Darth Do'Urden
Sat Jun 4th, 2011, 07:59 AM
First off, I just purchased a new jacket yesterday: Scorpion Stinger Phantom. Got it for a nice $300 before tax. Now here's the screwed up part: I had to fight to get the 20% off even though it was advertised as such at a certain motorcycle dealer in the town I live in (check my location under my avatar).
Who here thinks that an "instant rebate" in any way indicates "store credit only"? Yet that is what this particular store (G r a n d P r i x) is trying to pull. I had to go through to two managers in order to get satisfaction on their "instant rebate". They tried telling me that it doesn't say "discount", therefore it's in-store credit only. Yet a simple google search will tell one otherwise-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_rebate
However, there is this quote on the "Instant rebate" page of Wiki under "Recent Trends":
Instead of checks, prepaid gift cards are being given by many stores. Merchants like these cards, as they cannot be redeemed for cash and must be spent.
Now this would have been fine if it had been advertised as such by the above mentioned entity. I wouldn't have been able to buy the jacket regardless, but at least it would have been honest advertising.
Anyway, it was a hassle, but the second manager did make it right without much verbal sparring, so I suppose all's well that ends well. So that's my story of how I acquired my new badass jacket...=P
Who here thinks that an "instant rebate" in any way indicates "store credit only"? Yet that is what this particular store (G r a n d P r i x) is trying to pull. I had to go through to two managers in order to get satisfaction on their "instant rebate". They tried telling me that it doesn't say "discount", therefore it's in-store credit only. Yet a simple google search will tell one otherwise-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_rebate
However, there is this quote on the "Instant rebate" page of Wiki under "Recent Trends":
Instead of checks, prepaid gift cards are being given by many stores. Merchants like these cards, as they cannot be redeemed for cash and must be spent.
Now this would have been fine if it had been advertised as such by the above mentioned entity. I wouldn't have been able to buy the jacket regardless, but at least it would have been honest advertising.
Anyway, it was a hassle, but the second manager did make it right without much verbal sparring, so I suppose all's well that ends well. So that's my story of how I acquired my new badass jacket...=P