CF card a dollar per Gigabyte

rpcrowerpcrowe Registered Users Posts: 733 Major grins
edited November 21, 2008 in Accessories
I just purchased three Lexar Professional, 4-GB, 300X, UDMA Compactflash cards from Calumet Camera. The price of each card was $73.99 but there is a $70.00 mail-in rebate per card reducing the price to $3.99 per card.

There is a maximum of 3-rebates per household.

Of course, I had to pay the California State Sales tax which increased the per card cost to a bit less than $10.00 each. That is still a pretty good price for a card of this quality.

The rebate is not a Calumet specific rebate; it is offered by Lexar as Rebate H92860 and is in effect from 11/1/08 to 1/15/09. The only caveat is that the card must be purchased from an "authorized Lexar reseller"; so be careful regarding purchases from some eBay merchants who may not be "authorized resellers".

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  • i_worship_the_Kingi_worship_the_King Registered Users Posts: 548 Major grins
    edited November 6, 2008
    I'd love to pair this with 1 or 2 of those UDMA firewire 800 card readers. Word on the streets is that they're blazing fast. Might be overkill on 4GB though.:D I like overkill.deal.gif
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  • Scott_QuierScott_Quier Registered Users Posts: 6,524 Major grins
    edited November 10, 2008
    rpcrowe wrote:
    I just purchased three Lexar Professional, 4-GB, 300X, UDMA Compactflash cards from Calumet Camera. The price of each card was $73.99 but there is a $70.00 mail-in rebate per card reducing the price to $3.99 per card.

    There is a maximum of 3-rebates per household.

    Of course, I had to pay the California State Sales tax which increased the per card cost to a bit less than $10.00 each. That is still a pretty good price for a card of this quality.

    The rebate is not a Calumet specific rebate; it is offered by Lexar as Rebate H92860 and is in effect from 11/1/08 to 1/15/09. The only caveat is that the card must be purchased from an "authorized Lexar reseller"; so be careful regarding purchases from some eBay merchants who may not be "authorized resellers".
    So, how does this work? You buy the cards and include the promotional code on the order or do you have to send stuff into Lexar?

    EDIT: Found it (here) and the offer has changed...
    Offer
    Purchase select Lexar 300X CompactFlash cards between November 9, 2008 through January 15, 2009 and get up to $40 back in mail-in rebates.

    Qualifying Memory:
    2GB 300X CompactFlash - $30 Mail-in Rebate
    4GB 300X CompactFlash - $20 Mail-in Rebate
    8GB 300X CompactFlash - $40 Mail-in Rebate

    Looking for the previous Mail-in Rebate? Unfortunately, it has been replaced by the offer shown above. Here is the official letter from Lexar pertaining to the earlier rebate:
    Dear Lexar Photo Dealer,
    Please discontinue using/offering Lexar's Mail in Rebate form for Lexar Professional Compact Flash 300X products that has an effective date of 11/1/2008 thru 1/15/2008. Offer numbers are H628759, H928760, & H028761.
    Products sold thru 11/06/2008 in conjunction with the now defunct offer, will have the MIR honored, but not after that date.
    A new rebate form is forthcoming, and the offers outlined on this forthcoming form will work in conjunction with product sold after 11/06/2008. We apologize for the inconvenience.
    Regards,

    David Albert
    Photo Account Manager, Lexar Media, Inc.
    Valid 11/9/08 through 1/15/09
    We now return you to your regularly scheduled program ...
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  • ShimaShima Registered Users Posts: 2,547 Major grins
    edited November 12, 2008
    Scott_Quier wrote:
    So, how does this work? You buy the cards and include the promotional code on the order or do you have to send stuff into Lexar?

    EDIT: Found it (here) and the offer has changed...


    We now return you to your regularly scheduled program ...

    Yeah Tallyn's just announced those Lexar discounts too. Pity it's not a bigger discount like the one from the original poster.
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  • rwellsrwells Registered Users Posts: 6,084 Major grins
    edited November 20, 2008
    I just purchased 3 Lexar Professional, 8-GB, 300X, UDMA Compactflash cards from Circuit City for $64.99 ea. = $194.97 minus $40.00 ea. mail in rebate. Total cost $74.97 + tax. --- $24.99 each.


    Not bad for 8Gig 300X cards...
    Randy
  • mountainhousemountainhouse Registered Users Posts: 91 Big grins
    edited November 21, 2008
    rwells wrote:
    I just purchased 3 Lexar Professional, 8-GB, 300X, UDMA Compactflash cards from Circuit City for $64.99 ea. = $194.97 minus $40.00 ea. mail in rebate. Total cost $74.97 + tax. --- $24.99 each.


    Not bad for 8Gig 300X cards...

    I don't see the rebates on the Circuit City site. Are you sure they apply to purchases there? The rebate form from Adorama says 'pro photo channel' on it. I'm wondering if CC is not part of it. However, at $64.99 it's better than anything else I can find where the rebate is mentioned.
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  • rwellsrwells Registered Users Posts: 6,084 Major grins
    edited November 21, 2008
    mountainhouse wrote:
    I don't see the rebates on the Circuit City site. Are you sure they apply to purchases there? The rebate form from Adorama says 'pro photo channel' on it. I'm wondering if CC is not part of it. However, at $64.99 it's better than anything else I can find where the rebate is mentioned.

    That being said, your probably right, but $64.99 is still a good price & I needed the cards anyway.
    Randy
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