[ale] [OT] rebates

[Jeff Lightner]

Personally I've always thought the main point in "rebates" is that
vendors fully expect not to have to ever honor them.  

 

To me the funniest is when mail order houses like Dell offer rebates.
You have to buy it from them, have them send it to you, then send them
something proving you bought it from them?   The only two reasons I can
see for this would be:  A)  They make money on the float between the
time you buy and the time you get the rebate and/or B) They don't'
expect to have to honor the rebate so increase their bottom line.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
Jerry Yu
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 6:31 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] [OT] rebates

 

maybe some lawyers can  see it as a job opportunity (for a class action
lawsuit), if they do google/yahoo/msn search :)
CompUSA was there before, till FTC fined them a few years back.

On 2/23/07, Sean Kilpatrick <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:

The offer said "90 days."  That means, at law, 90 calendar days.

The more time I spend with Google, the more I have come to realize
that Office Depot has been scamming folks across the country for the
past few years with rebates that are not honored.

Sean

On Friday 23 February 2007 17:34, Jim Popovitch wrote:

| On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 17:15 -0500, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
| > Back in November I purchased a HP laser printer from Office Depot. 
| > The printer (2605dn) works well -- no complaints about the printer.
| >
| > BUT . . . .  (you knew there was going to be a "but")
| >
| > The printer came with two rebates, totalling $175.  The rebate forms

| > burped out by the cash register's printer provided clear
instructions
| > and warned me it might take 90 days (!) for my money to arrive.
| >
| > Well, 90 days have come and gone but there is no sign of my money. 
|
| 90 calendar days, or 90 business days?
|
| -Jim P.
|

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