Digital BW, The Print

Ara wrote:
>Here's my coupon story of the day: I went like any normal person on
>this list, through the OD website to order this "thing", after so
>much praising around here.
>
>Following the steps for purchase I tried to apply online the coupon
>for the $20 rebate over $75. Returned an error stating that the
>"amount of purchase is not over $75" even if evidently it is! Ok,
>then I tried to do a "store pick-up" since it's in my way this
>weekend, and got a "out-of-stock" message. Ok, I went back to my
>cart, which at this point is... "empty"!! Totally hilarious!


To be fair to OD, I don't know how this stuff gets onto the edealinfo.com 
website.  Maybe OD has nothing to do with it, and there are people whose 
hobby is spotting and posting "mistakes".
I have checked into deals shown there in the past, and upon reading the 
rebate fine print, they were listing for example a rebate that was only 
good in-store.  For instance, they are still showing the HP7260 deal, and 
as someone pointed out, we can't even find it at OD's site.

I don't know if OD sometimes just honors these "deals" as best it can 
rather than aggravate the customer, or what.

It's also funny that edealinfo has put "***Deal VERIFIED***" on the 
headline for this particular deal.
See:  http://www.edealinfo.com/DDCateg/printers.shtml#040612D8

There must be more folks on this list than those who've spoken up who've 
been trying to get this deal, or else it only takes a few folks' questions 
to get things in an uproar at OD or edealinfo.
Obviously the deal worked for a while.  I thought this was a bargain some 
of you might want, and in fact some did.  It's too bad that getting the 
deal is like going through a lottery draw.  It seems to be a case of strike 
while the iron is hot.

They show good deals on the HP 7660 and 7960 today.

-Don