Rebates are handled by one of a few "Rebate Centers" and not by the seller. You might complain to the vendor of the equipment. Tell them you bought their product in good faith, but if they cannot solve your rebate problem you'll never buy from them again. And since you have internet access you'll post their poor service all over the Internet.
It worked for me once.
I am curious to know if anyone else has these problems,
I recently bought some hardware and blank CD's from microcenter, all of which offered various rebates of 5-10$. I dutifully filled out the microscopic forms, addressed the envelopes with the 12-digit po boxes, sawed up the boxes and labels for the upc codes and sent everything in to the rebate offer fulfillment center. this was last july. 2 of them didn't come back. If I were a sane person I would have ignored the loss of 15$ but instead I actually looked everything up and sent emails, to be informed that I had not included this upc code or whatever. One was a genuine mistake on my part, they wanted both the upc code AND another boxtop . . . but another they just deny that I put the right upc code in the envelope, and I have to send the them the right upc code or they won't give me my $5.
I guess my question is, WHY are there rebates, and 2) is this sort of avoidance of payment a common occurence? thanks - fj

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