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REBATES SUCK
menace:
[rant]So I bought a d-link router from best buy in december and dutifully filled out the rebate forms and sent them off. Now 12 weeks later their website shows my order as being received and processed. So being thoroughly pi$$ed i called them and sent them an email to express my disgust. Now here it is 24 hrs later, no return calls or retrun emails and low and behold my check has been mailed
I'm willing to bet serious money that those slimy ---daisies--- sit on the checks and only mail the ones where people complain--there should be a law against these jerk-offs. [/rant]
ChadTower:
And half the time they come up with a bogus reason to deny them, at least to me. I paid $25 recently for a sound card with a $25 rebate... sent all the things in required... and they sent back a rejection saying "rebate form illegible". It was perfectly legible when I SENT it. How exactly did they send me the rejection if they couldn't read my form? >:(
whammoed:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 23, 2005, 02:50:13 pm --- How exactly did they send me the rejection if they couldn't read my form?
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missioncontrol:
I never decide to buy something based on the rebate I'm "supposed" to get back.....
I always fill em out, and send them in and every once in a while I'm surprised by getting back what they promised.....
I really wish there was a law that would crack down on rebate offers....
If they promise it then they should stick to it......
DrewKaree:
The only good rebate is an "instant" rebate. Take it off right at the register.
I went to buy a 25 pack of DVD-R's because it was a good deal even if I didn't get the rebate. When I got to the register, the price they had listed was an "instant" rebate. That was the price - right then, right there. Thinking I had to mail in the rebate, I only bought one. Giving me an "instant" rebate enticed me to purchase 2 more packs.
More items should have the rebates in this form, but it doesn't benefit the companies, so piss on us, I guess. ::)