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Best Buy to Eliminate Rebates
plover writes "According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune 'In response to customer complaints, Best Buy, the world's largest electronics retailer, promised today to eliminate mail-in rebates within two years.' Can it be that we're finally nearing the end of one of the most hated marketing ploys of all?" Further commentary available at BusinessWeek.
April fools? I think not!
...with the April Fool's posts!
The purpose of yesterday's shitty posts was to make today's posts seem great.
You'd think on April 1st the Sun would report something serious for a change.
At least I wasn't fooled this time around. Unlike the article about the Meat Tree.
geek squad what a dumb idea. oh wait...
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A month a go I built a new system from components, which I got at Frys ( too impatient to wait for NewEgg ). 2/3 of the ~20 components had rebates. As i think back, it seems that ~ 1/2 of the things i ever bought at Frys had rebates. they even print the rebates on the cash register reciept for you.
Let me get this straight. You were too impatient for newegg.com, but you are willing to deal with the hassle of trying to collect on 13 to 14 rebates? That just boggles the mind.
Here in Minnesota, if you tell a lie, they'll throw you to the thin ice, naked. Specially if you are a young woman of scandinavian descent.
No April's fool exception!
In other news, Oleg Daal, a Minnesota resident has reported that he saw two identical snowflakes.
I don't know if you meant the April Fool's jokes or the rebates, but I agree!!!
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
Best Buy has been talking about doing this for the past few months now in their conference calls. Besides, look at the date, its April 2nd
hell of a long time to be in a conference call. They're phone bills most be through the roof and in need of a major piss break.
How is this any different than what they currently do?
The ______ Agenda
Still, if I pay cash - why should I wait for a check in the mail? Cashing a check isn't cheap for people who don't have checking accounts...
What are you, some kind of communist?
Actually, if you set up next to a WalMart or other outlet that rings up their sales wirelessly, you can just grab a whole bunch of rebate forms from the store (stealing those aren't illegal!), buy a thermal printer from ebay, buy/return rebate items (minus bar code) and you could well end up making $1800 an hour.
Fine. He didn't know Perl. Maybe he didn't even know *of* Perl or wasn't sure. Then why did he authoritatively reply?
RadioShack Syndrome. Put someone behind the counter of a retail electronics store and he loses all sense of his own limitations.
10. Goto 10 of branch #1
No GOTOs here, please. Clean up your code.
13-4=54/6
I don't know about your Wal-Marts, but ours have crappy selection, and generally only the very low models of any brand. So obviously I just *can't wait* until it's the only option in town :-(
--Jim (me)
We received a really funny phone call from a drunk Idaho women that thought she was calling Best Buy. She was having some problems with a best buy in-store rebates. Go here to listen: http://forums.dealcatcher.com/m_316229/mpage_1/key _/tm.htm%23316229
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