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From: alexs@retix.retix.COM (Alex M. Stein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Opinion sought on HP Deskjet Plus
Keywords: Hewlett Packard DeskJet Plus Printer Evaluation
Message-ID: <626@retix.retix.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 90 18:28:05 GMT
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Bill Gieske (wg@cbnewsm.ATT.COM) writes: 

>You want to clarify with HP where you must purchase the DeskJet to be eligible
>for the rebate.  When I bought my DeskJet, HP had an offer where they would 
>give you $100 for an old printer, any condition.  I bought my DeskJet mail 
>order, obviously to get the best price.  
>HP did not consider the mail order house
>to be an HP dealer, thus I was not eligible for the rebate.  

Call HP and ask them.  You might be pleasantly surprised.  I was.

I bought my DeskJet during the same promotion.  I asked the mail
order place about the rebate and they said to call HP.  HP
customer service told me that only authorized HP dealers had the
rebate forms you needed to fill out to get the rebate.  Only when
I asked if there was another way to get a rebate form did HP
offer to send one to me.  They further said that although they'd
"prefer" me to buy from an authorized dealer, they could not by
law require it.  So I got my discounted DeskJet, HP got my almost
functional dot-matrix printer, and I got the hundred bucks.

Of course, a month later HP introduced the DeskJet Plus at
approximately the price I paid for my DeskJet and the DeskJet
price plummeted way below what I paid (even figuring the rebate).

Alex Stein
alexs@retix.com