Rebate - Finally

Back on May 21, I bought a 5-port Gigafast switch for $34.95 with a $25 rebate. Yesterday, Aug 11, I finally received the rebate check in the mail. Took just a bit less than 3 months for the check to arrive.

Actually that's pretty good from past experience. I never did get a rebate coupon for one thing I bought, and other people I know say the have had to wait closer to a year for their check.

It really sucks. I thought the FTC was cracking down on some companies for abuse. I read about Philips getting in trouble for taking too long with the CD-ROM drives they sold. Looks like the abuse is still continuing.

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Hey, if they can just hold onto your money for a few years they can give it all back and still be ahead. It's just another way to finance a business.

Blake

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Your doing better than I have ever done! I have never gotten a dime back from any of these offers. If you ask me, its a waist of your postage money. I always look for the deal (or savings) up front. I think your odds are something like 1 in 10, that you'll get your rebate money. And they will call that a "on sale" item. To me its just another scam...

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I find rebates a nuisance and they *do* come slowly, but I've never failed to get one.

I make copies of everything I send in and toss into the file cabinet so I don't forget what I'm owed.

Rebates certificates for large amounts, say $100, I send certified.

...Jim Thompson

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I bought a CDRW and 120Gig drive at Circuit City. Talking to the sales guy, he said that only 12% of people jump through all the hoops and get their rebate. Though I'd never gotten the paperwork in on time, I was determined to be part of the 12%. I got the CDRW one in the mail a day late, but the $30 showed up the other day. Still waiting on the $60 for the hard drive, but according to the website it's going to be sent.

Just read the rebate form carefully, and do everything they require.

Blake

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I've never failed to get a rebate I'm entitled to. You have to read the form and follow the directions faithfully, keep copies of everything you send, and you have to start calling and asking where your rebate is as soon as the specified time period expires. I've discovered that my rebates are "returned by the postal service as undeliverable" about 75% of the time according to the rebate fulfillment companies, although none of the rest of my mail ever seems to go missing. I haven't decided whether they're scamming me or just incompetent, but the latter seems quite likely -- the rebate forms seem to be processed by minimally trained chimps. But calling and being persistent seems to work.

-Larry Jones

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I agee. I made a resolution a few ears ago to never buy anything with a rebate. I also made a resolution to never buy anything for computers from Fry's again.

Unfortunately, I haven't kept either resolution. :-(

But I've tried.

I did a web search and found some good articles on what's being done about rebate abuse. I know of at least three people who have had to wait almost a year to get their rebate checks. In my case, I didn't receive one at all, similar to the followup above. That's the one that made me make the resolution. And I do agree that the companies arrange things so that the odds are against you ever getting your money. One thing I noticed on one rebate check was that I received it and the "must be cashed before" date had already expired! It still went thru my checking acct, tho, without bouncing. Dirty, steenking rats!

Oops, years, not ears, above. I'm not Vincent VanGogh, I still have both of mine. But the rebate runaround wants to make me tear my hair out! Especially when it's for 50 or 100 bucks!

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In article , Jim- T@analog_innovations.com mentioned... [snip]

And that costs you a couple dollars and a trip to the P.O. where you have to stand in line a half hour (at least where I live). Which is what I've had to do recently.

I've been battling the P.O. to get them to stop delivering the junk mail flyers. last year I went thru the motions of contacting the companies to get my address removed from their lists. But I kept getting the flyers, without the address cards. Turned out the idiot cariers are delivering the flyers without the cards, which they are _not_ supposed to do. So after talking to the stupidvisor at the local P.O. and having mixed results, I submitted a Form 1500 for the Pennysaver I received a few weeks ago, handed it to another stupidvisor, and I'm waiting for a confirmation from the processing center back east that it was received. But my guess is that I'll never receive a confirmation, that the stupidvisors just tossed in the trash can. In a few weeks, if I don't receive the confirmation, I'll send the form directly to the processing center. Maybe that will get their attention!

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a number of times during this last year, and it was useful for getting the companies to remove my address from their lists. But when the P.O. letter carrier does an end run around everything I've done to block the junk mail, well, let's just say this. I'm mad as hell, and i'm not gonna take it!

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I got a $3000 rebate on my new car last year. However, I just signed it over to the dealer, to reduce the payment due.

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I bought some software a few years ago, with rebates from both the publisher and store. However, BOTH wanted the original UPC from the box. Fortunately, the store accepted a photo copy, along with a note explaining the situation. I received both rebates, which made the software almost free.

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Well, you know what they say... if ya can't beat 'em, join 'em. I remember seeing a fella on TV who lived in Canada (I think) whose house was entirely heated by junkmail... he'd sign up for as much paper junk as possible, and put it directly into his fireplace. He'd get about 10 pounds of junk a day, not bad for free heat! :)

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That was Canada. Don't need junk mail here in So Calif. Got the internet. The other day at work we printed out coupons from the Souplantation website and went down and got a discount on our lunches.

But my problem is that the idiots at the P.O. send back the letters as undeliverable if I'm gone for _only_ three days and the damn flyers fill up the mailbox. I've lived at the same addr for decades, so it's nothing to do with the address changing. The P.O. is truly the ultimate pain in the a$$. Last year in August I looked at my license plate and the tags had expired. I went to the DMV, and they told me that my renewal notice had been sent back as undeliverable! Unbelieveable! After that, I said, "Enough!" and I started doing what I had to do to get the junk mail stopped. It would be effective _if_ the letter carriers would do their job!

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I find letters-to-the-editor to be quite effective. After I had several important (as in containing checks ;-) pieces of mail that were returned as "Not at this address" I wrote a letter placing postal employees at the bottom of the mental-capacity chain.

The day after the letter was printed in the newspaper I was confronted by my postwoman, claiming she had been on vacation when it happened and the substitute must've done it.

But, somehow, it's never happened again ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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|  James E.Thompson, P.E.                           |    mens     |
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I had a check returned to a school because the post office couldn't locate me. My shop was right across the street from them. You looked right at it when you walked out their front door.

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That one's a darwin-awards contender for sure! : )

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Mark Jones

Actually, it should be two. The invoice stated: "Do not mail to street address, use PO box to be sure I receive payment on time."

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