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HP currently have cashback offers on some of their laptops - typically
you get £100 back on a £350 laptop, reducing the effective price to £250. Have any of you done this, and is it pukka? Reading the small print, there appear to be so many conditions which have to be fulfilled in order to claim the cashback that I wonder how many people actually succeed in getting their cash before they lose the will the live. Any comments? -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked. |
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On Fri, 10 May 2013 14:08:30 +0100, Roger Mills wrote:
Reading the small print, there appear to be so many conditions which have to be fulfilled in order to claim the cashback that I wonder how many people actually succeed in getting their cash before they lose the will the live. Did it with a printer once. Fulfilled all the conditions including scanning the invoice and uploading it on their website. No cashback forthcoming. Several emails later with them claiming I never provided an invoice I scanned and emailled the invoice on a promise it would be sorted. Repeated the above several times and eventually got the cashback. The printer was ****e (OfficeJet 600 IIRC), I told them i'd never buy from them again and never have. I reckon most people would have given up but I never if I reckon that's what they are counting on. |
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On Fri, 10 May 2013 14:08:30 +0100, Roger Mills wrote:
Have any of you done this, and is it pukka? People in here have been succesful with the Cashback offers they run on the small servers. I *think* I got Cashback when I bought a colour laser printer from HP. Just make sure you get a proper printed reciept, probably has to be from a "participating store", rather than a random box shifter. -- Cheers Dave. |
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On Fri, 10 May 2013 13:29:05 +0000 (UTC), R D S wrote:
Fulfilled all the conditions including scanning the invoice and uploading it on their website. No cashback forthcoming. Several emails later with them claiming I never provided an invoice I scanned and emailled the invoice on a promise it would be sorted. Never trust email, doubly so for corporates when you are trying to get money out of them. I used snail mail... -- Cheers Dave. |
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On May 10, 2:41*pm, "Dave Liquorice"
wrote: On Fri, 10 May 2013 14:08:30 +0100, Roger Mills wrote: Have any of you done this, and is it pukka? People in here have been succesful with the Cashback offers they run on the small servers. I have also received cashback on some Microservers and a quad core ML110 server. No problems apart from having to wait quite a while for the cheques. My experience would encourage me to use HP. The kit that I bought was very well made as well as being incredibly low cost (with the cashback). The cashback operation is subcontracted to a marketing company who deal with the whole process. John |
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On Fri, 10 May 2013 14:08:30 +0100, Roger Mills wrote:
HP currently have cashback offers on some of their laptops - typically you get £100 back on a £350 laptop, reducing the effective price to £250. Have any of you done this, and is it pukka? Not this time round, but I've done it on several of the previous similar cashbacks - laptops and printers. Never had a problem on any of them. |
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On 10/05/2013 14:29, R D S wrote:
On Fri, 10 May 2013 14:08:30 +0100, Roger Mills wrote: Reading the small print, there appear to be so many conditions which have to be fulfilled in order to claim the cashback that I wonder how many people actually succeed in getting their cash before they lose the will the live. Did it with a printer once. Fulfilled all the conditions including scanning the invoice and uploading it on their website. No cashback forthcoming. Several emails later with them claiming I never provided an invoice I scanned and emailled the invoice on a promise it would be sorted. Repeated the above several times and eventually got the cashback. The printer was ****e (OfficeJet 600 IIRC), I told them i'd never buy from them again and never have. I reckon most people would have given up but I never if I reckon that's what they are counting on. Bet they were using a not-very-good 3rd party company to administrate the cash-back claims. And I really don't think that a large corporation is relying on your giving up your cashback claim, you know. I've done this without problems, BTW. |
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On 10/05/2013 14:08, Roger Mills wrote:
HP currently have cashback offers on some of their laptops - typically you get £100 back on a £350 laptop, reducing the effective price to £250. Have any of you done this, and is it pukka? Reading the small print, there appear to be so many conditions which have to be fulfilled in order to claim the cashback that I wonder how many people actually succeed in getting their cash before they lose the will the live. I did it once with a printer for a similar level of deal; yes it did eventually happen, after several months of chasing emails (each missive was duly replied to by a human, with some reason or other for the delay, and a new date by which I should receive the money, which then came and went...); I'm sure if I hadn't kept following up I'd never have received it. -- David |
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On Fri, 10 May 2013 15:35:18 +0100, GB wrote:
Bet they were using a not-very-good 3rd party company to administrate the cash-back claims. And I really don't think that a large corporation is relying on your giving up your cashback claim, you know. Probably not, but the service from HP after the cashback wasn't initially forthcoming was beyond poor. As it also was when I was having trouble with the printer further down the line. |
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So why announce it in the firstplace if they are so inept?
