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Canada Day Sale: Free USB Drive from Future Shop

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Future Shop is start­ing the Canada Day sale craze with a free 256MB USB. This USB drive usu­ally costs $34.99 so I’m guess­ing that once the sale starts they’ll have some sort of instant dis­count as well as a mail in rebate which will bring down the price to $0!

Canada Day Sale

Future Shop will also have online dis­counts on almost all of its prod­ucts:
Canon EOS Dig­i­tal Rebel XT 8.0MP Dig­i­tal Cam­era, 2GB 80X Mem­ory card & Bag Pack­age: $999.99 (save $435).
Sharp 37” Widescreen LCD HDTV: $1999.99 (save $500).

What?
Future Shop’s online Canada Day Sale

Where?
Web only (but you can prob­a­bly order online and pickup from store)

When?
June 30th 8pm EST until July 2nd 11am EST.

Here is more info about Future Shop’s online Canada Day sale.

7 Responses to “Canada Day Sale: Free USB Drive from Future Shop”

  3. Melissa

    I had the worst expe­ri­ence try­ing to get this item. I placed the order on Sat­ur­day dur­ing the sale. The web­site said I had the option of pick­ing up the order in-store. I chose that option. Sev­eral hours later I got an email say­ing my order was can­celled because in-store pick up was not avail­able. I thought I would get an email offer­ing the ship­ping option.

    I tried to place the order again online and have it shipped. The web price was show­ing $34.99 instead of $24.99 less rebate. I tried phon­ing, waited on the phone over half an hour two dif­fer­ent times. No humans avail­able. I tried all over again Sun­day. No phone human. I emailed: no response. I just got through on the phone today–Monday after 45 minute wait. The ser­vice per­son tells me to place the order online and then phone back to get the price adjusted back to $24.99. NO WAY! I wasn’t going to spend another 45 min­utes try­ing to get some­one to answer the phone. I asked her to wait while I placed the order online. She then cor­rected the price but told me the rebate would be invalid because I didn’t place my order on the cor­rect date!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I asked to speak with a super­vi­sor. He kept me wait­ing another 15 min­utes. Then he said if I read the fine print, rebates are not always hon­oured. And the week­end was very busy so it’s a shame I couldn’t get through on the phone.

    I can­celled my order today. I couldn’t believe the super­vi­sor didn’t have the dig­nity to make the sit­u­a­tion right. Future Shop’s rela­tion­ship with the rebate cen­ter is noth­ing to do with the cus­tomer. They sell the prod­ucts based on the boast­ing rights of the rebate offered. I tried every way I could to place the order dur­ing the right time period. Future Shop should have offered to make this right with the rebate cen­ter on my behalf or just give me the blasted item with the rebate discounted.

    The two peo­ple on the phone got snarky with me and nei­ther one would acknowl­edge how ridicu­lously poor the ser­vice was in this instance.

    Thumbs down for Future Shop.

  4. Sheldon

    Rebates are a Scam.

    I pur­chased Corel soft­ware at Future Shop on Dec. 25th. and sent in the rebate In Feb. the rebate cen­tre said they did not receive the rebate form. I sent it again. In March they said I was not eli­gi­ble and the rebate did not start until Dec. 26th.

    I argued that my form clearly says Dec. 25th. They asked me to re-submit a 3rd time.

    I was sucked into a real good deal for soft­ware I didn’t really need and now I am going to be spend­ing hours cry­ing about the $100. I spent for out­dated soft­ware I did not need and telling peo­ple how Future Shop uses mis­lead­ing adver­tis­ing to not pay rebates.

    I am in BC and I will begin to push for leg­is­la­tion in this province sim­i­lar to some states that have more strin­gent rebate rules.

  5. burt

    I also pur­chased the Corel soft­ware in Alberta on Christ­mas day. Lost my $100.

    Corel just sent me a post­card stat­ing the “pur­chase was made out­side of the qual­i­fy­ing period”.

    Stu­pid of me not to keep an orig­i­nal copy of the on-line adver­tise­ment. Accord­ing to Corel it started on Decem­ber 26/07. This is not what I recall from order­ing it from Future Shop, who state that they can­not be held respon­si­ble for man­u­fac­tur­ers’ mail in reates.

    I guess that is why they do it on-line. So they can’t be held accountable.

