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Re: Canon rebates: Warning. Not recieving mine

#2473
From: measekite
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 21:35
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Mapanari wrote:

>"Burt" <sfbjgNOSPAM@pacbell.net>
>wrotenews:H_1oe.24243$J12.23661@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com: 
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>  
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>>No, Mapanari, disliking rebates is NOT like disliking sales incentives, 
>>etc - I DO like rebates for their savings but simply stated that I would
>>rather get the rebate immediately at the register.
>>
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>Yu're missing the point. ( usual for usenet).
>
>If you got the rebate immediately at the register, there would be no 
>rebates.
>  
>

Many stores call it a rebate and that is what it is.  Instead of 
continually varying the price they turn rebates on or off.

>See, they're counting on you losing it, sending it in late, forgetting 
>about it, throwing away the box etc.
>
>Getting rebates at the register would only appeal to the welfare liberal 
>democrat crowd, because they would feel like it's really easy and they're 
>getting something for nothing, negating E=MC2 completely.
>
>If you were made happy by getting your rebate at the register, do you 
>realize that then the actual price would be increased to cover that, and 
>you in essence would be getting no rebate?
>
>Just like Albertson's stores and others that advertize "TWO FOR ONE SALE!", 
>which only morons believe.
>Because they just increase the price on one item to cover the other, then 
>you buy two, one more than you actually need, at full price!!
>
>I'm sure the welfare crowd, along with liberals, democrats, the young, the 
>stupid and the foolish all realize this is a great deal, but the people who 
>actually pay more in taxes than they recieve know it's not, so they save 
>money, which then gets stolen from them by the slavering masses of local 
>ignorati and redistributed to the mooing morons of the country and the 
>world.
>  
>
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