MSI AMD Cashback Promotion - Up to £86 Cashback!

I've used MSI cashback way back for my P67 board. I followed the instructions and got the money, took a little while but worked as advertised. I do however agree with @Darujhistan there will be fewer people claiming and being discounted than a straight price reduction. There may of course be some sharing the cost with AMD.

As with all these things it's more about who is making the offer and their intentions than the actual idea. In my experience MSI appeared to make a genuine offer.
 
MSIUK Support said:
That's really sad to hear. We don't know if you get in touch with us for that case but as long as everything by the terms of the campaign, we are happy to solve any issue you may encounter.
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The price should be the price without making people jump through hoops to get their money back, cashback is shady, and anti-consumer. You said people didn't have to jump through hoops, yet in this very thread a customer didn't get his cashback for his 480, and had to jump through hoops to get it.
 
Darujhistan said:
The price should be the price without making people jump through hoops to get their money back, cashback is shady, and anti-consumer. You said people didn't have to jump through hoops, yet in this very thread a customer didn't get his cashback for his 480, and had to jump through hoops to get it.
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Very true, I never trust Cashback deals a lot of companies will try and frustrate the consumer to make it as difficult as it can be to get the money back that they just give up and go away.

I know this is another company back just look at the issues faced by people in this thread (on going).
 
Freddie1980 said:
Very true, I never trust Cashback deals a lot of companies will try and frustrate the consumer to make it as difficult as it can be to get the money back that they just give up and go away.

I know this is another company back just look at the issues faced by people in this thread (on going).
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Of course, that's the only reason they offer these prices, they know people will get suckered in by cheap shiny things and then they know they'll be able to frustrate/con enough people out of their refunds to make it worthwhile. Retailers have nothing to lose by promoting this trash either, OCUk etc just get more sales. Six months on in that other thread and still ongoing problems.

Looking back through the thread I was warning people on pg. 1 actually...it did ring a bell.

They were scams when they were known as mail in rebates in the US going back years, from places like Newegg. Now they're here as "cashback". Would anyone go into a a Levi's store for example and hand over £70 for a pair of jeans in advance on the promise they'll be in next week? of course not...or hand over £90 walk away with the jeans and then happily cliam back £20? No they wouldn't...

Pre-orders (full on scams like Warcraft Refunded) or for hardware that the vendor has no idea when stock will be available, fully price entry to alpha proucts (Stadia, various games), cashbacks, its all the same, taking money up front for promises of magic beans in the future.

And people lap it, I cannot believe how naive people are.
 
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Darujhistan said:
Of course, that's the only reason they offer these prices, they know people will get suckered in by cheap shiny things and then they know they'll be able to frustrate/con enough people out of their refunds to make it worthwhile. Retailers have nothing to lose by promoting this trash either, OCUk etc just get more sales. Six months on in that other thread and still ongoing problems.

Looking back through the thread I was warning people on pg. 1 actually...it did ring a bell.

They were scams when they were known as mail in rebates in the US going back years, from places like Newegg. Now they're here as "cashback". Would anyone go into a a Levi's store for example and hand over £70 for a pair of jeans in advance on the promise they'll be in next week? of course not...or hand over £90 walk away with the jeans and then happily cliam back £20? No they wouldn't...

Pre-orders (full on scams like Warcraft Refunded) or for hardware that the vendor has no idea when stock will be available, fully price entry to alpha proucts (Stadia, various games), cashbacks, its all the same, taking money up front for promises of magic beans in the future.

And people lap it, I cannot believe how naive people are.
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Sheep and wolves ;) I enjoy making the wolves pay up. Love playing supermarkets at their own game and buying the stuff with horrible branding but is actually the same product in different packaging. Case in point, Waitrose branded veg recently with Aldi label on the back. Obviously off the same line :D 90% of Christmas puddings sold in the UK come from one factory in Leicester, ex CEO of Sainsbury's admitted that one.
 
Troezar said:
Sheep and wolves ;) I enjoy making the wolves pay up. Love playing supermarkets at their own game and buying the stuff with horrible branding but is actually the same product in different packaging. Case in point, Waitrose branded veg recently with Aldi label on the back. Obviously off the same line :D 90% of Christmas puddings sold in the UK come from one factory in Leicester, ex CEO of Sainsbury's admitted that one.
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Yeah I'm saving a fortune on food these days, it sometimes pays to go with the branded stuff but not very often at all. Obviously for household items like cleaning products, washup liquid, anything for the washing machine or bathroom I haven't bought anything branded for years. Spending any more than the bare minimum on these products is really for the sheep only.
 
Darujhistan said:
Retailers have nothing to lose by promoting this trash either, OCUk etc just get more sales. Six months on in that other thread and still ongoing problems.
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buyers who don't get their cashback should be returning them - not sold as advertised. you'd find the retailers would put more pressure on the manufacturer if that was the case.

if a company wants to put out an offer on a product, fantastic, go for it. just don't expect me as the buyer to have to have to do the legwork to get my own money back. as you say it's anti-consumer but consumers, in general, are stupid and easily conned. the asus one is just the latest in a long line of cash back deals that appear to be more effort than they are worth and indeed even if you put the effort in there's no guarantee you're getting your money back. write a review for our product and we'll give you 20 quid back, maybe?!.......... **** off - you want a review of your product send me one foc. :p

i have to say it's also shoddy of OcUK not to be more active in supporting those who are still waiting on cashback. though as i said, if they were being hit with a glut of returns off the back of the missing cashback they'd soon making a bigger effort.
 
all up to the company. All know they use 3rd parties. Its up to Vendor to keep up the communication.

Gigabyte has done this via the rep on here, last issue with them was steam voucher with x570 boards. They had to use external company to buy the sheer volume of steam vouchers ( good few thousand) and they went bust/stopped trading according to the rep. But they kept up communication on here stating they are trying to/found new supplier and even taking on Owners that signed up passed the allocated amount/ Expiry date.

Believe MSI dont use the same company now for good reasons , as for 3rd party companies- longer they can hold onto cash, more interest/profit they can squeeze out of it
 
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