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Article #377Re: Belkin rebates?
From: Don Cowell
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 00:00
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109e38,4e6c7d0cfca4364c X-Google-Attributes: gid109e38,public X-Google-Thread: 11474a,4e6c7d0cfca4364c X-Google-Attributes: gid11474a,public X-Google-Thread: 1002bf,4e6c7d0cfca4364c X-Google-Attributes: gid1002bf,public From: Don Cowell <dcowell@ix.netcom.com> Subject: Re: Belkin rebates? Date: 1998/07/08 Message-ID: <35A33017.E3D1C471@ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 369497203 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <6nhfl2$kl0$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <359E5AB0.20B6F303@ix.netcom.com> <6nm7im$k6$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <359F7B57.E7F823A6@nh.ultranet.com> <6nu7b3$dvl$1@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> <35A2A7F5.35DB88A3@nh.ultranet.com> To: -=Never@Never.com=- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: ICGNetcom X-NETCOM-Date: Wed Jul 08 1:39:01 AM PDT 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: dcowell@ix.netcom.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,alt.consumers.experiences,ba.market.computers