Free 5pk of CDr media

[flood]

I got this from a friend.. seems to be legit. I got a comfirmation email as well.

My company is giving away free CD-R media, in a 5-pack shrink wraped (no jewel cases), they are even paying for shipping, it is an opportunity to get the name out about our media, and let people try it and see that they are premium quality. .... For your free media mail Sales@Falcon-Graphics.com with your address and that you want the 5pk.

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This thread is locked because the president of the company has posted that this offer is over. Our thanks to him and his staff for their courteous and fair position.

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[EmperorNero]

I went to http://www.Falcon-Graphics.com, it seems to be a professional site. so I'll give it a shot.

 

[diablonhn]

It seems? heheh, that's an understatement, with a bunch of cgi scripts, it HAD to take a lot of time, AT a lot of expense....think I'm gonna try it the deal...

 

[tomcat]

According to the NIC record the company has been around for a year and a half and is operated out of Florida. Here is the complete info:

Registrant:
FALCON GRAPHICS (FALCON-GRAPHICS-DOM)
508 PHEASANT COURT
PENSACOLA, FL 32514
US

Domain Name: FALCON-GRAPHICS.COM

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact, Billing Contact:
SERGI, URIART (US474) SERPEG@MINDSPRING.COM
FALCON GRAPHICS
508 PHEASANT COURT
PENSACOLA , FL 32514
850-477-3702

Record last updated on 08-Jan-2000.
Record expires on 09-Jan-2001.
Record created on 09-Jan-1999.
Database last updated on 21-Jul-2000 10:35:21 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.SECURE.NET 192.41.1.10
NS2.SECURE.NET 161.58.9.10

I'm giving it a shot.. if any problems arise I'm dealing with the BBB.

 

[flood]

A friend owns the company... I've known him for about 2 years... he did some graphics for my web page a while back... http://amp.mp3car.com actually, thats how we met.

 

[goog40]

Wow, awesome deal. I thought this was just another imation rebate post. You cna never have enough cd-r's.

 

[slaman]

Well, I've signed up... wrote them a nice sappy email about how I am interested in quality products at reasonable prices. Asked for their sample pack. Catch is, I live in Canada, so let's see how this works

 

[tomcat]

Here is the reply I recieved from Falcon Graphics:

"Hello,

Sir, I am the President/CEO of my company, this promotion is strictly to get our name out to the cdr media consumers out there in the world, we have received over 2000 requests at this moment and getting them at a rate at about 10 a min, so we belive that we will have close to a thousand near end of today, we will try and send the 5 pack, due to supplies we might have to start sending just 1 cd per person, we did not expect this kind of reply, what bbs did you hear about us on, btw?

Thanks,
Sergio, Falcon Graphics

P.S.
you name/address will not be used for anything more than sending you this promotional media, after that you address is removed from our database. Thank you for trying our products!


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[FalGra]

Hello,

I am the President/CEO of Falcon Graphics, all I can say is "WOW". We estimated around 2000CDs to be given away in quantities of 5 to each person, to help us get our product out to consumers, well seems that we have received over 4300 e-mails at the time I am writing this. Due to this volume of replys, I called all of my partners and we had a meeting about what to do, we decided that everyone should get cdrs at least the first 5000 to boot, then have another promotion later on for another 5000 - 1000 people, however we have decided that due to the financial end of it, we will give 1 cd to everyone that requested the promotion, still will be free mailing/shipping. Because giving 5 per person we could only afford to give them to the first 1000, and that would not be fare to the rest of the people, so I hope that you all understand our position, and we will offer 2$ off our 50 packs if you did receive a free promotional cd, the rebate will be included with the free cd for use when you need it, it will never expire so no worries. Also to address the matter of people in other countries, we will limit this promotion to those in the US, and some in canada depending on what area you are in, due to shipping costs, we will do everything we can to get a free cd to everyone who requests one, but we cannot send out of USA/CANADA. I personally appologize from any inconveniences this might of caused. We will be mailing the cd's off starting Monday July 24th, we will send them off USPS, in the order the requests were received.

Thanks,
Falcon Graphics

P.S.
Anand if you would like to review our media you are welcome to, we will send one to you as well.

 

[FalGra]

Hello,

Well we reached the 5000 request point a while ago, I thought I would post here to let everyone know, we have so far received close to 10,000 requests. We will be sending e-mails to those who will and won't be getting the media due to the 5000 request limit. We are sorry but that this time if you do not receive the media, we will keep you on our list to receive the free media when we have our next cdr promotion. Please consider us for your next cdr media and computer hardware purchase as we strive to provide our customers with the best service and prices possible.

