Office Depot 1

On Sunday Nov. 19th Office Depot offered the Canon Powershot A540 digital camera with a $75.00 rebate and a free HP printer with a $69.99 value. The first store in Huntington Beach, CA. tried slipping in a printer of $29.99 value. When the proper "replacement" printer (of $69.99 value) was found, the rebate receipt would not print out. After 30 minutes of confusion between the manager and the cashier, I walked out. The second store that I drove to (Fountain Valley) claimed that they had the correct printer but had no more cameras in stock. The sales person suggested that I buy the printer here, but buy the camera at a third store in Costa Mesa (since the Huntington Beach store had by now sold out). After finding out that the third store had both, I drove to Costa Mesa. At Costa Mesa (10 minutes later) the salesperson again tried slipping me an inferior printer of $29.99 value and after showing the ad, agreed that there was another "replacement" printer in stock that was overlooked. Again the rebate receipt would not print out, and after explaining to the cashier that this was the third store that I had visited, she was very simpathetic and decided to give me a $70.00 instant rebate which was very kind of her to do. Now here the confusion continues. Since $70 exceeded the $69.99 value of the printer, the cashier split the amount between the two items. Long story short, if I had to return either of the two items, I would not be fully refunded for either of them. After 3 stores, 3 voided transactions and 120 minutes of confusion, my purchase was complete. Believe me when I say this... You have not heard the entire story but I'm tired of talking about it, and I doubt anyone is going to read this review anyway. Take care, and be careful of Office Depot bait/switch tactics.