Class Action Suit on Dell 8350 Scam

[Hoinch]

here's another one...

a guy died and three of his best friends (who owe him $100 from a bet) showed up at the funeral. the first best friend (doctor) paid his respect and placed a $100 bill in the coffin. the second best friend (stock broker) paid his respect and also placed a $100 bill in the coffin. the third best friend (lawyer) paid his respect and wrote a check to his dead friend for $300 and took the two $100 bills. :evil:

 

[wildta]

Originally posted by: dexvx

Originally posted by: wildta

The problem with Dell and this mishap of denied rebates was that at the time of ordering, the Dell representatives told the customers that they were eligible for all of the rebates (I was told this when I ordered mine). But lo and behold, dell decided to deny some customers one rebate that was not supposed to be accessed by the general public and was only for the EPP (or whatever it was) customers, although the rebate was definitely accessible by anyone through their rebates page at that time. Furthermore, the rebate that was suppose to be limited to the EPP customers did not explicitly state that it was only for these EPP customers.

So let me get this straight. The rebate said clearly it was for EPP customers, and you expect it to go through just because it was readily available to download for the general public?

What a greedy fvck. I'll personally pay for some of the litigation costs if it meant that some of you guys can go to a Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass? Prison.

No, the rebate did not state that it was for EPP customers. At the time of purchase, no one knew it was for EPP customers. The only stipulation was that you had to be an "educational" customer, meaning students like myself, professors, or anyone else in the field of education.

 

[Cybordolphin]

I YIKE IT!!!!

Maybe this will be the beginning of the end of rebates. From what I can tell they are costly to both the provider and the recipient, a huge waste of resources, a huge waste of time, and being use fraudulantly on both sides.

Here's an idea.... how about manufacturers/retailers just sell the damn item for the after rebate price. Gee..... I guess that would be too easy. If they think they are saving money.... their wrong. If they think they can get away with not paying out on the rebates.... they are only partially right. There may not be a governing body to audit rebate practices... yet. But I am confident it is just around the corner. I for one am tired of playing the rebate game. FAR too often I have to make a phone call to a rebate center.... just to get my rebates sent out. It is always the same lame story..... "hold on just a minute sir..... ok... your rebate is on its way now". Like there was some mysterious reason I had to call in the first place. Please.

Anyway... glad to see it. If it means a few attorneys have to get rich along the way.... tuff sh!t.

JMO.

 

[LoneShadow]

Originally posted by: SgtZulu
Where's the Hot Deal?

Go back to the past, order this item, and get a rejected to one of the rebates, and come back to today, and look in this thread again, ull see the hot deal

if u cant/dont/wont go back to the past, just go read other threads

I am here for the lawyer jokes

 

[LoneShadow]

Originally posted by: Hoinch
here's another one...

a guy died and three of his best friends (who owe him $100 from a bet) showed up at the funeral. the first best friend (doctor) paid his respect and placed a $100 bill in the coffin. the second best friend (stock broker) paid his respect and also placed a $100 bill in the coffin. the third best friend (lawyer) paid his respect and wrote a check to his dead friend for $300 and took the two $100 bills. :evil:

lmao, I am not gonna lend any money to any lawyers

 

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: wildta

Originally posted by: dexvx
So let me get this straight. The rebate said clearly it was for EPP customers, and you expect it to go through just because it was readily available to download for the general public?

No, the rebate did not state that it was for EPP customers. At the time of purchase, no one knew it was for EPP customers. The only stipulation was that you had to be an "educational" customer, meaning students like myself, professors, or anyone else in the field of education.

Nice try. I went thru with it. On the Dell site it clearly stated you needed to be part of some educational institution and the rebate form stated it again. It even asked you to show some sort of documentation. But people from FW figured that Dell asks you for your company name in SB and never checked, so it would be the same. WRONG.

I dont get the joke about the check.

 

[EvilYoda]

I for one got screwed over on this, since I was a student at a participating school...reminds me, I should call them and at least see what happened...I figured I wouldn't have any luck before, so I never tried.