Seems to me its a case of foot shooting syndrome. Brian -- From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is active "R D S" wrote in message ... On Fri, 10 May 2013 14:08:30 +0100, Roger Mills wrote: Reading the small print, there appear to be so many conditions which have to be fulfilled in order to claim the cashback that I wonder how many people actually succeed in getting their cash before they lose the will the live. Did it with a printer once. Fulfilled all the conditions including scanning the invoice and uploading it on their website. No cashback forthcoming. Several emails later with them claiming I never provided an invoice I scanned and emailled the invoice on a promise it would be sorted. Repeated the above several times and eventually got the cashback. The printer was ****e (OfficeJet 600 IIRC), I told them i'd never buy from them again and never have. I reckon most people would have given up but I never if I reckon that's what they are counting on. |
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On Friday, 10 May 2013 14:48:02 UTC+1, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Fri, 10 May 2013 13:29:05 +0000 (UTC), R D S wrote: Fulfilled all the conditions including scanning the invoice and uploading it on their website. No cashback forthcoming. Several emails later with them claiming I never provided an invoice I scanned and emailled the invoice on a promise it would be sorted. Never trust email, doubly so for corporates when you are trying to get money out of them. I used snail mail... -- Cheers Dave. I have had no problems getting the hundred quid cashbak offer on a couple of (separate) HP microserver purchases in the last couple of years. As others have said. make sure you buy from an approved supplier. if it is by email, IIRC they acknowledge your claim email and give you an expected date that the claim will be processed by, which gives a decent degree of confidence. Also IIRC, the main possible stumbling block on the Ts&Cs was that you were not buying on behalf of a company. HTH J^n |
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On Fri, 10 May 2013 14:08:30 +0100, Roger Mills wrote:
HP currently have cashback offers on some of their laptops - typically you get £100 back on a £350 laptop, reducing the effective price to £250. Have any of you done this, and is it pukka? Reading the small print, there appear to be so many conditions which have to be fulfilled in order to claim the cashback that I wonder how many people actually succeed in getting their cash before they lose the will the live. Any comments? I bought an HP Microserver in November 2012; got the cashback simply by posting in copy of invoice, and form with details including serial number. Did it again later the same month; again no problem. The third one was rejected as the serial number said it was 'non UK stock'. The dealer changed it for another (pre-vetted number) one and it all went through fine. £300 in total! -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org My posts (including this one) are my copyright and if @diy_forums on Twitter wish to tweet them they can pay me £30 a post *lightning surge protection* - a w_tom conductor |
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Bob Eager wrote:
On Fri, 10 May 2013 14:08:30 +0100, Roger Mills wrote: HP currently have cashback offers on some of their laptops - typically you get £100 back on a £350 laptop, reducing the effective price to £250. Have any of you done this, and is it pukka? Reading the small print, there appear to be so many conditions which have to be fulfilled in order to claim the cashback that I wonder how many people actually succeed in getting their cash before they lose the will the live. Any comments? I bought an HP Microserver in November 2012; got the cashback simply by posting in copy of invoice, and form with details including serial number. Did it again later the same month; again no problem. The third one was rejected as the serial number said it was 'non UK stock'. The dealer changed it for another (pre-vetted number) one and it all went through fine. £300 in total! And not fraud at all? |
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On Fri, 10 May 2013 16:52:04 +0100, Norman Wells wrote:
Bob Eager wrote: On Fri, 10 May 2013 14:08:30 +0100, Roger Mills wrote: HP currently have cashback offers on some of their laptops - typically you get £100 back on a £350 laptop, reducing the effective price to £250. Have any of you done this, and is it pukka? Reading the small print, there appear to be so many conditions which have to be fulfilled in order to claim the cashback that I wonder how many people actually succeed in getting their cash before they lose the will the live. Any comments? I bought an HP Microserver in November 2012; got the cashback simply by posting in copy of invoice, and form with details including serial number. Did it again later the same month; again no problem. The third one was rejected as the serial number said it was 'non UK stock'. The dealer changed it for another (pre-vetted number) one and it all went through fine. £300 in total! And not fraud at all? Why on earth should it be fraud? -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org My posts (including this one) are my copyright and if @diy_forums on Twitter wish to tweet them they can pay me £30 a post *lightning surge protection* - a w_tom conductor |
