Friday, December 02, 2005
THOSE @#%*$@#%$&* REBATES AND A TRIP TO THE HOSPITAL
I have never liked rebates. It has always been my contention that companies offer them with the expectation that less than fifty percent of the people will submit them. And they think of ways to deny the rebates that are submitted. I have had considerable experience submitting rebates only to have them denied for one reason or another.
I must admit that in recent years I have had some rebates honored. I have actually received some small amounts in rebate money.
When we bought our new desktop computer and our daughter’s new laptop we were supposedly able to submit the required information and proofs and get over $500 back in rebate money. Some we could submit on line, others had to be mailed.
The ones that had to be mailed required all kinds of proofs, including the UPC bar codes off the boxes. Thanksgiving morning our daughter from Atlanta was helping me gather the necessary proofs for the mail-in rebates. She had already submitted the Internet rebates. As she was cutting UPC bar codes off boxes with a box knife she sliced a hunk of flesh from the inside of her arm. It looked gross and we thought she had done some major damage.
So---a trip the hospital emergency room on Thanksgiving morning! The cut was about 2 or 3 inches long and one-half inch deep. It took 7 stitches to sew it up. But the good news is that she didn’t cut any arteries, veins, muscles or nerves. And we got in and out of the emergency room in what may be record time. We made it to the restaurant in time to have Thanksgiving dinner with our extended family!
The rebates? Well, we’re still waiting to hear about the ones we mailed. But we have already been rejected for some of the ones we submitted via the Internet. As they were store rebates, I took the rejection notice back to the store. They said we had done everything correct and there was no reason for the rejection. They are checking on it for me. Maybe I’ll still get the rebate money. I hope so. Besides the misery of the cut arm and the expense of the trip to the hospital, my daughter and I spent a good day and a half getting everything collected and submitted for the rebates.
Rebates--@#%*$@#%$&*! I’ll let you know if or when I get any rebate money for our trouble.
Jim
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