http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/tags/shopping/ Sharing My Experience... en Weiqi Gao Fri, 11 May 2012 12:48:36 GMT Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net) http://backend.userland.com/rss http://pebble.sourceforge.net/common/images/powered-by-pebble.gif http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2006/12/17/i_got_my_rebate_money_back.html <p>I'll make this short: </p> <ul> <li>I bought a HP Pavilion laptop from Office Depot in <a href= "http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2006/07/18/dont_let_programmers_do_user_interfaces.html" >July 2006</a>, when they advertised it at $499 after rebates.</li> <li>I send out the three rebate forms (two to HP, one to Office Depot) the day I got the machine.</li> <li>By mid November, I have not received my rebate check from Office Depot.</li> <li>I went into the store, and asked someone there, who showed me a website where I can just type in my name to see how my rebate is doing. It showed that the rebate has just been mailed the day before.</li> <li>However, I received the check only two weeks ago in early December.</li> </ul> <p>Not knowing how the rebate industry worked, I cannot draw any conclusions. But somehow I have a feeling that had I not checked, I would never have gotten my money back.</p> http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2006/12/17/i_got_my_rebate_money_back.html#comments http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2006/12/17/i_got_my_rebate_money_back.html Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:32:12 GMT http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2005/10/11/come_on_amazon_com.html <p>I was ordering some books on <a href= "http://amazon.com/" >Amazon.com</a> when I happened upon the following item:</p> <center> <a href= "./images/amazon-price-gouging.png" > <img src= "./images/amazon-price-gouging-small.png" title= "Amazon Price Gouging" border="0" /> </a> </center> <p>I know Amazon.com is big and has a lot of leverage and all and they can sell anything they want at any price they want. But selling a two-and-a-half-year old news story at $10.00? It's not even PDF! It's 2 (count them, 2) pages of HTML.</p> <p>Want to buy a copy of one of my old blog entries for $10.00?</p> http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2005/10/11/come_on_amazon_com.html#comments http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2005/10/11/come_on_amazon_com.html Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:36:27 GMT