On 12/13/05, Jason Bleazard <dml@bleazard.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, December 13, 2005 6:11 pm, Josh Battles said:
> >
> > 250GB Seagate IDE drives for $70 after MIR. I couldn't pass that up, I ended
> > up buying 2.
>
> Not bad... I hope they don't have a "one per household" limit on the rebate,
> though.
I don't even look at mail-in rebates most of the time now. Sure, you
get your money back...eventually. But it's such a hassle. I bought a
17" Samsung LCD to replace my 19" NEC monitor in June. Mailed in the
paperwork the first week of July, before the deadline. I got my
rebates the first week of November. That's just too long to have to
wait. And, it assumes that you filled out everything perfectly and
your paperwork, UPC cutouts, etc. got to them intact. I had one
rebate in the past get rejected because they claimed I didn't send in
the UPC - I did, they just didn't get it, somehow.
Staples' Easy Rebates (tm)(r)(c), OTOH, was a breeze. I bought an
Epson printer from Staples in early October. On the receipts I had a
transaction ID and a rebate ID. I went to staples.com, punched in the
relevant info, and had my rebate checks the first week of November
(same week I got my Samsung rebates, for an item purchased over 3
months earlier). Staples handles all the transactions with Epson for
me behind the scenes - they gave me the money, and they file the
rebate with Epson and get the money back from them.
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