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En el artículo o.uk,
Dave Liquorice escribió: Just make sure you get a proper printed reciept, probably has to be from a "participating store", rather than a random box shifter. The receipt/invoice also has to bear the same part number specified in the cashback Ts & Cs. I highlighted it in my claim submission using fluorescent marker to make sure they couldn't miss it. -- (\_/) (='.'=) (")_(") |
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En el artículo , Roger Mills
escribió: Have any of you done this, and is it pukka? Bought a Microserver from them a couple years ago, 100 quid cashback, plus 10% Quidco cashback. Effective price ~110 quid. No problems, and the uServer is rockin' on just fine. Fantastic value for money at the price paid. -- (\_/) (='.'=) (")_(") |
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On Fri, 10 May 2013 18:17:34 +0100, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
Bought a Microserver from them a couple years ago, 100 quid cashback, plus 10% Quidco cashback. Effective price ~110 quid. Who did you buy through? 10% Quidco is pretty damn good these days apart from on things you only rarely buy or don't even have a need for. -- Cheers Dave. |
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On 10/05/13 14:08, Roger Mills wrote:
HP currently have cashback offers on some of their laptops - typically you get £100 back on a £350 laptop, reducing the effective price to £250. Have any of you done this, and is it pukka? Reading the small print, there appear to be so many conditions which have to be fulfilled in order to claim the cashback that I wonder how many people actually succeed in getting their cash before they lose the will the live. I have used the HP cashback offer on two Microservers. There was no problem at all with that. Check you are buying from a proper HP dealer. If, as is usually the case, you order online and get a PDF invoice then you can do the whole claim online. Check arrives within a week or two. -- djc |
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On Fri, 10 May 2013 14:08:30 +0100 Roger Mills wrote :
HP currently have cashback offers on some of their laptops - typically you get £100 back on a £350 laptop, reducing the effective price to £250. Have any of you done this, and is it pukka? Reading the small print, there appear to be so many conditions which have to be fulfilled in order to claim the cashback that I wonder how many people actually succeed in getting their cash before they lose the will the live. Did it with my laptop and got $99 back from Acer. I had to send in a form and copy receipt saying to whom the rebate cheque should be made out to. My take on how these schemes are meant to work is that (say) you buy said laptop for your business, then pocket the rebate yourself. Accounts department and boss probably don't know about it. Much as Acer offering you $99 in used notes if you buy their product rather than someone else's. Much the same with Viking Stationery's free gifts that probably get taken home by the secretaries. -- Tony Bryer, Greentram: 'Software to build on', Melbourne, Australia www.greentram.com |
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In message , Roger Mills
writes HP currently have cashback offers on some of their laptops - typically you get £100 back on a £350 laptop, reducing the effective price to £250. Have any of you done this, and is it pukka? Reading the small print, there appear to be so many conditions which have to be fulfilled in order to claim the cashback that I wonder how many people actually succeed in getting their cash before they lose the will the live. Any comments? When I was looking a few weeks back, the screen had to be unscratched, laptop less than 4 years olds and in fully working order apart from anything else -- geoff |
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On 10/05/2013 23:52, Tony Bryer wrote:
My take on how these schemes are meant to work is that (say) you buy said laptop for your business, then pocket the rebate yourself. Accounts department and boss probably don't know about it. Much as Acer offering you $99 in used notes if you buy their product rather than someone else's. Much the same with Viking Stationery's free gifts that probably get taken home by the secretaries. Not according to the HP T&C's. They will only pay the cashback to the company or individual whose name appears on the invoice as the purchaser. -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked. |