  6. neil

    yeh, I got sucked in on this Corel/Futureshop Box­ing Day Sale rebate . Received the same card from Corel. I dis­tinctly remem­ber that pur­chases made online from the evening of Dec. 24/06 were accepted for the pur­poses of this rebate, and believe that this was actu­ally listed on the Futureshop rebate form, as well as the on-line ad. The rebate form was form PP8485, which has been deleted from the Futureshop sight.
    If any­one has a copy of this form they can post or email to me, please let me know, (a copy of the online ad would also be help­ful), as I would like to pur­sue this fur­ther with the pur­pose of get­ting these rebates hon­oured for all of us.
    Any­one with these forms email me at fubar50@sympatico.ca, please.

  7. Steve

    My story is same as of Melissa, very bad expe­ri­ence with Future Shop.

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2 Responses to “Canada Day Sale: Free USB Drive from Future Shop”

  3. Melissa

    I had the worst expe­ri­ence try­ing to get this item. I placed the order on Sat­ur­day dur­ing the sale. The web­site said I had the option of pick­ing up the order in-store. I chose that option. Sev­eral hours later I got an email say­ing my order was can­celled because in-store pick up was not avail­able. I thought I would get an email offer­ing the ship­ping option.

    I tried to place the order again online and have it shipped. The web price was show­ing $34.99 instead of $24.99 less rebate. I tried phon­ing, waited on the phone over half an hour two dif­fer­ent times. No humans avail­able. I tried all over again Sun­day. No phone human. I emailed: no response. I just got through on the phone today–Monday after 45 minute wait. The ser­vice per­son tells me to place the order online and then phone back to get the price adjusted back to $24.99. NO WAY! I wasn’t going to spend another 45 min­utes try­ing to get some­one to answer the phone. I asked her to wait while I placed the order online. She then cor­rected the price but told me the rebate would be invalid because I didn’t place my order on the cor­rect date!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I asked to speak with a super­vi­sor. He kept me wait­ing another 15 min­utes. Then he said if I read the fine print, rebates are not always hon­oured. And the week­end was very busy so it’s a shame I couldn’t get through on the phone.

    I can­celled my order today. I couldn’t believe the super­vi­sor didn’t have the dig­nity to make the sit­u­a­tion right. Future Shop’s rela­tion­ship with the rebate cen­ter is noth­ing to do with the cus­tomer. They sell the prod­ucts based on the boast­ing rights of the rebate offered. I tried every way I could to place the order dur­ing the right time period. Future Shop should have offered to make this right with the rebate cen­ter on my behalf or just give me the blasted item with the rebate discounted.

    The two peo­ple on the phone got snarky with me and nei­ther one would acknowl­edge how ridicu­lously poor the ser­vice was in this instance.

    Thumbs down for Future Shop.

  4. Sheldon

    Rebates are a Scam.

    I pur­chased Corel soft­ware at Future Shop on Dec. 25th. and sent in the rebate In Feb. the rebate cen­tre said they did not receive the rebate form. I sent it again. In March they said I was not eli­gi­ble and the rebate did not start until Dec. 26th.

    I argued that my form clearly says Dec. 25th. They asked me to re-submit a 3rd time.

    I was sucked into a real good deal for soft­ware I didn’t really need and now I am going to be spend­ing hours cry­ing about the $100. I spent for out­dated soft­ware I did not need and telling peo­ple how Future Shop uses mis­lead­ing adver­tis­ing to not pay rebates.

    I am in BC and I will begin to push for leg­is­la­tion in this province sim­i­lar to some states that have more strin­gent rebate rules.

  5. burt

    I also pur­chased the Corel soft­ware in Alberta on Christ­mas day. Lost my $100.

    Corel just sent me a post­card stat­ing the “pur­chase was made out­side of the qual­i­fy­ing period”.

    Stu­pid of me not to keep an orig­i­nal copy of the on-line adver­tise­ment. Accord­ing to Corel it started on Decem­ber 26/07. This is not what I recall from order­ing it from Future Shop, who state that they can­not be held respon­si­ble for man­u­fac­tur­ers’ mail in reates.

    I guess that is why they do it on-line. So they can’t be held accountable.

  6. neil

    yeh, I got sucked in on this Corel/Futureshop Box­ing Day Sale rebate . Received the same card from Corel. I dis­tinctly remem­ber that pur­chases made online from the evening of Dec. 24/06 were accepted for the pur­poses of this rebate, and believe that this was actu­ally listed on the Futureshop rebate form, as well as the on-line ad. The rebate form was form PP8485, which has been deleted from the Futureshop sight.
    If any­one has a copy of this form they can post or email to me, please let me know, (a copy of the online ad would also be help­ful), as I would like to pur­sue this fur­ther with the pur­pose of get­ting these rebates hon­oured for all of us.
    Any­one with these forms email me at fubar50@sympatico.ca, please.

  7. Steve

    My story is same as of Melissa, very bad expe­ri­ence with Future Shop.

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