Sincerely,
Falcon Graphics

 

[EmperorNero]

that's fair, falgra. well, I'll be looking towards to receiving the cd-r.

 

[goog40]

This is kinda confusing:

Hello,

Sorry but, we have already reached the 5000 request limit, we
will let you know when we run our next promotion and you will
receive yours if you wish. Only one request per house hold
please. Limited to USA residents only. We are limiting the amount
to 1 disk per person, not the 5 pack as it was stated before, due
to more than estimated requests, and the cost of the cdrs. We
will be sending out 5000 cdrs next week to those who qualify to
receive them, normal price is $19.95 per 50 pack which amounts
to almost $2000 in free media + shipping/packaging costs,
estimated to be around $7,500 total cost for this promotion. If you
wish to purchase some media we would appreciate it, you are
welcome to visit our page and order them,
.......(stuff about their site and mailing list)
Sincerely,
Falcon Graphics
Congratulations, you are one of the lucky 5000 people who will
DO NOT SPAM. IT HURTS ALL OF US

Everything up to the second to last line made me think I didn't get in, but then it says: "Congratulations, you are one of the lucky 5000 people who will"
At the beginning it syas "you will receive yours if you wish." If I wish? So do I have to write back? Confusing to me.

 

[tomcat]

goog40 They are saying that you will be able to get a cdr in their next promotion, though I think you'll still have to email them like everyone else.

 

[cerebusPu]

i think it may be a typo. maybe the second to last line is part of another email. whoever gets the "congrats" email can let us all know.

 

[goog40]

Oh, too bad for me I guess. I guess what mixed me up more was that TomCat posted that letter that said they had 2000 requests after I posted, but I figure he got in before I did. Oh well, not that I really needed the cd-r's(got around a hundred blanks just sitting in my room).

 

[ialpha]

so the promo. is over?

 

[CrazyJake]

I guess it's over...Dang I was too late. Good Post none the less..

 

[fr]

Over 5000 requests in just a few hours? Was this just posted here or other forums too? That sounds like a lot just for AnandTech.

 

[UKnowWhat]

Give them free stuffs, they will come (from everywhere)

 

[Rphman]

Didn't make it either. Save $5 and shipping get the $14.95 50pk from Outpost they rock!!! They probably were just collecting emails!!

 

[CrazyJake]

Probably were...That's alright though. I've bought so many CDRs from Outpost lately I don't think I'll be running out for some time. Not burning very many coasters lately.

 

[FalGra]

Hello,

Yes, there were a few problems with how our e-mails went out, we will be sending out your cds starting monday, if you received a wierd e-mail we appologize because we have had to send most of these replys by hand each and every one of them, that is alot for 12 people to do. Anyways, bare with us. Again, this is not an effort to collect e-mails, as you will not receive spam from this, nor is this an effort to college addresses, names, amount of e-mail or any other tactic, other than to get enough info to send the product out to people that use them, and can HONESTLY tell us what they think, we do hope that they purchase their media from us, our prices for media on our site will only go down, they are not promotional pricing and they are not cheap generic media, they are premium grade media made for such manufacturers as Verbatim, Kensko, and tons of other companies, they are unlabled with silver backs, and silver/green write side. We elected not to put our logo and info on the cd because of the cost it adds to the cd, and you are customer really rather save a few cents per disk than see our logo all over, am I right? Ok, well yes we will have our logo on the outside of the cake box, but that is it. We are already receiving orders for products, so much that our server was under so much load that our shopping cart kept timing out and users could not order, well, we have that under control now, everything is able to handle 12 times the load now. So order away, and enjoy the free cdr. We will have another promo, no need to contact us again, if you sent your request in this time, as we will contact you to tell you that we are sending the free cdr at that time, so you can keep an eye out for it. Again, sorry that we could not send to everyone, but with close to 11,000 e-mails tonight and posting on around 100 - 150 sites, threads, bbs, IRC, it has grown into a thing of it's self. So we know everyone is interested in trying our media, so we will do our best to get you that chance. And as always we wish you the best!

 

[H8tank]

Holy CRAP!

The power of AT!

Cool, I'm in the market for a bundle of CDR's, we'll see how the pricing and shipping costs are.

 

[flood]

"silver/green write side"
coolness!