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On Sat, 11 May 2013 00:20:28 +0100, geoff wrote:
In message , Roger Mills writes HP currently have cashback offers on some of their laptops - typically you get £100 back on a £350 laptop, reducing the effective price to £250. Have any of you done this, and is it pukka? Reading the small print, there appear to be so many conditions which have to be fulfilled in order to claim the cashback that I wonder how many people actually succeed in getting their cash before they lose the will the live. Any comments? When I was looking a few weeks back, the screen had to be unscratched, laptop less than 4 years olds and in fully working order apart from anything else The ones being discussed here (certainly the microservers) don't require any old hardware. -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org My posts (including this one) are my copyright and if @diy_forums on Twitter wish to tweet them they can pay me £30 a post *lightning surge protection* - a w_tom conductor |
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Dave Liquorice escribió: Who did you buy through? HP's online store, IIRC, though the order was actually filled by one of their box-shifters. -- (\_/) (='.'=) (")_(") |
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Bob Eager wrote:
On Fri, 10 May 2013 16:52:04 +0100, Norman Wells wrote: Bob Eager wrote: The third one was rejected as the serial number said it was 'non UK stock'. The dealer changed it for another (pre-vetted number) one and it all went through fine. £300 in total! And not fraud at all? Why on earth should it be fraud? It would be fraud if they changed the invoice so that it no longer matched the printer. If they replaced the printer, at the same time, it would probably be OK. However, the original sale might have been fraudulent if they had claimed that it qualified for the cash back. |
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Tony Bryer wrote:
My take on how these schemes are meant to work is that (say) you buy said laptop for your business, then pocket the rebate yourself. Accounts That would be tax fraud. If such practices are common, I would expect HMRC to request details of the payees! |
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On Sat, 11 May 2013 13:09:56 +0100, David Woolley wrote:
Bob Eager wrote: On Fri, 10 May 2013 16:52:04 +0100, Norman Wells wrote: Bob Eager wrote: The third one was rejected as the serial number said it was 'non UK stock'. The dealer changed it for another (pre-vetted number) one and it all went through fine. £300 in total! And not fraud at all? Why on earth should it be fraud? It would be fraud if they changed the invoice so that it no longer matched the printer. If they replaced the printer, at the same time, it would probably be OK. Do keep up. It was a microserver! They refunded me for the first server and re-invoiced me for the second. However, the original sale might have been fraudulent if they had claimed that it qualified for the cash back. They did - but that was due to circumstances unknown to them. They took immediate (with 3 hours, anyway) action to put it right, at their expense. -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org My posts (including this one) are my copyright and if @diy_forums on Twitter wish to tweet them they can pay me £30 a post *lightning surge protection* - a w_tom conductor |
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In message , Bob Eager
writes On Sat, 11 May 2013 00:20:28 +0100, geoff wrote: In message , Roger Mills writes HP currently have cashback offers on some of their laptops - typically you get £100 back on a £350 laptop, reducing the effective price to £250. Have any of you done this, and is it pukka? Reading the small print, there appear to be so many conditions which have to be fulfilled in order to claim the cashback that I wonder how many people actually succeed in getting their cash before they lose the will the live. Any comments? When I was looking a few weeks back, the screen had to be unscratched, laptop less than 4 years olds and in fully working order apart from anything else The ones being discussed here (certainly the microservers) don't require any old hardware. No - that's a breakaway subthread "HP currently have cashback offers on some of their laptops" is specifically what I was referring to (yes, I also bought a couple of proliant uservers with the cashback deal). -- geoff |
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On 11/05/2013 14:33, geoff wrote:
