Good for you Hal when the store won't honor a rebate I go else where and they soon will change their minds-- Rebates is just to get the customer to buy thinking they are saving, I tell them to give me the rebate on my item now or forget about it-- I if they said No I walk out -- (burned once too)-- Jackie MacWhirter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hal" <hbrown@xxxxxxxx> To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 8:42 AM Subject: [CTS] rebates > Just a note to everyone about rebates. > > First of all, I hate rebates and will always try to get a good price > without rebates. At least 50% of the time they try to screw me out of the > money, not to mention they use my money for a couple of months for free. > > Recently, I bought a pack of DVDs that came with a rebate. Today I got a > card that said I missed the postmark sending in the rebate. I knew this > was bulls*** so I called about it. After repeated attempts, I finally got > to speak to someone...in India. I wanted to know by how many days I missed > the postmark. Without missing a beat, he told me I would be mailed a check > for the amount of the rebate. > > This is not the first time I've had to do this. So, if you don't get your > rebate, or they send you a card like this, call anyway. In this case it > was worth $32 for a few minutes on the phone. > > > -- > Hal Brown > http://adwt.com email: hal@xxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Talk Shop http://www.computertalkshop.com Un-subscribe/Vacation, http://www.computertalkshop.com/list_options.htm List HowTo: http://www.computertalkshop.com/faq.htm To join Computer Talk Shop's off topic list, please goto: http://computertalkshop.com/other_cts_lists.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------