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January 01, 2008

From the What Were They Thinking Department
Posted by Jess in Day to Day

For Christmas this year, many products I bought as gifts came with rebates. Most of them were special rebates when the item was purchased during a small window of time (such as Dec. 20-24).

When gathering my receipts and finally sitting down to do the rebates, I am stunned in disbelief at the amount that require the original UPC code from the box.

What were they thinking, indeed...

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a disturbingly common practice
to help ensure as few people as possible
actually get to receive the rebate.
rebates are,
by and large,
a total scam.

Posted by: jhimm at January 1, 2008 11:06 AM

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Agreed re the scam aspect of rebates. I've tried now for the past year or more to ignore rebate offers and only buy a product if the price seems attractive without rebate (whether offered or not). I decided that the time and frustration that seemed to be required to track and followup and actually GET the rebates was just not worth it to me.

Posted by: Joe Litton at January 2, 2008 09:10 AM

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Hi! You have a great car! Look at mine...
Greets from Switzerland
Nicole

Posted by: Nicole at January 6, 2008 10:43 AM

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Hi! You have a great car! Look at mine...
Greets from Switzerland
Nicole

Posted by: Nicole at January 6, 2008 10:54 AM

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comment test...

Posted by: Jess at January 11, 2008 07:21 PM

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