Comments on: Canon Canada’s Rebate Program Sucks

By: Paul Walsh

Paul Walsh — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:19:29 +0000

It is not only Canada that has a rebate program. The USA has a mail in rebate with several retailers.

Personally i hate these mail in rebates and its such a hassle to get it.

The company says anything it can think of in order not to give the rebate.

By: Stephen M

Stephen M — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:18:04 +0000

I am just starting the process of trying to get back my full rebate from Canon. I spent almost $7,000 on a 40d and three lens plus a battery pack and should have recieved $340 back in rebates. I got a check for $100. (how exciting!)
Canon has given me the cold shoulder and so has Henry’s, where I bought the camera. I have been using Canon equipment for 30 years and will still use it because it would be to costly to replace it. However, i will not say anything good about Canon Canada or Henry’s ever again. As far as the rebate company Resolve goes, I am going to phone them every day until I recieve my full refund, even if it takes years. (love those 800 numbers) Would love to get a group of people together to do this until the rebate company gives up trying to screw people out of their money. I think I will phone Canon everyday as well.

By: John P

John P — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:52:37 +0000

I have also had a very poor experience with Canon rebates. I have just bought a Canon XSi along with two lenses. To say I got a run around would be putting it mildly. Needless to say I never got my rebate because the lenses I bought were not listed. Only lenses over $250 were elegable for any rebate. I will still buy Canon as I have for the past 26 years. My A1 is still working flawlesly but I’m going digital because of developing costs and the speed at which I can see my photos and then decide what I print.

By: dnorman

dnorman — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:01:12 +0000

milad, I think you may be a little misinformed. check the cost of a university degree south of the border. you should be happy with the relatively small size of your student loan. And that you can see a doctor without having to get a second mortgage on your house. etc.. etc…

By: milad

milad — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:50:59 +0000

man Canada is garbage with everything!! & living here all my life, I know how bad this place is!!
Canadians make fun of the states, but idiots don’t know if that the states fall, we fall twice harder!!
whats high here? tax, living cost is twice or 3times more, shopping, food, bills, rent, land, cars, electronics, house hold items, car insurance, School or college funds, & etc..
OH yah! in Ontario we have free health care, but you wait 20hours for the doctor to see you, & it’s so rushed, that you forget to tell me what your sickness was. Or you get a doctor that doesn’t know shit!!
& if you wana go to college you’ll come out with a loan that you will have to pay off with interest rest of your life..

Goooo Canada!!!!! lol

By: katie

katie — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:38:39 +0000

I worked for Canon and to be honest with you, their customer service SUCKS! Within the department I worked in, no one gave a F**k about whoever was on the other end of the phone…they just put you on hold or tranfer you to some other department and hope that you don’t fall back into their queue… I used to get calls about rebates and was told by my manager to transfer all rebate calls to customer service… Customer service would then transfer the calls right back to me! My department does NOT deal with consumers, and as much as I wanted to help calm the person on the other end of the line down, I would be repremanded by spending so much time on the phone with the ‘wrong’ type of customer…I have always purchased Canon products (even before I had worked there) and have never been disppointed but, their service truly SUCKS!

By: PAULIE

PAULIE — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:22:46 +0000

i know what this is like, i too have a canon printer.
it was left on my doorstep in amsterdam, the box had been vandalised and the carts and head stolen from the box.

after spending 17 euro calling canon they apolagised and then done nothing to correct the problem, i still have the new unused printer in its vandalised box. no one answers email no one cares one bit.

i didnt even sign for the damn thing.

then i got a email from canon telling me i could purchase more carts and they will pay 20% of the cost.
i feel that canon are laughing at us stupid idiots all chasing after this crap digital photography craze, it will end due to tech failure of all this third rate jap leftovers.

i have sold 2000 euro worth of canon crap and will not ever in my life trust them again. as far as i am concerned canon are dead all we have are a few A series canon film cameras that dont have canons shutter problems of course.

I HATE CANON WITH ALL MY STRENGTH, AND WILL RUBBISH THERE NAME UNTIL I DIE

By: John Campbell

John Campbell — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:55:59 +0000

Their new rebate provider, resolve.com out of Saint John NB, has replied to all applications promptly. Quite satisfied now.

By: Lev K.

Lev K. — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:48:37 +0000

I participated in the last one for a canon 5d and I followed the instruction to the letter. I even followed the recommendation on using registered mail so if they argue that they haven’t received you claim you can prove that they did. I had no problems, got a rebate in 8 weeks. I say spend the extra 10 bucks on a registered mail and make copies of everything.

By: Chris J.

Chris J. — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:43:40 +0000

I’m sorry to hear of all the troubles people have ben having with Canon rebates. I am happy to report that I sent my rebate form for a rebate on an “L” series lens and received my rebate about 6 weeks later with no problems. I wish you all luck in the future.