Got my reader today from Dell. I e-mailed Dazzle tech support... and this is the response I got:
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Response (support staff) - 04/08/2002 09:43 AM
Hello Pablo, AS long as you bought the 6in1 reader and it had the rebate sticker with it you have the right one. We were selling it for 69.99 with a 20 mail in rebate. We decided to lower the price for the unit for everyone on a permanent basis, so we have lowered it to 49.99. If you bought the unit at the 49.99 price it was in the wrong time frame. The ones that where 69.99 had a decal on the box that told about the rebate. The Company that handles the rebates has been informed of this and have been told to honor the rebate for anyone who sends it in by the new dat. I know its not the right rebate form on the web but that is the one they will honor so print it out and dont worry. Thank you, Mike
Not sure if thats good or bad! I'm going to submit anyway and see how it goes.
If anybody is interested - I used sandra to bechmark the reader and got 800kbps. With a PCMCIA reader I got 1771kbps with the same media. So its about 1/2 as fast as the PCMCIA reader... Also it says 'USB 2.0 Device' on the package, but it works fine with USB 1.0, although I wonder if it would be faster hooked up to 2.0. <shrug>