 

[gsethi]

Originally posted by: wildta

Originally posted by: dexvx

Originally posted by: wildta

The problem with Dell and this mishap of denied rebates was that at the time of ordering, the Dell representatives told the customers that they were eligible for all of the rebates (I was told this when I ordered mine). But lo and behold, dell decided to deny some customers one rebate that was not supposed to be accessed by the general public and was only for the EPP (or whatever it was) customers, although the rebate was definitely accessible by anyone through their rebates page at that time. Furthermore, the rebate that was suppose to be limited to the EPP customers did not explicitly state that it was only for these EPP customers.

So let me get this straight. The rebate said clearly it was for EPP customers, and you expect it to go through just because it was readily available to download for the general public?

What a greedy fvck. I'll personally pay for some of the litigation costs if it meant that some of you guys can go to a Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass? Prison.

No, the rebate did not state that it was for EPP customers. At the time of purchase, no one knew it was for EPP customers. The only stipulation was that you had to be an "educational" customer, meaning students like myself, professors, or anyone else in the field of education.

When you ordered your system from DELL - EPP department, you had to make a new account with them. And for making a new account, you had to include your "institution" name and your "ID number" (which i did for my order).

So, that implies that rebates were meant only for EPP customers and if you tried to deceive them using an institution you never went to, thats where the problem lies. When i had a trouble with the rebates, the first thing they asked me was my institution name and my ID# and i told them that it was already on their records. They crossed checked the information with my institution and got all my rebates, no problem there. All you have to do is to be legit and contact DELL to get the rebates.

If you dont belong to their qualified institutions, you have no right to get your rebates or sue them.

 

[pxc]

All the rebates I had said either FSS and EPP or just FSS. FSS = Faculty/Students/Staff, where students were higher education only, but I think Faculty and Staff was for both higher and lower education.

 

[JmsAndrsn]

I dont get the joke about the check.

The check will never get cashed. Therefore the lawyer is $300 on the plus side....$100 because he did not fork out any cash for the bet and $200 more because he took the money that the other friends left.

 

[santokki]

Originally posted by: gsethi
When you ordered your system from DELL - EPP department, you had to make a new account with them. And for making a new account, you had to include your "institution" name and your "ID number" (which i did for my order).

So, that implies that rebates were meant only for EPP customers and if you tried to deceive them using an institution you never went to, thats where the problem lies. When i had a trouble with the rebates, the first thing they asked me was my institution name and my ID# and i told them that it was already on their records. They crossed checked the information with my institution and got all my rebates, no problem there. All you have to do is to be legit and contact DELL to get the rebates.

If you dont belong to their qualified institutions, you have no right to get your rebates or sue them.

Yup, yup. Many people keep scamming Dell and want to sue them when their scam doesn't go through.

The only thing worse than lawyer jokes ... are people telling them ...

 

[Jeraden]

The people in this thread arguing that the people taking advantage of the deal don't deserve the extra $100 rebate are missing the point. The rebates simply stated that you had to be an EPP or FSS customer. FSS being a faculty/staff/student of an educational institution or work at a company participating in an Employer Purchase Program with Dell. All 5 rebates had the same wording and none of them mentioned that they were exclusive to certain universities or companies. So people used all 5 and were later denied one of them for $100 as they claimed it was only for specific institutions - but never revealed which specific institutions it was for. The uproar is that they were denying the 5th rebate based on information that is never stated in the terms of the rebate - that it was for specific schools. How is a person supposed to know this when it doesn't state this? Sure, maybe it was only for specific schools and the post on FW bypassed the normal page that gave the details of what schools. But the other problem is CSRs at Dell verified that people would receive all 5 rebates, and then later they didn't honor them. That story above explains it pretty well.

So I fail to see how it can be any fault of the people that took part in the promotion. It was misleading information from Dell, if not outright lies from the CSRs that caused the problem. It's not a debate about non-fac/staff/students taking part in the deal, its about eligible people being denied based on unreleased information.

I took part in it also and didn't get the $100. I didn't really care though as it was a good enough deal with the other 4 rebates - not going to bother joining the suit.

 

[Skiracer]

What do you get when you cross a lawyer with a pig?




Nothing- there's some things even a pig won't do!!!

;-)