Pearl's free tom offer sounds fishy

[RawDepth]

The offer: If you buy certain Pearl drum sets between specified dates, you can get a free matching tom by mail.

Has anyone sent away for this offer yet? I have read the fine print and they want me to send in my "original" sales receipt for the drum set, which will NOT be returned to me.

But what if I need my receipt later to make a claim on the warranty? Ah, perhaps that is their strategy. Hmm.

 

[gdavi1]

The offer: If you buy certain Pearl drum sets between specified dates, you can get a free matching tom by mail.

Has anyone sent away for this offer yet? I have read the fine print and they want me to send in my "original" sales receipt for the drum set, which will NOT be returned to me.

But what if I need my receipt later to make a claim on the warranty? Ah, perhaps that is their strategy. Hmm.

call them.
they probably want you to copy the receipt for your records. but they can not accept the copied receipt or else you could copy it for all your friends.

 

[dintymoore]

Usually stores will print you a duplicate receipt so you can send one in to Pearl.

My gut feeling is that there's no problem here - Pearl is too big a company to pull any monkey business stunts.

What's crazy though, is considering buying drums (or anything except food, toilet paper and underwear) new. That's nuts. My Gretsch drums from the 1950's don't have a warranty... well they do, it says "Gretsch" on them.

Buying new is for people who don't know about what they're buying or have billions and billions of dollars, and even they should buy used and do something wiser with their money.

 

[ryvanz]

My Gretsch drums from the 1950's don't have a warranty... well they do, it says "Gretsch" on them.
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I think you're getting warranty confused with resale value. It doesn't matter what type of drums you have, if you crack the shells badly enough, they're worth nothing.

 

[c7sus]

What's crazy though, is considering buying drums (or anything except food, toilet paper and underwear) new. That's nuts. My Gretsch drums from the 1950's don't have a warranty... well they do, it says "Gretsch" on them.

Buying new is for people who don't know about what they're buying or have billions and billions of dollars, and even they should buy used and do something wiser with their money.

If nobody ever bought anything "new" there wouldn't be anything available "used".

 

[dintymoore]

I think you're getting warranty confused with resale value. It doesn't matter what type of drums you have, if you crack the shells badly enough, they're worth nothing.

What I meant was that the only time you need a warranty is with junk that's likely to fail. They made the Gretsch drum with so much redundant strength, way more than they needed to. So it won't fail because of that... that's the warranty. There's nothing that could happen to those drums except a fire or something catastrophic.

Warranties are for junk in general. The only ones that mean anything are the lifetime ones. A company putting a warranty on something is them saying they think it will fail. It's a wager - you're betting it will fail, the company's betting it won't.

So I don't like warranties and I associate them with crap - nothing I have of extreme value came with a warranty, only the mediocre stuff did.

c7sus: Yes, I'm glad people buy new so I can buy used, I think of that when I drive my $800 Chevy - some poor fool paid $25K for it. My point was more that if you spend money on new stuff all the time you won't be able to afford all the stuff you'll need. It seems better to get knowledgeable, pick up a few repair skills and buy used to me.