imho, rebates are a joke. my experience with trying to make good on rebates has been nothing short of nightmarish. a couple of years ago i bought a cyndyne cd-rom burner and was convinced that "after rebate" i would have a pretty good deal on my hands. well, i made a copy of the receipt, cut out the original upc, mailed all required forms to the rebate fullfilment address, waited the required 6 weeks, and then.....nothing. i had to call customer service and jump through numerous hoops to get my rebate resubmitted, and several weeks later i did receive a check in the mail.
fast forward to now. i recently purchased a linksys wireless-g router, a wireless-g usb adapter, and a wireless - g notebook card, ALL with some sort of rebate offer. once again, i cut out the upc's, filled out the rebate forms, made copies, mailed my forms to the appropriate rebate address, waited the appropriate 6 weeks and.....nothing! i called and they don't even have record of ever receiveing my forms :-(! funny thing is, they make you wait the 6 weeks before you can even ask about it, NOW i have to resubmit and wait another 6 weeks.
makes me wonder how good a deal these rebates are...is my time not worth something? i'm giving a company lots of personal information about myself, (which they are no doubt selling to other companies), i wait for a month and a half, and they may or may not send me a rebate check??? it's bananas...somethings wrong with this pic.
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