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BigHurt

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Originally posted by: thedealmaker
what a crappy settlement. It benefits Creative more than the customers, and make the same victims to buy their stuff. It's like telling a rape victim to get raped again by the same rapist.

dunno if the analogy is correct.. but i do think this is a scam of a coupon..
received my coupon today which only works on creative's retail site... soo i get 60 bucks off of their inflated prices... YIPPIE! thx for serving your customers..
 

SunderXO

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Originally posted by: thedealmaker
It's like telling a rape victim to get raped again by the same rapist.

Except this time he won't be so rough. Right....

Anyone who bought one of these cards should have known exactly what they were getting. The information was not hard to find.

Remember, we're getting something for nothing here - this lawsuit might never have happened and we wouldn't have known the difference. Take the coupon, and use it if it drops something to a reasonable price. If not, all you did was fill out a form. No biggie.
 

BigHurt

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just seems to me that in a settlement.. you give those affected something in return.... not 60 bucks off your retail site only (which just so happens to be 60 bucks higher than most other stores)

sure it was just a form i filled out, but why not give a coupon, or rebate... anything other than being forced to purchase from their retail site.
 

LED

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I'm trying to use the coupon on their ebay auction...will let all know how it turns out
 

mwabad22

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Meh, I got my settlement discount too. BUT HAVE YOU SEEN THE RIDICULOUS PRICES ON THEIR SITE? It costs like 25-50% more than the regular online retail channels. I might as well throw away this discount coupon ID, as it is tied to my email address and all.....
 

rahvin

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Originally posted by: isekii
If one of you dont want to discount
Pass it on to me :)

I want one ;)

You can only use the coupon on the creative store, everything listed at the creative store is MSRP. With the coupon you MIGHT pay what you could buy it from Newegg, but with the outrageous shipping charges Newegg is probably 10% cheaper. It's a crappy deal and anyone that goes for it has more money than brains.
 

Stallion

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Damn, well this sucks. I have an Audigy Gamer was was looking for a newset of speakers as ijust got a new sound card last week but it sounds like it isn't worth the trouble...:disgust:
 

LED

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I tried to use the coupon with an ebay purchase because it took me to http://us.creative.com/shop/cart.asp but they wouldn't honor it so I called Creative to Cancel the order and have received two warnings from e-bay that they are going to leave me negative feedback which would be my 1st @ e-bay after years of being there :disgust: