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Re: Belkin rebates?

#377
From: Don Cowell
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 00:00
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Why do we let them get away with it,I boycott them on all future products,and
advise them so. Join the Club!

Wizard wrote:

> Most don't get them when requested but that wasn't my point. My point is
> they offer prices that are below the average competative price for a
> given item and then to get that advertised price (the fine print) you
> must mail in the rebate coupon. I personally won't buy an item
> advertised like that unless the actual, cash it takes to buy price, is
> competative. The whole concept sucks in my estimation. It is a scam to
> allow them to false advertise and get away with it.
>
> Stan Horwitz wrote:
> >
> > Wizard (davicomp.uh.spam@nh.ultranet.com) wrote:
> > : Wrong, most of them are a scam. They depend on the fact that most people
> > : are not going to send them in.
> >
> > How is that a scam? If most people opt not to request rebates on
> > applicable items that they buy, that's the consumers' free choice.
> > A rebate would be a scam if those people who did request it never
> > got it.
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From: Don Cowell <dcowell@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Belkin rebates?
Date: 1998/07/08
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