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Re: Canon rebates: Warning. Not recieving mine

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From: PC Medic
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 19:45
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<hel@40th.com> wrote in message 
news:Z_koe.284310$cg1.12827@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> Took 10 weeks to get here, a 20+50 rebate, that only
> came as $20.  I contacted the rebate people weeks prior,
> who gave me the run-around, never answering why it's not
> 70, only telling me that it is 20 over and over, in a
> dementia-damaged brain sort of way.  This will only make
> me think twice about canon again.  I don't know why canon
> stoops this low, contracting morons can't be good for
> the business in the long run.  Last canon I bought was in
> 1980, and it (A-1 camera) went screwy a few weeks later.
> It may be another 25 years before I think about them again.
> I got a full refund on that, though (yay, K-Mart -- $700
> camera at K-Mart?).
>

A Canon A1 is a fine Camera (owned one myself for nearly 20 years.
Shame you got a bad one.

What $20+$50 rebate did you supposedly get screwed out of? and how?
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