home.comcast.net — I just got a email notification from OnRebate that Gigafast has not funded the Rebate I sent in. OnRebate has tried to contact GigaFast and they cannot reach them for the funds to pay out the rebate I sent in for a GF-1049 USB wireless Ethernet adapter.The website has a copy of the email I received.Anyone else having the same problem???
Feb 24, 2007 View in Crawl 4
grillmaster2007Mar 12, 2007
Yeah, I've got a similar problem for the GF-1039 USB adapter ($30 rebate!! the only reason I bought this device). I got the same notice that Onrebate will not be paying because Gigafast did not pay them. I did some searching and found that Gigafast has done this before several times over the past few years! Onrebate was not mentioned in the other unpaid articles I found - other similar rebate service companies were used. So who's scamming? Onrebate or Gigafast? Since the other articles mentioned other rebate processing companies, I am leaning towards Gigafast being the ones pulling a gigafast one on the public!Call to gigafast went to an answering machine - no reply yet (about 3 weeks since I called). Emails bounced back as non-deliverable to rebate@gigafast.com and to techsupp@gigafast.com (I tried the tech support email hoping it would get thru). In short I have no way to communicate with them if they do not answer calls and do not have a working email... the next step is getting the law involved and of course since this is going to just cost me more money, I probably will cut my losses at $30... Most of the time the rebate offers are made since the companies know a large percentage of buyers will forget or not bother to send them in. Another percentage will be denied and another portion like me will not bother fighting when they just flat out do not pay. And finally the small percentage get their money back as expected. Rebates are a cancer on the sales world worse than coupons... fortunately many companies are realizing customers are turned off by these bogus deals and are doing the "instant rebate" thing, which is just a way to make "Sale price" sound more attractive... I think they would all do well to just skip the sale BS and let the price do the talking. (OK I think I got that off my chest now, thanks for reading my rant... I know it won't get me my rebate but it somehow makes me feel better knowing I'm not alone in this and someone else may benefit by reading this BEFORE they buy)