In message , Bob Eager writes On Sat, 11 May 2013 00:20:28 +0100, geoff wrote: In message , Roger Mills writes HP currently have cashback offers on some of their laptops - typically you get £100 back on a £350 laptop, reducing the effective price to £250. Have any of you done this, and is it pukka? Reading the small print, there appear to be so many conditions which have to be fulfilled in order to claim the cashback that I wonder how many people actually succeed in getting their cash before they lose the will the live. Any comments? When I was looking a few weeks back, the screen had to be unscratched, laptop less than 4 years olds and in fully working order apart from anything else The ones being discussed here (certainly the microservers) don't require any old hardware. No - that's a breakaway subthread "HP currently have cashback offers on some of their laptops" is specifically what I was referring to (yes, I also bought a couple of proliant uservers with the cashback deal). But the laptops I referred to in my OP don't require any part exchange. It's simply a retrospective cash discount. Like this one, for example: http://www.ebuyer.com/409145-hp-650-...n=b2c_thursday -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked. |
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In message , Roger Mills
writes On 11/05/2013 14:33, geoff wrote: In message , Bob Eager writes On Sat, 11 May 2013 00:20:28 +0100, geoff wrote: In message , Roger Mills writes HP currently have cashback offers on some of their laptops - typically you get £100 back on a £350 laptop, reducing the effective price to £250. Have any of you done this, and is it pukka? Reading the small print, there appear to be so many conditions which have to be fulfilled in order to claim the cashback that I wonder how many people actually succeed in getting their cash before they lose the will the live. Any comments? When I was looking a few weeks back, the screen had to be unscratched, laptop less than 4 years olds and in fully working order apart from anything else The ones being discussed here (certainly the microservers) don't require any old hardware. No - that's a breakaway subthread "HP currently have cashback offers on some of their laptops" is specifically what I was referring to (yes, I also bought a couple of proliant uservers with the cashback deal). But the laptops I referred to in my OP don't require any part exchange. It's simply a retrospective cash discount. Like this one, for example: http://www.ebuyer.com/409145-hp-650-..._source=b2c_th ursday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=b2c_thursd ay You're right and I'm wrong there ... -- geoff |
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R D S writes: On Fri, 10 May 2013 14:08:30 +0100, Roger Mills wrote: Reading the small print, there appear to be so many conditions which have to be fulfilled in order to claim the cashback that I wonder how many people actually succeed in getting their cash before they lose the will the live. Did it with a printer once. Fulfilled all the conditions including scanning the invoice and uploading it on their website. No cashback forthcoming. Several emails later with them claiming I never provided an invoice I scanned and emailled the invoice on a promise it would be sorted. Repeated the above several times and eventually got the cashback. The printer was ****e (OfficeJet 600 IIRC), I told them i'd never buy from them again and never have. I reckon most people would have given up but I never if I reckon that's what they are counting on. Cashback relies on almost no one getting it. Otherwise, there's no point - it's just additional paperwork cost for everyone. -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] |
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In uk.d-i-y Andrew Gabriel wrote:
Cashback relies on almost no one getting it. Otherwise, there's no point - it's just additional paperwork cost for everyone. Depends. Mobile phone cashback is like that - submit your claim every 5th Tuesday of the month, full moons excepted. But IT cashback is often used to shift excess inventory without pulling down the numbers. The laptops which were officially £500 but they have so many of the wretched things sitting around the warehouse they offer a cashback deal to get shot of them (cough, might I mention Windows 8 here). That's a sales promotion, it doesn't upset the accounts in other ways. What I don't understand though is how they managed to do things like the Microservers, which have been on cashback for years now. Either they're really cheap to make or they're subsidising to break into a new market, because it's clearly not excess inventory. And the small businesses they're aimed at are probably going to be better at filing the cashback returns than large ones. Theo |
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On Sun, 12 May 2013 17:30:17 +0100, Theo Markettos wrote:
