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David M · 06-27-2006, 07:31 PM

Rebates are a marketing ploy. The whole idea is to entice you into buying the product with the rebate offer and then making it very difficult to get the rebate...not to mention dragging their feet on cutting you a check for as long as possible so that they can accrue interest on the money that they would otherwise be sending to you as soon as they received the rebate form.

You can bet the accounts payable department pays their bills on time and more frequently than they send out rebates to customers.

06-27-2006, 07:31 PM	#13
David M Techphile. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: San Francisco Bay Posts: 5,955	Rebates are a marketing ploy. The whole idea is to entice you into buying the product with the rebate offer and then making it very difficult to get the rebate...not to mention dragging their feet on cutting you a check for as long as possible so that they can accrue interest on the money that they would otherwise be sending to you as soon as they received the rebate form. You can bet the accounts payable department pays their bills on time and more frequently than they send out rebates to customers. __________________ Asus P8P67 WS Revolution \| Intel 2600K @ 4.7 GHz \| Win 7 Pro 64 \|8 gigs Corsair 1600 \| Two Diamond 6990's in Crossfire\| Corsair AX1200 \| Thermalright Silver Arrow \| Western Digital Black 2TB 64 meg cache \| Lian-Li PC-A71B \| Logitec Z-5500 \| Three Asus 26" VW266H monitors running under Eyefinity \|