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.

[Ray180]

I bought this model a few months ago from Buy.com for $15 (no rebate but refurbished). It's my first BT headset so I don't have anything else to compare it to but I still find myself using my older wired headsets more often than this one. It's easy enough operate and pair to a device and it holds a charge well but callers tell me it picks up a lot of extra noise, especially in the car which is where it would be most handy. I also think the fit is too loose, allowing the unit to swing away from the face with the slightest head movement.

[jamestracy]

I called and spoke with an Office Depot representative to inquire about the rebate offer for the Motorola H350 Bluetooth Headset. I was told that there is no rebate available for that particular item. If you go to http://www.officedepot.com/ and scroll to the bottom of the page and click the link, Mail-In Saving under Specials and then type the product # in the box Product SKU, you will see that Office Depot is not offering any kind of rebate. The web address were the rebate form is located is called http://forms.young-america.com/80677_OD1902033-030508.pdf and cannot be directly accessed (at least I was unable to in any form). Reading PDF rebate form, it list the web address http://web-rebates.com/officedepot but when that site is typed into the address bar this message comes up.

There is a problem with this web site's security certificate.


The security certificate presented by this website was issued for a different web site's address.

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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

[rickbroida]

I agree that this appears fishy, and I appreciate your diligence in trying to warn your fellow readers. However, a quick search for Motorola products in the "Mail-in Savings" page (as you described above) does indeed reveal this headset, and the link to the PDF is the same. So I officially give this my Unofficial Cheapskate Seal of Approval.

[SpitfireAu]

James,

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