SanDisk rebate scam
Like Canon, SanDisk apparently is using the same crooks to process their rebates. The postcard I received (shown below) is a clone of the one I received from Canon, this time for a $75 rebate on an 8GB Extreme IV Compact Flash card.
The scam consists of claiming that required materials are missing, while simultaneously professing ignorance of what was actually submitted when a customer calls to inquire. A short response deadline helps ensure that suckers (aka “customers”) have as little time as possible to comply. As with Canon, I photographed my submission prior to sending it in; the materials apparently all vaporized en-route, excepting the rebate form itself.
I have yet to make the phone call to see if there will be another mysterious “internal system error” that accounts for the “mistake”, but I’ll report on it in a future blog entry.
For those readers with a legal background: what is the appropriate governmental agency to contact regarding this sort of fraud?