John Doe said:In user reviews, some people even talk about not having to mess with
a rebate, an indication of how generally bad rebate experiences can
be. Whether you want to mess with them partly depends on how much
you think your time is worth.
By the way. Try to keep the same USENET posting ID for more than 80
posts, for people who follow your recommendation.
In user reviews, some people even talk about not having to mess with
a rebate, an indication of how generally bad rebate experiences can
be. Whether you want to mess with them partly depends on how much
you think your time is worth.
DevilsPGD said:John Doe <jdoe usenetlove.invalid> was claimed to have wrote:
The trick is that most people are idiots who can't follow basic
directions to save their life.
:
As I stated in my last post, it only takes a few minutes,
Maybe there are fewer people out there that can read and write
than I'd imagined. They simply can't follow basic directions and
fill out forms.
kony said:John Doe <jdoe usenetlove.invalid> wrote:
can't know if they actually complied with the rebate terms
or not simply because they "think" they did.
kony said:You're not getting it. I didn't mean to suggest one can return it
to the seller after cutting out the rebate,
Please learn to use Usenet,
John said:"larry moe 'n curly" <larrymoencurly my-deja.com> wrote:
Speaking of Newegg and rebates, if you really want to learn about
rebates. Find a product with a rebate. List 100 reviews per page.
Search the pages for "rebate". Every time you see a positive
comment about a rebate, notice that the silly poster has owned
the item for less than one month and obviously has not actually
received the rebate. Notice that everyone who mentions the rebate
and has owned the product long enough to have received one has a
negative opinion about the thing.
I just looked at crucial memory with a rebate on Newegg, as
advised above. The results are precisely the same as I said they
would be. Apparently your review isn't one of them, Kony.
Owned for less than one week: Pros: Not expensive, especially
after the rebate. Cons: One of the two banks failed within a
week. Can't return it to newegg since I already sent in the
rebate form. I'll probably send it back directly to Crucial.
I'm talking about rebates.
Then your results are extremely skewed since product rebates are
usually not offered.
Speaking of Newegg and rebates, if you really want to learn about
rebates. Find a product with a rebate. List 100 reviews per page.
Search the pages for "rebate". Every time you see a positive
comment about a rebate, notice that the silly poster has owned
the item for less than one month and obviously has not actually
received the rebate. Notice that everyone who mentions the rebate
and has owned the product long enough to have received one has a
negative opinion about the thing.
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But seriously. Your results do not indicate length of ownership,
they indicate the time posted.
Your results have nothing to do with a rebate. The last six months
worth of reviews not only include reviews without a rebate, it says
nothing about how long the item has been owned.
Proof that the earth is round?
In another branch, I just posted some
proof that rebates are a hassle for many people. And that was only
one half page out of 40 worth of reviews. Can you not look for
yourself if you need to see more? Do you need proof that you cannot
return a product after cutting the UPC code off of the box and
mailing it in for a rebate?
John said:And there is no way to know whether you are just being a troll (as
usual) and lying about your own experience, kony. But by simply
reading the form, any intelligent reader can see that a mail-in
rebate is a fool's agreement. The many bad experiences attest to
that.
Newegg > Home > All Reviews
Filter Results:
rebate
desktop memory
sort by ownership length
100 per page
newegg purchasers
The first page out of 40:
"I did everything they asked and then they denied my rebate, simply
saying I was not eligible"
"sent out the rebate the day I got the ram following all the proper
procedures, never heard back"
"I never received my rebate"
"Only got one of my rebates, even after contacting them"
"Have been waiting over 3 months for my rebate"
"This is awesome, do not have to deal with lengthy rebate bullcrap
just to be turned down and frustrated"
"Never sent me the rebate"
"I was denied on the rebates"
"still waiting for the mail-in-rebate which i turned in over 4
months ago"
"I've sworn off many-a ram manufacturer because of rebate issues"
"did all the right things... Online verification showed that I was
being sent a check. Never came"
"In each case they said the paper work was sent in to late. This was
not the case"
"I was scammed here"
"No Rebate after 1 year !!!"
"Both times I sent in rebate offer they seem to be lost in the mail"
"never got my rebate back"
"Resubmitted rebate for the second time"
"i hate mail-in-rebates!"
"Waiting 10 weeks for a rebate check is a pain, and the rebate site
being down half the time is not confidence-inspiring"
"The rebates took about half a year to get back"
"mail-in rebates are a pain"
"Highly tuned, overclockable, fast, no rebates to think about"
"Had to fight for my rebates"
"REBATES SUCK"
"Since I mailed in the rebate already this is non-refundable
junk...I will never buy any item with a rebate again"
larry moe 'n curly said:John Doe wrote:
With the 500 or so rebate submissions I've mailed in the past 8-9
years, I've had a problem (problem = late fulfillment or I had to
do something to get the rebate processed) with almost 20% of them,
mostly late fulfillment. I've gotten only about ten rejections,
and all were resolved, usually with just a phone call and no
argument at all from the rebate processor. And I've noticed in
the past two years that rebate processors have gotten much better,
and the problem rate is now 5% or less.
larry moe 'n curly said:But you brought up the subject of rebates:
Actually the results are sorted by length of ownership, not just time
of posting,
I don't disagree, except possibly in the case of returning products
for exchange after the UPC has been removed.
John said:I might believe that when the rebate terms don't explicitly state
stuff like "we are not responsible if your submission is lost in the
mail"
and "approval or denial of your submission is totally up to us".
Obviously the chance of approval depends simply on how badly
they want to deny your submission. A mail-in rebate is a fool's
agreement.