely in there but I was in a rush and could > not make a copy. Now I can't get the rebate. This is BS!!!!!!!! > Companies typically make it very, very difficult to redeam rebates. > Learned the hard way on a $50 rebate from Best Buy. I now make copies > of everything :) I treat Best Buy differently. I pull in a manager and simply inform him I'm willing to pay this price you have marked at this time. I'm 5 for 6 purchases doing this. They CAN bypass the rebate game at the register with the manager's key... I simply tell them I don't play the "Rebate Game" any more, having gotten screwed many times in the past..... You seriously do that? I would never have thought to do something like that but it sounds pretty cool. What did the manager do the first time you did this? Did they look at you like you had 2 heads? What exactly do you say to them? Think it would work at other stores? >> Learned the hard way on a $50 rebate from Best Buy. I now make copies >> of everything :) [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > I simply tell them I don't play the "Rebate Game" any more, having > gotten screwed many times in the past..... You're new here aren't you. -Quick > You seriously do that? I would never have thought to do > something like that but it sounds pretty cool. What did [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >> I simply tell them I don't play the "Rebate Game" any >> more, having gotten screwed many times in the past..... LOL, no I'm not. Really, I just never thought to do that with a rebate. Don't know why but I never thought a store would do that. > You're new here aren't you. > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >>> I simply tell them I don't play the "Rebate Game" any >>> more, having gotten screwed many times in the past..... Well if you don't believe that you are almost surely going to hear about how Larry shoved that lemon of a Skidoo down that dealer's throat... -:) -Quick > LOL, no I'm not. Really, I just never thought to do that > with a rebate. Don't know why but I never thought a store [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >>>> I simply tell them I don't play the "Rebate Game" any >>>> more, having gotten screwed many times in the past..... Oh... Larry's claim goes like this if you want to try at your local chain store. Walk into store and demand to see the manager (have some rebate item already in mind). Do this in a very loud voice so that as many customers as possible notice you. (Be sure to ask for a chair to sit in while you wait -- same loud voice -- tell them that you know they have chairs for the employees in the back room. If you don't get laughed or escorted out of the store and actually get to speak to a manager tell him in no uncertain terms (loudly enough that everyone in the store can hear) that "I DON'T do rebates. I know that you can do a price override. Have one of these young punks run for my item so I can give you the rebate price and be on my way. This is guaranteed to work every time. If by some chance it doesn't work right away come back here and consult "Larry on the law" to join the rebate class action suit brought by Larrys everywhere and Dr. News (they have one state Attorney General on board already). -Quick > Well if you don't believe that you are almost surely going > to hear about how Larry shoved that lemon of a Skidoo [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >>>>> more, having gotten screwed many times in the >>>>> past..... Well, then I guess I'm not as dumb as you think I am. If I didn't even think of doing something like that, then I'm not stupid enough to try. Maybe that other guy is. > Oh... Larry's claim goes like this if you want to try at > your local chain store. [quoted text clipped - 54 lines] >>>>>> more, having gotten screwed many times in the >>>>>> past..... Then you are new here. Apparently you're not familiar with "that other guy", Larry. -Quick > Well, then I guess I'm not as dumb as you think I am. If > I didn't even think of doing something like that, then [quoted text clipped - 59 lines] >>>>>>> any more, having gotten screwed many times in the >>>>>>> past..... "Quick" <quick7135-news@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote in news:se3jf.26458 $Zv5.1156@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net: > Walk into store and demand to see the manager (have > some rebate item already in mind). Bullshit a.shole troll as usual. I never demanded to see anyone...even from Verizon a.sholes. I asked the sales teenager if he would take this price. He was not at a level to make that decision so I asked him to find me a manager who was at that level. I'm never forced to buy electronic toys. The reason I'm typing on a new Best Buy E-machine beast is price. I got the E-machine t-6520 for $549 with no games. I'd have bought the T6524 for $617 if that had been the REAL price, not the $999 and wait weeks and weeks for 4 or 5 rebates begging on some goddamned 800 number when they didn't arrive. $549 was a competitive price with internet websites for a comparibly-equipped Athalon 64 machine. The only real advantage to buying locally is the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Protection Act allows me to return the defective unit to its dealer, instead of its manufacturer IF that dealer is within 2 miles of my home. I live 1.4 miles from Best Buy making them responsible under the act. So, I, not "them", made the decision to buy from the brick and mortar store rather than the remote dealer with only a slightly better price point. Call it an "informed consumer" decision. (Be informed Quick follows any posting of my with his acid rebuttal and has for a long time.) > "Quick" <quick7135-news@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote in > news:se3jf.26458 $Zv5.1156@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net: [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Bullshit a.shole troll as usual. I never demanded to see > anyone...even from Verizon a.sholes. oops, let me quote you from earlier in the thread... "I treat Best Buy differently. I pull in a manager and simply inform him I'm willing to pay this price you have marked at this time. I'm 5 for 6 purchases doing this. They CAN bypass the rebate game at the register with the manager's key..." > (Be informed Quick follows any posting of my with his > acid rebuttal and has for a long time.) I, as others, used to support/tolerate you because you actually contributed some good stuff on antennas. Then you went off the deep end with nothing but bs for at least a year now. Your last post of any interest at all was your recount of moving someone's sail boat up the coast. -Quick > You seriously do that? I would never have thought to do something > like that but it sounds pretty cool. What did the manager do the > first time you did this? Did they look at you like you had 2 heads? > What exactly do you say to them? Think it would work at other stores? I simply say that I'm offering the price marked, in cash, to the store for the purchase of the item offered at that price. I'm not offering to loan Best Buy, or anyone else, an extra 200 dollars to hold onto for weeks or months as a condition to this purchase. I, then, leave it up to them whether they want the business or whether I go buy it from the internet cheaper, anyways. The BUYER, in my case, is always in control. Best buy has nothing I absolutely MUST have to survive living on the surface of the planet. Everything in the store is a luxury item I can live without. Now faced with taking the bait or losing the sale against his month gross, it's up to him to figure out which path is best for the company. Either way is fine with me....(c; > Does anyone else have this experience? Sent in the form for the LG > rebate and they sent me a letter indicating they never received the UPC > code. Well, it was definitely in there but I was in a rush and could > not make a copy. Now I can't get the rebate. This is BS!!!!!!!! > Companies typically make it very, very difficult to redeam rebates. First call the rebate outfit and tell them they are wrong (be forceful). If that does not work call or visit the place where you bought the item and complain to them. YMMV but I have always gotten the money. Lou |
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