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by Anonymous User on Sun Jan 23, 2005 at 04:34:40 PM PDT

Well it seems that what Circuit City is doing is what Linsky and Sprint did to me almost to the letter. I think they must be passing the game plan around. They both had disappearing and reamerging end dates Sprint had a catch 22 situation. When they told you you did not send in everything and you called, you got a message that you can't call until 6 weeks, yet they have sent you the postcard in 2weeks. You had a chance to send in a copy of the receipt or bar code. The catch was by the time you resubmitted it the expiration date had cancelled the whole deal. They had 3 different expiration dates, Email, postcard and the store brocheure. To cut to the chase I E-mailed them and told them that this whole thing stunk of fraud, I had read similar reports on the internet and I was going to turn it over to the Federal Trade Commission. Hey, guess what, I got my rebate(s). This a racket to encourage you to buy and them they don't want to pay off. By the way they are on shaky financial ground at this moment. Sounds coincedental doesn't it? I think a drunk detective with a broken magnifying glass could solve this one! They only understand one thing, Force. Once they know you are not going to take it they yeild. They figure a percentage of people will not even send it in and they can screw a percentage and pay off under pressure and still keep money.


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