What I don't understand though is how they managed to do things like the Microservers, which have been on cashback for years now. Either they're really cheap to make or they're subsidising to break into a new market, because it's clearly not excess inventory. And the small businesses they're aimed at are probably going to be better at filing the cashback returns than large ones. The last microserver promotion was in the few months before that model went EOL. The new ones don't have cashback - yet. But I agree....they are probably really cheap to make! Well made though... -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org My posts (including this one) are my copyright and if @diy_forums on Twitter wish to tweet them they can pay me £30 a post *lightning surge protection* - a w_tom conductor |
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On 12/05/2013 19:53 Bob Eager wrote:
The last microserver promotion was in the few months before that model went EOL. The new ones don't have cashback - yet. This one - http://www.ebuyer.com/430446-prolian...-in-704941-421 - has been on for a couple or three weeks. -- F |
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On Sun, 12 May 2013 20:16:41 +0100, F wrote:
On 12/05/2013 19:53 Bob Eager wrote: The last microserver promotion was in the few months before that model went EOL. The new ones don't have cashback - yet. This one - http://www.ebuyer.com/430446-prolian...2-2-2gb-250gb- nhpl-sata-lff-in-704941-421 - has been on for a couple or three weeks. Missed that one! Still, only £50 - and more to start with. -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org My posts (including this one) are my copyright and if @diy_forums on Twitter wish to tweet them they can pay me £30 a post *lightning surge protection* - a w_tom conductor |
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On 12/05/13 19:53, Bob Eager wrote:
On Sun, 12 May 2013 17:30:17 +0100, Theo Markettos wrote: What I don't understand though is how they managed to do things like the Microservers, which have been on cashback for years now. Either they're really cheap to make or they're subsidising to break into a new market, because it's clearly not excess inventory. And the small businesses they're aimed at are probably going to be better at filing the cashback returns than large ones. I think its a way to support the official dealers rather than grey importers. The last microserver promotion was in the few months before that model went EOL. The new ones don't have cashback - yet. ServersPlus have a £50 cashback offer this month: http://www.serversplus.com/microserver_cashback But I agree....they are probably really cheap to make! Well made though... -- djc |
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On Mon, 13 May 2013 04:57:02 +0100, djc wrote:
On 12/05/13 19:53, Bob Eager wrote: On Sun, 12 May 2013 17:30:17 +0100, Theo Markettos wrote: What I don't understand though is how they managed to do things like the Microservers, which have been on cashback for years now. Either they're really cheap to make or they're subsidising to break into a new market, because it's clearly not excess inventory. And the small businesses they're aimed at are probably going to be better at filing the cashback returns than large ones. I think its a way to support the official dealers rather than grey importers. The last microserver promotion was in the few months before that model went EOL. The new ones don't have cashback - yet. ServersPlus have a £50 cashback offer this month: http://www.serversplus.com/microserver_cashback That's where I got mine. As I said, when I had a problem with an alleged grey import on one of the three I bought, they reacted within hours and had a new one with me next day. They collected the 'grey' one. Incidentally, when the new models came out, they sold off remaining stock at a knockdown price. I got the same machine back! -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org My posts (including this one) are my copyright and if @diy_forums on Twitter wish to tweet them they can pay me £30 a post *lightning surge protection* - a w_tom conductor |
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On 12/05/2013 22:06 Bob Eager wrote:
On Sun, 12 May 2013 20:16:41 +0100, F wrote: On 12/05/2013 19:53 Bob Eager wrote: The last microserver promotion was in the few months before that model went EOL. The new ones don't have cashback - yet. This one - http://www.ebuyer.com/430446-prolian...2-2-2gb-250gb- nhpl-sata-lff-in-704941-421 - has been on for a couple or three weeks. Missed that one! Still, only £50 - and more to start with. Now £179.99 after cashback has been increased to £100: http://www.ebuyer.com/430446-prolian...-in-704941-421 -- F |
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brightside S9 wrote:
I wonder if HMRC are looking at taxing these cash-back deals, why wouldn't they after screwing the return of trail commision? In the case where the company pays, but the employee gets the cash back, I assume that they are already taxable as income. Where the person who pays gets the cash back, I would hope that the giver of the cash back receives a refund of the VAT. However, if that is not the case, there would be yet another source of revenue for the government. |
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