Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon
by mikec3010 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:39PM
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I was still much too naive about online orders back then. But you reminded me of the "rebates" fiasco. Remember those days? I once got my rebate rejected because I sent the original receipt and not a photocopy.
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Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon
by Spooky23 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:43PM
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I worked at a CompUSA in college. Rebate rage was an incredible phenomena... I had a knife pulled on me once because of it in a return situation.
There was one crazy Packard Bell/AOL/Viewsonic rebate combo that was like $600. It had specific instructions that many people screwed up, and they were left with unreturnable (no bar code) crap gear. One guy got arrested for chaining himself to the bollards in front of the door in protest.
The amount of fraud these guys ran into was incredible too. We’d get raided by bus loads of Chinese people who would engage every employee while another crew cleaned out things like video cards and other small items. It was like a Viking raid. People would buy computers, print fake UPC/serial number stickers for rebates, strip the memory/disk and return them.