Rebates. Do you get too lazy to even bother with them?

[alien amp pharm]

I finally got my lazy butt around to filling one out....a tidious one requesting everything short of my soul. Got it all completed and sent in only to receive a letter back saying that I was not elgible for the rebate because I purchased the item 2 weeks before the rebate went into effect. It was a $200 rebate.

 

[musclemom]

Corporations bank on the people who are too lazy, procrastinate or forget, which is why rebates are usually for considerably more money than the item would be on sale for. If everyone sent in their rebate it would really screw up the company.

My husband is FOREVER buying things, calling me up, telling me what a great price it is and then he gets home and it turns out it's a rebate item. That shit gets filled out THAT night and sent out the next morning (by HIM). I hate doing paper work, but I particularly hate filling out forms, putting pen to paper, yuck.

 

[SoreArms]

I hate waiting 6-8 weeks for the check though


Who actually sends in the $0.50 to $3.00 dollar ones though?

 

[musclemom]

rebate?

is that like a tax return?

Where the heck do you LIVE that they don't have REBATES???

 

[nycgirl]

I try to avoid items that have rebates. Like SoreArms, I'm a procrastinator. I will fill it out and put it in the envelope . . . then I wait forever to buy the stamps (this is why I pay my bills online. lol).

 

[foreigngirl]

Where the heck do you LIVE that they don't have REBATES???

Europe

 

[SoreArms]

I try to avoid items that have rebates. Like SoreArms, I'm a procrastinator. I will fill it out and put it in the envelope . . . then I wait forever to buy the stamps (this is why I pay my bills online. lol).

LOL, I'm the worst at paying bills for the exact same reason, having to buy stamps. In my current living situation with my brothers, I set it up so that I pay much more rent, but I don't ahve to deal with any of the bills. Otherwise, depending on me would mean our water and lectricity would be turned off atleast four or five times per year becasue I forgot to send the bill (comon problem with my last rooamte since we were both bill paying procrastinators).

 

[Dial_tone]

I once paid $150+ for a printer, then my ex's sister got the model up for $30 6 months later w/rebates.

 

[Devastation]

if the rebate is $10 or more i always send it in

 

[Hiatussin]

Where the heck do you LIVE that they don't have REBATES???

Belgium and Holland

never heard of it