The irony of my bad rebate story is that I actually got my rebate on time. The problem was the company that issued the rebate accidentally sent two checks out for every rebate they were processing. As the checks didn't say what they were for (and I was expecting several), I promptly cashed them both.
A couple of days later, I got a letter saying not to cash the second check. Turns out that the company stopped payment on the duplicate checks. *I* got charged a whopping $20 for cashing a bad check (which was only for $5). I'm sure the company also paid more than $5 to stop the check. So the only people that got anything out of this scandal were the banks that collected all the fees.
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The irony of my bad rebate story is that I actually got my rebate on time. The problem was the company that issued the rebate accidentally sent two checks out for every rebate they were processing. As the checks didn't say what they were for (and I was expecting several), I promptly cashed them both.
A couple of days later, I got a letter saying not to cash the second check. Turns out that the company stopped payment on the duplicate checks. *I* got charged a whopping $20 for cashing a bad check (which was only for $5). I'm sure the company also paid more than $5 to stop the check. So the only people that got anything out of this scandal were the banks that collected all the fees.