# A pox on rebates and those who perpetrate them

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pox-on-rebates-and-those-who-perpetrate-them/295993>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 24, 2005, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pox-on-rebates-and-those-who-perpetrate-them/295993 "2005-03-24T02:49:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pox-on-rebates-and-those-who-perpetrate-them/295993/21 "2005-03-25T02:28:07Z")

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> [@scout1222](#):
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> I find rebates to be a hassle, but I understand why they are used. However, your wording on this gave me a good chuckle. I’ll make sure to include a teabag in my next rebate mailing.

Either that or a photo of you teabagging your dog. **Fat Bald Guy** touched on the incident which inspired my OP-the Tax Cut program requires several mail-in rebates, why in the name of OG have one of them end prior to 30 April, such that you have to engage in multiple mailatude?

This was really a rhetorical rant-I know they’re betting on x% of the purchasers forgetting, and I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that they automatically shitcan 75% of the proper submissions, banking on the presumption that so few will (a) bitch and (b) have backup data. Bastards.

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**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pox-on-rebates-and-those-who-perpetrate-them/295993/22 "2005-03-25T15:12:06Z")

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If I can somehow grow a pair of testicles, I’ll do just that.

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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pox-on-rebates-and-those-who-perpetrate-them/295993/23 "2005-03-25T15:47:40Z")

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> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#):
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> I either think of rebates as getting a belated discount, or paying full price for something and then, by the time I get the check in the mail, I’ve forgotten about the rebate and consider it a gift of “free money.” I love 'em.

I came in just to say this. Oh yeah… and the boyfriend doesn’t ever remember, so it’s \*my \* free money. 😃

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