Re: Rebates are Hell

amcwill417 wrote:

"CJT" <abujlehc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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amcwill417 wrote:


Looking at a Sunday Best Buy ad insert in the newspaper and looking at a
comupter system I see listed the following mail-in rebates:
$150 Best Buy Bundle
$50 CPU
$50 monitor
$50 printer bundle
$20 printer bundle

for a total of $320 for the computer system. ( I do not understand why 

the

printer has two separate rebates).

So why not just take all this off at the cash register? When I go to 

the

grocery store and buy a loaf of bread I do not get a mail-in rebate 

offer.

I am of the opinion that all this rebate stuff is nonsense and vastly
complicates things.  And for what purpose?

Alex



It allows them to report higher gross sales to keep Wall Street happy.

It also gives them the use of your money for a while.

And, as another poster noted, some people don't send in for the rebates.

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Someday we will be offered mail-in rebates for a grocery store purchased
pizza.  One pizza will probably have several rebates:  one for the cheese,
one for the tomato sauce, one for the pepperoni, one for the crust, etc.

Alex


The only thing that will stop the trend is consumer revolt (or
legislation brought about by consumer revolt).

Don't buy stuff that has rebates.

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