SMC Baracade

[nhbilly]

MicroCenter has the router for $50.00
The store will give you a instant $50.00 rebate.
And there is also a mail in rebate which is $50.00
A friend of mine told me bout it.

[roboo7]

hehe does your friends names start with anand and end with tek? hehe just jokin. where is the mail in rebate. i read its a mfr. rebate but i cant find it on smc's site.

here is the link to mei

http://www.mei-microcenter.com/product.phtml?sku=518399

[1800]

I think your friend is mistaken. the price is $149.99 - $50 instant - $50 MIR = $49.99

http://www.microcenter.com/monthly_specials.html

[Damion]

OK now I'm absolutely confused.

There are two micro centers? the first one (mei-mc) only has a mfr rebate listed and even then the final price is 49.99. the second micro center has it for 149.99 but minus the 100 in rebates i guess that the least you can get the product for in any case is 50 bucks. still not that bad but I hope I didn't get something horribly wrong, because when i first read your post i thought i'd be getting 50 bucks back :) ehh..it IS 5am and i really should sleep.

[techhi]

where's the rebate form ???????

[techhi]

Rebate is in the box per MEI customer service

I'm picking me up one

Tom

[roboo7]

heheh this is confusing.

[nhbilly]

Sorry Guys!

The instant rebate is at MicroCenter only.
The Microcenter I am refering to is on the corner of Edingeer and the 55
http://www.microcenter.com/store_locations/map_tustin.html
Others MC I do not know, sorry.
The Mail In Rebate is only good with a valid Microcenter Recipe :( and also the instant rebate i sonly good at MC ..doh.

I hope this clears everything up.

PS. my friend is NOT an and whatever.......I hate that site.
And beside my friend stop by there the day they where lining up the SMC on the shelves. I was gonna post that day but I wanted to make sure, so I post the day afterward.
And if I did take it from a site I would give proper props, which I did, which is my friend.

Thanks,

[Edited by nhbilly on 08-08-2001 at 11:46 AM]

[brainsmile]

sweet

[nomoney]

Just spoke to a CSR and he said that it is 99.99 and cant find a rebate or reabte form anywhere. Anybody know if there really is a rebate and where it is. I know that SMC has a 20 MIR...

http://image.fp.outpost.com/art/rebates_pdf/30218.pdf

[Edited by PsillyPyro on 08-08-2001 at 11:27 AM]

[techhi]

I called MEI and they said it should be in enclosed

I ordered one so we will see
I will not be a very happy camper if it's not in there

I called 2 times

[Damion]

so the final price is $50? It's on my way to the Tustin Micro Center (this is in Orange County, Southern CA area near Los Angeles) so maybe I"ll stop by. It's on the 55 freeway at the Edinger exit across the fwy from the Santa Ana Auto Mall


Originally posted by nhbilly
Sorry Guys!

The instant rebate is at MicroCenter only.
The Microcenter I am refering to is on the corner of Edingeer and the 55
http://www.microcenter.com/store_locations/map_tustin.html
Others MC I do not know, sorry.
The Mail In Rebate is only good with a valid Microcenter Recipe :( and also the instant rebate i sonly good at MC ..doh.

I hope this clears everything up.

PS. my friend is NOT an and whatever.......I hate that site.
And beside my friend stop by there the day they where lining up the SMC on the shelves. I was gonna post that day but I wanted to make sure, so I post the day afterward.
And if I did take it from a site I would give proper props, which I did, which is my friend.

Thanks,

[Edited by nhbilly on 08-08-2001 at 11:46 AM]

[Boltz681]

Did a search and came up with this:

http://www.computers4sure.com/comassets/productspecial/2012.pdf

Hey techhi, if you get the rebate, will you consider scanning and posting it?

Just a suggestion =)

[nhbilly]

PLEASE PLEASE READ THIS................

The mail in rebate and instant rebate is at MICROCENTER and only at Microcenter,
http://www.microcenter.com <<<<<this store only>>>>>>>
The store provides everything rebate for this SMC router.
Remmeber only MICROCENTER.
If you want to confirm with the webpage, there is a link that has the special of the week. Click and find out for yourself.



Well Damion the accual cost is 149.99 -50 instant - 50 mail in = so i guess it would be 49.99.
Okay Im short a freaken penny ; )

[Mikelee223]

I'm in need of a router and I'm not sure if this is a good router. I would rather get a linksys or D-link router.. but if this is the same I probably get this cause the price is pretty good. Any suggestions?

[Gozer]

MEI-Microcenter does have this deal, if you look at the linkage to the MEI site, it lists a 99.99 price, minus a 50 dollar mail in rebate. The mail in rebate is valid.

[rcastillo]

This is a great router. The company is right down the street in Irvine. The support is outstanding. I don't know what determines if one is better than the other, but I can't see how the SMC product could be better, especially at 50 bucks!!!


Originally posted by Mikelee223
I'm in need of a router and I'm not sure if this is a good router. I would rather get a linksys or D-link router.. but if this is the same I probably get this cause the price is pretty good. Any suggestions?

[qgyu]

I run the 8 port version of this router after throwing the Linksys I had into the East River. My Linksys would drop connections constantly and I had to pretty much reboot everything on the network (damn thing doesn't even have a power switch), but since I've gotten this router, I've never had any problems. Aside from firmware upgrades, I've never had to reboot it. It's rock solid. I also ran the DSLReports security analysis against myself and nothing inside the NAT is visible from the outside. SMC usually makes really ugly, but very functional products, and the Baracade is no exception. Company wise, I don't think D-Link is quite in the same league.

[Mikelee223]

OK kool... thanks for the info fellas

[Megan]

I highly recommend SMC for not only this router, but for their customer service as well.

I recently decided to buy a router and realized I had missed the $50 1 week promotion. So I called SMC and the Customer Service/Tech Support guy went so far as to put me on hold to research which stores where going to have the $50 rebate again.

So it seems that SMC alternates different retailers to have there 1 week only $50 rebate router deal. So if you need one, be patient and another different store will probalby have the rebate.

On a different note, I also purchased the Netgear 314, which from reviews is also an excellent Router. I had question about the rebate or something from Netgear, so I called their CS and the guy was all but rude. Now these are just 2 isolated incidences and maybe I got the SMC guy on a good day and the Netgear fellow on a not-so-good day. But long story short, SMC won my business and future recommendations. We also chose SMC because it has a print server. (which bacically means you don't have to turn on your second computer to use your second printer)

Bottom Line:
Be patient and the $50 rebate will probably come around again at a different retailer and yes the Router is an excellent router that includes a print server.

Hope this helps!

[Damion]

the Micro Center ad in today's LA Times had a SMC product in it for $50...not sure whether if it was the Barracade.

[Mikelee223]

I just received my package with the router. NO REBATE. Wrote an email to customer service tell them that the rebate not in the box. Waiting for reply.

[Mikelee223]

I CALLED THEM AND THEY SENDING IT OVER BY MAIL. THEY APOLOGIZED THAT THEY FORGOT TO PUT IT IN THE BOX. SO WE'LL SEE IN THE NEXT 5-7 BUSINESS DAYS.

PEACE

[Mikelee223]

OK EVERYBODY I GOT MY REBATE....

[nhbilly]

Atleast someone enjoying it...... ; )

[Burzhui]

it's a great router, i have been using it and recieved nothing but happiness*
:)

*That sounded really weird

anyways you might have to upgrade the firmware but the router kicks ass