17th March 2006, 1:19 PM
Unfortunatly, that isn't compelling evidence...
Sorry that happened, but I think you sent your letter to our forums instead of Linksys.
By the way, that was a bit rash wasn't it? Some peon in the company that opens envelopes for a living screwed up and lost the bar code. To hide the mistake s/he simply noted it wasn't there. It is fairly typical behavior of the peons of a company to not care about job quality at all I'm afraid.
What I'm saying is, Best Buy has been guilty of the same thing on occasion. Boycotting quality products isn't going to accomplish anything. Rather, I'd simply NEVER look at the rebate price of an item. You DO realize the entire point of offering a "rebate" is simply that they know many people will not go through all that effort involved in getting it. When I see the price of something, I ignore the rebate since I know I simply don't have the motivation to read a paragraph of instructions and mail in about 20 things.
If you want your money back, just ask for your money back. You can't expect 100% accuracy from a company. I stopped doing that a long time ago.
(Besides, there is the chance you yourself might have misplaced the bar code :D.)
Sorry that happened, but I think you sent your letter to our forums instead of Linksys.
By the way, that was a bit rash wasn't it? Some peon in the company that opens envelopes for a living screwed up and lost the bar code. To hide the mistake s/he simply noted it wasn't there. It is fairly typical behavior of the peons of a company to not care about job quality at all I'm afraid.
What I'm saying is, Best Buy has been guilty of the same thing on occasion. Boycotting quality products isn't going to accomplish anything. Rather, I'd simply NEVER look at the rebate price of an item. You DO realize the entire point of offering a "rebate" is simply that they know many people will not go through all that effort involved in getting it. When I see the price of something, I ignore the rebate since I know I simply don't have the motivation to read a paragraph of instructions and mail in about 20 things.
If you want your money back, just ask for your money back. You can't expect 100% accuracy from a company. I stopped doing that a long time ago.
(Besides, there is the chance you yourself might have misplaced the bar code :D.)
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)