Richmond Times Dispatch Va Consumer Watch column.
SURRENDER OF RULES TO TAKE preparation for further processing: Mary Watkins-Tate of Goochland County and her husband returned from a new computer at Wal-Mart on the benefits of a computer from Best Buy deal, according mailing with a value of $ 300 rebate it would be $ 200 Tot.You bought a computer in Best Buy in Short pumping in February by e-mail and discounts overnight. Last week, five months and many frustrating phone calls later, Watkins-Tate had not received all the promised money. She obtained a $ 50 discount on the printer, another $ 50 on the monitor, but only $ 50 $ 200, it seeks to secure for the purchase of the computer.
This is the worst that I have ever heard, “she said.” I can not believe that companies treat customers that way. You are transferring from one end of the USA on the other later, and they know that people simply give up.
Watkins-Tate is not only the consumer, is angry about discounts. Type “rebate complaints on the Internet and their scads Pop-up from consumers in Germany.
Stuart Ashby, Compliance Manager of the Office of Consumer Affairs to Richmond, counted, 22 discount on file complaints in this area so far this year. Most were resolved with consumers receive their money
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