you know...I've had a fun fun fun run in with CrapUSA's rebate department in the past, calling out to arizona, new rochelle, and all over the country being bounced back and forth between these idiots each telling me it's not their problem. Well it took about 30 hours of phone calls but in the end I came out with a $50 check instead of the gift card I was supposed to get. Then like another 2 months later the gift card came(by this time it had been 7 months since my original filing). So although it was a royal pain in my ass, I ended up on top, save for the fact that my mother stupidly went for the canon printer that ended up not being worth it even AFTER the $100. BJC-6000 was $249.99-$50 GC-$50Check. *sigh*
I tooollld her to just get the HP and go, nice and EASY. But no, she HAD to drag me through hell to get an inferior printer...*sigh*...and that is why my current printer is a HP Photosmart 1000 =) (not to be confused with my PARENT'S printer which is still the canon ewww). But yes, my printer had the faulty cord that could have killed me. LOL, and HP did send the replacement pretty fast, but I was confused as to why I got an envelope to send them the old ones back, but it didn't have a # for me or anything, just an envelope that's been prepaid. They must be shelling out $1.50 to get back each of these broken cords. No idea why they think this is a good idea, plus half the people probably just ditched the cord anyway. Whatever, I was nice enough to fill out the return addy part just in case they care, and mail it back to them, so they can beat the cord company or something with them.