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FTC Tells CompUSA to Pay Up QPS Rebates

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the check's-in-the-mail dept.

prostoalex writes "FTC told CompUSA they will have to keep their word on paying out rebates for QPS equipment purchased at CompUSA. QPS is currently bankrupt, according to the article, although it's not clear whether they went out of business before or after the promised 6-8 weeks deadline came. CBS MarketWatch says this should spur rebate re-evaluation among other electronic retailers. The habit of offering rebate incentives seems be especially notorious in the consumer electronics and computer hardware industries as a third of shoppers for such goods bought a product with a rebate offered. Reason for such popularity? 41% of shoppers never send in their rebates."

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  1. Company expense - personal rebate by ch-chuck · · Score: 3, Funny

    I used to buy supplies (monitors, printers) on company expense and make a copy of the receipt before turning it into accounting. Then mail in the rebate myself and have it sent to my home. Cha-ching.

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  2. Re:Your numbers are bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You still haven't lived long enough, dude.

    Just recently I received a small package through USPS. It had been opened, and one of the two items in it was missing. Apparently some postal worker saw that it was from a check supply company and thought they could steal my checks. What they got was a nice leather checkbook cover. They must have been too chicken shit to steal both checkbook covers.

    For the last 21 years I've been getting my paycheck by USPS. So far they've lost only 1, but more than a dozen have been more than a week getting to me (one took over two weeks). A freaking WEEK to deliver an envelope 21 miles. What wonderful efficiency! A person could walk that distance several times in a week!

    But the one that takes the cake is the birthday card I got last year. It was postmarkd Feb. 1985! Well, technically YOU'D say it wasn't lost, but it did take a long vacation somewhere, didn't it?

  3. I have an idea - reprise by KenSeymour · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe they should get David Spade to do rebate fulfillment.

    (I replied to the wrong parent before. -- I'm lame.)

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