Thread: Cendyne DVD-R/RW Drive deal gone...

whats funny is that the OM i bought the dvd at had a laminated card with upc codes for taking coupons from the other office stores

i bought the fuji media that was on sale too

yesterday i burned a verbatim that a friend gave me - burned at 2x fine

today i burned the fuji from office max and it didnt work - got to 100% and then died

:(

I just got my burner today. Called my two OfficeMax's and there was 1 burner left that was "open" according to the guy I spoke to. I told them to hold it and I would come on down and look at it. It was a gold model and the plastic wrap had been ripped, but the contents looked intact. They took off the 50$ instant rebate and I actually got them to take the expired (as of 12/31/02) 50$ off of 250$ officemax.com coupon (with no trouble from anyone, I was almost disapointed as I was geared up for a shouting match with whatever manager was in today) so my price was 169$ out of store and I made sure to get the 50$ rebate.

Here is my one and only problem. I got the burner home and took it out of the plastic wrap to find that some one had cut the UPC off of the bottom. I still have the serial number that is on the back of the box, but I am assuming there was a upc code on the bottom. I am especially troubled after reading the mail in rebate details which specifically ask for both the UPC and serial numbers to be clipped and sent in. Did OfficeMax just screw me out of my rebate? Any advice?

how did they enter it into the register w/o serial?

if i was you i would SO head back to that store and demand the rebate be paid to you immediately

obviously some idiot took it back after someone took off the upc

in 12 yrs of doing rebates, never i have i heard that one before!

Can anyone post a link to the $50 off $200 coupon, email or code ?

The coupon wasn't exactly printable per say....I just clicked on the link for a working 50 off of 250 and printed out the page that described the deal.

Anyway it is expired now and says so if you click on the link for it. The next best thing is a 40 off of 200 here:

http://www.officemax.com/max/solutio...cfkmdffjdffo.0

I just told the guy that I tried to call in the order and they were out of stock, but said I could use the online coupon locally because of the shortage of writers from the online store. No arguments, not even a funny look.

The UPC was cut off, but not the serial number..

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

The dimwit who cut off the UPC and brought it back to the store for a refund ( which you are NOT supposed to be able to do ) isn't gonna get the rebate anyway. You need BOTH the original upc and the serial number to get the rebate, not either or when it comes to cendyne, verbatim, etc optical drives.

Course, we all know that one COULD just call parago and insist that one did include the serial number, and get it validated, but then, if someone isn't experienced enough with these rebates to know they need both upc/serial then somehow I doubt they'd know to call parago when it gets rejected. :D

Well I brought the box into work today and someone pointed out that the back side label does have two bar codes...one labled "serial number" (in the lower left of the back label) the other is "part # cdicd00209" (in the lower right corner.) They suggested that the "part #" was the upc. So was I just over reacting? Was there never a bottom to the dvd writer's box? Anybody bought one of these that can tell me for sure?

Originally Posted by zabs

Well I brought the box into work today and someone pointed out that the back side label does have two bar codes...one labled "serial number" (in the lower left of the back label) the other is "part # cdicd00209" (in the lower right corner.) They suggested that the "part #" was the upc.

Nope, that's not the UPC -- it's the part number just like it says. There should be three barcodes: the 2 you have and the UPC. How did they ring it up at the register w/o the UPC??

Regardless, take it back and see if you can get the store to fess up the rebate value.

Zabs,

I think you're fine. There is no bottom to the box and the only barcode that could pass for a UPC is the "Part#" on the label pasted on the back of the box next to the Serial No. Those 2 are the only bar codes anywhere on the box. I bought one myself on the 30th. Cendyne packages so many different mfrs drives I'm sure its cheaper to stick labels on similar boxes than print boxes w/ the codes on them.

Thanks for the heads up. I just called there help line for rebates and they had an automated message (apparently I was not the only one confused by this) stating that UPC is a 12 digit code, with ten digis being under the bar code and 1 digit on either side of the bar code. I do have that (and the other serial bar code) so I should be OK.

Originally Posted by jww

Zabs,

I think you're fine. There is no bottom to the box and the only barcode that could pass for a UPC is the "Part#" on the label pasted on the back of the box next to the Serial No. Those 2 are the only bar codes anywhere on the box. I bought one myself on the 30th. Cendyne packages so many different mfrs drives I'm sure its cheaper to stick labels on similar boxes than print boxes w/ the codes on them.

Hmmm . . . if I'm providing bad info, I apologize. I don't have this particular drive, but am just going off what every other Cendyne drive I've bought has. As an example, see:

http://schikora.indstate.edu/images/barcodes.gif

There are three barcodes, with the one in the middle being the UPC. Same type of code that you'll find on most any retail product. If you've got that, you're fine.

Comprx,
I was just backing up your statement. The serial number (with its bar code) and the upc code are both together on the back of the box right accross from each other at the bottom of the spec sheet that is stuck on the box (at least on the one I bought they are.)

I don't have 3 barcodes, but I do have the serial number and the upc bar that they want, so I think I'm set.