March 14, 2008 5:00 AM PDT
Chat hands-free with Motorola H350 Bluetooth headset, $4.99 (after rebate)
(Credit: Motorola)If you're still walking around with your cell phone glued to your ear, here's your chance to walk around looking like you're talking to yourself instead. Office Depot has the Motorola H350 Bluetooth headset for $4.99 (plus shipping) after a $35 mail-in rebate.
This isn't a top-of-the-line headset--user reviews on CNET and Amazon seem to peg it as only a hair above average--but did I mention the $4.99 price tag? Curiously, the Office Depot product listing describes an entirely different headset and doesn't include a link to the rebate form (a PDF, FYI), which may raise a red flag for some.
If you decide to order the headset anyway (or bop into your local Office Depot), make sure to hurry: The rebate offer expires March 15.
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I highly recommend that no one purchase this and attempt to mail in this rebate form, it appears to be a scam of some sort. I would also recommend that this post be deleted from http://www.cnet.com/8301-13845_1-9893580-58.html?tag=head immediately.
James Tracy
It would've been worth your while to investigate a little before declaring this a scam. If you check the security certificate it is a valid VeriSign certificate, but it's issued to http://www.web-rebates.com rather than http://web-rebates.com (which is how the link is written in the form), which is one and the same in terms of the actual website - simply adding the "www." to the address will eliminate the certificate error entirely. This scenario is in fact mentioned in that error message you described.
Despite the fact that the rebate has expired it was still an issue that needed clarification: sometimes a little digging around to fully ascertain it's authentic.
Mike