1300 Fry's rebates in dumpster

Jokerswild · September 7th, 2007

I guess it's too much work to process your rebate.

Fry's: 1,300 Unopened Rebate Applications Found In Dumpster - Consumerist

Yellowhello · September 7th, 2007

Oh wow! I knew Fry's was sort of unreliable, but wow...

halutzparilla · September 7th, 2007

+1
that is why i hate rebates as much as possible i want instant savings.... and sometimes i loose track of my rebate....

Carl Martin · September 7th, 2007

I gave up on rebates a long time ago. Just look for the best price, fill out the rebate form if there is one, then forget about it. Sometimes I find a nice surprise in my mail box! (The worst one was on an SD card from Best Buy. I think that one took over six months.)

Carl

**Hitman** · September 7th, 2007

You can't really blame all of this on Fry's, like the article says it happened at a rebate company, that probably handles other stores as well. I agree rebates are a bunch of BS, I don't even count them as saving money really. Like Carl said, if I get a rebate check in the mail then great. Most of the time it's really no more then $10 or $15. Not enough to change your life, but enough to go to a movie and get a soda.

Dread · September 8th, 2007

I'm just guessing here, but I would wager its not the first time that rebate handling company has dumped rebate paperwork. And why would they dump nothing but Fry's rebates? I would also suspect that Fry's (or someone at Fry's) knew about this.

Rebates = scam for the most part, and I wouldn't mind seeing some stricter state or federal regulations on the practice.

I wonder how many of those rebates Fry's will honor now that someone busted them (and the rebate company) out about this?

September 7th, 2007	#1
Jokerswild ButtHead Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,057	1300 Fry's rebates in dumpster I guess it's too much work to process your rebate. Fry's: 1,300 Unopened Rebate Applications Found In Dumpster - Consumerist

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September 7th, 2007	#4
Carl Martin vincit qui se vincit Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Upper Michigan Posts: 451	Re: 1300 Fry's rebates in dumpster I gave up on rebates a long time ago. Just look for the best price, fill out the rebate form if there is one, then forget about it. Sometimes I find a nice surprise in my mail box! (The worst one was on an SD card from Best Buy. I think that one took over six months.) Carl Core 2 Duo E6750 Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Abit IP35 Pro 2x1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800 EVGA 8800GT 500GB Seagate Barracuda 32MB Cache Coolermaster RC-690 OCZ StealthXStream 600 watt Acer AL2216W 22" monitor Windows XP Pro SP2

September 7th, 2007	#5
Hitman Functional Alcoholic Join Date: May 2006 Location: 14S E:561116 N:3830189 Posts: 4,249 Blog Entries: 2	Re: 1300 Fry's rebates in dumpster You can't really blame all of this on Fry's, like the article says it happened at a rebate company, that probably handles other stores as well. I agree rebates are a bunch of BS, I don't even count them as saving money really. Like Carl said, if I get a rebate check in the mail then great. Most of the time it's really no more then $10 or $15. Not enough to change your life, but enough to go to a movie and get a soda.

September 8th, 2007	#6
Dread Jumpmaster Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Lansing, KS Posts: 620	Re: 1300 Fry's rebates in dumpster I'm just guessing here, but I would wager its not the first time that rebate handling company has dumped rebate paperwork. And why would they dump nothing but Fry's rebates? I would also suspect that Fry's (or someone at Fry's) knew about this. Rebates = scam for the most part, and I wouldn't mind seeing some stricter state or federal regulations on the practice. I wonder how many of those rebates Fry's will honor now that someone busted them (and the rebate company) out about this? AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo @2211.3 MHz MS-7125 Rev 1.0 nForce4 K8N-Neo4 Plat Phoenix 6.00 PG 05/22/2006 BIOS 2 x OCZ4001024PF 1 GB PC3200/400 3-3-3-8 2T nVidia XFX GF8800GT 512 DX9c Samsung SyncMaster 930B 1 x WD800JB / 2 x WD2000JD HP DVD640 OCZ 520ADJ SLI PSU