Re: [iPAQ] (Rant) CF Sleeve Rebate

Tom_Kirksey@ingersoll-rand.com wrote:
>
> Has anyone tried to fill out the rebate form for the CF sleeve yet? I know
> companies make you jump through many hoops to get rebates, but this is
> going a little too far. The rebate form is printed on very slick plastic.
> It's like writing on a piece of glass!
>
> I tried a pencil, mechanical pencil and three pens. I finally had to mark
> on a piece of paper, make a small mark on the form, mark on the paper...
>
> It took about 45 minutes to fill in my name, address and serial number. I
> earned that $39 :-)

I got my CF sleeve just the other day and was trying to fill out that
form this morning... wow, you are not joking! I've never been so
nervous about filling out a rebate form before. There's more fine print
than stuff to fill out and it mentions only about a zillion times that
you're ineligible if you don't fill everything out, post it by the
proper date, don't include the proper materials, etc, and of course
since it's virtually impossible to get ANY mark on the piece of paper,
(or plastic, or ultra-high-tech extruded Teflon(tm)/Polyurethane, or
whatever...) I feel like the Compaq SWAT are going to come busting into
my office to inform me that since they can't tell if that mark is a "G"
or a "6", not only am I going to be ineligible for the rebate, but
they'll be beating me senseless behind the building as I go home.

What ever happened to paper made out of good old-fashioned *paper* ? :)

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