Intel Pocket PC digital cam, $30 after double-dip rebate

BigDoggie

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A deal for Sam's Club members!

The product:

Intel Pocket PC Camera

A nice inexpensive digital camera with limited features, but a great deal. Can be used attached to your PC as a webcam and digital movie cam, or detached and carried about. Docking is by USB cable so at least Win98 is required on the PC.

To see the detail page on the camera, go to www.samsclub.com and search for the Sam's Club stock number, 794817. Sam's Club price is $89.98, which is ALREADY less than most vendors.

Sams has their own house-brand rebate program, so be sure to pick up a monthly rebate coupon at the desk by the entrance door. Using a "rebate receipt" that you get from the Sams cash register, you apply for the Sams $30 rebate.

The double-dip works because the Sams rebate offer does NOT require you to submit the UPC barcode from the camera package... just a special "rebate receipt" that you get from the register.

There is also a rebate being offered by Intel direct. You can print out the Intel rebate coupon from:

http://www.cdw.com/webobjects/images/rebates/full/10995.pdf

and send it in with the original receipt and the original UPC (both of which you still have) to get a second $30 rebate.

So, that's $90 less $30 less another $30 = $30 net price

This does work! I know some people who have received both rebates.


 
Nov 7, 2001
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thanks BigDoggie. I am know SamsDouble Rebates always work. I am grabbing one today. I think they have rebate running on Quicken Delux 2002 also. If anyone has older version of Quicken they should be able to double-dip this one too.

 

Henny

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You're right. Intel blew it big time.

The Pocket Camera that Sam's sells is a different SKU and UPC code than the one the rest of the retailer's sell.

Intel would have normally restricted their rebate so that it only applies to the std. SKU vs. the club SKU. But they forget to put that kind of wording restriction on the rebate form. If there's any doubt, Intel will pay the consumer.

Good find and happy double dipping!!

 

BigDoggie

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I don't know if they make different UPCs... or whether these are just closeouts. I notice that other vendors are selling an Intel camera that superficially looks identical... but accepts an additional 8 meg plug-in memory module.

One nice thing about these little cameras is that they hold a LOT of pictures... over 100. The down side is that they do not have a flash.
 

amgc36

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Intel is pretty good with their rebates. And once they sent me two checks for a single rebate! :D
 

BigDoggie

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flavio, your link doesn't work, because every "session" at Sams times out. At the Sams website, I have not found any way to make a permanant link to a product page. I just give the Sams SKU and you can find it quickly through the search field.

 

flavio

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Interesting.....changed it to a link to the picture of the camera.
 

BigDoggie

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Interesting... samsclub.com now has a note by this item that their rebate cannot be combined with any other rebate... but how would they know?