Good deal on Corsair memory

If anyone's interested:

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...5-5&ps=homain1

2GB for $67 less $30 MIR

MIR's suck. The NY Times had an investigative report about rebates maybe a year
ago. The deals between sellers and the rebate clearing houses establish quotas
for rebates that will be honored, and, yes, not 100%. So the rebate clearing
houses find every excuse possible to reject a rebate. If 2GB for $67 without
rebate is a good seal, go for it and consider the $30 a gift when received...
Ben Myers

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:37:50 -0500, Tony Harding wrote:

If anyone's interested:

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...5-5&ps=homain1

2GB for $67 less $30 MIR

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:02:24 -0500, Ben Myers
wrote:

MIR's suck. The NY Times had an investigative report about rebates maybe a year
ago. The deals between sellers and the rebate clearing houses establish quotas
for rebates that will be honored, and, yes, not 100%. So the rebate clearing
houses find every excuse possible to reject a rebate. If 2GB for $67 without
rebate is a good seal, go for it and consider the $30 a gift when received...
Ben Myers


Ben, good advice. I'm going to be dealing with a rebate now but I try
to avoid them if possible. I've had good luck with all, but one of
them did lie to me until I was able to proof my case (certif. mail).
Aside from whether you get them is that they purposely (I think) take
8 to 10 weeks to come back to you which to me is ridiculous. I
suppose they hope you will forget (even if you sent the proper paper
work) so should they not pay you, you do nothing and they benefit from
your loss.

I've read and started to see a lot of vendors trying to get away from
the rebates and seem to even advertise a plug about this, in their
ads. Anyway Ben, your advice is best. Try to avoid them if possible
and if not, your gift idea is worthy.

Only successful rebates for me have been with Staples, twice. At least they do
not make you fuss with mailing in receipts and filling in and mailing stupid
forms. Instead, they have an online rebate system where you enter in the
serial number of the receipt plus your name and address. One time the rebate
check arrived pretty quickly. The second time, after a couple months the rebate
check still had not arrive, so I went online to their web site and nagged them.
Voila! Like magic, the check appeared 4 or 5 days later. Even so, I bought at
Staples only because they had good prices without rebate... Ben Myers

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:20:08 -0600, RnR wrote:

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:02:24 -0500, Ben Myers
wrote:

MIR's suck. The NY Times had an investigative report about rebates maybe a year
ago. The deals between sellers and the rebate clearing houses establish quotas
for rebates that will be honored, and, yes, not 100%. So the rebate clearing
houses find every excuse possible to reject a rebate. If 2GB for $67 without
rebate is a good seal, go for it and consider the $30 a gift when received...
Ben Myers


Ben, good advice. I'm going to be dealing with a rebate now but I try
to avoid them if possible. I've had good luck with all, but one of
them did lie to me until I was able to proof my case (certif. mail).
Aside from whether you get them is that they purposely (I think) take
8 to 10 weeks to come back to you which to me is ridiculous. I
suppose they hope you will forget (even if you sent the proper paper
work) so should they not pay you, you do nothing and they benefit from
your loss.

I've read and started to see a lot of vendors trying to get away from
the rebates and seem to even advertise a plug about this, in their
ads. Anyway Ben, your advice is best. Try to avoid them if possible
and if not, your gift idea is worthy.

Only successful rebates for me have been with Staples, twice.

Staples indeed the easiest, but others work fine. I can never
understand why folks have so many problems. I like the cheap
cash-out-the-door price as much as anyone, but I have done at least
100 rebates over the years. I recall 4 problems (Samsung Printer,
Symantec, Staples Easy Rebate, and a Fry's) All resolved with a
phone call or an email, got paid 100% of rebates sent.


Best Regards,
Bob Johnson

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:01:45 -0500, Ben Myers
wrote:

Only successful rebates for me have been with Staples, twice. At least they do
not make you fuss with mailing in receipts and filling in and mailing stupid
forms. Instead, they have an online rebate system where you enter in the
serial number of the receipt plus your name and address. One time the rebate
check arrived pretty quickly. The second time, after a couple months the rebate
check still had not arrive, so I went online to their web site and nagged them.
Voila! Like magic, the check appeared 4 or 5 days later. Even so, I bought at
Staples only because they had good prices without rebate... Ben Myers



I understand. Unfortunately I have to deal with another rebate
because newegg.com had a good price on the laserjet printer I just
bought but it has a $150 rebate which is too much to ignor so I'll
deal with that and hope for the best. You can bet I will mail it in
certified mail to help my cause tho it isn't a guarantee of success
but it helps.

Changing topics, I just put 2 gigs ram (dual channel) in this laptop
I'm using (winxp currently). It was easy doing the under the keyboard
thing for me. Actually did two E1405 laptops and it recognized the
new ram right away. Now to sell the old 512meg '4200 chips (4 of
them). I don't expect to see much difference in speed now but
upgraded in case I go to Vista next year. Not really sure I will go
to Vista but I thought for the price of ram, what the heck. I even
bought more ram for the new laserjet (maxed it out) just to try to
avoid any future problems (ram is actually on backorder but I'm not in
any rush so no problem). I can't believe that ram was less than one
tenth the going rate elsewhere and this is from kingston.com.

Ok, I'll stop bs'ing now g (forgive me please) !!!

Ben Myers wrote:
Only successful rebates for me have been with Staples, twice. At least they do
not make you fuss with mailing in receipts and filling in and mailing stupid
forms. Instead, they have an online rebate system where you enter in the
serial number of the receipt plus your name and address. One time the rebate
check arrived pretty quickly. The second time, after a couple months the rebate
check still had not arrive, so I went online to their web site and nagged them.
Voila! Like magic, the check appeared 4 or 5 days later. Even so, I bought at
Staples only because they had good prices without rebate... Ben Myers

Sound shopping. I guess I've been lucky in that I've received all the
rebates I've mailed in for, but there is a long wait.

On Dec 12, 12:37 am, Tony Harding wrote:
If anyone's interested:

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...Code=85025-5&p...
2GB for $67 less $30 MIR

Just fouund a better price at Fry's/Outpost on this exact memory
DDR2 2GB PC2-6400 (800MHz) Dual Channel (2x1GB)
5-5-5-12-T1 Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400
http://shop3.outpost.com/product/4960001
$64.99 less $40 MIR = $24.99