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Anyone get any "free gift" 5-pack blank DVD's from NEWEGG lately?

Zee

Diamond Member
when you buy a dvd burner or several other things, as part of the free gift of several useless things such as a paperweight or whatever, the most useful thing to get is the 5 blank DVD-R's. All 5 of mine that I received was such crap.

The purple side of all the discs were not clean, they had some slight scratches, and some crap on it that looks like you can wipe off, but you can't. Kind of like the grease that a fingerprint leaves behind, but in this case, it looks someone dropped a whole bundle and picked it up from the floor.

Plus my DVD burner looked like it was handled like crap. They wrapped it in bubble wrap which is fine, but one side of the drive, all the bubbles were popped. The way they pack and ship always looks great, but I'm starting to wonder what happens to these things before they get packed and ship.

By the way, my order came from NJ.

just want to know if this was an isolated case. I'm really starting to buy less from newegg every year.
 
I bought a load of 50 memorex 8X +R from BestBuy a while back and had the greasy fingerprint problem on about 5 of the box - maybe 10 - totally unusable if you planned on burning anything over those parts.
 
Call Newegg. They'll almost always replace free gifts for free without return, and I've never seen Newegg bubble-wrap with the bubbles busted. maybe some dickhead up in Jersey dropped it and didn't care? Anyway, if it's damaged, they'll replace that too [and I suggest telling them even if it's fine, they'll find out who packed your order and deal with it from there]
 
I got an email from them once because they were a couple weeks late shipping a couple items. The email said please accept a free gift for our mistake. I never got any gift.
 
I got 5 free blanks with my burner. One of them was a coaster, the rest burned without a problem. They looked ok, too.
 
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