I personally don't have any problems with OCZ, but I don't have too many products from them.
But their MIR seemed to have really bad reputation.

never had issues with OCZ, but MIR on every goddamn item??? c'mon, really?

bricked a 120gb vertex 1 myself while flashing a new firmware to it, emailed ocz and rmaed the bricked drive pain free

I feel the same way, but their MIR isn't too bad. They seem to be ridiculously slow. I had one mid-September and just received it yesterday.
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^ 6 weeks is considered pretty fast for OCZ

anyways i thought all companies use 3rd party rebate processing

MIRs are always slow, everyone knows that. OCZ is no faster or slower than anyone else. And they aren't even the ones who process them.

If you had a problem with OCZ products, fine. If you don't like the MIR policy, don't buy products with an MIR.

But to wish ill will towards a company that has hundreds or thousands of people working there who are about to lose their jobs is pretty fucked up, imo

In the beginning of the year, I bought a 120GB Vertex 3 drive with $10 MIR. Vertex 3 has been running fine in my MBP *knock on wood*, and I got my $10 MIR. The MIR came as an AMEX gift card, but still $10.

Yeah, I try my best to stay away from MIR.
It peeves me how NCIX advertises something is $xxx.xx after MIR, when really,
that's not true, cause I have to pay tax on the before MIR price. :okay:

Got so annoying, I just decided to not deal with MIR.

No problems here - have 4 OCZ SSD's in raid for the last year and a half - no problems so far